did anyone watch the final friends episode...? okay... what the heck? it was the final straw for me.

ever since rachel and ross had their baby... their lives have gone on like normal. nothing changed except that occasionally when they are hanging out leisurely at a coffee shop they have a completely docile and/or sleeping baby with them who never interferes with adult conversation, has a poopy diaper, needs to be fed or get's overtired and screams until you want to curl up into a fetal position and cry.

they hang out with friends, pop by their house, jet off to go on dates, go shopping, go to parties, get coffee, etc... without a thought of where the kid is. they never seem hagard or weary or tired or rumpled... they just have a fun little toy that they bring out when it's convenient for a joke or a plot twist. sigh........

and the finale... okay... i only saw part of it... but it seemed like there was an awful lot of running around and getting on and off planes and hanging out with friends...etc... in which there was no mention of baby.

am i wrong? i heard that saturday night live news said ..."new york couple arrested for child neglect when they left their baby alone for over 4 hours to work on their relationship..." and then they flashed a picture of ross and rachel. ha!

okay... i'm not naive enough to think that people are looking to friends or even television in general as a tutorial on real life... but it just irks me for some reason. the same way it irked me when they tried to portray phoebe or rachel giving birth and it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo way off the mark.

of course there are a thousand things that i could say are so unlike real life(like 6 adult people with professional jobs spending their entire days at a coffee shop)... but the child thing bugs me to death. why?... i obviously have some underlying resentment toward the culture at large for me to feel that irritated by friends. :)

and if i'm a little bit honest... i was sort of happy that ross and rachel were together again. sigh........ but only a little. :)