How often have you sat in the parking lot in the car?

People like me can found in parking lots everywhere: Starbucks, Whole Foods, the library, or perhaps at work. We have good reason to be sitting in our car in the parking lot though, it is because we don't want to miss one minute of Fresh Air, This American Life, All Things Considered, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, or Science Friday. But alas, there is now a solution to our lingering hesitation to leave the car. It is a cool new tool I heard about on NPR yesterday. It was being offered as one of those "you can get this great gift by making a donation to WETA" offerings, a radio bookmark. A radio bookmark is a small, thumb-sized gadget you can put on your key chain that you can use to point to the radio station and it will bookmark the current station and story when you arrive at your destination. When you are ready to hear, as Paul Harvey famously coined, "the rest of the story," you plug in the thumb device in to your computer and the story is streamed to the computer via the Internet -- picking up the story right where you left off. You can also have the story replayed from the beginning. No more waiting in the parking lot for me!