My dad also got less irritable after. Before he got them, he got in a few (fairly slight) arguments with my mom due to him perceiving her as saying nonsense things - because he couldn't hear the context. Unfortunately, my mom died before he got the hearing aids, but he definitely always loved her and the arguments stayed minor and surrounded by good connections. He fairly doted on her most of the time.
He lived for a long time after getting them and it was good to see, as you said, his QoL improvements.
I never had the issue you're describing, but I think that's in part because he could largely function with his limited hearing and mostly kept the aids off or on low settings. I'm glad you're able to deal with the inconvenience!
I don't mind ticking (up to a certain point), but my Dad used to have in his garage an analog clock that not only ticked but also had extremely audible whirring sounds. They were associated (I assume) with the gearing. Again, it never really bothered me - I didn't spend much time in the garage and I'm pretty sure that clock had been around longer than I had (which is probably why it was so noisy). I was accustomed to it.
However, I remember the day my dad got hearing aids. One of the first things he observed was how noisy the clock was, asking if it had always been that way.
My dad spent a lot of time in his garage. Pretty sure that clock didn't last out the week.
I only heard of that movie by reading about it in a story I had no business reading at a young age. I just looked it up to check the spelling and learned it was made by the creators of South Park. Neat!
Isn't there a theory that one reason kissing is a thing is that it was a way for neanderthals and early humans to exchange germs / bacteria / whatever and thus help to build communal immune systems?
I thought you might want to know, I shared a screenshot of your previous response with someone and they said that you are consistently able to be hilarious.
I once was let go from a job in favor of someone who was later found to be spending most of their shifts watching porn. I don't know if they suffered consequences for that - they were offshore and had no on site supervision.
To be fair, that person was more qualified than I was at the time, but I didn't watch porn on the job, so ...
That was part of the premise of the episode about his bachelor eligibility and subsequent arranged marriage. It was also much more subtly visited upon in the octuplets episode.
Uh, spoiler warning for 28 year old and 26 year old Simpsons episodes, respectively.
That sounds like something someone with a degree in ozone would say!