Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for August 17, 2022

Very clever old bird…..

Well played

I think I should send a copy to my son. He decided to shun me

I’m going to let my kids fight over who inherits everything I have…of course all I have is unpaid bills.

My grandfather once said that his hearing loss probably saved his marriage.

wise – this man is wise … learn people

Leave unpaid bills.

So you want to learn which set of genes you want to leave in your will?

Where there’s a will (involved), there’s a way (to use this to his advantage).

Smart move :D

As the late, great P.J. O’Rourke put it, “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”.

Way back in the day, when my Uncle Charles was alive, he had a hearing aid of the type with the amp in his shirt pocket. At the dinner table, he’d turn it off when the dinner conversation got too unseemly. He was a staunch Baptist, you see.

As was said in one long-ago Shoe, “Being of sound mind, I spent it all….”

Will-shaking has been dead for at least a hundred years now.

He didn’t get that old and not learn anything…

Loose lips sink inheritances.

I’ve thought about getting hearing aids just so I have an excuse for not listening to people

My first hearing aid was one that was one you put it in your shirt pocket, then they would asked the score of the game. Hated the da** thing and finally I got one that fitted behind the ear! Had them now for 60 years! Life savers!

Ah yes. The caring heirs….

Watch the Fawlty Towers episode ‘Communication Problems’ for a very funny scene with someone who has hearing aids.

He should plan a Mardi Gras party with masks, er, ear coverings!

This joke is about as old as the guy shown in the comic, It’s been around since the 1950s, at least.