Compared to my friends’ hearing problems my perforated eardrum barely qualifies as a story. Also, I’m not sure they heard me

We are four middle-aged men having lunch in a crowded dining room in London – a rare get-together. The conversation has a single overarching theme: none of us can really follow it against the background hum.

“I can’t hear anything in here,” I say.

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