NEW TECHNOLOGY
At the age of 84, Arnold was hearing impaired and auditorily challenged, as well as being deaf as a post.
His specialist told him that the latest hearing aids might set him back a five-figure sum, but they were well worth it.
‘Your ears will be 100 per cent again,’ the doctor promised.
‘You’ll be able to hear a pin drop in Timbuktu.’
Arnold was sceptical, but he was also very well off, and £25,000 was neither here nor there to him.
So he invested in this space-age hearing aid that was no bigger than a grain of rice, and the specialist fitted it deep in his ear.
Two weeks later, he was back at the doctor’s for a check-up.
‘I’m delighted to say,’ the specialist announced, ‘that your hearing is now perfect.
‘You must be very pleased!
‘And what do your family think about it?’
‘Oh, I haven’t told them,’ Arnold replied.
‘I just sit there and listen to what they’re saying. In the past two weeks, I’ve changed my will three time