You know that moment when you get into the car and check your phone before driving off? One listener calls that her media moment. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Media Moment”
We talked a few weeks ago about that moment when you get back into your car after you’ve been out of it for a while and you start looking at your phone and you’re looking down and then maybe you’re in the parking lot and you look up and all these other people are looking down at their phones.
and We wanted a word for that and we talked about petite voyage for that, the little voyage before your trip.
But I really like the suggestion we got from Karen Walters in upstate New York. She wrote us to say that she already refers to that as her media moment. Media moment.
I think that has legs. I think that could work. I think I might call it the parking space hogging.
Well, yeah, you don’t want to hog the parking space. You’re still using the space, I guess.
But, you know, the moment you’re going down an aisle, spaces are rare, somebody’s climbing into their car and like, oh, they’re going to leave in a minute. I’m just going to wait here.
And a minute passes.
But don’t you always do that when you get back in the car? You just have the phone glued to your hands.
I don’t know.
Yeah, maybe I probably do.
Yeah, they’ve got to give me a moment. There’s a radio to adjust, air conditioning, seat belt.
Well, there’s that.
But now there’s that extra media moment.
I’m always doing that.
I’d like to do less of it.
Media moments.
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