It's not only some wives who are conscious of their husband's rank. One weekend in the early 60s, a JO was working on his sports car behind the Mess, and was being annoyed by a 12 year old who was trying to interfere in what was going on. The JO eventually told the observer to leave the area, only to be told something along the lines of the JO couldn't talk to him like that because his daddy was a Wg Cdr. JO told the son of Wg Cdr to please tell his daddy that Fg Off JO told him to "F**k Off". Nothing was heard of any development.