Yackity Yack

peaches&cream wrote:

Dog Folks wrote:

CavemanCharlie wrote:
I didn't read all 4 pages of this thread. I agree that it was terribly rude and I don't do that.

Actually, I can't think of anything to say on a phone for that long. I have a hard time keeping up a conversation in person for that long.

That being said when on a cell phone I do talk LOUD. It encourages the other person to talk loud also and I can't hear on cell phones. I'm not sure if it's the small ear piece or the fact that the sound is digital. I have the volume on my cell phone turned all the way up and I still have a hard time hearing it unless I'm in a quiet place. On my old home phones that have a cord and a receiver that is built in a cone shape so you can actually put it to your ear I have no problem. But, a cell phone? Forget it. Might as well be using 2 tin cans with a piece of string between.

I have the exact same problem. Found out that the speaker phone function works well as far as hearing. If the call is in public my wife answers the phone.

If your wife can hear over the phone you cannot, reckon you need a hearing test? :S

Thats a knee-jerk assumption. A hearing aid is not a hearing cure. Its an aid that has sevear limitations. I have found that the IPhone has given me the best solution to hearing and understanding people on the phone. But some people just have a pitch in their voice that makes them impossible to hear properly. Not their fault, but its so frustrating to get a phone call and have to continually ask people to repeat until they get frustrated and hang up or say, I'll tell your wife later. I know that the programing of the hearing aid is also a big factor. Believe me when I say, its not a science at all. I have had professional exams and tuning and my best hearing device came from a friend who gave me his old hearing aids, tuned to his needs, when he got new ones. They have given me the best all around hearing aid.