A successful doctor and a deaf man were both trying to woo a young lady (yes it's the 1970s). Each day, the doctor would leave the girl amazing gifts: bouquets of roses, fine wines, expensive jewellery, you name it. And each day, the deaf guy would leave her a single apple.
After weeks of this, she resolved to find out what the apples signified, so she went to the deaf man and asked him: "Each day, I get incredible things from my other suitor, a doctor, but you only ever give me one apple, one on each day. Why is that?"
And the deaf man replied,