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Don't Keep the Change

By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Saturday, July 11, 2009 11:32 AM ET

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The ties that bind the Moore marriage are strong. A lot stronger than, say, a tollbooth on a Texas highway. Ohio resident and 007 sound-alike Rodger Moore recently learned that the hard way.

On June 28th, Moore was driving toward Dallas Love Field Airport to board a flight back home to Columbus after his niece’s wedding. En route, he came upon an unmanned toll booth and as he leaned over to throw the change in tragedy struck: his wedding ring flew right in with it.

"I had lost some weight recently, and planned to get the ring resized," Mr. Moore told The Dallas Morning News. "We don't have toll roads up here, and I'm not used to them."

Concerned -- both about his ring and about his wife’s reaction -- he drove to the next toll booth and shared his plight with a sympathetic toll booth operator, who took his contact information. He then boarded his plane ring-less and somewhat hopeless.

Yet fate, along with some eagle-eyed toll workers, intervened. By the time Moore stepped off the plane he had a cell phone message informing him his ring had been recovered. A few days later the band arrived in the mail, and Moore promptly had it resized before slipping it back on his finger -- much to his wife’s delight.

"I was threatening to Superglue it on his hand," his wife, Sue, jokingly told Ohio’s 10TV.

Rodger, meanwhile, should think about investing in EZ Pass.

 

(Photo courtesy of bewinca via stock.xchng)

Texas, Marriage, Wedding, Columbus, US, Kindness

Kathy Ehrich Dowd is a versatile freelance writer and frequent contributor to People magazine, where she reports on everything from breaking crime stories to in-depth human interest features to fun celebrity news.

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