Thud,
The definitive, and true, version of your story is AVM Don Spottiswood landing a Discus at Abingdon during the Inter-Services Gliding Competition in the late '70s.
The Air Traffic landrover was dispatched into the middle of the airfield to collect Don and deliver him to the Tower.
On arrival in the Tower Don was subject to a tirade of abuse from the local controller, the gist of which was that glider pilots were a bunch of unprofessional
[email protected], etc.
Don, an RAF pilot with several thousand hours, remained silent until the tirade finished at which point he retrieved his ID from his wallet, proffered it and said "Flt Lt, shall we start this conversation again?".