What's the best restaurant dining experience you've ever had? I would have to say it was the dinner my bride and I savored a couple of years ago at White Mountain Cider Co. in Glen, N.H.; everything from appetizers to dessert was ridiculously good. I dropped some serious dinero for the privilege, and I will happily do so again.
But no matter how good the best meal you, me or anybody else has ever had, Swampscott, Mass., police officer Mike Serino has us all beat. His favorite dinner has to have been the one he enjoyed six years ago at a now-defunct Peabody, Mass., restaurant. It was there that he found what turned out to be a rare and valuable pearl.
Serino and his family had gone to the restaurant to celebrate his birthday. He was enjoying some seafood stew when he fished out of his mouth something that he originally thought was a small stone — but turned out to be a 6.22-carat lavender-colored natural pearl that could bring upwards of $15,000 when it goes to auction at the end of the month. Serino's tale is told in the WBZ-TV Boston video below.
Note that when asked what he'll do with the unexpected windfall, Serino said he was thinking of getting a Corvette until his wife and three daughters said the money should go towards getting a new kitchen. Serino says they'll go with the new kitchen.
Smart man. A rare, lavender pearl may be worth upwards of $15,000, but keeping the peace in the household is priceless.
