How we "waste" our lives.

[Dillinger]

On average we can expect to live 74.3 years. How much of that time will you spend on the can? Here's some information gathered from various sources including the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Tim Heyman's "In An Average LIfetime" and others.

Which do you agree with? Which do you think are totally wrong - you think you do them a lot less or a lot more? What other items should be on the list?

• Seeing doctors - 49 hours
• Waiting to see doctors - 64 hours
• Blowing your nose - 6 days, 2 hours
• In the bathroom - 7 years
• In the shower - 3 months, 17 days
• Applying deoderant - 3 days, 8 hours
• Masturbating - 1 month, 4 days? (That's all? They couldn't have surveyed anyone who reads the stories here!!!)
• In meetings - 3 years
• Reading and disposing of e-mails - 7 months, 14 days (they must have done this evaluation before the invention of spam!)
• On hold (on the phone) - 2 months, 2 days
• Staring at a computer screen - 1 year, 5 months (Yeah right! This past year alone I spend 1 year and 5 months staring at a computer screen!)
• Waiting for a computer to boot up - 16 days, 6 hours
• Surfing the Internet - 9 months (uh huh... sure... in the same year that I spent staring at a computer screen for a year and a half I spent 3 years surfing the net... *Grin*)
• Waiting for elevators - 3 weeks, 5 days
• Working through lunch hour - 8 months, 16 days (not even close - I can't remember the last time I DIDN'T work through lunch)
• Cleaning your house - 1 year, 28 days
• Watching commercials - 2 years, 7 months
• Reading the paper 2 years, 6 months (more time watching commercials then reading the paper? Personally, I read the paper during commercials.)
• Watching TV - 13 years 4 months
• Having sex - 2 months, 13 days
• Having an orgasm - 9 hours 51 minutes (Hey can I get that all at once?)
• Relaxing - 4 months, 6 days
• Stuffing your face - 8 years, 2 months, 15 days.
• Doing laundry 3 months, 26 days (obviously whoever came up with this one didn't count people who have children)
• Tying your tie - 12 days, 9 hours (sorry - I haven't even worn a tie but once in the last 5 years)
• Looking for lost stuff - 1 year
• Commuting to work - 8 months, 1 day
• Stuck in traffic - 4 months, 5 days
• Staring at women (or men) you will never meet - 2 months, 3 days
• Waiting in lines - 5 years
• Cursing - 3 months, 13 days
• Reading this - 2 minutes, 11 seconds

 

[Natalie Nessus]

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[Guest]

Ok, ok, I'm using the ol' calculator. I figure I can add quite a few years to my life omitting this and that, but there will be NO omission of masturbation. Heh.

 

[Silverlily]

Commuting to work - 8 months, 1 day

Not even in the ball park, try tripling that number.

 

[cymbidia]

[*]Blowing your nose - 6 days, 2 hours
I've got this allergy thing going lately... snot everywhere. Yuck. I think i've used up a huge chunk of my 6 days, 2 hours in the last week.

[*]In the bathroom - 7 years
Does the bathroom have a tub/shower or is this a stool-only area? Is that "in the bathroom" time with or without magazines? Makes a difference. And are the magazines changed every so often by the magazine fairy or do they go there to die, like in the doctor's waiting room?

[*]On hold (on the phone) - 2 months, 2 days
This was before the invention of banks, right?

[*]Cleaning your house - 1 year, 28 days
[*]Looking for lost stuff - 1 year
I think the time one spends doing these things is inversely proportional. Okay, unless you have a housekeeper.

[*]Reading the paper 2 years, 6 months (more time watching commercials then reading the paper? Personally, I read the paper during commercials.)
Personally, i read the paper online while waiting for stuff to come up on other screens.

 

[Dillinger]

Re: Re: How we "waste" our lives.

[*]In the bathroom - 7 years
Does the bathroom have a tub/shower or is this a stool-only area? Is that "in the bathroom" time with or without magazines? Makes a difference. And are the magazines changed every so often by the magazine fairy or do they go there to die, like in the doctor's waiting room?[/b]

Believe that's total... here's some additional statistics:

• In the shower - 3 months, 17 days
• Toweling off - 14 days, 17 hours
• Shaving - 4 months, 26 days
• Applying deoderant - 3 days, 8 hours
• Urinating - 29 days, 5 hours
• Pooping - 3 months, 8 days
• Wiping - 8 days, 2 hours

I guess the rest is just daydreaming?