The Original Old Farts Club

[RosterMan]

 

[Africanna]

me 2 and I was always conscious of too loud music too. I as a music lover always went for clarity not volume

Likewise with hearing aids for the last 5 years

 

[SubmarineGirl]

Ok ness bout time for you to come back, hope your feeling better. Where's subgirl at today?

I’m here, yes I was wondering how Ness was feeling too

 

[pute]

This is the result of loud music, drag racing and the United States Army.

I wish there was a way I could go back 50 years and slap myself. These puppies were $4,000 with the help of Medicare. My first pair was $6,000. My hearing started to fade in my 40's and now WHAT is the most common word in my vocabulary.

 

[giggy]

Likewise with hearing aids for the last 5 years

My wife says I have selective hearing.

 

[giggy]

Loud music, racecars, motorcycles, engineroom in the navy but the worst is growing up in a machine shop and I still play in there every now and then.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

My wife says I have selective hearing.

My hubby has that too

 

[boo]

what, I can't hear you...

 

[pute]

What really sucks is my word recognition. Even though I can hear the sound is muffled. I have leaned to read lips and have gotten pretty good at it. So, instead of what I say...."look at me and say that again". I have learned to live with it....even the ringing in my ears. What are you gonna do.

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

When Grayfox says I hear what I want to hear, I always answer, "Thank you sweetheart, I would love a beer!"

 

[joeb631a]

What really sucks is my word recognition. Even though I can hear the sound is muffled. I have leaned to read lips and have gotten pretty good at it. So, instead of what I say...."look at me and say that again". I have learned to live with it....even the ringing in my ears. What are you gonna do.

Boy oh boy ,you could say that again ....

 

[Bubba]

I'll tell ya a little story about that piece, but you'll swear I'm a liar.

I knew a couple of chuckleheads that I'd met 40+ years ago. Best friends. Drank together, smoked buds together, and chased tail together.
They stopped past Super City in Flint to check out guns. One wound up buying the .22 LR version, while his buddy bought the mag.
A few months later, they're out in the woods raising h ell, and the buzz told 'em that it would be real fun to play mumbly-peg with the derringers with their hands spread wide on the side of a tree.
You can kinda see where this one's going, can't ya?
They actually got off quite a few rounds without a problem. Second to the last shot, the guy with the LR nicked the finger of his buddy. Now, it's his buddy's turn.
Yep, a 22 mag straight through the palm of his hand. He didn't lose the hand, but it stayed stiff for the rest of his life.

Always had a deal with my friends; When the booze comes out, the guns go up. Common sense, if'n ya think abut it.

Definitely common sense. But....when that young I felt like super man and common sense was in very short supply.

Bubba

 

[Africanna]

My wife says I have selective hearing.

Aren't they always right?

 

[Africanna]

This is the result of loud music, drag racing and the United States Army.

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I wish there was a way I could go back 50 years and slap myself. These puppies were $4,000 with the help of Medicare. My first pair was $6,000. My hearing started to fade in my 40's and now WHAT is the most common word in my vocabulary.

Yea, prices are silly. My medical aid only allows me a new one every 2 years

 

[pute]

I am on my second pair. First pair only lasted until the Warranty ran out. At this rate and if I live to reach 90 I will have around $50,000 invested in hearing aids.......

 

[kevinn]

What really sucks is my word recognition. Even though I can hear the sound is muffled. I have leaned to read lips and have gotten pretty good at it. So, instead of what I say...."look at me and say that again". I have learned to live with it....even the ringing in my ears. What are you gonna do.

My wife says I need a hearing aid. She doesn't like it when I say if you would just quit mumbling or yelling from the other room

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

Grayfox is actually the one with the worst hearing between us, and it is from loud music.

 

[Unca Walt]

This guy has balls of steel.

 

[N.E.wguy]

 

[WeedHopper]

This guy has balls of steel.

So would they be Ball Bearings.