Unexpected!
It was Saturday. I was working hard to finish my office work on time and go home. My colleague went early that day and here I was waiting to complete my weekly reports and send them to the head office as soon as possible.
In this hectic schedule, I saw two guys (aged around 25) came in front of my office and were discussing something by seeing our company's board which read "Amplifon... Hearing Aid Specialists". And then they came closer to our Standy outside which mentioned "Free hearing checkup". They could see me as It was night and our door glasses were transparent when light inside is more and there is dark outside. I also could see them but was so busy finishing my work, didn't give a damn. They were whispering something, and then one said, "There is a girl inside, how can we ask"?
I heard it but didn't pay much attention. And not at all wanted to waste my time on other stuff.
I was working with my all efforts to finish the work, then suddenly these two guys entered the office. I kept aside my work and offered them help.
Ma'am, please tell me about the checkup.
I explained to them about the first free hearing checkup and then if in my assessment I find they have hearing loss then I will refer them to Audiologist (Hearing Specialist) for further assessment and for that checkup they have to pay.
Ma'am who will do the first free checkup?
I will do it.
Ok
Who wants to get checked up?
Ma'am one of our friends has doubts about it and wanted to clear but he is so embarrassed to come to get checked up.
No, it is better to get checked up on time and clear the doubt, according to that we can suggest timely treatment. So, convince your friend to come over here and have a free assessment. Because by the time passes hearing loss may increase!
Ok, thank you, Ma'am.
(Both looked tensed and went away.)
Again I came on my work... working hard to finish it... Damn it is already dark outside and here all alone I am working...... But alright I am just about to finish it.....
WHAT!
One guy from them came back in a hurry,
And said, ma'am, I am the one who wants to get checked up.
I looked at him with a question mark on my face (why he was making the story about his friend? Might be he is having hearing loss at this stage is embarrassing for him...)
Fine wait a moment, I will do the checkup.
I asked him to wait in my cabin, kept aside my work and entered the cabin.
His first question- Will you do a blood test?
(WHY BLOOD TEST..... I thought!)
No, It is only through Headphones.
Ok
I set in front of him. And started asking about my all required questionnaire.
Sir May I know your full name?
Why? Why the full name?
I need it to fill in the reports.
No, I won't tell my full name. Right down here only Rohit.
Okay, no issues.
Sir your contact number?
(That too he didn't feel like giving but still somehow he told.)
Sir your address?
WHY! Will you send reports to my home? Don't send reports to my home!
No, it is required to enter in our software and in the reports. And I won't send it to your home. But if you are not comfortable in sharing it, you can just mention your area, That I will write down here, No issues.
Ok, write down, Mansarovar.
Phewww! (What is he up to??)
Then I asked him about the tinnitus-related question...
Sir, do you feel some ringing kind of sound in the ears?
Yup, I felt in childhood when my mom used to slap me.
I smiled ๐ No that is a normal thing.
Ok, sir one last question, since how long you are having doubt about the hearing loss?
Can I tell you openly?
(What is there in replying for such a simple question, and what is there to hide? I mean what is there that he needed to mention the word OPENLY!)
Yeah, you can share!
I had a physical relation some times back and since then I was having doubt so came here to just be assured.
(HELL... What is the relation between, SEX and HEARING????, I paused for a moment... I didn't know what to say...My mind went in all nasty imaginations and was trying to correlate sex and hearing... didn't find any clue and took back my imagination to work )
My eyes were widely opened... I could not say anything... I could not ask anything more... I just turned my face... Looked at my instrument to checkup and tightly controlled my face not to laugh... Here, the smile couldn't help, I just wanted to LAUGH OUT LOUD!
I explained to him further information regarding the checkup... Like what he has to do when he hears a sound through Headphones.
I fixed headphones on his head. And came to my seat.
In a few minutes, I finished the checkup.
Everything in the checkup was normal but his response to one frequency was a little high, which was not actually a hearing loss but a reason to be worried because at this young age people don't have this high-frequency hearing.
Sir look at this, your hearing is normal but for this age, you have little bit high-frequency hearing issues. So that is a point to concern.
No, do I have it or not?
No sir you don't have it but at this age, your hearing graph is not normal. So you have to take care, like don't listen to music in high volume... Etc...
No... Do I have Aids?
WHAT!!! WHAT THE HELL HE IS TALKING ABOUT???
AIDS?
