When You Understand: Earphones

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The 9,800 yen earphones that I bought today broke. I was listening to them with the volume really loud and then suddenly the sound cut out. Dammit. These things cost me 9,800 yen!

I was so annoyed that I threw them at my 450,000 plasma screen TV. When I came back to my senses, I rushed over to check that it wasn’t broken as well. The picture appeared when I turned it on. Thank god. But then… There was no sound. Dammit. My 450,000 yen plasma TV broke as well.

Still, things are pretty quiet today. It’s nice outside, so maybe I’ll go for a walk.

Answer: His earphones stopped working. Sound stopped coming from the TV. Everything was rather quiet. It wasn’t the earphones that broke, but rather, his ears…