There was the case of a wing commander who retired from the RNZAF and moved to a new town and a new house.
He had to fill in a form for his new phone number to be included in the next issue of the local phone book, and he prefixed his name with W/C.
The people who processed the form were obviously confused by this abbreviation because when the new phone book came out there he was J, Smith, welding contractor.
