My partner was doing a painting and ignored the Heating as well as A/C worker.
Very few people guess my partner is going deaf.
He has hearing aids, but he hates to wear them when people are around.
I told him he should wear them when people are here so he can hear what they are saying. He thinks he hears enough to get him by, but he is wrong! Last week, the Heating as well as A/C worker came to the home to make some minor repairs to the gas furnace! My partner sat at the study room table working on a puzzle that I didn’t like. It was almost the same color on all the flowers. Everything was red and red, and it gave me a headache. Whether he was engrossed in the puzzle or had his hearing aids off didn’t matter. The Heating as well as A/C worker came upstairs and started talking to him. The guy was talking loud enough, but he thought my partner was ignoring him. I walked over and nudge my partner, and that’s when he realized the Heating as well as A/C worker was there. He apologized as he was turning his hearing aids on. The Heating as well as A/C worker lost all sign of him being frustrated and sat down to tell my partner what was wrong with the gas furnace. They chatted for almost an hour when the Heating as well as A/C worker remembered he had one more repair to do before he could go home. I suppose not listening to the Heating as well as A/C worker was a turning point for my partner. He not only puts his hearing aids first thing in the afternoon, but he turns them on. He can hear everything in the house, and the ticking of the clock is driving him crazy.