The (Other) End of the Internet

It seems sometimes that all I do is wander around from daughter to daughter telling them to turn down their headphones. My favorite sentence these days is, “If I can hear it, it’s too loud”. The standard reply to that comment is that it has to be that loud to be heard over the rest of the noise in the house. This will invariably get, in response, a lecture about how loud noises can cause permanent hearing loss and woeful stories about how my mother needed an amplifier on her telephone and how my voice fell into the very middle of the range of her hearing loss, so the woman usually couldn’t hear a thing I said.

I was browsing buy.com’s weekly specials to see what sale item I could bug people about for Father’s Day when I saw these Maximo iM-390 iMetal Isolation Earphones. Not only do these things block out most background noise so you don’t have to turn them way up just to be able to hear them, but they appear to be tough enough to stand up to even Daughter Number Three. I’ve never met anyone who can disable a pair of those one-dollar earphones quicker. I think her record is an afternoon.