A Soap Opera
I was watching this soap opera today, yes, I do admit that on occasion I do watch the soaps when I have time and since my mom is not able to watch them right now I have been watching to keep her up to date. That's my story and I am sticking to it. So, on most of these soaps when the writers run out of ideas they always make some old woman, well, not old, old but long past her child bearing years, who most always have grown kids in their early to mid 20's, these women almost always end up getting pregnant by someone and they never know whom the someone is. It is like watching an episode of Maury of who is the father. But, this is supposed to be fiction. I have to keep that in mind when I see a woman who is older then me walking in to the doc saying that they think they are pregnant by either the father of their boyfriend, the boyfriend or some other person whom they had a one or two night stand with.
So, today in my memo haze I was watching this soap on TV with my window open to get some cool air. I had walked to the store earlier and came back in a sweat. You would have thought I was speed walking a marathon or something. Luckily I brought back something cold to drink. So, I am sitting there in my usual spot on my chair near the window and this woman who was in a coma for 24 years, I know typical soap opera drama, woke up and came back to the town her husband is in and of course the husband and his girlfriend broke up after the out of the coma wife comes to live him again and then three seconds later the wife and the husband are back in the sack. So, of course, I am thinking oh no another senior pregnancy is about to take place. But, this time I was shocked in a good way. When the doc came back into the room to deliver the news if the test was positive or negative they said that her blood test indicated that she was in menopause and couldn't have a child. Of course, the woman gets all upset screaming that she is too young. You would have thought she was 20 the way she was carrying on. So, I was glad that for once they got real. Of course, they didn't get all the way real since they do have a menopausal woman on the show playing pregnant. But, at least this time they came close to real life.
So, as I am sitting there sipping on my lemon water I silently shouted hooray in my head. But, I know that of course now some baby stealing will go on sooner or later. After all, it is a soap and a predictable one at that.
I fanned myself after it was over and took two more sips of water and then I turned on the real life "Whose the daddy" soap opera, the Murray Show. Ok, I admit it when I want to watch something that is crazy I turn him on and watch like ten minutes or so and then I am done back to my life, where I know who the daddy is and try to find something else to watch in between hot flashes and corn chips. Yep, got the corn chips from the store.
So, today in my memo haze I was watching this soap on TV with my window open to get some cool air. I had walked to the store earlier and came back in a sweat. You would have thought I was speed walking a marathon or something. Luckily I brought back something cold to drink. So, I am sitting there in my usual spot on my chair near the window and this woman who was in a coma for 24 years, I know typical soap opera drama, woke up and came back to the town her husband is in and of course the husband and his girlfriend broke up after the out of the coma wife comes to live him again and then three seconds later the wife and the husband are back in the sack. So, of course, I am thinking oh no another senior pregnancy is about to take place. But, this time I was shocked in a good way. When the doc came back into the room to deliver the news if the test was positive or negative they said that her blood test indicated that she was in menopause and couldn't have a child. Of course, the woman gets all upset screaming that she is too young. You would have thought she was 20 the way she was carrying on. So, I was glad that for once they got real. Of course, they didn't get all the way real since they do have a menopausal woman on the show playing pregnant. But, at least this time they came close to real life.
So, as I am sitting there sipping on my lemon water I silently shouted hooray in my head. But, I know that of course now some baby stealing will go on sooner or later. After all, it is a soap and a predictable one at that.
I fanned myself after it was over and took two more sips of water and then I turned on the real life "Whose the daddy" soap opera, the Murray Show. Ok, I admit it when I want to watch something that is crazy I turn him on and watch like ten minutes or so and then I am done back to my life, where I know who the daddy is and try to find something else to watch in between hot flashes and corn chips. Yep, got the corn chips from the store.
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