sitting stress
I'm slightly mystified as to why you changed my Post 13 words before "quoting" me in your Post 22. "My" words now seem to make no sense, or at least less sense than the originals. Why??
Great Uncle
I do apologise for any offence unwittingly caused. My point was that the rules are there, but of course - as other posters have noted - they can be broken, and the Staish himself is the man to do it. Much good advice here, to which I would add go straight to the Stn Cdr, rather than OC GD or the Mess Manager. Similar issues arose on my Station, and we found a way around them - and that was just after 9/11 too. I wish you well.