The one-armed four-star (not too many to choose from) who gave me my wings extended his "5 minute" speech at the parade for so long (about 25) that some of the JP 9-ship were thinking of renaming it "Bingo Formation".
And we'd all been briefed to proffer left hand for shaking, but no-one had told Sir Gus (for it was he) who continued his normal SOP of extending left hand thumb downwards so that it could be shaken with a right hand ..... cue much confusion.
... and then at the lunch when he met the (then) girlfriend, he so vigorously shook her (left) hand, that her handbag (out of the way on left arm she thought) bounced all the way down her arm and onto his. I'd never seen that many stripes that close before, and certainly not with a white leather handbag on them......