"You got a letter from headquarters this morning."

"What is it?"

"It's a big building where generals meet, but that's not important."

"Excuse me sir, there's been a little problem in the cockpit…"

"The cockpit…what is it?"

"It's the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit, but that's not important right now."

I like the contrast of these two:

I don't mean to worry you but...

As a fellow Christophe, I too have seen this all my life.
It's comical that so many companies and systems just decided "No one will ever have a name longer than 10 characters, right?"

My Pixel

Well I guess that explains why mine stopped working. I'd have never bought one if it didn't come with my house.