mljdeckard
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I am a very lucky man in this regard.
I grew up in a culture where real men didn't use safety devices. The safety goggles were at the bottom of the junk drawer, the seatbelts had been folded into the seat of the truck for years. I actually know a guy who, to THIS DAY, refuses to wear seatbelts because he knows someone who managed to jump out of a truck that was about to roll off a cliff, where if he had been wearing a seatbelt, he wouldn't have been able to.
My dad was a music professor. He had spent years doing loud things, he worked his way through college in a steel mill, he hunted his whole life, and he was so cheap, he actually preferred little trucks with no A/C in the desert of Southern Utah, so he always drove with a window down. Later in life, it really messed him up. He really had to strain to hear, which you can imagine might be a problem for a music professor.
I have done a few loud things in my life, to include being a tank crewman. I once went to a Nine Inch Nails concert and took a physical the next morning, and had some of the highest hearing scores they had seen in months. THIS WAS LUCK. Once your ears wear out, that's it. Hearing aids don't look fun at all to me. Now I always plug up, and if I am indoors, I double-plug. Most of the time I have a pair of foamies in the little right pocket of my jeans.
I grew up in a culture where real men didn't use safety devices. The safety goggles were at the bottom of the junk drawer, the seatbelts had been folded into the seat of the truck for years. I actually know a guy who, to THIS DAY, refuses to wear seatbelts because he knows someone who managed to jump out of a truck that was about to roll off a cliff, where if he had been wearing a seatbelt, he wouldn't have been able to.
My dad was a music professor. He had spent years doing loud things, he worked his way through college in a steel mill, he hunted his whole life, and he was so cheap, he actually preferred little trucks with no A/C in the desert of Southern Utah, so he always drove with a window down. Later in life, it really messed him up. He really had to strain to hear, which you can imagine might be a problem for a music professor.
I have done a few loud things in my life, to include being a tank crewman. I once went to a Nine Inch Nails concert and took a physical the next morning, and had some of the highest hearing scores they had seen in months. THIS WAS LUCK. Once your ears wear out, that's it. Hearing aids don't look fun at all to me. Now I always plug up, and if I am indoors, I double-plug. Most of the time I have a pair of foamies in the little right pocket of my jeans.
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