Senior citizens seem to laugh instinctively at their frailties. They enjoy telling about the mildly offbeat behavior that sometimes results. They want to do the reporting and not let a younger person do it.
The children of a very senior and very deaf lady finally persuaded her to visit an audiologist. Sometime after getting the hearing aid she returned to the audiologist for an evaluation. He said. “Well, I suppose your family is happy now that you can hear everything they say?” She replied, “Oh, I haven’t told them, and you know something? I’ve changed my will three times.”
A senior couple celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary, and after the guests had departed on the evening of the great event, they were seated on the sofa watching the late news. The husband leaned over to his wife and said , “Mother, I’m proud of you.” “Huh, eh?” she sputtered, “What did you say? You know I can’t hear without my hearing aid.” More loudly the old man repeated, “I’m proud of you.” Kindly, she replied, “Oh, that’s all right. I’m tired of you too.”
Often a comic result of a conversation with a hard of hearing man is that he responds to his own deafness by raising his voice when making replies. Or maybe that is just the reaction of this writer.
