What everyday activity eats up too much of your time?
We put that question to visitors to our Web site, washingtonian.com. The winner: commuting, which voters said is the biggest waste of their day.
Here's how assorted activities ranked, by percentage of vote, as time-wasters:
| Commuting | 36% |
| Watching TV | 12% |
| Surfing the Web | 11% |
| Cleaning the house | 6% |
| Doing laundry | 6% |
| Dealing with spam | 5% |
| Sorting throughjunk mail | 4% |
| Running errands | 4% |
| Making dinner/grocery shopping | 3% |
| Handling paperwork/bill paying | 3% |
| Waiting for home-repair help | 2% |
| Waiting in doctors' offices | 2% |
| Dealing with health insurance | 2% |
| Fixing things aroundthe house | 1% |
| Taking care ofthe yard | 1% |
| Driving the kids around | 1% |
| Other | 1% |
