23 minute dump time?

I recall reading a study, well over twenty years ago, that was done on wait times for payphones--yes that is how old the study was. The gist of the results was that the average time used at a payphone was measurably less when there was no one waiting to use it.

There have even been studies that show the same regarding parking spots: people take longer to leave the spot when someone else wants it.

Three studies showed that drivers leaving a public parking space are territorial even when such behavior is contrary to their goal of leaving. In Study 1 (observations of 200 departing cars), intruded-upon drivers took longer to leave than nonintruded-upon drivers. In Study 2, an experiment involving 240 drivers in which level of intrusion and status of intruder were manipulated, drivers took longer to leave when another car was present and when the intruder honked. Males left significantly sooner when intruded upon by a higher rather than lower status car, whereas females' departure times did not differ as a function of the status of the car.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1997.tb00661.x/abstract

So perhaps your delayed dumper was displaying territorialism.




Mike