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The title of my speech is "Friends, Romans, Countrymen," I think you know the rest of
that sentence. But I needed that about 10 years ago. I needed somebody to lean me their
ears. I was serving on Jury Duty. How many of you have served on Jury duty? Everybody!
Me too. I've done it no problem. Went to Jury Duty there in Glendale. Done duty there before,
everything is wonderful.
I was an alternate. I could here the attorney over here the policemen over there...everything
was wonderful until about a half hour later the judge turns to us and she says, "Now I
want you, (gibberish, blah, blah, gibberish."
"what? - What's your problem? And then she did again.
"gibberish, blah, blah gibberish."
I looked at the other jurors and they didn't seem to have a problem. They were nodding
and that sort of thing.I I thought, "what's that all about.?"
Well fortunately it got adjudicated real quick. Thank God...I did not have....I didn't know
what she said.
So I went out and I one of the Jurors, "Did you have a problem hearing that judge?"
"No" "Houston, we have a problem." I went to my
audiologist that same day..."can you check this out I think I've got a problem going
on here. So she did and she came back in the room. "BARBARA!" I said "What?" She said "oh,
you can hear me?" "yes" "Boy your test was really bad. You're really in the market for
some hearing aids.
And I thought, "Oh give me a break - they're no good. My got some hearing aids, he never
wore them and he hated them. And they're so expensive. I thought "I'm not going to do
THAT." so I aid, "Naw. I've been getting by fine."
huh" "What you say?" "Oh yea.... at home the TV just crank that stuff up - no problem there!
The bird doesn't mind. I'm hear everything wonderful. So, no aids. forget that."
Then I go to my son's place up there outside of Sacramento for Christmas and they like
to watch this movie "Christmas Carol." No. Not Christmas Carol....White Christmas. They
like to watch that every year. So they're watching it - the whole family was there and
everything.I said, I said, "Can you just turn that up a little bit?" and they said "Sure"
and they did. Who could tell they did? I didn't. Sounded the same to me. This doesn't sound
good at al. But I knew the movie, I've seen it a half dozen times - I knew when to laugh
and when to....When I got home I thought "This is not too good. There's a move I haven't
seen yet, I gotta do something. So I went over to Best Buy . I wanted to get one of
those...I saw some ads for some hearing things so you can hear something. So I picked up
this box and in the check-out line and I look at the small print. In small print it says
"either you can hear the TV or I could." but not both of us at the same time. What good
is that? I want to laugh, when you laugh...and cry
when you cry....I enjoy the same time you do. . I took that sucker back and said "The
heck with that, I didn't get it."
But then I saw an ad in a magazine I guess for a thing called "TV EARS." What a stupid
name. But I saw that ad it showed a man and a woman..I saw this ad was in Readers Digest
by the way in case you're still interested....there they are eating popcorn...having a wonderful
time watching television and the caption said "TV Ears Saved Our Marriage!" I couldn't have
saved mine, but I didn't have this problem then. I'll give this a try so I ordered a
set. It came. If this works it will be good, but it probably won't. Probably just another
one of those silly things that doesn't work. But I ordered it. you've got 3 months to try
it out before we cash your check. Three months? This is looking pretty good. Ok, so I'll give
it a try. So I plugged that thing into the TV - when I opened the box...if I could open
it up today..I just found this box....you can open it Tamm. Syo anyhow I bought this
thing...I put it on...and hooked up the cable ..the next day I called her up and said "you
can cash that sucker!" It was the greatest thing since television! And it still is. It's
just this funny little thing. A funny little thing that looks like this. That thing at
Best buy looked like a B-17 pilot. this big old thing coming across like this. This little
thing, you put it on like this. It's very light . I like to get up and go into the kitchen.
So here it is. I tried this thing out . You don't wear a hearing aid usually. And it was
GREAT. I could adjust that volume whenever I wanted to and you could turn it at your
volume at the same time. Ah this is FANTASTIC. When my cousin comes from California, Uh,
Chicago, he likes to go to bed at 9:00. I like to watch Jay Leno and the 11:00 news
and I've got a small house. he used to ask me to turn down the TV and finally I'm up
like this, you know,.Once I got these I could turn the TV audio off and I could still hear
it. I could still hear it. They are just fantastic. So anyhow I want to tell you all
I'm not a spokesman for the company. I don't own any stock....I wish I did. It is just
a great product. It really is. And I wanted to give you this information, this speech,
before Mother's Day so you could go out and give your mother one of these things. And
I got sick and couldn't do it. I wanted to do it for Father's Day, That blew up, couldn't
do that. It's Christmas somewhere. If any of your relatives are hard of hearing - it
doesn't help for some hearing - but if they are just hard of hearing - old age - like
some people I know. It's a wonderful thing. It really is. TV ears. Look it up. Google
it - TV Ears.com and check it out because anybody you recommend it to is just going
to love you for it. And when you go to your friend's house , your parent's house or somebody's
house, place, say "mom, Dad, Uncle Fred...lend me your TV EARS!"