Am I the only one who remembers the character, Mumbles, in the Dick Tracy comic strip? He was a criminal (I don't remember his crime) who spoke so low and so indistinctly that his nickname was Mumbles.
This morning I was listening to the local radio talk show - a once a week program that lets the locals express the complaints or praise for situations in our town or country. The voices all sounded garbled. I wondered if it is our radio or their mics. I had noticed this before but today was especially annoying.
I grabbed the hearing aides that our older son had given me (was that a hint?) I had tried them before and noticed how paper crinkles loudly and the water is very noisy coming out of the tap.
After I had them on for a short time, I heard a very dim male voice. My first thought was a walkie-talkie in the neighborhood that was bleeding into my frequency (!) A few minutes later I heard it again. It was saying, "Batteries are low." Spooky.
I got the new batteries out of the box and replaced the old ones. Suddenly the voices on the radio were much clearer.
Now if could just get the mumbler that I live with to speak like he does when he talks on Zoom, I wouldn't need the hearing aides around the house.
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I've never heard of mumbles but I did laugh out loud at the hearing aide story. I think it's such a gradual thing that we don't even realize that the hearing loss is happening.
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Betsy
My husband talks so loud on his phone that it makes me smile he never talks that loudly to me:)
ReplyDeleteI don't remember Mumbles but I do remember my 5 year old nephew, the first day he got his hearing aids, shouting from the bathroom, "Mom! I can hear my pee!"
ReplyDeleteI love it!
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