women
This one has been told to me, wasn't there and don't know if it's true or not -but it's quite likely-. Happened something like 10-15 years back when the iron wall was still in place. A russian plane calling in, being identified and given some instructions by a female controller who is finishing the shift at the time-apparently there weren't that many back then and I guess specially @ other side of the "wall"-; so that was her last transmission for the day and a male colleague takes over. A couple of minutes later the pilot comes back:
"control, can you confirm we were cleared by a woman??"
makes me chuckle anyway
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