The Deaf Man

Once there was a deaf man who liked to be 'in the crowd'. One day he and his friends were telling jokes, and soon it was his turn to tell one. Now, as you will learn, he can speak, but cannot hear. As this was so he could not even hear himself. The joke he told was funny, so all his friends laughed. When he saw them laughing, he didn't want to be left out, and so he, too, laughed. Now his friends knew he was deaf, so they stopped laughing. Then they asked him in sign language, "Why are you laughing? You cannot hear". The man replied, "You are all laughing. Why can't I laugh?". His friends replied,"Can you hear?". The man, seeing their gestures, had to admit he didn't. So his friends told him, " Then don't laugh." After that, the man understood and never did anything foolishly again.The End