The most bizarre encounter EVER at a jewellery store while trying to hunt for a setting

[leukolenos]

You would think that as a jeweller at the very LEAST you can identify the big 3.
Even my 5yo knows the difference between various gems!!!

Funny story: He's always loved coloured gems, especially emeralds, peridot and jade (green is his favourite colour) and pretty much ignored diamonds for a long time. I assume it's because they had no distinctive colour and I never wore my yellow diamond out with him.

One day during an outing while I was sporting my round brilliant diamond (I think he might have been 4 at that time) the kid stops in his tracks and pulls me aside to have a "quiet conversation".

Kid (whispers): Mummy! What's that stone you have today?

Me (shows him the diamond): This one?

Kid: Yes! I REALLY like it! It's got all sorts of rainbow colours but not one colour like the others.

Me: It's a diamond. Have I not told you all about diamonds?

Kid: I thought they were just the clear stones around all your nice coloured ones.

Me - Explains about diamonds for most of our train ride home.

He always whispers and has "quiet conversations" when he asks about my jewellery because from a very young age I told him never to talk about Mummy's jewellery to anyone else

Well the story about the “jeweler” was shocking and just beyond....

But the story of your son is the cutest!!! I love that!

 

[Frost]

Hahahahah, that's some genius. I wonder how on Earth people like that survive in the trade.

 

[KristinTech]

Thank God you ate before! That experience would be enough to make me lose my appetite!