Never Happened Ever Never

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SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit

What about friends just straight up opening your front door and walking in without any warning whatsoever?

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farrieremily@reddit

Everyone walks into my house. We can’t hear knocking anyway. Only time that wasn’t happening was while we had a bitey rescue dog. After he passed everyone got use to walking in again.

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Moons_of_Moons@reddit

Now, waking up in the middle of the living room floor at your friend's apartment with little to no memory of the prior night or any real sense of what year it is..

Thats the real shit

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outdatedelementz@reddit

I used to live next door to my best friend and we worked at the same job and we wouldn’t hang out before work.

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I think it is a generational thing. My uncle's friends would come over and eat breakfast and drink coffee for about 30 minutes before they all headed to work; not sure my aunt was a fan, but she made food for them all. I would eat breakfast with friends at the chow hall when I was an airman. Nowadays, people tend to go to bed later, so 5am wake-ups seem less common.

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corticalization@reddit

I think a key part of it (aside from proximity) is having someone who actually provides the made-breakfast. Most people don’t want to get up extra early to cook a full breakfast for themselves, nevermind a group

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chronicnerv@reddit

Labour jobs used to be thing in which men needed a full meal in the morning and might not eat until the evening or next morning. It was just what the situation demanded, kind of like fasting.

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Zizi_Tennenbaum@reddit

I remember going to visit my aunt and uncle's farm as a kid. The first day that huge breakfast seems ridiculous, but after a full day's work, the next morning I'm inhaling biscuits and chugging the gravy.

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EddieV223@reddit

Yep and often car pooled, so they'd have a built window of time to meet, munch, and head out.

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Lashay_Sombra@reddit

My uncle's friends would come over and eat breakfast and drink coffee for about 30 minutes before they all headed to work; not sure my aunt was a fan, but she made food for them all.

Key bit in bold, they were coming over for free breakfast, if that goes away they stopped coming

Only place where could see women doing that would maybe be in rural areas where most of the men probably worked in same factory/farm anyway

These were all meant to be early to mid single 20 something’s in the big city in mid 90s, yeah it did not happen in those circles (as someone who was in multiple big citys at that age and time), you got up and rushed to work, even pre work gym/run was lot rarer, socialising was something that happened after work

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BusyAtilla@reddit

For some. Still have the 4am wake-up.

SO much time for activities.

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THATchick84@reddit

As an activities assistant at a nursing home, I felt this comment in my soul lol.

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wrathofthewhatever2@reddit

I used to live with 2 of my coworkers, and we still never ate breakfast together

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MasterPalpitation8@reddit

I live with my breakfast and still never have time to eat breakfast

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litetravelr@reddit

For the first 10 years of my career I simply did not eat breakfast. I just got a double coffee on the way to work and held out until lunch.

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Petraaki@reddit

This is the truest truth

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MontyRapid@reddit

Maybe if work starts at noon!

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RogerClyneIsAGod2@reddit

Ummmmnope. Not for me anyway, because that just meant Id sleep as late as possible, fly outta bed, get dressed and feed the cats then leave in just enough time to make it to work 5 minutes late.

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funkympc@reddit

I used to live with a coworker. We didnt have breakfast together before work. We had "breakfast" before work. And yes that is just a euphemism for getting high on speed.

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Brilliant_Award2877@reddit

"Work" is a euphemism for stealing copper

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funkympc@reddit

It was actually a recycling plant.

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sandmanrdv@reddit

No judgement but in my neck of the woods the recycling plant is almost exclusively staffed by work release inmates, parolees or people who didn’t have a job prior to getting some special sauce probation. Prolly goes without saying that it is not a nice place to work.

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funkympc@reddit

This was actually a plastic recycling plant. We ground up purge logs from injection molding machines to make new plastic. This place was staffed by regular people. It just happened that my roommate knew the boss and got us hooked up.

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sandmanrdv@reddit

Ah I got ya, I was talking about a municipal recycling stream processing plant.

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Brilliant_Award2877@reddit

"Recycling plant" is a euphemism for stealing copper

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qaddosh@reddit

It was actually "Killing Stopper". They were out fighting crime.

