my favorite excuse when wifey tell me things I don’t care about. especially when I’m walking away and she’s trying to get my attention... but I can’t hear what she’s saying.
That’s one of the advantages of ging deaf.
I can turn off my hearing aides................
My wife knows her hearing is much worse than mine because she needs the TV louder, and when we’re together, I hear lots of things she doesn’t hear.
But sometimes she thinks I’m hard of hearing too, because I often don’t answer when she calls from across the house. She says: if your hearing is so good, why didn’t you answer?
The explanation is twofold:
1) I DID answer - she just didn’t hear me.
2) I didn’t answer because I know she won’t hear me anyway no matter how loud I yell. Instead, I graciously make my way toward her, and then answer her question, which I heard just fine.
Another aspect of this is that she gets very frustrated and takes it out on me. For example, if don’t speak loud enough or turn the TV up loud enough for her, she views it as me being inconsiderate of her needs.
In all other regards, she is a reasonable person - but when it comes to her hearing loss, she acts entitled - she’s not alone either - I find most hard of hearing people tend to blame other people for ‘mumbling’ or turning the volume ‘too low’.