How about
: going around the circuit at Luton, get clearance to finals while downwind. Chug along, turn base, when I hear the tower clear a corporate jet to line up on the reciprocal - he had just plain forgotten I was out there.
I called base with a gentle reminder that he had already cleared me to finals. Sounded a bit flustered when he told me to fly through to the dead side and go round the circuit again..
Another time I was cleared to line up at Goodwood with another aircraft on very short finals. The landing a/c was not on the radio (not the Goodwood frequency anyway
) , and the tower guy clearly wasn't looking out the window when he cleared me..
Not having a go at ATC here.