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jacksonmills@reddit

“Recycling plant” wink wink it’s ok buddy your secret is safe with me

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Kelevra1359@reddit

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One-Inevitable333@reddit

Now I have Kickstart My Heart stuck in my head

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stryst@reddit

I'm in a polycule and we don't eat breakfast together.

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drchippy18@reddit

Nobody got time for that

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Auyan@reddit

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myfugi@reddit

lol. My husband and I carpool in together and even we don’t eat breakfast together. He eats a couple egg bites in the office and I have a smoothie at the gym. Even on the rare occasions when I make breakfast for us I eat it standing over the sink like a savage and he takes his to work to eat while he reads emails.

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Felixir-the-Cat@reddit

Same! We live on the same street and often go in together and we have never had breakfast together before work.

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skamunism@reddit

Why not?

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iduzinternet@reddit

If you all want to come over for breakfast before work, I will make an entire buffet.

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Message_10@reddit

I had roommates in my 20s and one would play video games before work and I'd eat my muffin and have coffee and chat, it was very pleasant. But we lived together, so there was no visiting aspect to it. That would seem like a bit too difficult

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grimorg80@reddit

I shared a flat with co-workers, we wouldn't even leave the house together

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chypie2@reddit

ya'll really enjoyed your comfortable silences hehe.

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WatermelonCheeks@reddit (OP)

😆

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edwardturnerlives@reddit

The bigger lie is the chill family breakfast before school and work.

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sweatshirtsweatpants@reddit

Yes, exactly!

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agentmkultra666@reddit

Yeahhh, my mom was present and a good mom but I was still on my own for breakfast on weekdays. She had to get ready for work, so how was she going to prepare a whole huge breakfast? Also all of us were grumpy and didn’t want to talk to anyone in the morning lol

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NastyMsPiggleWiggle@reddit

I feel seen as a mother. We’re all grumpy and have places to go and I bought every breakfast thing you can grab yourselves and I love all of you but I have to go make money to buy your stuff.

We really love you, we’re just tired sometimes.

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agentmkultra666@reddit

Yes, this! I was perfectly fine pouring myself a bowl of cereal and talking to no one. As I’m sure my mom was also😂

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ministerman@reddit

My family ate breakfast together most every morning. Even Saturdays and Sundays. During the summer it wouldn’t happen every morning but it still did time to time.

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musical_shares@reddit

I still make breakfast for my 2 school aged kids every single day before school, they eat it while I pack their lunch. My family ate breakfast together every day until I was a teenager and started “sleeping in” until 9am on the weekends, which was 2 hours past family breakfast time.

Didn’t realise until right now there was anything strange or different about this.

It’s usually just scrambled eggs, toast and cereal or yogurt. It never takes more than 15 mins to get it ready, and then they’re off on the bus by 7am. I have 2 that aren’t in school yet, and they wake a little later and I do it all again but sit down together with them to eat around 8am.

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LunarGiantNeil@reddit

That sounds awesome. I have to drive my kid to school so it makes things a bit trickier, and my goodness she's picky about breakfast, but if she would wake up earlier I bet I could manage it. I don't usually eat breakfast first thing and my wife is rarely up that early so it's not much of a family time, but we do a sit down family dinner together each night at least.

I could totally scramble up some eggs though. Even if I don't want a breakfast I could take that leftovers with me in as an egg burrito with some hot sauce and peppers!

What's your lunch plan? My kid refuses to eat sandwiches so each day is a bit of a crapshoot, but I'll send her with a thermos of soup or maybe heated up rice some days or a variety of nibbles in the "snack box" if it's a day where she only wants to browse.

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Edlo9596@reddit

Do you work outside the home?

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musical_shares@reddit

Not before 7am, nor do any of the other parents standing at the bus stop waiting with their kid(s) at 7am.

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GarblingCumfarts@reddit

Yea we had breakfast together at least 6 days a week and dinner made every night, the same goes for pretty much everyone I knew growing up.

Saturdays was pretty much the only day that was a free-for-all. Leftover pizza and cartoons generally.

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hahagato@reddit

What did you guys eat?

