John was concerned about his elderly wife’s hearing, so he decided to test it without telling her.

He went to the corner of the room, a few metres away from her and said, “Honey, can you hear me?”

There was no response.

So, he moved closer to his wife and again said, “Honey, can you hear me?”

Still he got no response. So he leaned over the back of her chair and raised his voice, shouting in her ear, “Honey, can you hear me?”

His wife put down her newspaper and turned towards him saying, “John, I said ‘yes’ three times already!”