...or the famous,
'I need to exchange my flying gloves, size 8.'
'Sorry, Sir, I've only got one pair left and somebody might want them.'
'Yes, I want them.'
'Sorry, Sir.'
I went to stores at Linton for leg restraint garters to find they only had one. How did they end up with one? Not many one-legged JP pilots around at that time. Apparently, they came in boxes of seven! Why????