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ministerman@reddit

Whatever we had in the house. Sometimes cereal and toast. Sometimes pancakes and waffles. Sometimes bacon and eggs.

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plateglass1@reddit

BREAKFAST

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OurSoul1337@reddit

What about second breakfast?

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MonkeyChoker80@reddit

Don't think he knows about second breakfast…

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Dragonsfire09@reddit

Throws apple at u/oursoul1337

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No-Somewhere-3888@reddit

I remember in our house Saturday morning breakfast with Hostess donuts and Looney Tunes on the TV was always a thing. Fond memories.

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mcfetrja@reddit

You can’t be your best

Eeee-uh-e-eef you don’t eat a good breakfast.

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ailish@reddit

You didn't have a SAHM that cooked a huge breakfast for 15 people, and then you'd grab a quick piece of toast as you ran out the door?

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enters_and_leaves@reddit

The giant breakfast that the wife prepares just for the husband to grab a piece of toast as he runs out the door is totally the norm and creates no feelings of sadness or ill will.

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ahsokatango@reddit

That’s because as soon as he leaves, the wife sits down and has an amazing breakfast and then takes a nice nap.

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nolafrog@reddit

The mailman also stops in for a breakfast

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Brilliant_Award2877@reddit

He likes his eggs doggy style

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denverblazer@reddit

Dude 💀💀💀

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Due_Economics3295@reddit

Lol 😆

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Holmes221bBSt@reddit

Yard guy stops by for lunch

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Mr_SunnyBones@reddit

Plumber ,"is there a queue system here?'

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Holmes221bBSt@reddit

That depends on what she’s talking into 😏

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SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit

Nah, the mailman shows up for lunch.

It's the milkman that shows up for breakfast.

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The_best_is_yet@reddit

lol

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tenthousandtatas@reddit

But she has to take a huge shit so she tells “come back later dollface” and goes and makes big poo

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Andi_Lou_Who@reddit

Yesss! So many films show the mom has made this breakfast of perfect little pancakes with blueberries and a side of bacon and eggs and then the dad will grab a piece of toast and head out whilst the kids will just gulp down their orange juice and run for the school bus and the food is just there on the table wasted and the mom isn’t mad at all lol.

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Brilliant_Award2877@reddit

Back in the 80s food was affordable

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GarblingCumfarts@reddit

I mean it was in the 90's as well. I went to the store with my mom every Friday and to feed our family of 4 was $90-120 for that week. I spend around $150 now by myself and I don't buy any frozen products except the occasional bag of raw shrimp.

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nathalierachael@reddit

As a kid, it would bother me every time there was a scene like that. “How could you waste that delicious breakfast??? It looks so good!”

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Medium_Educator1983@reddit

I knew it was bullshit when I saw a man passing up pancakes.

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DJanomaly@reddit

My daughter would do that for pancakes. But she’s 8 and super picky. She’ll eat the hell out of the bacon, fruit, and toast I make her though.

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Edlo9596@reddit

I can’t even imagine wasting all that food in this economy

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ThePerfectSnare@reddit

Kids, your mother's under a lot of pressure. Why don't we let her clear the table in peace?

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Noname_Maddox@reddit

I grew believing this was something families did and that my families Titanic every man for themselves emergency evacuation mornings was dysfunctional.

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denverblazer@reddit

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roadrunner00@reddit

It's more about how conflict is ignored. Somebody could have had an attitude at the dinner table every other show.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

I did this for my kids. Not every day, I fuck up plenty. But a few times a month.

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Kandlish@reddit

I sometimes toss a granola bar at my teen on the way out the door if he's super late. Does that count?

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HorridChoob@reddit

You mean the one with bacon, eggs, Oj, Milk and fruit that cereal is a balanced part of?

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toomanyusesforaname@reddit

With the sun beaming through the windows like it's 10am during the summer solstice, and the dad just strolls on by before casually heading off to work. When tf does your school/job start? Traffic must be a nightmare. Why aren't you all scrambling?

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LeftOn4ya@reddit

But then everyone leaves in a rush and everyone leaves their food almost all uneaten. This was always the biggest pet peeve to me in movies and shows as I hate waste and even my mom would yell at me for leaving almost a full plate.

