Soap Opera Pet Peeves

[Khan]

I always hate how teens on soaps are dressed as if they came straight from the fashion runway to class. When I went to high school, most of us did well to have run a comb or brush through our hair before arriving.

[Nate4]

Exactly, girls at my school dress like that. Most of them dress really nice, about 25% still wear sweats and an aero shirt.

[chicklitsandfantasies]

Oh my highschool it was like a competition to see who dressed the best everyday but of course there were those who wore sweats and stuff. I think alot of soap teens tend to dress really old though. For awhile Molly on GH dressed like an old lady to me. Its always strange when they have the young female characters wearing more cardigans then anything else. Not saying Cardigans are old lady wear but the ones they would have Molly and Kristina wearing were for older women. DAYS sometimes dresses their young people too old as well. And Y&R dresses Summer like someone in their mid 20s now but that's because Summer wants to look older.

[UKBoi]

The thing about OLTL and all the doors opening out the way instead of into the homes/rooms is something that, now it has been pointed out, is really distracting to me and cheapens the look of these shows. I just don't get the need for it, but then what do I know about set design?

[Darn]

It's especially unrealistic because most high schoolers have to get up at the crack of dawn or around there to even get to school on time. I know I had to wake up around 5:30 in the morning to catch a 6:15 bus to my high school.

[chicklitsandfantasies]

I would wake up at 5:50, let out the dog(he was very particular about the time he had to go out), make lunch, get dressed(private school so we have uniforms), do hair and be standing by the bus stop in time for the 7:00 pickup.

[Cheap21]

to add to that in some areas its not uncommon for schools to have work study programs where kids (usually 11th or 12th grade) have a half day curriculum a few times a week either in the morning or afternoon to accomodate a work schedule. In those circumstances, it wouldnt be odd to see a teen running errands before school. Even if that wasnt the case, not every school starts super early. If school starts 9 or 10, then thats plenty of time to actually take care of a few things before

[chicklitsandfantasies]

I don't know any Northeast schools that start that late. Most usually start at 8 and end anywhere between 3 and 4. In some cases seniors can leave early some days because you only need to take a certain number of classes and some kids are in votech or similar type schools for half the day. But you also have these school children walking around in the middle of the day when school would be in session.

[Cheap21]

when I was in HS, it was 8:45 for us. My sister had 9:15. This was all in Ny. If you didn't have a class 1st period (which happened a few days bc periods rotated), its possible not to start till 40 minutes after those times

[chicklitsandfantasies]

Your school started late. What time did you get out?

[Cheap21]

i think like 2:30 or maybe a little before that

[AlexElizabeth]

Whaaat. When I was in high school we started at 8:15 and got out at 3:10.

[chicklitsandfantasies]

You were lucky we had to start at 7:30 to get out at that time. I used to skip all the early dismissal days because you'd go in for 7:30 and leave by 11:00 after having 15 minute classes.

[Khan]

You know we're about to approach "I had to walk 20 miles to school everyday! Barefoot! In ten inches of snow!" territory.

I went to school in the wrong ass state. Most days, I'd get home in time to catch most of DAYS at 3 pm. Then, it was homework while watching all the other soaps I had taped that day.

[AlexElizabeth]

I got hit by a truck while walking to school once. Not even joking, y'all.