"The hair follicles in your ears are dull."
An audiologist said that to me 2 years ago. I went to see her because my right ear had been ringing nonstop for 5 days and I thought that I had tinnitus. Turns out that I was just being my usual hypochondriac self. The ringing in my ears stopped one week later. She did not provide any insight as to why my ears were ringing nonstop, but she did get me obsessed over my dull hair follicles. (Can I condition them? I kid.) I've since given up on listening to my mp3 player on the subways. Though I still get my (unwanted) music fix on the subways via the overflow of sound waves from the headphones of the person sitting 2 seats away from me.
I am not going deaf anytime soon. I just say 'huh' and 'what' a lot more than the average person. And saying too much of that annoys everyone. But more importantly, I miss out on all the juicy inter office gossip when people's voices drop to soft whispers.
After two attempts to listen to a person, I give up and respond with a proper reaction. Based on the person's facial expressions, I give either a sympathetic awww or a subdued chuckle. It works most of the time, and if it doesn't, a nonchalant shrug will do the trick. The fact that I can't hear them doesn't really matter. Some people are too into themselves to really notice that no one's really listening.
P.S. In an effort to save the dull hair follicles in my ears, I will be wearing ear plugs in the subways starting tomorrow.
An audiologist said that to me 2 years ago. I went to see her because my right ear had been ringing nonstop for 5 days and I thought that I had tinnitus. Turns out that I was just being my usual hypochondriac self. The ringing in my ears stopped one week later. She did not provide any insight as to why my ears were ringing nonstop, but she did get me obsessed over my dull hair follicles. (Can I condition them? I kid.) I've since given up on listening to my mp3 player on the subways. Though I still get my (unwanted) music fix on the subways via the overflow of sound waves from the headphones of the person sitting 2 seats away from me.
I am not going deaf anytime soon. I just say 'huh' and 'what' a lot more than the average person. And saying too much of that annoys everyone. But more importantly, I miss out on all the juicy inter office gossip when people's voices drop to soft whispers.
After two attempts to listen to a person, I give up and respond with a proper reaction. Based on the person's facial expressions, I give either a sympathetic awww or a subdued chuckle. It works most of the time, and if it doesn't, a nonchalant shrug will do the trick. The fact that I can't hear them doesn't really matter. Some people are too into themselves to really notice that no one's really listening.
P.S. In an effort to save the dull hair follicles in my ears, I will be wearing ear plugs in the subways starting tomorrow.
2 comments:
hi I just saw your blog and it's been interesting so far!
your number 1 fan, please post more
(pictures too)
its me ---your old creekside neighbor (boo).
so...you've had some practice with the guessing-what-you-hear game then, so that when your cell phone started to malfunction, it was a piece of cake to handle!
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