Sounds very amusing. Reminds me of travelling on LAM from Harare to Maputo.
The Captain arrived whilst we were seated on knackered the 737 200. It was patently obvious that his borrowed uniform did not cover his "Standard 6 body"
Midway through the take-off roll, the aircraft pitched nose up, raising the nose wheel off the runway. I think, that’s quite a short takeoff run, but no, said nose gear was lowered again on to the runway. I contemplated telling the people next to me that they had better savour their last earthly gasp.
But we eventually managed to get airborne on the "Vr but one".
We arrived in Maputo, having had a light lunch of duck, (When I asked the Hostie what the duck was like, she told me that the duck was like a "chigken" but it could swim!)
I decided to wait for the Air Zimbabwe flight for my return.