I agree with EatMyShorts too. After maintenance, double check everything. I'm just a low-time PPL but I got my scare on my very first flying lesson. We flew in the back of another plane to a small strip where our plane had been painted, to collect it. Shiny new paint job (shabby jobs, but that's another story) and the paint shop had already removed all the masking tape... Except for the tape on the pitot/static mast.
Fortunately we found out during preflight. But it would have been a short-field, soft-field take-off, in hot weather, with a lake at the end of the runway.