Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for May 24, 2016

Don’t you kind of miss the days of dialing the cellphone’s number (assuming you’ve got it memorized) through a landline phone?

My daughter didn’t have an “inside voice” when she was little.My son spent years with his fingers in his ears.BTW she resents that!

I’m not loud (I don’t think so, anyway) in conversation…but apparently. I can make my voice carry if I want to….

On stage or as a speaker, I’m told I can reach the cheap seats…and a friend(?) once told me she could always find me in a large group cos she could hear my laughter. She assured me it wasn’t raucous, or unpleasant…she said there was just something about it that made it audible.Boy, did that make me self-conscious!

Nope, I can yell only when need be. LOOK OUT!!!!!

QOTD: I can be heard from the other end of a soccer field during a game. Does that count?..toon comment: My teenage grandson talks without moving his lips. I’ll take an outside voice.

_ talks without moving his lips._.I noticed that about a lot of young’uns. I wonder why they do that. I guess I did it some as a teen, because I remember my daddy tell me to quit mumbling. I thought he was deaf.

Our eldest daughter doesn’t seem to have an inside voice; I am forever after her to stop yelling at me. There is also a fellow at our church who talks VERY loudly, but I think he lost some of his hearing in the military. Drives me nuts.

@Tony“Are you loud?”Nope, I’m very quiet.

QOTD#1“Are you loud?”.When I have to be. But most of the time people ask me to speak up..QOTD#2What did you have to accept with your growing kids?.I’M GETTING OLD DAGNABBIT!(sorry – didn’t mean to be so loud)

Why do you talk so loud?

I’M HARD OF HEARING.

Do you have to hear yourself to know what you’re saying?

@Tony“Are you loud?”

Not necessarily. I learned long ago one of the most effective ways to get someone’s attention during a conversation was to lower my voice.

People will often stop their chatter and lean in close to try to hear what you have to say…

What did you have to accept with your growing kids?

Raising kids was not inexpensive…

Q1 As the first part of my nickname suggests, I have one of those voices that make people lean in to hear me. As the second part suggests, I can get loud when I need to like when I have to defend my kids or when I have to repeat myself to my kids.

Q2 I had to accept that the kids grow faster than my bank account does and that what works for one probably won’t work for another one and many more things.

“What did you have to accept with your growing kids?”

That THEY were indeed GROWING UP! :-(

@TonyI spend my days at work talking to people who don’t hear very well. So, I speak clearly, distinctly and sometimes a bit too loudly. Occupational hazard.

Which is worse, loud talker or low talker?

I do see that kind of people in the streets very often and wonder what they need a cell-phone for anyway…Q1: With GPRS? How!?!Q2: No kids.