The Hearing Aids

By Jim Hagarty
2012

A heart-warming story. A six-year-old boy removed his hearing aid and refused to put it back in. The reason? Because superheros don’t wear hearing aids. His mother wrote to Marvel Comics to see if they could help. Before long, a package arrived with comics featuring the hero Hawkeye, an actual Marvel Comics character who had a hearing aid. But Marvel went further. They had an artist draw up some new artwork of a superhero who not only wore a hearing aid, but who got his superpowers through his hearing aid. And he had a sidekick – a young boy about the age of the little guy who had started all this by pulling out his hearing aid. After that, the boy was happy to wear it again. Angels all around us.

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.