In message , at 11:00:16 on Tue, 16
Aug 2016, Neil Williams remarked:

My experience of (pre-Uber) minicab drivers is they just sit outside
in the road tooting the horn until someone emerges from the house.
Yet another completely illegal procedure, of course.

In these days of mobile phone confirmations, you should really be
walking out of your door just as the vehicle arrives, obviating the
need for this.

I've never ordered a minicab that offered any kind of real-time feedback
about when it was going to arrive.
--
Roland Perry