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...
Published on May 21, 2010 08:55