Ear bashing
I was doing the bi annual instructor check for a well known Aerobatic pilot in an Extra & while we were in the CCT we kept getting the guy in the tower bleating on that we could not land because of rule 43 ( or something like that ).
The reason was that there was an aircraft who had just cleared the far end of the runway and was not far enough way from the runway, the whole thing was strange interpretation of the rules made even more strange the next day at Gatwick when I am cleared to "land after" when the aircraft ahead has yet to clear the runway.
It all goes to show that common sense is not so common.