Last night, I watched my first full episode of 90210. Why? Two reasons: Because I’m mildly amused by/obsessed with the cokehead whose name I haven’t bothered to learn, and because one of the B storylines involved the kids partnering up to parent fake babies for health class. I never got to do that in high school, and I’m actually kinda pissed about it. Even remembering what happened in the "Bad Eggs" episode of Buffy (below), I’m still jealous.
What standard TV or movie storyline are you sad you’ve never lived? It doesn’t have to be high school-related, but here’s another teen staple: My friend Sheila (who did do the egg experiment) says, "Summer romance during a family vacation — that’s one I liked and always wanted. With the cute local boy who worked at the bait shop or some sh–."Your turn.
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never went to prom with a date…no limo, no corsage, no silly photo.
just a group of friends having fun.
just a little bitter.
My friend did that baby thing in high school. We went to a party and she left it in the car, and she wanted to go somewhere and made her parents “babysit”. Good thing it was for extra credit and not a real grade because she bagged big time.
Never got a visit from my favorite band who “just happened to be in town.”
It’s a shame I’ve never fallen in love with someone who was “in love with someone else!”
And I’ve never had a “special Christmas”
I had the baby thing, but it was single mothers only and we used 10 pound bags. I think the only reason we stayed “single” was because there was only one male in our class of 30 and the teacher wanted to make sure everyone had an equal opportunity to fail. Still, it was a bag of flour with a plastic head. How hard can that be, right?
Never did the egg baby project either,
But incidentally, have been trapped in a room with someone I couldn’t stand
Never had a “new neighbor” move in next door with whom I could fall in love.
And incidentally, I did not get to parent an egg or sack of flour either.
I went to every single dance in high school, and I never had one of those experiences where everyone on the dance floor automatically breaks out into a huge formation and does some incredible, unplanned dance groove (such as She’s All That with Usher DJing). We couldn’t even organize Thriller – how sad!
I always wanted to do that in High School too…but never got too.
But that reminds me off the episode on Save By The Bell were they get married and have an Egg to take care of as the baby….LMAO!
My mom would get mad at me cus i would take the eggs out of the fridge and have a brady bunch! LOL
never did the baby/egg/sack o’flour exercise either! i used to get so bitter whenever I saw that on TV… but now? I’ll take a sack o’flour over the baby anyday!
I actually am still a little bitter I never had the organized choreographed dance down the hallways of my high school, singing and dancing with the rest of the gang in a spontaneous outpouring of “school’s over glee!”
The thing I wish had happened to me was being with a buddy down at the local skeezy pool hall (which we’ve never visited before) beating a few of the regulars there early, getting cocky, betting a large sum of money, only to lose it after realizing too late we’d been scammed by said regulars.
Then, my dad or grandma or somebody would show up to ask for the money back, the regulars would refuse, and then my dad or grandma would bust out with some incredible pool skills that I had no idea they had and win the money back.
(I know this scenario isn’t as popular as the others, but it happened on, at least, “Family Matters” and “Fresh Prince.”)
I also (regrettably) never threw a party at my house while my parents were out of town to raise enough money to repair the car I’d trashed or a priceless piece of my parent’s property I’d broken.
I’m actually a really good driver and very careful with my parents’ stuff. I should’ve thrown the party anyway and just pocketed the money.
2 things:
1) I never went on a class trip (Saved By the Bell’s almost canceled white water rafting trip)
2) I never got to go to a football homecoming game because I went to an all girls school. didn’t care about the dance…just wanted the game.
I used to be so angry at the “I’m adopted and its a huge secret/tragedy/shock storylines. I’m adopted and it was no big deal and I couldn’t understand why the kids on tv were so upset.
-Never did the baby/egg project
-I didn’t attend a college on-campus. So I didn’t live in a dorm or have anything college related like that.
-I didn’t have a huge, amazing wedding.
-No crazy road trips
I did the baby egg thing; it’s not that great when you wish your were partnered with the dreamboat and instead get partnered with the creepy guy.
I also had a cute boy move in next door, but again, he was a creep.
I always wished I had that moment where I’m coming down the stairs in my prom dress/wedding dress and the whole room goes quiet because I look so gorgeous. Never happened — I had to drive and pick up my loser prom date, and my wedding was moved due to bad weather. Oh well, at least I didn’t marry one of the creeps!