Is it the being late for school part, or the being driven to school part, or both?
I am only 30 and I am trying really hard to remember what getting up and leaving for school was like in my house but I honestly don’t remember. I did ask my mom a few weeks ago if she made us breakfast and she said yes she did, until we started being a pain in the ass to wake up. I do remember that being a problem, but I don’t remember anything about hearing that the bus was leaving without me (granted, I only rode the bus from first to eighth grade).
If you are rich, you have a liquor cart in your living room, which means you never pour scotch from a bottle of scotch, but from a crystal decanter. And there will always be plenty of unmelted ice in the matching crystal ice bucket.
If you’re poor, you drink beer out of a can that’s labeled simply “BEER.”
Rich or poor, though, drinking to excess will cause you to have sex with somebody you hate.
Coffee- They never seem to make it but there is always a full pot on the counter and when some one comes in and wants some they never pour a full cup, just a 1/2 second splash and everyone drinks it black!
When you have a drink at a bar, you pay for it with one or two pieces of paper money, get no change, and only take a couple of sips of the drink before leaving. Also, TV bars apparently serve only one brand and type of beer, because everybody just orders “beer”.
When you eat at a diner, you leave before the check comes, throwing a wad of cash on the table before you leave, assuming that it will cover the meal and tip.
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[li]If you live in a big city with a sporatic income, you can live in a spacious high-rise apartment.[/li][li]There’s always a parking space right in front of the building you want to go to.[/li][li]If you go to a church in the 19[sup]th[/sup] century, you undoubtedly will sing “Bringing In the Sheaves”.[/li][li]Popular girls always accept two invite to the prom, so that they can crush the spirit of one boy, then find out the one they went with is a sexist jerk and/or date rapist.[/li][li]New York cops have a pithy remark ready for any crime scene they walk up to.[/li][li]Kids are regularly tardy to classes, but suffer no reprocussions.[/li][li]If a kid is failing a class, the teacher will graciously allow them to take one test that will raise their average to passing.[/li][/ul]
Whenever someone gets out of a body of water, 10 mins later they are dry, their clothes are dry, and their hair and makeup are perfect
Homes considered ugly and crappy are actually modest or above-average in terms of looks and real-world price (ie, Married with Children)
Computer interfaces are all easy to read and pop up windows tell you exactly what is being processed and how long it’ll take
When typing, everyone types about 15 words a minute. Staring at text being typed will inevitably display words coming on to the screen slowly at below reading speed one letter at a time
When running away from something, women will always fall and be unable to get up
In the Family Guy episode where the Griffins go on a reality show the first morning with the cameras Lois makes everyone an elaborate breakfast and trys to pass it off as her normal routine.
That happens in real life too. When I was 15 I got to go Australia & New Zealand and did homestays in both countries. My Kiwi hostmother would make these huge full English breakfasts with toast, bacon, eggs (both fried and scrambled), sausages, tomatos, mushrooms, beans, etc and saying this was a normal breakfast for them. Hostbrother & hostfather kept exchanging these weird looks.
Later at school hostbrother confessed that the last time she did anything more than put cereal in a bowl was on Christmas morning.. Of course if the homestay had lasted longer than a few days she probally would’ve gone back to her normal routine. Aussie hostmom just made me toast and sat there smiling while I put vegemite on it. :smack:
Computer screens have no cursor telling you where typing will occur (Doogie Howser).
The front seat of cars all have under dash lighting that illuminates the people in the car - even if they are on a stakeout.
Characters hidden in shadows who light cigarrettes will have all of their face illuminated by the match.
No one gets hurt by being punched, knocked over a table, etc. unless it is required and then only the plot-requisite wounds will be addressed.
Windows always get the correct view and lighting. Never a half shadow from a bush and the sun at the wrong angle. Never glare from the neighbors window or an obstructed view from a low hanging branch.
No one sits down on their leather couch and yelps because it’s too cold.
Flys or moths never get in as you enter or exit through the door.
Actually, I recall waaay back, when it was common for bars, in North America anyway, to have one tap for draft beer. IME, it was potluck–sometimes the tap would dispense Brand X, and sometimes Brand Y–I guess it was whatever keg the distributor had available that day. But in those days, pretty much all beers were the same, so nobody really cared. Anyway, if you wanted a draft beer, you ordered “beer,” like on TV. If you wanted a specific brand, then assuming what you wanted wasn’t on tap that day, you ordered it by name, and by the bottle. But I agree; nowadays, it’s silly to order “beer” when the TV bar has an array of taps, and the TV customer invariably ends up with the bottled brand he’s happy with anyway.
A few others…
– Rooms are rarely built on the square. Hospital rooms, offices, factory break rooms, greasy spoon diners, living rooms; they all have walls meeting at obtuse angles.
– In a fancy restaurant setting, our heroes always get the best table, which is never occupied by other diners, no matter how popular the place is or how much the maitre d’ protests that other diners had the foresight to make reservations.
– Single men either have immaculate apartments or houses, with a bowl of fresh fruit on the kitchen table and elegant furnishings (if the single man is the star); or they’re incredible slobs, whose only furniture consists of a TV, a La-Z-Boy, and a mattress on the floor, while potato chip bags and beer cans substitute for fruit bowls (if the single man is the star’s buddy). A single woman’s place is always immaculate, tastefully decorated, and without empties or other trash (regardless of whether the woman is the star or not).