Mess Rules
Cyprus early 70s, combined mess, brekkie time.
All collect choice from buffet, sit down at table. Our hero asks pongo mate (strangely wearing SD hat) to pass the sugar - no response to several polite requests, said gentleman from whichever guards wegiment eventually lowers his newspaper and replies " do you not know that we have a tradition in the wegiment that when an officer wears his SD hat at breakfast he does not wish to be spoken to", our hero ponders for a while, then climbs onto the table , steps into wuperts plate with his combat boots, and replies "we have a tradition in the royal marines that if I stamp in your effin cornflakes I want the effin sugar" !