I was de-icing one up on the apron, you normally squirted all the controls and wings etc first, but left the fuselage until the pax's were safetly ensconced on board to stop it dripping on them as they boarded, having watched all the pax on I was given the signal to let rip, starting at the front I bounced it off the fuselage from my position just aft of the stb wing giving it a good coating...
Unbeknown to any of us there was a VIP flying that day, some General or other who having awaited the multitude to get aboard and be seated climbed the steps to be hit with the full flow of a de-ice truck bouncing off the fuselage... his suit was apparently not a pretty sight and one felt that inter service cooperation had taken a backward step that day... I believe there was a marked sound of contained laughter when he entered the cabin from the rest of the pax
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