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Walter: So, do you always talk in this conspiratorial whisper because you try to seem more interesting?
Colleague: No, it's because I'm deaf in one ear, so my own voice sounds very loud to me.
Walter: What?
Colleague: You see if your senses are damaged what's left becomes more sensitive in order to compensate. When I'm at home I'm usually the only to hear it if someone is moving around upstairs.
Walter: So... you are deaf in one ear, but you think your hearing is better than other people's?
Colleague: ... yes.
A little context: it's well known around here that he often has trouble understanding what everyone else is saying; it's just that he compensates by making something up. So we occasionally have conversations in this vein: "J., did you reboot that server yet?" "A suffusion of yellow." "What?" "Sorry, what did you say exactly?"
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