"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 23:28:57 -0000, Mary Fisher wrote:

The annoying thing is that it's only two miles from home ...
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I drove home, called a mini cab and was back again a few minutes later.

With the problems of parking and your walking I'd have thought a cab
would be the favourite anyway with transport to the best door for spouses
ward. Cost wise there probably wouldn't be much in it, parking plus
running costs of car at 40p/mile or so.

There's hanging about waiting (you can't phone from inside the hospital),
having to phone on the mobile, and the fare IS higher than the parking. More
important, I don't like the way mini cab drivers drive and some of them
smoke and/or have those nasty hanging scented dangly things on their
internal mirrors. No thanks, I prefer to have the versatility and
independence of my own car. I only had the parking problem on one day, when
I was later arriving than usual.

Many people do use mini cabs, I'm not saying they shouldn't but it's not for
me.

Mary