Three Communication Partners Along the Walk

As many of you know I walk 2-3 miles every morning.

Along the way I talked to three people.
The Audiologist

On the crossing over to the Raley's block on Yosemite I waited at the light with a man dressed with a tie. He mentioned that it looked like everyone was hurrying to work today. They wouldn't have to hurry if they left a little earlier. I had to ask him the question. Are you headed to work?
Oh yes, he said.
Where do you work? I asked.
He said the Hearing aid store.
I said, Are you the audiologist?
He said, "yes."
I said, I am a speech and lang.retired. He gave me his name and I shook has hand.
His face lit up and he said,"All of us Audio guys hated taking the undergrad classes in speech.
I saidwe felt the same about our hearing classes
He said When we started to work with the clients the speech stuff really came in handy. Its hard to get people to believe the difference between hearing and listening.
I commiserated and described my ear wax issue and how to took 3 or 4 days after the flush to get my hearing back. He immediately got into professional mode,
He said,"Did they check your hearing after?
Hell no I said.
He said "I would have checked for treciary effacement. Or a precusor to diabetes." "Nope none of that," I said.

The Former Boss

After we crossed the street he went on to his job and I continued to walk to Starbucks for my dopio machiato espresso. While I was there I talked to Gordon, my former boss at the county.
I showed him the mophie that I bought that extends the battery life of the Iphone by twice and is hidden in the case of the phone. I likes to sit in Starbucks, and read his book on his ipad. He was also interested in the painting I just completed. I was able to share that with him from my iphone and connect him up with my blog. Its kind of a complicated address and it I am not sure that he will be able to navigate to it.

The Business Teacher
So off I went and ran into my friend who taught with me at one of the high schools.He taught business and typing. He has been retired for about 5 years. We talked travel. He wishes that he could get out and travel more, but his wife keeps him close to base. He told me about being in the service after WW2 in Germany and Paris. We talked for awhile until his wife came out and gathered him back in for a phone call. He seemed oblivious to its context which reminded me of my first years in the County serving Gustine.

I had a mother of a student that would see me crossing the campus and would buttonhole me and take up my time. The secretary would look out the window and see what was going on and immediately shout to me that the district office was on the phone and I needed to get to a phone to return the call. That was a good cue for her to stop the conversation and let me continue on with what I need to do. This teacher I was talking to was probably the target of a bogus call to get in and do what his wife wanted him to do.

It was nice today to have three very different conversation partners on the walk.
:) Pat