The Girl Who Wears A Ring...has a man?

Stumbled on a few online forums on badmintoncentral.com lately and the stuff people write about the players are just incredible.

"Do you guys know what his friendster address is?"
"Where do they usually hang out?"
"Is he of X religion?"
"I saw him wearing a ring. Does that mean he has a girlfriend?"

Dear dear me, how's that your business?

Incidentally, I have a question.

Does wearing a ring means one is attached? No, seriously, I WANT TO KNOW. ANYONE. PLEASE.

The truth is, I love rings. If I can have my way, I'd follow Phoebe Buffay - the LOTR of Friends, but as jewellery don't come cheap (even the cheap ones don't), I have to be content with two that I have at the mo...

But I don't understand. Why do people associate ring-wearing to a person's 'relationship' status? And I don't mean that on the ring finger (obviously).

I dare say that because I've been a 'victim' of it countless times. Just this year, I sported a lovely celtic ring on my middle finger at the beginning of term, and the first thing a friend said to me, instead of "How have you been?" was, "Wah, you're wearing a ring? Oh..got boyfriend already is it?"

WHAT???

And believe me, he wasn't the only one who had that presumption, pharm mates have been harrassing me with the "So Adeline, when are we going to meet your boyfriend?" question for far too long.

Which is why I wonder, what's with ring and BGR?

Can't one wear ring(s) because one wants to?