WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new study from Pew Research indicates that the average parent spends 92% of his or her life waiting for children in the school pickup line.

According to researchers, most parents spend more time waiting for 4th-graders to get out of class than eating, sleeping, and scrolling Instagram combined.

"We're looking at millions of hours lost every school day," said Jackson Roberts, the lead researcher on the project. "If you crunch the numbers, you can see that most parents will spend the vast majority of their lives suffering in a sluggish line of cars filled with other parents who have been waiting to pick up their little tykes from elementary school for the last two and a half hours."

Several parents consented to hours-long interviews while they languished for hours wai

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