People with Poor Hearing

As age catches up with me, I am surrounded by more and more people who have bad hearing. Some have even accused me of having poor hearing. However I maintain that those people mumble.

Nonetheless it seems a common characteristic that people with poor hearing expect others to have patience and display consideration when they cannot catch what has been said. The poor hearers, justifiably, want others to understand that they don't choose to have poor hearing and for the rest of us to repeat things clearly and most of all, with patience.

Which is more than fair. However what I have also noticed is that they do not practise the reverse. If they are required to repeat a statement, the poor hearers almost invariably display anger and impatience. How ironical that is. And if one should point out how that is double standards, they get even angrier!!!