Maybe that's just clickbait! I'm not sure anybody can figure out how Farmer H's mind works. It's his world, and other people are just living in it, waiting for him to annoy them.
Farmer H does not hear well. Not his fault, he spent many, many years working on a factory floor, with machines constantly running. Plus, he's old. When he watches TV, the volume setting is on 30. That's not a big deal. I can hear it in the kitchen. I can turn up my music to drown it out. In fact, when I'm here alone, I set it on 30 so I can hear TV shows from the kitchen. Farmer H knows this. When he gets home, the TV is on 30.
Here's the deal. When Farmer H goes to bed, he cranks the volume down to 24. WHYYYY??? Asks Mrs. HM, and Nancy Kerrigan. Farmer H goes into the bedroom and closes the door and puts on his breather. He sleeps through everything. Dogs barking, thunderstorms, and the smoke detector going off in the kitchen. It's not like he can even hear that TV on 30 in the bedroom.
This is an issue for me. There are shows I like to listen to in the evening after Farmer H has gone to bed. He even puts the channel on the shows I like (except on Saturdays, when he has specific instructions, but then says he forgot). So WHYYYY does he turn down the volume? What's the point of what channel it's on, if I can't even hear it? Might as well leave it on Gunsmoke!
I will try to get an answer from Farmer H, when I have the time to devote to deciphering one of his convoluted explanations.
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It's a tough question. Perhaps something he was taught as a child? Like I was taught to turn off lights when leaving a room and if I was headed to the kitchen I should take any dishes in the room with me, I still do those things along with hanging up my jacket as soon as I take it off.
River,
I asked, and Farmer H says he turns it down because he figures I don't want to hear it. Even though he puts it on MY channel, and knows I've been listening to it at volume 30 all day while I'm in the kitchen.
He doesn't seem to understand that I don't want to hear HIS shows, like Gunsmoke and Andy Griffith, when he leaves it on that channel and goes outside to mow. So I guess the mystery is solved!
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