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[DeeDee]

Are you a soap addict? Can't live without your General Hospital, Guiding Light, The Young and The Restless, One Life to Live .......?

Let's discuss the latest happenings in our favorit fictional towns. :D

Frankly, I listen to the CBS Soap line up almost every afternoon - don't necessarily get to watch them but I do listen to them ;)

I know when I was active duty we had LOTS of people who were hooked on one soap or another.

Tell us all about it :D

DeeDee

[DeeDee]

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[HMC8404]

Are you a soap addict?

No.




I know when I was active duty we had LOTS of people who were hooked on one soap or another.

Tell us all about it :D

DeeDee
My mother never was into the soaps. In fact, my mother despised those shows. There were many of us kids around (9 of us) to keep her busy anyway. Daytime TV for me coming home from school was watching Star Trek, the Flintstones, or either The Michael Douglas or Dianah Shore shows.

But ... after having been in the Navy for a year I got stationed in Brooklyn NY. We had a clinic in our main building (7 stories which had our barracks, exchange, club, chow hall, medical and dental clinics, PSD and Disbursing, etc). Half of us corpsman worked either in that clinic, or out of the St Alban's VA hospital where we had an active duty clinic. I worked up there. When I first got there everyone took the same lunch hour religiously and left one person to man the front desk. I distinctly remember how everyone ran to our lunch room and turned on the TV to watch "All My Children" ... including all the guys. In fact, the male corpsman out numbered us female corpsman hands down. Even my Chief (HMC Teal), was just addicted. Up to this moment I had never watched soaps and could never get anyone to do anything else during lunch. One of the first times I remember walking in and laughing at all of them, all of whom turned around to glare at me to be quiet during their "story". They would only talk during the commercials and in the beginning it was to get me up to speed on the storyline. This was 1981 when "Jenny and Greg" were hot and heavy and Jenny was breaking into the modeling world. I will admit that I got hooked watching that show while I was stationed there and continued to watch it for several years after I transferred away. When they killed Jenny off though, I stopped. I have never watched one since.

I still laugh when I think back on how all those guys were so hooked on their soap and that whole Jenny and Greg love story. Those were guys I never would have thought watched that stuff. LOL

[Pablo488]

My mom used to watch soaps religiously a few years back, she can't stand em now. In the store she always looks at the soap opera digests to see whats goin on though haha.