Popular TV and Movie Cliches that you have never experienced or seen in real life?

[Janice Johnson]

I have never experienced or seen in real life the "Bad player is actually good player," and hustles me out of money cliche. Cliche. A main character is playing pool with the Antagonist that SUCKS at Pool for about $5 a game. After about 10 games and the Main Character has $50, the Antagonist suggests they play for $20 a game because he wants a chance to get his $50 back. The Main Character thinks,"This is going to be like taking candy from a baby(Another cliched phrase, this guy's TERRIBLE at Pool, but I'll humor him and get even more money. They agree to play pool for $20 a game. All of a sudden, the Antagonist gets REALLY good and the Main Character ends up giving him $100 after 5 games. The Antagonist now doubled his money and the Main Character lost everything despite being up at first. The Antagonist admits he is a pool pro who pretended to SUCK at Pool when the stakes were low but when they were raised, he went back to playing good. I have never experienced or seen this hustle in real life.

I have never experienced or seen the "Asking non pregnant but fat woman when she was due," cliche in real life. I surmise that People in real life just don't want to go there.

[TheLittleFaerie]

Sitting down in a restaurant and asking for just a BEER or a "glass of wine", without them asking my "What kind" lol On TV, they will just say, "I'll have a beer!" I tried it once just to see the server's reaction lol

I've never seen someone pick of the phone in real life, dial the operator and say, "Operator get me the police!" Again, as a kid I tried that, just to see what would happen, I had planned on saying it was a false alarm if I got connected... but the operator was like, "Uhhhh.... I can get you the NUMBER, is this an emergency?"


I've never seen anyone be able to disguise them self so that people in their life don't recognize them.... Like on TV all someone has to do is put on a wig or hat, fake glasses and fake beard and/or mustache if they're a man and literally NO ONE, not even their own spouse recognizes them lol Didn't that happen on I Love Lucy, Lucy and Ethel dressed up in wigs, and Fred and Ricky didn't even recognize them? lol

[dee2364]

I've never seen or heard of people being forced to wash dishes at a restaurant if they couldn't pay their tab.

I've never seen this situation of two people who just happen to buy and wear the exact same outfit for a fancy function, then getting into a huge fight over it, or someone accidentally thinking that a gift meant for someone else was for them.

I've never seen the type of misunderstanding where people were talking innocently but an eavesdropper thought they were having sex or being nasty or planning a murder.

[TheLittleFaerie]

Originally Posted by dee2364

I've never seen or heard of people being forced to wash dishes at a restaurant if they couldn't pay their tab.

I've never seen this situation of two people who just happen to buy and wear the exact same outfit for a fancy function, then getting into a huge fight over it, or someone accidentally thinking that a gift meant for someone else was for them.

I've never seen the type of misunderstanding where people were talking innocently but an eavesdropper thought they were having sex or being nasty or planning a murder.

About the washing dishes, when I was a kid, that's what people told me would happen if we couldn't pay the bill lol

[TheLittleFaerie]

Sorry if this is OT, but here's one that actually DID happen to me. When someone is having a bday and is expecting all their friends to have a surprise party ready and then they are planning on acting surprised, but find out there is no party. Once it was my birthday and I was SURE everyone at work was gonna surprise me with a party, because they did for everyone else, so I was expecting it any moment, but.... no party, maybe one or 2 happy bdays, which hurt more because that showed they KNEW it was my bday but didn't have a celebration like for everyone else... and I gotta tell ya, it HURTS, and pissed me off lol

[Janice Johnson]

Originally Posted by dee2364

I've never seen or heard of people being forced to wash dishes at a restaurant if they couldn't pay their tab.

I've never seen this situation of two people who just happen to buy and wear the exact same outfit for a fancy function, then getting into a huge fight over it, or someone accidentally thinking that a gift meant for someone else was for them.

I've never seen the type of misunderstanding where people were talking innocently but an eavesdropper thought they were
having sex or being nasty or planning a murder.

About the "Washing dishes if you can't pay restaurant tab," a lot of places wouldn't want to take the risk of a lawsuit if untrained person washes dishes in the restaurant and then injures themselves due to not being trained to work in the restaurant.

[Janice Johnson]

I have NEVER seen or experienced a dine and dash in real life, although I ended up not being able to pay my entire restaurant bill accidentally. What happened was that I had gotten a payday loan. When it was time to pay my installment, I was told I only owed $20 of the $120 installment. I paid that $20 and withdrew the $100 I planned to pay the installment and spent it. I still had roughly $25 in my account. At a Restaurant, I had a $10 gift card and I ordered roughly a $25 meal during Happy Hour. I used my $10 gift card and then tried to pay the roughly $15 balance that was left. The card reader said,"Declined." Me and the Waiter both thought maybe I didn't swipe the card the right way. I then swiped it the other way and it still said,"Declined." I was beginning to panic. I called my bank and I was told the $100 payment went through! So, I was now roughly $75 OVERDRAWN when I was roughly $25 up before I went to the restaurant!

