This really happened to me. I was waiting at the gate in Louisville KY airport and a Southwest Airlines 737 pulls into the next gate. The paint job on it was pretty ratty and the paint around the nose had peeled off in places. A little boy asked his "Bubba" Dad "what is wrong with the paint? the Dad begins a diatribe about how they use special paint on jets so that if a pilot ever exceeds the sound barrier the heat build up causes the paint to peel off, and thats how they can tell if the pilot was speeding?? I kid you not
two other bubba's listened politely to this hillbilly Cliff Claven and nodded..I was cracking up!!