Old Ray gets up this morning feeling a little bit let-me- fix-the-world so he turns to his wife Old Mary who’s reading the news in her iPad and he resurrects his suspicion she’s gone deaf recently
So he stands to her right and calls out her name No answer So he stands to her left and calls out her name No answer So he goes behind her and shouts out her name and Mary, without looking up, says calmly: “For the third and last time, Ray - what do you want?”
And Ray who has heard no answer thrice thinks to himself: *Poor Old Mary, after all these years, she’s indeed lost her hearing