Long enough

Perhaps a better title for this post would be "I've got a mind and I am afraid to use it".

Background:
Last year, I used to listen to a online radio that kept playing the Madonna advertisement for H&M. Something close to "Do you know what H&M stands for? Her Majesty. Well, isn't that nice of them?" I listened to it at least 15 times per day. I still say it in that mock-enticingly tone whenever I pass an H&M store, and God knows I have the chance to say it quite a lot, there are only 3 or 4 stores on Kaufingerstr. alone!

Favourable condition:
I have a hearing problem. Not an acuity one, but I am not all that able to discern sounds when there is too much noise (public places where there is loud music playing, or many people talking, or train stations, or anything similar). I had it tested, it's neurological, and can't really help it. So most of the times I "guess" what the others are saying and try to "match" it with the context. Usually it works. Sometimes the goofiest of lines come out of my mouth.
This has lead me to practice the "guessing game" even outside noisy places, and I match the meaning of words I hear to whatever I am thinking of at that moment. Still leads to nincompoop-like stances.

Unfavourable condition:
I have know from more than a year that a diminutive for Madonna is Madge.

Outcome:
It only took my one year to figure out that what Madonna says in the said advert is actually "Do you know what H&M stands for? Her Madgesty." Well, isn't THAT nice of them?! ;-)

And now I know.
Better later than not at all, I say. (I must see some good in this)


Toodiloo!