Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 28, 2018

My wife tries to pull the same stunt.

men of a certain age

I am half deaf – but unmarried. So it evens out!

Is Arlo becoming hard of hearing? When some one ask Helen Keller (which was my moms name also, but my mom was only deaf in one ear from a mumps infection) if given a choice to gain sight or hearing. which would she choose? She said she would rather hear. Being blind separates you from the things of the world but being deaf separates you from other people.

Low attention span Arlo, not hard of hearing Arlo.

Beware, Arlo! She’s setting you up for a " I told you…fill in the blank..this morning" gotcha!

I frequently tell my wife to speak to me as she does to other people, and she then tells me I’m being paranoid or that she was talking to herself.

I have noticed, though, that she has no trouble speaking a little louder whenever she’s upset about politics, religion, the kids, or me.

I can relate to this, my husband can’t hear me sitting right next to him but he can hear the cat meow from across the room…..selective hearing??? I don’t know. ha

A fine line between hearing and listening.

I resemble that.

I swear to god that Jimmy has our house bugged!

My wife is convinced I’m telepathic, so she talks from other rooms, outside or to some inanimate object in the room, and expects me to understand.

When you become deaf because of age, it is not evenly across the frequency spectrum. I can usually understand men better than woman ( well, I can hear them, understanding— not a chance) because I am deafer in the upper frequencies. Also, I have learned to read lips, unintentionally, as my hearing faded. I can be talking to you across the room and understanding everything you say, but if I close my eyes, you start mumbling so badly that I can’t understand anything. I don’t have to read a cat’s lips because they have a very limited vocabulary.

The snarky look on his face suggests to me that he was trying for a “That’s what SHE said” variation. If so, it misfired.

How to check if your husband has selective hearing: whisper “food”. Worked with mine at least. He said I cheated. :D

My husband has slight hearing loss. He can’t hear anything in the exact range as the sound of my voice. I think years of hearing my voice worn a rut in his hearing, like a rut in a road.

He’s sitting right there, looking at her…not trying to talk, that’s not selective hearing!

When are we going to see the kids again??