Big Airways Captain
Having been refused a job bombing innocents my next career choice was to drive around not so innocents.
A couple of years after I got onto the Tridents we had our first Hamble blokes come through. Most having attended lesser public schools. A few insisted on the captain nonsense in the pub as well as telephone directory.
One trip the whole crew plus a local hostess girl friend of mine ended up in a Glasgow eating house when everyone used Christian names except the captain insisted that I used his rank or sir.
So in my best Essex vernacular I obliged but added his surname..Farqharson which I missed pronounced as Far - ke - harr -sun upon which he decided to give me elocution lessons.
I stopped after numerous failed attempts as the rest of the crew were struggling not to collapse into a fit of giggles.
Never flew with him again as his ego demanded he went onto the bigger and newer piece of kit.