Things you never see on soaps.

They never plan a party. It’s always let’s have one....tonight. And all the neighbours turn up - who’s babysitting the children?

No police or NHS budget cuts either. The police are round arresting people in the Rovers 5 minutes after someone makes the call to them. Ambulances lurk round the corner just in case they’re needed and that bed’s always available (though rarely allowed to cool down) in the Corrie room at Weatherfield General.

I don't agree about laundry. Deidre Barlow was always at the ironing board and Gemma is forever folding clothes. (Coronation Street)

They've all been in prison and get a private hospital room. If theres a wedding or funeral, christening or party they all have fabulous new outfits. Gemma has quads but is able go out drinking, working, chatting on the phone for ages, in reality shed never have a spare moment..

Yes with the non matching first names!! I noticed that years ago.

Yes to having a full room decoration with no signs of spending any time doing it!! I sometimes have to try and figure out whose house they’re in.

They rarely eat/drink at home or visit a cash machine.

They never move away because of the threats, violence and murders in the locality. I wouldn’t rear a family there!!

I agree about meeting arrangements being vague. And even enemies have each other’s mobile numbers. And when someone dies, you never see the house full of neighbours making tea and sandwiches. And the ladies all have very smart black outfits ( with hats) for funerals. And nobody seems to travel into a town to work.

Seamstress crossed posts about the funeral outfits!

They can hold a normal conversation in the middle of a busy nightclub, without having to shout.

They view a house to buy on Monday by Friday they have moved in.

No one ever says “goodbye” at the end of a phone call.

Nobody ever thinks twice about having a relationship or marrying anyone in the street. Despite the fact they’ve already had a romance with several of the neighbours.

When somebody is unemployed they never seek work beyond any places in their actual street. Ask in the pub/cafe/corner shop but never go to the job centre.

Ashcombe . Ghastly Gail is forever ironing teatowels. There’s a lot laundry folding goes in Neighbours.
There are a lot of houses which must be deceptively large co spidering how m any people live in them!! If there’s a meal nobody actually eats it

Things we never see on soaps?

People only sleeping with their own husband/wife/partner!

Has anyone in the long history of, say Corrie, ever remained faithful?!!

Ena Sharples ?

In ‘Doctors’, a guilty secret, the waiting room is never full. People are seen at the time of their appointment and they seem to be able to drop everything and rush off to do some heart-rending ‘social work’ without any thought of the appointment book.
Ashcombe You must be younger than I or you would remember Ken Barlow’s first wife dying by electrocution from her iron

Tweedle24

In ‘Doctors’, a guilty secret, the waiting room is never full. People are seen at the time of their appointment and they seem to be able to drop everything and rush off to do some heart-rending ‘social work’ without any thought of the appointment book.
Ashcombe You must be younger than I or you would remember Ken Barlow’s first wife dying by electrocution from her iron

How very sad is it that I remember she was electrocuted by a hairdryer, but not remember why I went into the kitchen.

Their cats never vomit ... do any of them even have cats ?

None of the husbands pass wind ... unlike mine ...

Non of the wives pass wind - like me

There are never ending jobs that are immediately available without interviews, filling in numerous paperwork or waiting for decisions, just simply walk out of a job and into another
People walk into jobs like having a breakfast
It doesn’t matter who it is or what skills they have there is always a job waiting for them

Good acting . Mind you I gave up on them all when they all started shouting and hurting each other .

They're never asked to send in a cv for a job.

Nortsat
I think every cat owner has at one point shouted "Quick! Quick! The cat's being sick! Open the door! Quick!"

They often have ‘ private’ conversations within easy hearing distance of the person they’re talking about. There’s been plenty of build up to Nick and Leanne’s court case in Corrie.

They never shout at each other from different rooms, saying "What? You know I can't hear you from here. What did you say?"

They only ever work in the area they live in, they never commute, they get all their jobs through a friend.