My husband has incredible filters. In his ears.
I start talking and I can practically HEAR the filter "snap" as it turns on. It's a very special filter that allows him to hear only key words so if I accuse him of not listening, he can regurgitate most of the key ideas all the while thinking about the NHL draft.
Sometimes the filter fails.
Yesterday we were driving up to the Tim Horton's drive-thru and I told him: "I want a small iced cap with REGULAR milk because I'm tired of CHOCOLATE milk and I'd like 3 TimBits but not the raisin ones."
What he heard was: "I blah blah blah blah blah chocolate milk blah blah 3 Timbits blah blah raisin."
And that's what he ordered: a chocolate milk ice capp with 3 raisin Timbits.
As we pulled away from the drive-thru (so there were no witnesses) I ripped him a new one and accused him of never listening, to what he of course said, "what?".
This was all very reminiscent of when I sent him to buy me slippers and I said "ANYTHING BUT WHITE" so, of course, I got white slippers.
I find that if I start talking and his eyes glaze over and the filter snaps on, I just have to be a bit creative to snap him back and throw in some key words to get his attention. "Sweetheart could you take out the trash... BOOBIES...and I also need you to finally hang up those shelves...PIPA MIDDLETON...and lastly the recycling could go out...MORE BOOBIES!" Never fails. Thank you Pipa.
