“What?”

It’s finally happened.

I have now joined the ranks of the for-sure, can’t-deny-it-any-longer Old People.

I am wearing hearing aids.

I can’t deny that the hearing aids are, in fact, helpful. I no longer say “Huh?” and “I beg your pardon?” and “Yes?” at least two or three times at every social gathering. And my TV isn’t turned up so loud that my next-door neighbors have to listen to Judge Judy whether they want to or not.