What?
The pandemic hasn’t exactly been a huge block of positive stories. But one upside is that many of us now work from home full time. Here’s the breakdown of its benefits:
For the employer
- Reduced office space needs
- Not having to listen to whining staff
- No more ‘the train was late/destroyed’ excuses for being late
For the employee
- No commute
- Easy fridge access
- Can collect Amazon parcels in person and not have them delivered to the neighbour you hate and left a note on his/her car anonymously saying so
- No need to get dressed below the waist for meetings
- No need to get dressed at all if no meetings
- Endless skiving possibilities
So Fridays have been even better as you can be ‘working’ whilst actually watching MotoGP FP1 and FP2 whilst eating cheese. Thank you horrendous virus!
But, annoyingly, technical issues at the Moi International Airport in Mombasa in Kenya have punched us in our smug, eager faces
How?
The problem is that a plane at the airport has hit a ‘technical issue’. Because this is Kenya ‘technical issue’ actually translates to some thieving bastards have stolen parts of the plane* – possibly hoping to sell them on the local market along with endangered animal skins and horns.
This plane, now without any wheels, was supposed to be carrying the factory Ducati equipment along with the equipment from Gresini Racing and Valentino Rossi’s VR46 team.
It gets worse. Not only were Ducati affected but also a load of other MotoGP junk is also on the plane including the little star badges awarded to Jack Miller by Dorna for eating up all his vegetables.
So?
It seems that the wheels from the aircraft could only be bought back from the thieving entrepreneurs from the market on Thursday – as it’s shut earlier in the week. This means that the flight now won’t arrive in Argentina until Thursday evening.
This delay will put a huge strain on the affected teams with Valentino Rossi’s VR46 team even stating that any delay may cost Luca Marina valuable track time and put his stoic 19th place finish in doubt.
What’s the outcome?
With so much at stake, and concerned that it may cause extra work, Dorna did what any Spanish company/person would do and made less work for themselves. They have cancelled all Friday’s sessions offering the four people who bought tickets a refund in corned beef or shrapnel from the Falklands Islands.
All practice and qualifying will now take place on Saturday meaning us folk who love to spend the day watching MotoGP and not working will be forced to think up something else to do instead of working.
* Usually stealing from an aircraft in an international airport would be a dangerous and complex task – fortunately those cheeky Kenyans circumnavigate this problem with bribery.