Say what?

What she said:

Moreland Leader

What I heard:

more than a litre

Sometimes it is hard to hear what someone is saying and you only catch the gist of it. More often than not you end up with some words that sound the same as the ones that have been said but which does not make any sense at all and you are go "Huh??? what??"

My wife was telling me today how we seemed to have stopped getting the "Moreland Leader" which is a community newspaper that gets delivered to our doorstop every monday. I heard "more than a litre" which of course did not mean anything to me but might have so I had to ask again what she was saying and she very patiently repeated what she had said in a slower and more clear voice so that my water logged ears could identify the actual words that had been said.

Now I am not saying that I have a hearing problem because I most certainly do not. It is everybody else's fault for not speaking coherently enough.