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Cooling a pie on the windowsill is one of those cultural osmosis things where I've never seen anyone actually do it, but I know all about it nonetheless.
I think there are a crap ton of "tropes" that society does, but no one actually does it. I know times have changed and maybe they used to do all of them before. I think they just made a bunch of different scenes for shows and movies, but no one does it.
Like cooling a pie on a window sill, school talent shows, take your kid to work day. I'm sure there is more that I can't think about, but Hollywood also love putting a musical episode in shows that don't need them too.
Cooling food on windows is definitely real, i did it twice
Okay, but why windows? I just set any hot dish on the stove or some other part of my kitchen. Maybe if you need room to clean?
School talent shows are absolutely a thing
Good point on both. I've never experienced either myself, but I just kind of assumed they were still done somewhere.
Both existed when I was a kid (in Canada)
talent shows for sure real.
Take your kid to work seems to have decreased as people realized it really only (safely) works out for office jobs, and trying to entertain a child and get work done is no small feat.
I've never seen a career day where you bring your parent to school to talk about their jobs.
Apparently they are still done somewhere. I just don't know anyone irl that has done them. Well I haven't conducted a poll, so maybe I have and just don't know it.
I've been taken to work by my dad on a take your kid to work day more than once, and my junior high also had a talent show; but I've never seen a pie on a window sill.
I guess different cities growing up. I heard take your kid out of school so they can help pick crops day, but that's a different thing.
Never cooled a pie on a window sill, it would be covered with flies here.
I did participate in a 'talent' show in school, but it wasn't...graded so idk how we did. I just remember being dressed as a bear and dancing.
Take your kids to work day was absolutely a thing, I did not get to take part in as my mother worked in the school already so...I'd just be at school lmfao. My dad traveled for work and it could be dangerous so no go there.
Take your kid to work day used to be a thing for sure, but this was 30+ years ago.
So was interning for a day in middle school. I got to work with a mechanic on helicopters and go up in the second fastest helicopter in the world while they were testing out a new autopilot system. My dad had to sign a shitton of forms to let me go lol
That sounds really cool.