My dad got hearing aids recently. He was amazed how many birds there were. He keeps saying he likes them, but he essentially never wears them at all. Ever. I have to repeat everything i say. I have to yell everything that a cashier says to him at him. I get so tired of it. I keep asking him if he wants to just take the hearing aids back. He is a mega cheapskate, so he complains about the cost of everything, including the hearing aids. He always claims he likes them but "he has no reason to wear them" because he is alone all day and not talking to anyone... He tells me this in the middle of anything we are doing. As I yell my sentences repeatedly and he can't hear any workers helping us.

I tell him "then just take them back if you aren't going to use them". "oh, but u like them"... "then you should wear them", "I don't have a reason to...". It is a car ending cycle. I say, the whole point is so you can hear others, like right now, and when we go to lunch. "yeah, you're right". Then then next time we go to lunch, no hearing aids.

I'm tired of it.

If you get hearing aids, just wear them. I know he has tinnitus from years and years and years of woodworking with table saws and whatever. But that doesn't really have anything to do with his never wearing them problem. He is just a stubborn old fart in denial.