Generation Y(awn)

I don' t know about you, but I'm tired of being tired.

Not surprisingly, so are most Americans. According to a new survey, "Diet Pepsi MAX Yawn of Time," nearly half (46 percent) of the 1,100 adults surveyed feel they are more tired than ever. Thirty-one percent blame the workplace.

What happens when you're tired at work? Well, the most logical answer is that you yawn. Eighty-six percent of people think yawning is contagious, but the survey found that the younger you are, the more likely you are to yawn.

Here are some fun findings from the survey about Generation Y (that's you!) and other demographics and their yawning tendencies. How do you weigh in?

• Gen Y'ers (age 18-28) are twice as likely to yawn as Baby Boomers (age 43-61). Gen Y is nearly three times as likely as adults over the age of 62 to yawn 10 or more times a day.
• Single people are twice as likely to yawn 10 more times a day (35 percent) than those who are divorced, separated or widowed (17 percent).
• Thirty-eight percent of people in Boston yawn compared to only 19 percent of Los Angeles.
• Twenty-three percent of Southerners fake yawns, while only 12 percent of people on the East Coast fake them. (What happened to southern hospitality?)
• Fifty percent of Americans are yawning about celebrity rehab attendance stories.
• Roughly two-thirds of Americans (67 percent) yawn during religious services.
• One-third have yawned on a date.
• Nearly one-in-ten has yawned on job interview (Note: Don't do that).
• Nearly one-in-ten say they've had a bug fly into their mouth while yawning.

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P.S. Love the re: religion and bug/fly stats!