Woe to the Telemarketer Who Has to Call Me

Just got a sales call from a magazine asking me to subscribe.

"Can't," I said.

"Why not?" he asked.

"I'm blind," I said.

I could hear him searching through his sales call notebook.

"We have a special audio edition for the visually impaired."

"Won't do much good," I said.

"Why not?" he asked.

"I'm deaf."

I could hear him start to shuffle through his notebook again.  Then he got smart.

"Then how have you been hearing this conversation?" he asked.

"It comes and goes," I said.

"I've never heard of deafness t...

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