What? It is a hearing checkup, through Headphones... Not aids checkup!
I shouted like hell in this unexpected situation. How someone can come to a hearing clinic for the Aids checkup?
Oh!!! Ma'am sorry I thought it was an aids checkup clinic. Outside your company's board, I saw.
I explained It is a Hearing Aid Specialist... Hearing Aids provider... Not Aids checkup provider!
I am extremely sorry ma'am. Do you know where can I go for aids checkup?
NO, I DO NOT KNOW.
And he left.
I was just uncontrollable. He wasted my time... I am sitting here, doing Aids checkup without even knowing when I got trained for such checkups!
I got already late.
I was frustrated... I was speechless...
Finally, I sent my reports to the head office... Came outside. Closed the office. Started my Scooter... And this was the time I started thinking about what actually had happened.
Everything re-winded in my mind ... Our company's board mentioned Hearing Aid Specialists (He understood Aid as Aids), That's why I heard that they were telling a girl is sitting inside how can we ask... That's why he was so embarrassed...That's why he asked for blood checkup... That's why he was so worried to tell his full name and give the details about the address (how someone can allow sending Aids checkup report to home by the way)... That's why he mentioned his physical relation openly...... That's why he was so tensed because he came for Aids checkup and I was not able to understand that time.
Because of it, he was so worried and I guess in the tension he didn't pay much attention to the hearing checkup and responded on a high frequency.
Gosh!
I was laughing out loud... What was that.. Someone came to my office to actually get checked up for Aids... SERIOUSLY!!!
My whole ride to my room was in laughter.
I reached and could barely control my laugh and shared it with my roommate. She could not believe and was laughing like hell.
Somehow I slept and the next morning the same incidence was there in my mind... I was laughing... Then came in my mind that he wanted to know about the hospital where he can go for the checkup.
I checked about the hospitals which had facilities for Aids checkup. I called him (somehow he mentioned his number while checkup) and gave the information. He said I was just worried yesterday and had doubt but now I don't think so if I have it.
I said ok.
I don't know if he further went for the checkup or not. I hope he doesn't have it and it was just a doubt.
But if I remember about the day I can't control my laughter.
Still, I can't believe that it actually happened, someone came to me for Aids checkup!
A photo from the kind of similar day of late working hours ๐
In this hectic schedule, I saw two guys (aged around 25) came in front of my office and were discussing something by seeing our company's board which read "Amplifon... Hearing Aid Specialists". And then they came closer to our Standy outside which mentioned "Free hearing checkup". They could see me as It was night and our door glasses were transparent when light inside is more and there is dark outside. I also could see them but was so busy finishing my work, didn't give a damn. They were whispering something, and then one said, "There is a girl inside, how can we ask"?
I heard it but didn't pay much attention. And not at all wanted to waste my time on other stuff.
I was working with my all efforts to finish the work, then suddenly these two guys entered the office. I kept aside my work and offered them help.
Ma'am, please tell me about the checkup.
I explained to them about the first free hearing checkup and then if in my assessment I find they have hearing loss then I will refer them to Audiologist (Hearing Specialist) for further assessment and for that checkup they have to pay.
Ma'am who will do the first free checkup?
I will do it.
Ok
Who wants to get checked up?
Ma'am one of our friends has doubts about it and wanted to clear but he is so embarrassed to come to get checked up.
No, it is better to get checked up on time and clear the doubt, according to that we can suggest timely treatment. So, convince your friend to come over here and have a free assessment. Because by the time passes hearing loss may increase!
Ok, thank you, Ma'am.
(Both looked tensed and went away.)
Again I came on my work... working hard to finish it... Damn it is already dark outside and here all alone I am working...... But alright I am just about to finish it.....
WHAT!
One guy from them came back in a hurry,
And said, ma'am, I am the one who wants to get checked up.
I looked at him with a question mark on my face (why he was making the story about his friend? Might be he is having hearing loss at this stage is embarrassing for him...)
Fine wait a moment, I will do the checkup.
I asked him to wait in my cabin, kept aside my work and entered the cabin.
His first question- Will you do a blood test?
(WHY BLOOD TEST..... I thought!)
No, It is only through Headphones.
Ok
I set in front of him. And started asking about my all required questionnaire.
Sir May I know your full name?
Why? Why the full name?
I need it to fill in the reports.
No, I won't tell my full name. Right down here only Rohit.
