Slow Ride

Last night I had the unenviable task of driving a car with a very loose drivers door to a garage in largs.

Yes, our old Clio has just about lost its drivers side door. Its disconcerting to be able to see the road through the gap between door frame and car, and to be rained on through said gap.

Anyway, the point of this was, that despite the road to Largs being pretty good in places, and tricky in others, for the most part it is safe to run at 50-60mph (In fact if you were a bad person and speeding some stretches could take 70-75) however the door would show worrying amounts of daylight if it pushed the poor Clio much above 40 so I had to crawl up to Largs.

SO where am I going with this? Well, the road is single carriageway and quite bendy in places, which means if you have someone with a loose door creeping along at 40, there are scant few opportunities to overtake. Seeing the train of cars in my wake was quite mortifying, but level in thought not as mortifying as having to retrieve my door from the middle of a main road. However I have often been in a car with 2 functioning doors on this road and found myself tottering behind someone who also seems to have a fully functioning car at 40mph. Its infuriating, frustrating and I wonder how they do it without feeling thoroughly embarrassed. I can understand slowing down for the tight corners, but there are long clear straights.

It was infuriating.