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BunkerBuster420@reddit

That’s how I thought Americans all ate breakfast! It’s just the same as in Europe.

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sweatshirtsweatpants@reddit

I was just thinking about this topic.

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sweatshirtsweatpants@reddit

Even the “nuclear family” breakfast sit-downs they show in movies and TV shows….I’ve never seen it in practice, ever.

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Ok-Training3941@reddit

I regularly cry in the shower before work. No one needs to see that

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IDontLikeYourToan@reddit

Wait… your friends don’t come over and cry in the shower with you before work? How do you scrub your back?

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Ok-Training3941@reddit

When you put it that way… damn, tv idea. “Shower me mid lifed ”. And it’s a house full divorced singles just trying to get by and commiserating together in their morning routine. Obviously the house is too crowded and they have to fight over the single bathroom and drink coffee together in the morning. Pilot episode. New roommate moves in and takes up too much time in the morning while crying in the shower.

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Ok_Art_231@reddit

I shifted to thinking about driving into traffic or stepping in front of an Amtrak. Less dehydrating.

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Ok-Training3941@reddit

I wish I could say in a word how much I understand this. for me, it’s just a fleeting feeling. The same impulse I get when I want to smash glass together. An echo of wouldn’t the chaos be existing.

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Dismal-Dare-2507@reddit

That beats my daily “fuck fuck fuck” in the shower before work

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lht79@reddit

I was literally chanting, “be positive “ over and over to myself at work the other morning. It did not work.

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Ok-Training3941@reddit

Keep going. Change will happen when you let it. Let your do that inner work and find a good therapist. To be honest after I did those things I stopped having quite brake downs. It’s so much calmer now. It’s great.

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Ok-Training3941@reddit

That’s occasionally my mid day quiet crisis. But I can tell you after finding a good therapist I don’t brake down nearly as much.

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MasterCakes1@reddit

Damn i dont have the energy to cry. I just sulk in the corner and when it finally get to hot, I sit for a few more. Just to feel something before stepping out and going back to being comfortably numb for the rest of the day.

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Ok-Training3941@reddit

Oh. the intense heat is the best!

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marlinspikefrance@reddit

If your commute is only a 10 minute walk, you live in the same building, and you don’t roll into the office until 9:15 this is very doable

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EvilCeleryStick@reddit

If my commute is a ten minute walk and I have to be there at 9:15, I'm getting up at 8:40. Coffee, poop, protein shake, walk to work.

Ain't no friends coming over. F that!

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marlinspikefrance@reddit

To each his own. I like my mates. We’d all probably leave the buddy by and walk together to a cafe to pickup coffee and a breakfast sandwich before splitting up.

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New-Vegetable-6428@reddit

They were never on time for work.

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nyght2063@reddit

Y'all eat breakfast in 2026?

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Silentlaughter84@reddit

Tv show being ridiculously fictional. What a concept.

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ObiWan-Shinoobi@reddit

This to me is what made Seinfeld work. None of the characters were serious about their jobs, specifically one was unemployed and the other a comedian who worked nights. So when they were together at all hours of the day you didn’t question it.

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muhredditone@reddit

That's by choice, though. It could happen if you made it.

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Cole3823@reddit

I'm not walking up like an hour earlier than I'd have to just to go hang out for 30 mins. It's only worked for them on friends because they lived next door.

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muhredditone@reddit

Ross and Phoebe didn't live next door. I still like the idea.

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Yippykyyyay@reddit

Phoebe was a freelance masseuse (no set work hours) and Ross lived across the street after moving into Hairy Naked Guy's apartment.

If you start pinging your friends or checking socials in the morning, you're doing the same thing remotely.

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EvilCeleryStick@reddit

Did they censor the show or something? Because it was always ugly naked guy.

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Druidshift@reddit

Ross did live across the street.

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muhredditone@reddit

Yeah, after he moved he did.

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Fickle_Wrangler_7439@reddit

As one of those freak morning people myself, I too would love to have this.

Practically everyone i know sleeps late though.

