Married 3 weeks (to current SWMBO), 6pm, pan on stove and air raid siren outside MQ in Norwich sounds. Rush upstairs, into "greens", grab car keys (base is 13 miles away and I am Ground Defence Cdr so authorised not to wait for bus but scare locals going through Wroxham). As I grab car keys, new bride say caustically - "Where the hell are you going?" "Call out", I say "What that.........?", but I have gone
Four hours later after Aunty Joan has run out of things to do went home - to "And where the hell have you been?" - and before we were married she had seen me called out at the Towers (not often mind you). I think the siren spooked her. But as someone said above, it is not until you have had the experience..............