Soap Operas

Soap Operas. The trash of day time television. They are the real reason kids go to school during the day. They give stay at home women a reason to live. They are the only kind soap I know of that doesn't make you smell clean.

A couple times per week, Mandi and I go to her house to eat lunch, because lets face it, school food just isn't that good, and without fail we always interrupt her mother and her soap opera watching. Inevitably, since we can't change the channel, we end up watching some of the show while we eat. And they are terrible. Occasionally, they're so bad I just don't feel like eating anymore. I'm not generally too picky about what I watch on tv, but even I have my limits, and that limit happens to be soap operas. Week and week, there is the same old thing on the same old soaps. All the characters are over dramatic who are facing problems, which is being pregnant, having an affair, getting married, waking up from a coma, or getting in an accident. Just a bunch of drama queens I say. I've always wondered how you can have a television channel dedicated completely to showing soap operas when you have the same thing happening over and over again.

Personally, If I were a regular watcher of those soap operas, I would get sick of the same old plot twists time and time again. You think they might be able to come up with some new, like aliens invading or giant asteroids hurling toward earth threatning to end civilization. Something, anything, other than what they always show. But then again, maybe I just can't appreciate those kind of shows.