icepick wrote:
Yeah, I've been very hard of hearing for years. Chain saws capable of cutting down Redwood sized trees will do that to you. Strangest thing though. I can hear fine if the person is far enough away.

Nowadays you would have to wear protective ear muffs.....  when we were young there were no such protections.....  now they have gone the other way and over the top..... protective everything... for every type of work.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~