Okay, no issues.
Sir your contact number?
(That too he didn't feel like giving but still somehow he told.)
Sir your address?
WHY! Will you send reports to my home? Don't send reports to my home!
No, it is required to enter in our software and in the reports. And I won't send it to your home. But if you are not comfortable in sharing it, you can just mention your area, That I will write down here, No issues.
Ok, write down, Mansarovar.
Phewww! (What is he up to??)
Then I asked him about the tinnitus-related question...
Sir, do you feel some ringing kind of sound in the ears?
Yup, I felt in childhood when my mom used to slap me.
I smiled ๐ No that is a normal thing.
Ok, sir one last question, since how long you are having doubt about the hearing loss?
Can I tell you openly?
(What is there in replying for such a simple question, and what is there to hide? I mean what is there that he needed to mention the word OPENLY!)
Yeah, you can share!
I had a physical relation some times back and since then I was having doubt so came here to just be assured.
(HELL... What is the relation between, SEX and HEARING????, I paused for a moment... I didn't know what to say...My mind went in all nasty imaginations and was trying to correlate sex and hearing... didn't find any clue and took back my imagination to work )
My eyes were widely opened... I could not say anything... I could not ask anything more... I just turned my face... Looked at my instrument to checkup and tightly controlled my face not to laugh... Here, the smile couldn't help, I just wanted to LAUGH OUT LOUD!
I explained to him further information regarding the checkup... Like what he has to do when he hears a sound through Headphones.
I fixed headphones on his head. And came to my seat.
In a few minutes, I finished the checkup.
Everything in the checkup was normal but his response to one frequency was a little high, which was not actually a hearing loss but a reason to be worried because at this young age people don't have this high-frequency hearing.
Sir look at this, your hearing is normal but for this age, you have little bit high-frequency hearing issues. So that is a point to concern.
No, do I have it or not?
No sir you don't have it but at this age, your hearing graph is not normal. So you have to take care, like don't listen to music in high volume... Etc...
No... Do I have Aids?
WHAT!!! WHAT THE HELL HE IS TALKING ABOUT???
AIDS?
What? It is a hearing checkup, through Headphones... Not aids checkup!
I shouted like hell in this unexpected situation. How someone can come to a hearing clinic for the Aids checkup?
Oh!!! Ma'am sorry I thought it was an aids checkup clinic. Outside your company's board, I saw.
I explained It is a Hearing Aid Specialist... Hearing Aids provider... Not Aids checkup provider!
I am extremely sorry ma'am. Do you know where can I go for aids checkup?
NO, I DO NOT KNOW.
And he left.
I was just uncontrollable. He wasted my time... I am sitting here, doing Aids checkup without even knowing when I got trained for such checkups!
I got already late.
I was frustrated... I was speechless...
Finally, I sent my reports to the head office... Came outside. Closed the office. Started my Scooter... And this was the time I started thinking about what actually had happened.
Everything re-winded in my mind ... Our company's board mentioned Hearing Aid Specialists (He understood Aid as Aids), That's why I heard that they were telling a girl is sitting inside how can we ask... That's why he was so embarrassed...That's why he asked for blood checkup... That's why he was so worried to tell his full name and give the details about the address (how someone can allow sending Aids checkup report to home by the way)... That's why he mentioned his physical relation openly...... That's why he was so tensed because he came for Aids checkup and I was not able to understand that time.
Because of it, he was so worried and I guess in the tension he didn't pay much attention to the hearing checkup and responded on a high frequency.
Gosh!
I was laughing out loud... What was that.. Someone came to my office to actually get checked up for Aids... SERIOUSLY!!!
My whole ride to my room was in laughter.
I reached and could barely control my laugh and shared it with my roommate. She could not believe and was laughing like hell.
Somehow I slept and the next morning the same incidence was there in my mind... I was laughing... Then came in my mind that he wanted to know about the hospital where he can go for the checkup.
I checked about the hospitals which had facilities for Aids checkup. I called him (somehow he mentioned his number while checkup) and gave the information. He said I was just worried yesterday and had doubt but now I don't think so if I have it.
I said ok.
I don't know if he further went for the checkup or not. I hope he doesn't have it and it was just a doubt.
But if I remember about the day I can't control my laughter.
Still, I can't believe that it actually happened, someone came to me for Aids checkup!
A photo from the kind of similar day of late working hours ๐
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