It’s 3:51 PM: do you know where your remote is?

According to a new poll, chances are nay. Sky, UK’s leading entertainment and communications company has conducted a poll of 4,000 viewers on their TV remote control habits.

Among the findings…

“The average viewer loses it an average of 3.2 times a week and spends more than four minutes looking for it each time.

That means each week we spend 15 minutes hunting for the pesky little device – nearly 13 hours each year – or 31 days during the average adult lifetime.”

A whole month spent looking for your TV remote? Preposterous, you say? Consider this: in a separate study, Neilsen found the average American watches 151 hours of TV a month.  I guess when it’s put that way, it doesn’t seem SO bad… unless its one minute til the season finale of “Lost”… and you’ve got three kids… AND a teething puppy…