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Due-Blackberry8056@reddit

If only that were close to being one the most significant lies...

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FieOnU@reddit

I shared an apartment with a good college friend directly across the hall from her childhood best friend and their partner. The four of us did dinner together at least twice a week and periodically did brunch. Movie nights and outings happened all the time and it was great fun!

My point being that It can happen, but Friends defs made it seem like a daily thing.

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Workamania@reddit

George driving from the Bronx to eat Lunch with Jerry in Manhattan is sheer insanity.

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jaezii@reddit

I'm lucky to be to work on time. I don't even eat breakfast. My sleep time is just way more valuable than a quick pop in on the way to the office. Who has time for that?

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PhysicsAndFinance85@reddit

If that's what you want... create it.

When I still lived the subdivision life in my first house, about 7 households had dinner together 3-4 nights every week for years.

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wrathofthewhatever2@reddit

Maybe that’s why their bosses hate them. Or maybe it’s because they are all sitting at a coffee shop at 11am….one a Wednesday!

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AlludedNuance@reddit

Who pointed that out, was it Joey?

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wrathofthewhatever2@reddit

Yep.

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Winter_Dimension8107@reddit

I start work at 8am. My alarm is set for 7:57. Gives me enough time to crawl to my desk and log in. No time for friends.

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Kailicat@reddit

Does picking people up and getting a bacon and egg biscuit count?

In uni I remember working a job with a morning shift. About 15 mins to open someone would do a breakfast run and we'd all hang out and eat before the doors would open.

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agentmkultra666@reddit

I feel like that’s different. You aren’t cooking a bunch of food for people at your house, someone is picking up food and bringing it to work. That sounds way more realistic.

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Holmes221bBSt@reddit

What about in kids movies in which kids are having a full on breakfast with a stack of pancakes, eggs, cereal, milk, and oj way after the sun has come up & still making the bus. I’m like “the sun is in fucking noon position kids. How you not 4 hours late?!”

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agentmkultra666@reddit

Even weekends we didn’t have a 4-course breakfast like that? Like, what parent is making that much food on any normal day?

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know-it-mall@reddit

Have you ever lived in the same building as your friends?

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agentmkultra666@reddit

I live literally next door to one of my friends and a couple of our other friends live in the same complex. We definitely do not eat breakfast together before work. Sometimes my friends have coffee together on a Sunday when they don’t have to go to work, but i’m very Please Do Not Perceive Me before I’ve had coffee.

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bargman@reddit

Owning a house in a Chicago suburb, while being the sole provider for a family of four on a shoe salesman's salary.

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agentmkultra666@reddit

Married with Children was on at the bar the other night so I was kinda watching it while chatting..and realized they have the most beautiful midcentury house??? Like, I would literally kill to have a house like that (or even anything bigger than a one bedroom apartment). I highly doubt a shoe salesman’s salary would pay for all that, one of them has to be selling drugs or sex on the side

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SmileyPiesUntilIDrop@reddit

It wasn't until the 80's that the housing market prices increased every year more then the average salary. A guy who graduated high school like Al in the 1960's or someone 10-15 years or so younger then him lived in the perfect timeline of history for the middle class white picket fences idealized home ownership. Really where someone like Al would have had the worst luck was at the front end possible being drafted in Nam or at the back end if their retirement was around the 2008 financial crisis if their assets were heavily tied into a 401K or some other retirement account.

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TheFuckingHippoGuy@reddit

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three-sense@reddit

It’s almost like it’s a humorous television satirizing of the “family sitcom” formula and not a reflection of reality.

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Altruistic-Dig-2094@reddit

I never even manage to have breakfast at my own house before work!

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agentmkultra666@reddit

I’m usually simultaneously eating a bagel while driving a stick shift on the way to work. I’m very talented, I know.

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Spookysumbeach@reddit

Okay there was some truth to this, before school in highschool we would take turns hosting breakfast slash smoke spot before we all walked to school a mile away!

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menieresisamonster@reddit

how many times has this been posted?

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lolslim@reddit

Imagine doing this seems like a weird concept. I like noooo

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steffy46@reddit

Still, great series! 😪🤧😭👌💯

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EfficiencyIVPickAx@reddit

So no one told you life was gonna be this way.

