I can't hear you

Brown Eyed Man and his father have terrible hearing.  They are also the two loudest people I know.  Our television is always loud, the radio is loud, the conversations are loud and I come from a family of rather quiet people.  Holidays at their house are crazy and full of about 10 conversations going on at once.

During holidays at my parents' house, the TV was tuned to the weather channel and the sound was turned off.  Always.  Oh, I take that back, sometimes we got to watch football with the sound turned off.  In case anyone wanted to say something.  But no one ever did.

Anyway, I think that Brown Eyed Man's lack of hearing has affected my hearing because everything is always so darn loud at our house.  I can't hear things as well as I used to.  If The Girl and I are going somewhere in the car, and she's talking I keep reaching for the volume control to turn her up.  Side note: Do you do that?  One day I was holding the remote and looking out the window and I actually clicked the channel button as if I could change the view.  Technology has got me bad.

Anyhoo, yesterday I'm driving along and a commercial comes on about the local car dealership and how they're having a Bottle of Urine Event and I'm thinking "Dear God, what and why?  That is so gross and inappropriate...".  Then it occurs to me that they said "MODEL YEAR-END Event".  Well, that make more sense.

This morning, as we're lying in bed and I'm trying to get every last minute of sleep I can and I hear him say "What kind of corn do you want?".  I ask him the same question back and he looks at me like I'm crazy and I'm still half asleep and I repeat the question as a question and he is considering taking me in to the State Hospital and I said "Isn't that what you said?  What kind of corn do I want?"  He actually asked me that time I wanted to get up.

I need to get my hearing checked.