If anyone hasn't seen or held a guy's Aggie ring (women's are much smaller), it's a large and heavy , dense piece of metal with lots of mass and a little wind resistance. Compare that to a soda cracker which weighs almost nothing and can easily be carried off by the wind. In order for me to get the soda crackers over the fence, I had to put a fair amount of force into my throw. If you will all remember back to high school physics, p = mv, or momentum equals mass times velocity. The ring has sufficient mass and I was throwing the crackers at a pretty good velocity. Needless to say with all the momentum the ring had it flew well over the fence and was quite a while until I heard it hit the ground with a soft thud.
As it flew off, I tried to see about where it landed and then ran inside and told Laura to get her shoes on quick. I told her that I accidentally threw "my ring" over the fence and thought it was probably lost for good. She assumed that I meant my wedding ring and started joking that if I didn't want to be married to her, all I had to do was just tell her instead of purposely losing my wedding ring. I made the mistake of saying something to the tune of "I wouldn't care as much if it was my wedding ring that went missing...it was my aggie ring that I couldn't find and it was more important than my wedding ring." Boy! That was the wrong thing to say! HAHA. After explaining that it's much more difficult to get a new aggie ring than a wedding ring, not to mention my aggie ring was at least twice as expensive, she finally grasped what I was saying.
We went out back and searched and searched and searched. I even found similarly weighted rocks and threw them from the same position so that we could see where we should concentrate our efforts. After a while, I told Laura to go inside and get online and see how much it would cost to rent a metal detector. Right as we were about to head to RadioShack to go buy one, my lovely wife found my ring. I have to admit, I was a little sad that I wouldn't be able to buy the metal detector anymore as I've always wanted one, but I was very grateful to have my ring back.
