Tuned Out

We were in my parents hotel room before my cousin's wedding when Monkey with a mischievous glint in her eye and a smile says to Grandma:

"I don't have to listen to you if I don't want to. I can turn off my hearing aids!"

"That's called selective hearing" (says Gma)

"Do you have your hearing aids on now?" (asks Gma)

"Do you?!!" (says Mom)... testing hearing aids finds that she DID turn them off!

Monkey sits there still smiling with the same little glint in her eye...

Later in the car. Monkey asks a question. I answer. She says, "What?!" I ask if her hearing aids are working. "No, they are off, " says Monkey. "Why?" I ask. Because I didn't want to listen to the Narnia cd!