Ensign question - oh no, not again!

[NormanS]

In reality, does that ever happen? I have never been told off and have never heard of anyone being taken to task for getting it wrong......except in jest.

Or is it just a maritime myth?

Yes, it happens. There is a pratt on the West Coast of Scotland who is well known for girning voluably at people like me who wear my country's flag.

 

[Fascadale]

Looks as if you are just off Burntisland. (Firth of Forth, with Edinburgh in the background.

Exactly

On our way to that excellent bar on the main street of Burntisland, the Star if memory serves. There was a band in the yard at the back. Country and Western.