Q. These days nothing seems to run to schedule, so
whenever I fly into Heathrow I wait till we are on the Tarmac before ringing a minicab. My problem is that I always seem to miscalculate the time it will take for the luggage to reach the carousel and I am therefore ready too early or too late for my minicab. How do other people get round this problem, Mary?
A.C., London W8 A. One solution is to not bother ringing a minicab at all but, when you are ready, push your luggage into the lift and go up to the departures area, where you can see a constant stream of cabs dropping off people who are on their way out of the country. Simply position yourself by one of these parking bays and offer the driver, who would otherwise be making an 'empty' return journey, a tenner to take you back into London. Warning: don't do it with minicabs unless there are two of you. Black cabs, as we know, are as safe as houses.
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