25check - you think you jest - but when I was a Panel Operator, a SAA B747 was told he'd have a near-2-hour wait for his stand; after a moment of contemplation, he came out with a classic - 'And I thought this was a first-world country....'
Ive been out of it for 5 years now, but doing the lights was the best job I could have ever found.
Piltdown Man - Sometimes, on very rare occasions*, the L/Ops might not have been quite as quick as Captain Speaking might have liked - and I appreciate, it's frustrating to be looking at a bar with nothing apparently beyond it. I well remember some plank of a pilot (small twin-prop, well known airline) /telling/ us he was crossing a bar, then coming face to face with the rather larger aeroplane he was supposed to be giving way to...... If he'd been in anything larger, he couldn't have done the powered 180deg turn that got him out of it.
* maybe less rare when I was on duty ;-)