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Postby Misspears » 13 Apr 2014, 15:48

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
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