Don, I'm not being funny here but why the fuck would you even think about travelling without a solid conformation?
That's just mental Dude.
It could, based on past experience, have taken up to 90 minutes to drive into Aberdeen, so I thought I had better make a start in case she started answering the phone closer to the time we had agreed to meet. The final phone call was, as usual, to confirm the address.
But, in retrospect, you're right; it was mental.