I Have An Out

My Darling wife always gets annoyed with me because I don't hear her. She has even made me get my hearing tested to see if I had a problem of some kind, I didn't. The doctor said some people just have a hard time hearing certain sounds and that must be my problem.<br />n<br />nI see in the news that answer is here, I have an out.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/britainsciencehearing">Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse — women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's, a report said.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI proudly showed this story to My Darling Wife and told her, "See, this is why I can't hear you. I now have a scientific explanation as to why I can't hear you."<br />n<br />nShe looked unimpressed at the story and said, "Yea, a male scientist come up with this, what does that say."<br />n<br />nI guess I don't have an excuse, damn the bad luck.<br />n<br />n<b>Hearing your words, and not a word among them<br />nTuned to my liking, on a salty day<br />nWhen inland woods were pushed by winds, that flung them<br />nHissing to leeward like a ton of spray,<br />n<br />nEdna St. Vincent Millay</b>