I was still at college at the time and in the Royal Observer Corps (ROC). I was issued with a letter from the ROC telling me to detail contact numbers for home and work so that I might be got hold of should the need arise, in which case I was to report to my Post immediately.
This teenager, feeling immensely important, presented himself in his Housemaster's office (yes, it was one of those schools) and showed him the letter ... he was unimpressed "What is this ROC?"! I was told that I would only be released with the written permission of the Headmaster and the master taking the class I happened to be in at the time. I said that this was unworkable and I would be going regardless ... the "regardless" I was told would involve a beating!
Had the balloon 'gone up' I suppose I'd be sitting in my bunker dwelling on the possibility of a thrashing, on the other hand the CCCP might have resolved my problem for me!!!