A HEARING AIDS LAMENT

OLD ADAGE: "NEVER WATCH THOSE WHO...

    MAKE YOUR SAUSAGE, LAWS, OR

         HEARING AIDS..."

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There must be an awful lot 

     of sweaty, tedious, exacting,

            challenging hard work

And raw material galore, and maybe

     overtime?

Goes into a pair of those little silly

    things that stick in your ear---

        ta help ya hear

"How much are they nowadays,"

      ya say...to the tech...(then sit 

           down on that 

                stool for the bad news...)

And ya know, those guys have been

     sent to school---"DICKER 101..."

YES! They know how to "dicker" prices!

"Well, it depends...iff'n ya want 

     THE VERY BEST, 

            or THE ECONOMY ONES."

"They run from $2800-$6000" 

      the guy says.

(Like when the Chinese shyster held the abacus

    up for Don Knotts to check, in

       "THE SHAKIEST GUN IN THE WEST.")

Try dickering that quote....

"Well, one thing's for sure," I say. 

     "None of those pinto-bean-size

           deals, on a string, that'll

    get lost in my ear, for me!"

"Give me the good-old-fashioned-ones---

     you know, with amplifier 

           over the ear...besides, I've got

    some size thirteen batteries left."

"How much'll that be?" I asked, getting

      set to dicker,

"An' don't forget, I may just run over to

     COSTCO, where they cut deals"

           I remind him, "and compare."

Ah, that Boy had a glass-eye, I know it...

     in his right eye I saw sympathy 

         for an old-timer who was about

  to go on a dog-food-diet...so's to

        just be able to hear...

(And all because BE had become a 

      whisperer in her later years...)

for this man with a heart, said: "It'll

     be XXX an' I'll thow in two

         month's of size thirteen

              batteries!! 

"Glory-ah, Glory-ah !!!"

      Were the angels a' singing

   in heaven!?

We signed up, my second pair.

     They'll be here in a day

          or two..."RUSH..."

Maybe a grand of the cost

    is in that "RUSH Mailing"

        of those heavy things!

I pondered all this mysterious 

   business on the way home...

Hearings aids...$2800-$6000

More'n I made in a year,

     for a few hard years...

Half what our first house cost...

Our first new Chevy was $2700

Out second new Chevy was $3800

Our new '72 Chevy 3/4 Ton Custom

      Camper (still own) was $5000

You could once buy a half section

     of prime cotton or wheat land

           for less than $6000

"Why are hearing aids so "absorbent?"

     as my NY friend used to say.

"The answer my friend, is blowin'

     in the wind...

The answer is blowin' in the wind."

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BY MIL

6/13/16