Pardon??????? in blackpropaganda

Over the last couple of years I have realised my hearing has deteriorated - and SW… has been making barbed remarks when I fail to hear what she says - normally nodding when she asks me a question without any idea what hse has asked.
Also I need the tv up to an unacceptable level of volume - which is fact rarely helps because it is about clarity.
I have asked around, especially to people who have hearing aids - and eventually bit the bullet and made an appointment in town with Specsavers - who also do hearing tests. A nice young lady took me through the tests - and I do have a deterioration in both ears - the left one being the worst. And the result - yep - I am going to have hearing aids in both ears - nice automatic ones which can be adjusted. Before then I have to have my left ear syringed to get rid of the wax which has built up.
All bring well by Christmas I shall be able to hear everything anyone says - and it is worth spending money to having to say ‘Pardon, could you say that again’.

And another old Christmas cartoon retrieved from Photofucket