A couple of vaugely ATC stories:
Rans S6 inbound to Southampton:
For those who don’t know it, the Rans S6 is a tube and fabric home built, about the same size and shape as a Cessna 150, but with Cub-like glazing around the cockpit.
The Rans was already on finals when a Speedbird flight, also inbound, called up:
TWR: “Speedbird xxx, you are number two to a Rans S6 on short Finals.”
Speedbird: “And what pray, is a Rans S6?”
TWR: “It’s a sort of see-through Cessna, Sir.”
A couple of years ago at Gillespie Field, San Diego, doing the required night hours for one of the American Ticket. This was mostly bashing the circuit, getting noticeably darker after the landing light quit. Others in the circuit were reporting various wildlife on the runway and taxiways. I didn’t see any, probably due to aforementioned lack of landing light. At the end of the session while taxing in:
N..293: “Tower, N293 with a question.”
TWR: “’293 Go Ahead.”
N.293: “If I’d seen three cats on the runway at the same time, could I log it as a CAT III approach?”
TWR: “We’ll let you know!”