WHEN it became clear that it wasn’t just “marital” deafness that caused Matt to not hear what I was saying he went to be tested for hearing aids. The audiologist quipped, “Now if you don’t want to listen to your wife, whose voice I am assuming will be a high pitch, don’t wear these hearing aids.”
“Unfortunately she has quite a low voice,” replied Matt.
I knew it! It was marital deafness all along!
Be that as it may, Matt and I were outside the front of our place chatting to a neighbour in his late seventies. I asked the fellows if they could hear where the smoke alarm was coming from. “What smoke alarm?” they both asked. Neither had heard it.