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My Iron Ring has been a conversation starter wherever I travel, and I've only had it for 5 years. Any time I'm in the Valley, people recognize the ring and ask
by HorizonXP 13y ago
My Iron Ring has been a conversation starter wherever I travel, and I've only had it for 5 years.
Any time I'm in the Valley, people recognize the ring and ask if I went to Waterloo. Funny thing is that I did, but I usually try to explain to them that all Canadian engineering graduates wear it, not just Waterloo.
I was even in Italy with my then-girlfriend-now-fiancee, and I had someone strike up a conversation with me because of the ring; they realized that we were likely Canadian, and started telling us about their son.
The Iron Ring really does establish a type of brother/sister-hood amongst us Canadian engineers. It's a nice feeling.
- format 13y agoI was at the grocery store and the cashier motioned to my hand and showed me her ring and we had a short discussion. I felt happy that I had this bond with a person I had never met and then immediately very sad that she was working as a cashier in a grocery store.
- stygiansonic 13y agoI've also had a few interesting discussions. One was also with a cashier, who I discovered had graduated from my alma mater with a degree in geological engineering. She was now working on poetry and other writing and she seemed genuinely happy with what she was doing. More power to her. Another was when I visited New York for the marathon. Ran into another fellow at the airport who recognized I was from Canada because of my MEC backpack. I then noticed he had on a ring and turned out he was a professor who had once taught at my alma mater.