An elderly gentleman of 85 feared his
wife was getting hard of hearing. So one day he called her doctor to make an
appointment to have her hearing checked. The Doctor made an appointment for a
hearing test in two weeks, and meanwhile there's a simple informal test the
husband could do to give the doctor some idea of the state of her problem.
"Here's what you do," said the doctor,
"start out about 40 feet away from her, and in a normal conversational speaking
tone see if she hears you. If not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet, and so on until
you get a response."
That evening, the wife is in the kitchen
cooking dinner, and he's in the living room. He says to himself, "I'm about 40
feet away, let's see what happens."
Then in a normal tone he asks, 'Honey,
what's for supper?" No response.
So the husband moved to the other end of
the room, about 30 feet from his wife and repeats, "Honey, what's for supper?"
Still no response.
Next he moves into the dining room where
he is about 20 feet from his wife and asks, "Honey, what's for supper?" Again he
gets no response so he walks up to the kitchen door, only 10 feet away. "Honey,
what's for supper?"
Again there is no response, so he walks
right up behind her. "Honey, what's for supper?"
(I just love this!)
"Dang it Earl, for the fourth time, CHICKEN!"
Charles Mims
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