> Your joke didn't make light of losing one's hearing, to the contrary it played on the obvious absurdness of caring more about a headset than one's hearing. H

> Your joke didn't make light of losing one's hearing, to the contrary it played on the obvious absurdness of caring more about a headset than one's hearing. How can you tell? Why not give the benefit of the doubt that the apology was sincere and not grovelling?