After Noticing These 30 Things Americans Do In Movies, People Are Wondering Whether They Do Them In Real Life

Living in a college town I can attest that yes they do. It's all anyone talks about, and the traffic jams are awful. High school football here is just as bad.

Its the easiest reference for us and a football field is 100yards or 300 feet or 91.44 meters.

We say goodbye, or something like it. It's an idiosyncrasy of script writing, not Americans.

the only thing in my locker is a mound of trash.

We also wear our shoes in bed as well.

When my relatives from Ireland come to visit, they love to play with the garbage disposal. Even the people in their 60's think it is hilarious. They refer to it as "the murder sink".

I'm American and it's a select few who do that but it's not the norm.

Yes, we do. It is the only access we have to water.

When I was in school, it was hard boiled eggs. Now they have high-tech baby dolls called Baby Think About it. It is a Life Skills class that teaches you how to be an adult.

Some schools do. Lots of teenagers romanticize having babies. This is a way of showing them the time and responsibility required. And, ideally, persuades them not to have babies until they're older.

I come from south California and they just taught us how to put a condom on a banana.

This is so weird. No real sex-ed or access to reproductive health, but you have to carry a baby substitute even if you don't want any kids. Why not just play with a tamagotchi instead?

Many of these classes have been cut due to budget cuts. Home Economics and Family Planning classes were, and are a good thing.

We did eggs. I dropped mine and was DEVASTATED.

Proof positive that Yanks are insane. Just like their Orange President.

we had eggs, but yeah, its suppose to ward off the sex demons

That's a common project in my kid's school. We are from Mexico.

Some do...i think it is a great lesson in responsibility

I'e never done that, but I've read about it, usually eggs and stuff. I've never done any of the "school stuff" I saw in books and movies except the egg drop challenge.

We did in grade 6 (aged 12) with eggs. We had to keep an egg whole for a week, I think it was about 45 minutes before the egg fight.

A 10# bag is about the weight of a baby, too.

I’ve heard in home economics classes and life skill classes they do this. But I went to a very science in mathematics rigorous high school, so we didn’t do this at our school but I’ve heard friends who had to.

When I was in school, it was a raw egg with a face drawn on it to make it unique: break it and it's all over!

umm no thats wierd

My school never did this and I was kinda bummed out about it. I think it was popular back in the day but not so much anymore.

We had to look after a hard boiled egg for 24 hours when I was back at school 25 years ago here in the UK.

Depends on the school. Some really do. A lot have the real baby dolls though. Especially the high school parenting classes (that I never took because I spent all my electives on band)

Yep, it was a thing.

Has no one else read Flour Babies? That completely ruined me for the experience.

It depends on the school & decade. I never had too. I barely went to school though.

I never actually met someone do this but I always wanted to because of Hey Arnold!

I had to do this in school in my 11th grade year... and it was a raw egg that we had to decorate as a "baby" with faces and straw or yarn hair, etc., so if we didn't take proper care of them and they broke, we got a D for the assignment. So yes, we decorated them and made little "beds" or "rooms" for them so we could carry them around. We had to get a baby sitter if we went out or whatever. We also got a partner and we both had to get "jobs" (a letter from a business that would hire us with our salary) and an apartment (again, a letter from an apartment building with the amount of rent) then we had to budget for rent, food, utilities, clothing, furniture, caring for the baby, etc. out of our salaries. My son didn't have a class that did this. I don't know how "real world" it is, but it sure put the fear of God in us if that egg broke. Because the teacher signed every egg after we decorated it, we couldn't just pull out another egg if it broke.

as an american: they have baby dolls. I can't imagine the safety issues if a bag of flour busted open on the smooth floors

1996 junior year. I carried an egg.

I never did it, but in my elementary school one of the grade 8 classes did the flour bag and in my high school one of my friends was in a class that did it with hard-boiled eggs. The teacher made a mark and then checked each day that you had an uncracked egg with the same mark on it. I'm in Canada, but yes it's a thing here, no not every class/school does it.

Well, in my school, it's a flat out NO.

Beavis and Butt-Head took care of a bag of sugar, am I wrong?

Millions of people eat this daily in the US.

In my family, we only use paper plates for gatherings.

The "funeral" is usually in a church and then a burial service graveside.

We're tough! We don't need... er... pill lubricants?

This is especially true in small towns. The largest parking lot in town is the local teen hangout

Yes, Homecoming is really big here in the US. Celebrating at high school and university.

Why? Hot water is hot water.

You don't?!?!!

Because Americans have been sold the lie (mostly by Nestle, thank you!) that bottled water is better than tap water in some way. In truth most of the bottled water IS tap water.