Joke-Deaf Old Man

During flight school an instructor noticed that a young pilot wasn't wearing her earplugs correctly. "If you don't fix your earplugs, you'll turn into a deaf old man like me," he warned over the roar of helicopter engines.
She shot back, "If I turn into a deaf old man, I've got bigger problems than hearing loss."

Readers Digest Feb, 2007, Pg. 80.