Blue Tooth Forsooth

There is a new and disturbing phenomenon taking place in this country... It is actually two phenomena. I’m certain that you’ve experienced both of them.

We always tell our kids--well, now it's the grandkids--to turn the volume down on their radios, usually when they are playing music.  Then, when they don’t listen to us and keep the volume cranked up, we tell them that they’ll lose their hearing if they continue to listen to loud music.

We already have a lot of people who have lost their hearing, and they aren’t all kids.  Have you noticed, as I have, that there are a lot of people walking around with hearing aids?

I thought modern technology was miniaturizing everything except TVs, which seem to keep getting larger and larger.  But the hearing aids I see are pretty visible, with strange pointers sticking out of them.  Some even have little blue lights on them.

 

 Not only do people have those hearing aids, but they also have apparently gone crazy, too, because many of them walk around talking to themselves.  I hear these one-sided conversations all the time.

I've come to the conclusion that the loud noises must cause both hearing loss and mental disorders. Maybe it's the stuff those people listen to that also makes them crazy.

I sure am blessed with good fortune, because my hearing is almost perfect.  Of course, I do a little of the talking-to-myself stuff, but there is a difference... I usually have the answers to the questions I ask!

           

I know, it's meaningless in this context, but I like the picture.