Or the highway is a huge massive car accident that isn't moving and now you're part of it because you thought you're smarter than the app designed for exactly this.

Any time I ignore Waze I end up stuck on a closed highway for hours.

Disagree. My time and energy are my time and energy. I choose how and when to use them. Sometimes it takes me a week to respond to friends if they’re just checking in (never to anything urgent of course) and my good friends know they’ll hear from me when time/energy allows. I know and expect the same of them.

Oddly specific scenario but go ahead, honey badger don’t care.

What if he or she asks you something or he or she is asking about yourself that you are fine or not ?

It’s case by case. My uncle is gifting me a baby iguana in a few days, but he’s not a moron because he asked me beforehand and I’ve also got years of experience in taking care of reptiles and have 3 other pet iguanas myself. I also gifted him a ball python a few days ago and made sure to ask him beforehand as well, and never really had anything to worry about because he’s got a lot more animals than I do (I have 22, he has an entire private zoo in his home) and has been keeping reptiles before I was even born.

A phone is a convenience for the person who owns it, NOT for everyone else to be able to get a hold of them 24/7. You are not OWED a response.

Very disrespectful? That assumes it's being done intentionally, and even then I wouldn't care really. If someone wants to reply to me they can, if not that's fine too.

This is like when people say promise you won't get mad. You're seeking to control the person before you even reveal the thing they react to. A text is not face to face or ear to ear communication no matter how much you want it to be. It does not require immediate response, if you need immediate response then call or talk to people face to face. It is not their job to placate you or follow your rules. So next time on read think about if you need to call them, if not then calm your tits

I guess then I'm fine disrespecting people then.

You can see a message then get distracted by something else like a phone call , tending to kids , other important txt msg , phone dying , thinking of a response to reply back , etc ………. good thing I have my read notifications off on all socials to avoid people who get in thier feelings about being left on read

Better yet give ME the code to hold on for you

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If somebody totally ignores my messages, at some point I’m done with them. I don’t care what your reasoning is. You’re sending a message by ignoring my messages.

I'll admit to looking at a message and not having time to respond, or if it's an unexpected wall-o-text just not being able to read it. This usually happens when I'm busy doing something like driving, responding to "eta?" With "530" is easy enough, but anything much more sophisticated might not be possible.

For those who complain about texting while driving, checking a message while at a long light or on a long stretch of rural road with flat, unoccupied land is a lot safer than doing so while dodging city traffic.

Yes

They might not be responding because they have anxiety.

Or

They might need to think over their response.

Or

They might not have the bandwidth to handle dealing with your text at that moment, but wanted to check to make sure the text wasn’t urgent.

I can take days to respond to messages because I’m not mentally up for it, however, I don’t want to leave someone hanging if it’s urgent. Throwing in the “it’s rude” just makes it even more anxiety provoking and makes it less likely people will respond.

I take my right to say nothing very seriously and no one can take that away from me. Saying nothing is neither impolite nor offensive. It is nothing. Nothing = nothing. Sometimes that it is all I have to say to a particular person or on a particular topic.

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I follow this already.

Yeah so OP is saying, if you can't reply don't open the message yet.

This is true. I had this happen once in Germany - the Autobahn slowed down due to heavy snow and I got diverted to local roads … bad idea.

iPhone has that feature.

A crowded highway during heavy snowfall and especially low visibility is much more dangerous, particularly because of the increased speeds. I always take city streets unless the roads I'm driving on are very narrow and are known to have tons of vehicles parked on sides of the roads.

Source: I've experienced some shit lol

Love the dad joke angle!