Pathetic fallacy

I had an appointment with my audiologist this morning to fit the new moulds to my hearing aids. After she had done all the testing and programming of the aids with the new moulds attached there wasn’t a lot of time left, but she gave me a quick lesson in how to insert the moulds myself, and off I went.

All was well until I was home and trying to listen to something on my iPad without disturbing Smithers. Unfortunately I couldn’t make the Bluetooth work on the iPad so that I could hear the sound through my aids. I had to keep re-booting both the iPad and the hearing aids to try to pair them, and to re-boot the hearing aids I had to take them out of my ears and put them back in their box. I became very frustrated because I was really struggling to put the moulds back in my ears again. Either one of the moulds would fall out of my ear or the aid itself behind my ear would drop off as I was fiddling with the mould. I spent ages trying to sort it all out, and got quite tearful I’m afraid, feeling so stupid that I couldn’t manage it. 

Eventually I discovered that if I turned off Bluetooth on my phone, which was on the table beside me, the iPad would then pick up and pair the hearing aids without any difficulty! So now I know that I can’t have my hearing aids paired on both devices at once. But by this time the damage was done, I felt absolutely shattered and had to take the aids out to give my ears a rest. 

It was at this point that the rain came down really heavily as I looked out of the window, looking for all the world as though the weather was echoing my mood, bringing to mind my English literature lessons on the subject of pathetic fallacy.