A minor point of consideration is that often times in that situation a person can't back up because there are others behind him. That's what frustrates me the most about parking. Getting stuck between the guy who waits five minutes to park his fat ass 20' closer, and the long line of cars behind me, stuck just the same.
Oh, I agree. In those cases, I get in my car and get out of there as quickly as possible. This was not one of those cases.
There were no other cars in the lane, so that car was able to swoop around and park somewhere else pretty quickly (which they did).
I always feel that the person who sent texts already know they must wait until I can respond. If the response time wasn't immediate, they should understand I am otherwise occupied. I still regard my phone as MY convenience, not others'.
I couldn't agree more. Anyone who knows me knows that when they text me, they might get a reply within minutes or several hours later; it really varies. I would normally, like you, check my cell before even getting to my car, but I had went to the gym and left it in the car during my workout (in the counsel in the middle where no one could see it; I am not that dumb
), so I didn't see I had texts until I got back in my car.