New Game Show for the Elderly (grandparents, retired, vacation, friends)
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Hearing becomes less distinct as we age, and dentition problems make us slur our words, to make things worse....The bride and I are having more and more trouble hearing and understanding each other as the years go by.
A typical example might be one us saying "I think I broke a dish."..The other will respond, "What? You spoke to a fish? When?"
Watching the new generation of "Password" on TV the other day where, as you may recall, one contestant gives a one word clue and the other contestant has to guess the password. It struck me that we could start an entertaining new show for old folks---One old fogey will say a sentence and then three old panelists will have to guess what he said.
I have often thought I should write down what I think I hear vs. what was really said. I would have several pages by now and maybe even a Best Seller with the retired folks, lollol
I've been watching the new game show "Generation Gap" hosted by Kelly Ripa. In this game, a grandparent and their grandchild compete against another team to answer questions about each other's generation. For example, they may show the grandchild a picture of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy and ask who they are. Then they may show the grandparent a picture of the DJ Marshmallow and ask who they are. It's more fun than competitive, but I often feel sorry for the grandparents. Some are old enough that their cognitive abilities are declining. A question is asked and they never hit the buzzer, or they look like a deer caught in headlights. Grandparents who have/had careers as a teacher are the best in the game as they are constantly around children and are able to keep up with pop culture and trends.
There are a lot of potential variants to this game. They could have us elderly folks attempt to communicate to a call center that has been off-shored to a country that does not speak American English as their primary language. They could have us elderly attempt to communicate over a noisy phone line, or in a noisy environment.
Now if you wanted to pick on the current generation of children, you could have another game where the children are asked to do the things that were normal and expected of us elderly when we were children, such as:
wait for the bus without an adult nearby
play in the playground across the street without adult supervision as your dad plays baseball and your mom watches dad play
walk to and from school by yourself or with the neighbor girl (being able to walk to and from school by yourself was a written first-grade skill)
play in the neighborhood all day, returning home in time for supper, without your parents knowing exactly where you are
Hearing becomes less distinct as we age, and dentition problems make us slur our words, to make things worse....The bride and I are having more and more trouble hearing and understanding each other as the years go by.
A typical example might be one us saying "I think I broke a dish."..The other will respond, "What? You spoke to a fish? When?"
Sounds like your problem may also be the inability to apply context to what you think the other is saying. Maybe that is part of aging too? I don't think most folks would immediately jump to talking fish in this scenario...
I like Zydeco. I follow and am friends with a couple of Zydeco performers. The other day, I was looking at a poster (on Facebook) about an upcoming Zydeco music festival. I was looking at this on my phone, so the print was small. One of the performers at this festival was going to be "Jeff Broussard and the NuEdition". But my eyes saw Jeff Broussard and the NuEdibles."
I thought "Well that's interesting...wait...what??" LOL
Hearing becomes less distinct as we age, and dentition problems make us slur our words, to make things worse....The bride and I are having more and more trouble hearing and understanding each other as the years go by.
A typical example might be one us saying "I think I broke a dish."..The other will respond, "What? You spoke to a fish? When?"
Watching the new generation of "Password" on TV the other day where, as you may recall, one contestant gives a one word clue and the other contestant has to guess the password. It struck me that we could start an entertaining new show for old folks---One old fogey will say a sentence and then three old panelists will have to guess what he said.
Whadaya think?
This is an old game I learned as a youngster in the Scouts. I think it was called "telegraph". You'd whisper a message to the person next to you, and they'd in turn whisper it to the person on their other side. When it made its way back to you, we all had a good laugh at how mangled the message had become.
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