Sunday, December 9, 2018

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights

File this under More Depressing News:  A typical driver, over the course of his lifetime, according to the New York Times, spends some 38,000 hours driving his car.

That breaks down to 1,583 days, more than four years, or about 5.5% of a lifetime that stretches to 74 years.  What a waste.

All of which is depressing enough, so I hope I never get related statistics on how many hours I've lost waiting on bank and supermarket lines,  mowing the lawn, and praying to a God that doesn't exist in churches that fleeced me clean.

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