Patient

I've been having some unpleasant pressure in my right ear and a couple of episodes of vertigo over the last six days. Today I had an appointment with my ENT Dr. He entered the exam room, we shook hands, he looked at my throat, looked up my nose (but doc, it's my ear that troubles me!) looked in my right ear and while rolling across to look in my left ear, he said "We're gonna have to get that hair out of there."
The first thought that went through my head was that he meant my long hair was in the way. I found it odd that he didn't move it out of the way in the first place. Then I suddenly had an embarrassing epiphany. "You mean I've reached the age of hairy ears?!"
"No, I mean that there is either a dog or horse hair in there that needs to come out."