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Zopheus_@reddit

Clap, clap, clap.

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rott@reddit

You missed a clap.

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WatermelonCheeks@reddit (OP)

Your job's a joke you're broke, your love life's DOA

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MuttDawg509@reddit

Rachel’s hot I couldn’t handle her 🎵
So I guess I’ll just pop pills with Chandler 🎵

Isn’t that how it goes?

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Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit

My besties all live in different cities and we can't agree on where to live so we can live this life

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ailish@reddit

I reality living together kinda sucks because one friend won't pay utilities on time, the other won't do dishes, the other has his girlfriend over 4 nights a week but she doesn't contribute to anything, no one pays rent on time and there's always a late fee...

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Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit

Sheesh.

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itsagrungething69@reddit

I slept in as late as possible

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The_Phenomenal_1@reddit

It's mostly unrealistic that Ross would want to hang around his younger sister so much. Joey and Chandler door is 3 feet in front of Monica and Rachel so it makes sense that they'd want to chill at a much bigger place before work. Phoebe can just be chalked up to crazy

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ailish@reddit

I could see Ross not being able to make his own friends...

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YokelFelonKing@reddit

An even bigger lie than them having apartments like that with the jobs they had?

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mog_knight@reddit

But the apartment only has 3 walls and is missing the 4th wall.

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SaintedRomaine@reddit

Maybe someone broke it.🤣

I’ll show myself out.

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Seattle_Lucky@reddit

With a noisy audience!

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TacoNomad@reddit

That's why it was so cheap

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mog_knight@reddit

And cameras everywhere

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grimorg80@reddit

I remember the writers admitting so in some interviews

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principled_principal@reddit

Hey, c’mon…transpondsters make pretty good money!

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username32768@reddit

That's not even a word!!!

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TDLemon612@reddit

I mean, Monica’s was rent controlled. Joey and Chandler’s wasn’t anything special. The real unrealistic thing was Phoebe affording her own apartment, but we are supposed to believe that DENISE existed.

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greatswordstudios@reddit

Wasn’t her grandmother’s originally?

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TDLemon612@reddit

It was, which is why it’s rent controlled. She’s technically illegally subletting.

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greatswordstudios@reddit

Sorry, I should clarify: I meant Phoebe. They were roommates before she passed away. (Although, yes, Althea did own Monica’s rent controlled apartment).

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TDLemon612@reddit

You know what? You’re right. Good call.

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skamunism@reddit

Redditors think things just happen or will be handed to them. You can make friends with neighbors. You build the habits you want.

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reillan@reddit

I've hung out at friends' apartments and had breakfast before work.

Of course, I also had dinner there the night before.

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WatermelonCheeks@reddit (OP)

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Intelligent-Fun-3525@reddit

These people were in their 20s. In my experience at that age, sleep was highly valued. Every friend I had slept until they just HAD to get up to be on time for work. If they were lucky they might grab something quick on the way out the door. Breakfast was mostly a luxury they didn’t have time for. Every time my wife and I watch Friends, we laugh about how unrealistic it is.

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VenomousVenting@reddit

I had a neighbor who always wanted to have a coffee with me in the morning before work. It never happened. I am very routined in the morning. There’s no casual conversation on the agenda…ever.

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Phyzzx@reddit

I ate breakfasts with my coworkers all the time. I mean I was the only one eating but they were with me in the sense that we were all forced into open floor plan cubicles and could smell it.

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rayjmaraca@reddit

One of my best friends used to come over to my place for coffee and chess before we headed to campus in college. That’s the closest I ever got to this.

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percypersimmon@reddit

Sounds really quite lovely though.

The closest I got was in HS when my friend would pick me, and two others up for a car pool and we’d stop at McDonalds and smoke cigarettes.

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rayjmaraca@reddit

Yeah, it was really nice other than just being super tired haha. McDonald’s and cigs with the high school homies sounds nice as well!

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toomanyusesforaname@reddit

I enjoyed this exchange between Frasier Crane and a tertiary character on Shameless.

