-=> Quoting Danny Ceppa to Nancy Backus on 11-26-06  11:40 <=-

 NB>>> or waiting rooms.  Soap operas and most sitcoms are prime
offenders at
 NB>>> portraying "normal".
 DC>>> Don't you know?  Soap operas explain how to handle such situations 
 DC>>> when they actually happen to you!  
 NB>> Yeah, right...    So I've been told...  but when I see it being
 NB>> actually acted upon, the abnormality is QUITE apparent...  What really
 NB>> bugs me the most is how people seem to think that their actions are in
 NB>> fact normal when they are anything but.

 DC>> From what I've seen of them, there is absolutely nothing close to 
 DC> normal when it comes to soap operas!  
 DC> The prime reason for them is escapism from normal life for the viewer.

True enough, in reality.  But those who watch them religously don't want
to accept that fact, and make all sorts of rationalizations for their
viewing.  Sad thing is, though, that they really do start to believe
that the soaps depict normal life, and tend to make their own lives
resemble the soaps, by the ways that they interact with the situations
that they meet everyday in real life...  I see it all too often... :(

ttyl       neb

... I haven't lost my mind...it's backed-up somewhere!

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