I apologized and told the Restaurant I was actually overdrawn due to a payment unexpectedly going through, although I did have roughly $25 before going to the restaurant. They were incredibly nice and comped the $15 balance. That was incredibly nice of them because they could have easily called the Cops on me for that roughly $15 balance! In hindsight, I REALLY should have waited at least 24 hours before withdrawing the $100 even after I was told I only owed $20.

[dee2364]

Originally Posted by TheLittleFaerie

About the washing dishes, when I was a kid, that's what people told me would happen if we couldn't pay the bill lol

I wonder if they were telling the truth, or if this was just an urban legend to scare people.

[dee2364]

Originally Posted by Janice Johnson

I apologized and told the Restaurant I was actually overdrawn due to a payment unexpectedly going through, although I did have roughly $25 before going to the restaurant. They were incredibly nice and comped the $15 balance. That was incredibly nice of them because they could have easily called the Cops on me for that roughly $15 balance!

I'm not sure if they would've called the cops on someone for something like this, maybe just ban the customer for life.

[dee2364]

Originally Posted by TheLittleFaerie

Sorry if this is OT, but here's one that actually DID happen to me. When someone is having a bday and is expecting all their friends to have a surprise party ready and then they are planning on acting surprised, but find out there is no party. Once it was my birthday and I was SURE everyone at work was gonna surprise me with a party, because they did for everyone else, so I was expecting it any moment, but.... no party, maybe one or 2 happy bdays, which hurt more because that showed they KNEW it was my bday but didn't have a celebration like for everyone else... and I gotta tell ya, it HURTS, and pissed me off lol

That sucks. Sorry that happened. Did they throw a party for anyone else afterward because if they didn't, maybe something happened where they decided to no longer throw them for whatever reason (too much money and effort?), having nothing to do with you necessarily. Or maybe if they threw one for someone else, they thought you were the type that doesn't like surprise parties. A lot of people don't like them, believe it or not, so maybe they sensed you might not like one.

[Furienna]

Originally Posted by Janice Johnson

I have never experienced or seen the "Asking non pregnant but fat woman when she was due," cliche in real life. I surmise that People in real life just don't want to go there.

When I was a kid, I looked at an old photograph from my grandmother's 80th birthday.
I ended up asking if one of my father's cousins was pregnant despite looking too old for it.
Of course, she wasn't.
Nobody outside my immediate family heard it, but I was still chastised by my sister for it.

[TheLittleFaerie]

Originally Posted by dee2364

That sucks. Sorry that happened. Did they throw a party for anyone else afterward because if they didn't, maybe something happened where they decided to no longer throw them for whatever reason (too much money and effort?), having nothing to do with you necessarily. Or maybe if they threw one for someone else, they thought you were the type that doesn't like surprise parties. A lot of people don't like them, believe it or not, so maybe they sensed you might not like one.

It's kinda a long story I'd rather not get into, I was informed there was SORTA a reason they didn't have one for me, I was informed they usually only did them for CERTAIN people, but I felt I should have been in that category... BUT I've always been OVERLOOKED.... There used to be a somewhat "strange man" who was a little too "clingy", lets just say, who used to come in and he would give EVERYONE a birthday card... literally EVERYONE and follow them around talking half an hour... And I was the ONLY one who didn't get a bday card from the "strange man" I even teased him once and was like, "When am I gonna get MY bday card!?" and he was like, "Oh! You mean I didn't give you one?!" Like I say, I always have been overlooked

[Janice Johnson]

I had an ex Coworker who.... ALWAYS contributed to birthday parties and when it was HER birthday, no one threw her a party. She felt understandably annoyed. I was off on her birthday, and in fact, didn't even know her birthday, so I was completely off the hook, But in all seriousness, how messed up that she didn't get a birthday party when she contributed to other people's birthdays?

[ThisLittlePiggy]

Originally Posted by dee2364

I've never seen or heard of people being forced to wash dishes at a restaurant if they couldn't pay their tab.

I've never seen this situation of two people who just happen to buy and wear the exact same outfit for a fancy function, then getting into a huge fight over it, or someone accidentally thinking that a gift meant for someone else was for them.

I've never seen the type of misunderstanding where people were talking innocently but an eavesdropper thought they were having sex or being nasty or planning a murder.

Believe it or not when I was 12, I had a party and I wore an outfit I had just bought. One girl who came to the party had on the exact same outfit. It was so weird. I didn't tell her to leave or anything but I felt weird the whole party over it.

[TheLittleFaerie]

I've never experienced being suddenly FROZEN in the shower if someone flushes the toilet or turns another faucet on the EXTREME way that it's always portrayed on TV lol .... Sure, there is a SLIGHT change in water temp when it happens but nothing that dramatic lol