Retrospect: mood rings

Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor mentions mood rings.

When I was in grade two, a girl presented a new ring she was wearing: a “mood ring.” The teacher asked her a couple of questions about it, but didn’t seem surprised. I’d never heard of such a thing. I think the color of her ring, at that moment, was green. The teacher acknowledged it was a nice gift – that, to have received it, the girl must be very “grown-up.”

Not long after, that same teacher showed us a mood ring she herself was wearing. This surprised me, because the teacher was no spring chicken; I thought her a little old to be interested in something so fanciful. Remember, that was in the 70s, when there was a much firmer line between adults and kids. Moreover, that teacher seemed to prefer concrete ideas rather than feelings.

Maybe six weeks later, our class enraged the teacher somehow. It wasn’t serious, but rather that old-school outrage teachers sometimes got stoked into when the whole class missed a homework assignment, did poorly on a test, or what have you. She held up her mood ring: indeed, it was jet black. I might have been more convinced, by that situation, that mood rings really do work.

That was in 1978; I don’t recall seeing mood rings past 1981 or so. Yet, apparently, they are still popular among certain demographics. They came out in 1975.

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