driveway moment
Can't exit car
A driveway moment is when you remain in your parked car to finish listening to something on the radio—a compelling story, interview, or song.
The phrase was popularized by NPR, whose programming famously keeps listeners sitting in driveways rather than going inside: I had a driveway moment this morning listening to that podcast.
- carWheeled motor vehicle
- homeOne's personal residence
- radioElectromagnetic wave receiver
- listeningAttending to sound
- parkedLeft in place
commute · storytelling · human interest story · cliffhanger · arrive · catharsis · epiphany · immersion · public radio · podcast episode · pause · attention span · empathy · broadcast · pacing · nostalgia · streaming · audiobook
- Public RadioNPR, Radiolab, tote bag, Marketplace, affiliate
driveway momenttuning out
Deliberately not hearing
disengagement · channel surfing · zoning out · changing the channel · background noise
driveway momentelevator music
Inoffensive ambient background audio
hold music · dead air · muzak
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