#rshl

When your friend sends you two recordings of the same song on two different versions of the same instrument, and asks you to tell her if you think one sounds better than the other one... But your ears haven’t been working right for an entire week and you don’t trust your sound perception at the moment.

When you’re in a group conversation and you can hear one person pretty well but not so much the other person, so it’s similar to listening to one half of a telephone conversation-- and it makes about as much sense as one, too.

Two of these in one day; can you tell I’m a bit frustrated right now? lol When you go to an event, but it’s too noisy for you to be able to actually chat properly with anyone so you just sort of hang out and eat and people-watch, waiting for the noise to die down enough so you can actually talk with somebody... But the problem is, when it starts to get quieter, it means people are leaving. Which means the thing is over. And it’s time to go home. So you end up leaving every event of this type feeling socially unfulfilled and kind of wishing you hadn’t gone in the first place, or at least not stayed for the socializing.

Mom: Me: Me: *hears- or thinks she hears- something in the room that could have possibly been someone speaking* “What?” Mom: “...I didn’t say anything?” Me: “Oh...”

To be fair, I’m not sure how much she knows about my hearing loss, and she was only a few feet away and slightly stressed because we were in the middle of setting up for a fundraiser and she was trying to give me instructions... but I was already focused on something else when she started talking to me and I needed to give her my full attention in order to comprehend said instructions. :P

My Joker Side, hours later: *You totally should’ve said it was aliens*

Watching a youtube commercial and being confused about why the ad is singing “sabotage, sabotage sabo-sabo-sabotage” only to realize they are actually singing “summertime” and I’m just hearing it wrong. ....whoops lol

For me, it’s more along the lines of listening to the Minions from Despicable Me. I can hear most of what they’re saying, it’s just not all intelligible.