A ten year old boy lost his hearing aid at a Farragut movie theater in the summer of 1996 only to retrieve it a few days later when theater employees searched through the trash.
Michael Samarin was at a movie theater with his parents when one of his hearing aid batteries died. He could hear relatively well without them at the time, so he put the device in his pocket and did not realize until much later that it had fallen out.
The hearing aid was retrieved the next day after the theater employees cleaned up a trash spill. One of the bags busted and, while staff members dealt with the mess, they found the hearing aid. It fell out of his pocket before Samarin left the theater the day before.
“I didn’t really need them much then, so when the battery died I put it in my pocket, forgot about it, and then lied to my Mom when she asked where it was,” Samarin said.
Samarin and his mom were surprised to receive a call from the theater regarding the mechanism. They had visited the day before in search of the lost hearing aid.
A relieved Samarin recovered the hearing aid, which would have cost $1,500 to replace.
“We didn’t expect to find it, especially after the movie theater staff said our only hope was to search through endless bags of trash,” Samarin said.
Samarin said he has since avoided such incidents by being much more careful with his hearing aids. Now that he is more dependent on the aids, it is easier for him to keep track of them, he said.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Be more specific on when it happened.
I don't think the sentence is necessary-"Trash is blown to the bottom of the theater and bagged up daily."
Were his parents mad he had lost the aid?
You don't need the word about about in the sentence that says- A relieved Michael recovered the hearing aid, which would have cost about $1500 to replace.
Excellent! Great work, Kathryn. the story reads well, it follows the inverted pyramid well, and it was interesting.
Watch a few punctuation issues. Keep up the good writing!
Post a Comment