Open Door Policy

What is the difference between in-laws and outlaws?

Outlaws are wanted.

One of my in-laws posted this video on Facebook yesterday:

Several questions and his driver's side rear door were raised.

Did you see the price of the petrol there?  I paid 131.7 a litre yesterday at the local Asda and thought that was bad - interestingly the same price for petrol as for diesel.

The slightly bigger question, though, is "Why was it being driven along with the bloody door open?"

The driver must have known - apparently there are loads of warning gongs that go off if you try to do that sort of thing.

Had the door mechanism failed?  Was he showing off?  In either case, you'd think he might allow a bit of extra space for the overhang when driving through London traffic.

It must have been quite traumatic for the bus driver so I feel ashamed for laughing at my favourite comment added under the Post:

"Typical bus driver, never looks where he's going!"

Women Drivers, Eh?

Here are some:

The one on the left has just been given a new job.  She is going to be a test-driver for the Sauber F1 Team.

 

The one in the middle is rallying legend Michele Mouton.

 

The one on the right has recently criticised the one below.

But then again, I sort of did too - in 2015.  And so has Jensen Button now.

 

The recent criticism is about her ("her" being Carmen Jorda) claiming that a "physical issue" was the barrier preventing women from competing in Formula 1 or Formula 2.  Susie Wolff, the third woman in the top photo responded with a tweet pointing out that motorsport doesn't care about gender.

 

Susie Wolff became the first woman in 22 years to take part in a Formula 1 race weekend in 2014 - and is married to the team boss.

 

I'm not too sure that motorsport doesn't care about gender - especially given by the responses to her tweet and the fact that it has taken until 2018 to sort out the grid-girl situation.

 

However, if you want to see a really tough woman driver, please watch the video in this story. 

Her name is Charmaine Laurie.  I was very impressed when I first saw the footage which was before it had been identified that it was a woman driver.

After I knew it was a woman driver though, I was impressed at exactly the same level.