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insufficientfacts27@reddit

I'm trying to think which one would fit from..Shameless? Lip maybe? (Always love an unexpected Fraiser reference. My favorite show of all time.)

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toomanyusesforaname@reddit

Just a generic trashiness, the idea of smoking cigs in a McD's parking lot as "hanging out."

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percypersimmon@reddit

We smoked in the car while driving NOT in the parking lot, thank you very much.

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toomanyusesforaname@reddit

Oh, a Rockafeller.

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Objective-Giraffe-27@reddit

This sounds like pre pandemic life

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Jerstu77@reddit

Life goals if I ever only have to work 2 hours per day. Otherwise just not practical…I can barely find time to have breakfast with my SO in our own home 😂

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Kain347@reddit

As a native NYer, the real lies on this show were those big ass apartments and NYC being 99% white

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SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit

Wasn't the excuse that the apartment was like Monica's aunt or grandma and she was illegally subletting it for the rent control? But it's really weird, IMO, that that big ass apartment is right across the hall from Chandler and Joey's shoebox.

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Geg@reddit

It was. They went out of the way to explain it in the early in the first seasons along with Chandler having a decent playing job.

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clevelandexile@reddit

The two apartments are exactly like NYC apartments just 3 times the size of an actual NYC apartment. Which makes sense for a tv show because it would be pretty awkward to have them all bumping into each other all the time.

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Elkburgher@reddit

Its almost like its a sitcom

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ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit

Oh it’s about time, I haven’t seen this meme posted in at least a week

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Party-Cup-9386@reddit

Don't tell that to Maxine Shaw, attorney at law!

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CubesFan@reddit

Underemployed New Yorkers living in those apartments was the biggest lie ever.

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Salarian_American@reddit

I think the idea of those apartments existing and being affordable to people in their 20s was the much bigger lie

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old_namewasnt_best@reddit

I really want breakfast now. I don't care that I'll eat it alone....

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BalrogRuthenburg11@reddit

The biggest lie television ever told me was that the millionaire and his wife packed like 60 different outfits for a 3 hour tour.

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three-sense@reddit

How about $6 Million in bionics could repair two limbs and make a guy a superhero.

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mastawyrm@reddit

Inflation calc says that's like 45mil today.

Yeah that still seems low for non existent sci-fi tech

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SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit

Or that a 'professor' could make a radio out of a coconut, but couldn't fix a hole in a boat?

That, of course, ignores the theory that the island is hell and Gilligan is Satan.

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tacosandtheology@reddit

After college, while working our shit jobs for low pay and carrying massive hangovers, friends would come after a night out. We'd have a quick bite and then walk or bike to our cafe and restaurant jobs.

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ki11a11hippies@reddit

I lived in the same apt complex as my besties, even carpooled with one to the same job, and this never happened.

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Fappy_as_a_Clam@reddit

This was back when a lot of jobs were still 9 to 5, so they actually did have some time before work.

In the intervening time, most jobs turned to 8 to 5

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mcfetrja@reddit

If I lived close enough to a Waffle House, I’d be down for hosting weekday breakfast salon for the community. Two eggs over easy, hash brown smothered covered, toast, and bacon on the side for whoever might want it. That and stimulating conversations about random musings and current events.

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ParticularLemon4191@reddit

You would be exhausted doing that

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_ism_@reddit

the idea i am capable of social functioning that early. LOL

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1pt20oneggigawatts@reddit

Only one show did it, to be fair.

And they live in million dollar penthouse apartments in Manhattan...

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DarksunDaFirst@reddit

The only time me and a friend ate breakfast together before work was when we would grab something from Wawa which was on the way to work. We did actually carpool on alternate days to save money. The days we took his car is when his fiancé was also carpooling with us. The days we took my car is when she was working 2nd shift.

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American_Greed@reddit

I'm ready to retire.

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surfchurch@reddit

I absolutely would if certain friends of mine lived next door, especially right across the hall

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iduzinternet@reddit

If you all want to come over for breakfast before work, I will make an entire buffet.

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Remarkable-Outcome-5@reddit

Good point. Two things im too tired in the morning for meaningful conversation. And im gonna maximize sleep waking up later so i can roll out of bed get dressed eat something quick and leave.

