TIME WASTED WHEN WAITING.

- What do people do when waiting?

- What do their actions tell people when waiting?

• On average a person spends an estimated 45 to 62 minutes waiting everyday.

• 45 minutes a day. Everyday you waste time. Whether it?s filling up a tank of gas, waiting for an elevator, or waiting to download a program- we waste minutes. The average human wastes about 45 minutes a day in addition to any free time they have?

• 62 minutes a day. The below paragraph states: in 70 years, the average person spends at least 3 years waiting. I calculated that those 3 years would be approximately 4.3% of time spent waiting or 62 minutes a day.

Excerpt:

Waiting, an inevitable and even necessary aspect of human life is not something that most of us relish. We wait in lines: in order to purchase groceries; to be served at popular restaurants; to be attended to in a bank; at stop signs and traffic signals; at amusement parts; to see a play or film. We must also wait for flowers to grow and bloom; for babies to be born; for wounds to heal; for bread to rise and cheese to age; for children to mature; for friends to call; for love to deepen. Statisticians have estimated that in a lifetime of 70 years, the average person spends at least three years waiting!?

The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company

http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/sanchez/locked/cyclea/adventa/advent295a.htm

• According Wireless internet service provider BT Openzone, British business travellers spend 689,000 hours a month waiting in airports, with most spending an average of two to three hours each month doing so.

All of the above extracted from: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=439013

• How much time do Americans spend waiting in their whole life?

If a human lived for 65 years, they would spend about a little more than half, or a little less than half of their life just waiting.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_time_do_Americans_spend_waiting_in_their_whole_life#ixzz18C7kEcGY

Actions people have while waiting.

eg:

- People stand in front of the train when waiting to get on train

- Chit chatting while waiting for friends, etc.

- Hand actions when waiting ( crossed-arms, hands by the side, checking their phone ).

On average a person spends an estimated 45 to 62 minutes waiting everyday.