Well, there was that day when I rolled into work for another boring day on Area to be confronted with 49 aircraft on frequency. This included a B747 who wanted 2 things on arrival in Brisbane. First a member of the Guinness Book of Records to record the fact that he had 673 passengers on board and thought it might be a new world record. Second he wanted as many cleaners as could be mustered to clean the plane on arrival due to the fact that the passengers were all women and babies and nobody had any nappies. At the same time I had an F27 with 29 pregnant ladies on board also inbound. "Er, ATC can you increase our POB to 30 we've just had our third birth on this flight". Then a Gulfstream taxies with urgent medical supplies wanting to be the only aircraft going the other way. So, I says to the tower, well the only level available is FL470 - and he took it.
Oh, did I mention this was due to Darwin being evacuated after Cyclone Tracy had wiped out most of the town?
Boring - er, NO!!
On the beach, taking the medicine