We had the rubber gasket thing at the bottom of the Airbus stick coming off recently. It uses a special nylon type of rope that holds it in place.

The mechanic came to the plane and said well I’ll look up and see if we can just defer the side stick, since there’s two. He was dead serious and I just played along and told him that he should go do that and let us know.

they’ll defer anything if they can go back inside and watch whatever was on the TV