another one for 101:
Culdrose Flying Clothing Store - you think they'd bought the stuff in there from their own bank accounts, such is their reluctance to give you absa-bl@@dy-lutely anything at all without needing permission in triplicate from Cdr Air, the CO, your mum and the cleaner. All i wanted was another roll-neck vest which got 'lost' on board in the wash. Even prepared to buy one. No, came the reply, i needed to report the theft to the Police and come back with a crime reference number, or at the very least a letter from the CO explaining the circumstances in which it got lost. Then i was told that as an officer i should "be more responsible for my kit"!
came my reply...
Rant over. Needed to get that off my chest. Cheers.