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Alert-Cheesecake-649@reddit

My dad was a high school teacher and would meet his buddies at a diner most mornings before going to work. Didn’t seem like a big deal at the time but looking back it’s pretty cool

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TrustAffectionate966@reddit

Not as adults, but I used to go to my friends' houses or apartments all the time - morning, after school, dinner, etc. Now that I think about it, I probably came off as a very annoying kid to their parents hahah. I remember popping through a classmate's window at around 06:30 a.m. and we were playing Kung Fu Master on NES before heading out for 5th grade homeroom.

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I never stopped by anyone's place after I left for uni when I was 22.

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ThrenderG@reddit

I never got the impression that anything that happened on Friends was the norm.

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bluehoag@reddit

I mean it is pretty fucking awesome though

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j7style@reddit

I never went to a friend's house in the morning before work to eat breakfast.

I have absolutely gone to a friend's house in.the afternoon to eat what would be breakfast to me before a evening or night shift.

I have also crashed at a friend's house just to be woken up with a hot meal before work.

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TrapThem@reddit

Oh cool this again

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Lower-Drawing3671@reddit

Fax. Still a fun show.

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phanophite2@reddit

If it was based on reality nobody would watch it.

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KitchenNazi@reddit

Back when I worked at an office. I’d go to work then get breakfast - it never seemed wrong if I was with coworkers. Work meeting or something.

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VVsmama88@reddit

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime... that's why I eat (and poop) on company time

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

And that fact 20 somethings could cover that rent.

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thegreatwarden@reddit

I think the only time I ever had breakfast at my friend’s house was usually when we were hungover from the night before, but usually we just went to the diner. Lol

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WendyPortledge@reddit

Never even had breakfast with a roommate.

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StaticSystemShock@reddit

I mean, if friends want to wake up before 5 in the morning and have a breakfast with me before heading to work, sure...

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Extra_Zucchini_1273@reddit

If they looked like prime courtney cox and jennifer aniston then yes i probably would.

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Mike__O@reddit

You guys eat breakfast?

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PeaceJoy4EVER@reddit

“What if we made Seinfeld, but with hot people?”

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ActuallyAlexander@reddit

They all woke up in the same bed

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LowGlowVice@reddit

This sounds like the plot twist of a lifetime.

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CalypsosCthulhu@reddit

Once I was served cereal (I was about 10yrs old)
and towards the end of it a family member told me to join them for an errand. I left the bowl there and when I got back 3hr later the bowl was still there and I was told to clean up after myself. (Hispanic family)

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WatermelonCheeks@reddit (OP)

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cali_voyeur@reddit

TV shows in general really just gave me the most inaccurate representation of how often I'd actually see my friends tbh. Sometimes it takes a month of back and forth to set-up a game night lol

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thinkspeak_@reddit

Even if it were an option, I would have just slept longer. It was never an option though

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rathaincalder@reddit

I was skimming these as I scrolled and read this as “slept together” not “longer”. Made perfect sense to me: no way I’m fixing breakfast if I didn’t get something the night before!

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nipslippinjizzsippin@reddit

I always still want to believe this is how people in apartments live/ i know most of them probably shudder at the thought if eye contact with their neighbors, but its nice to think you could just pop in to friends place over the hall whenever and just be like social n shit.

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Gobblinwife@reddit

When I lived in Seattle, I lived literally across the hall from one of my best friends. We NEVER ate breakfast together, I was a morning person but she wasn’t so our morning energy never matched up. But we very often would walk into one another’s apartments in the evening, watching TV or sharing a meal and playing video games together. We did a lot of smoking on the patio together, and bbqing every summer. That was 10 years ago now and I miss those days a lot

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Charger2950@reddit

I used to live in an apartment, and pretty much everyone were complete strangers. I tried to reach out a few times and just got a brush off kind of 10 second “hello” and then they dart out quickly because they have to do something urgent. Generally, people just lives their lives, have their own thing going on, and don’t want to know neighbors on a deep level. I live in a house now, and unfortunately the whole block is line that except 2 of us.

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