I know a man who is hard of hearing (HOH) who has the grip of a trapeze artist. Naturally, he hangs on to every word.

Another man who was HOH, wanting to overhear his neighbors, quietly climbed up on their roof. He got too close to the edge and fell off, and that's how the term eavesdropping originated.

My answering machine has adjusted itself to my hearing problem. After you leave a message, it says, "Would you mind repeating that?"

If you want to find out what it means to "make a mountain out of a molehill," try telling a joke to a person who is hard of hearing.

Yes everyone, I saw my audiologist yesterday and she had a book full of these puns that I wanted to share.