Children ask 288 questions a day

According to this article published by KindyNews.com children ask, on average 288 questions per day. 

This is my Bullshit Flag

And I'm throwing it in.
45 yard penalty, repeat 2nd down.

Yesterday my wife and I took our son to Grandma's house to spend the night.  As we were backing out he asked, "Dad, did you bring my vaccuum"?  "No buddy, we don't need to take all of your toys to grandmas.  She has plenty for you to do there."  I looked at the clock, it was 6:00pm even.  I thought..."You know, I wonder how many questions he will ask in the time it takes to get there."

I sat silently as we drove along: 

"Where are we going?" 

"You already know Ryley, we are going to grandmas".  

"When will we be there?"  

"In about 3o minutes" 

"Is that a long time". 

"Not really"  

"Not really?"  

"No, not really".  

"What does 'not really' mean?"  

"It means it isn't really that long" 

"Hey guys, guess what?" 

"What Ryley" 

"Today at school JJ said that poop plops out of his butt and you know what I told him?" 

"What Ryley?" 

"I told him that those are potty words and it isn't polite to say potty words because when you aren't polite people don't give you suckers"

... and so it went.

After about the first 15 minutes, I couldn't keep quiet any more.  

"Will I get to ride grandpa's tractor?" 

"Twenty One", I said.

"Did you bring my Jake book?"

"Twenty Two", I said.

..... my wife looked at me and laughed... as she knew right away what I was doing.

"What are those lines?" ...23

"What lines?"

"Those lines?" ...24

"What lines are 'those lines?'" (Apparently, just like his mother, he believes that I am some how capable of reading minds)

"The yellow ones in the road?" ...24

"Those mark the lanes"

"What are lanes?" ...25

"Those are where you drive your car"

"Where you drive your car?" ...26

"Yes Ryley, where you drive your car."

"Oh" 

We pulled into Grandma's driveway, the clock read 6:34.  Final tally...... 57 questions.  57 questions in 34 minutes.... 1.68 questions per minute. So lets do some math....

He wakes up at 6:00ish.  Goes to bed at 9:00.  That's 15 hours.  I'll take a very generous 2 hours off for a nap. And I'll also take another 2 hours off to account for the time he is unable to speak due to him shoveling copious amounts of food in his pie hole.  So lets say 11 hours a day he is capable (and very actively) communicating.

11 hours times x 60 minutes x  1.68 questions per minute = 1,109 questions per day.   So if this so called "survey" that said that kids ask on average 288 questions a day was accurate, that could only mean that somewhere there is a massive group of children just sitting there staring off into the wild blue yonder because by my calculations, Ryley has asked his 288th question about 34 seconds into brushing his teeth in the morning (which would explain the tooth paste that's splattered all over the mirror)