13. Sailboats: Buying Them & Operating Them
I'm not sure how, but movies and TV shows have made owning a sailboat look like a stage in life. First you get your car, then you get your apartment, then you get your girlfriend/boyfriend, then you get your boat. Of course! You can only have a boat, though, if you live by water or frequently vacation to such areas, which cancels out a lot of the earth's population. Buying a boat is one thing, but maintaining a boat is completely different. It's a whole new set of problems. Cleaning, boarding, finding a marina, paying for a spot in said marina, and monitoring the weather to make sure the boat doesn't need to be moved out of the path of a surging storm. Operating a boat is an entirely different disease. It's not just start the boat and turn the wheel. Not on a sailboat, anyway, which are the sexy ones. If you don't know how to operate a sail boat, you have no business buying one. Good thing everyone with boats in the movies are expert sailors, too.
12. Driving A Convertible
I can only really recall Bridget Jones' Diary as being the one movie that showed the true side of driving a convertible. Maybe Reality Bites, what with debris flying in your backseat. Other than that, everything else makes convertibles look like the most practical cars that have ever been invented. In Hollywood, convertibles aren't luxury cars, they're for everyone. They're fun because you can jump into and out of them whenever you'd like and the wind is in your hair and your just free and living the dream in the warm summer air. Until it's winter. And you can't drive a convertible. The real story is that you get things in your eyes, you can't hear anything (so music and conversation are at a loss above thirty miles an hour), and Chapstik is only a dream as it would transform your lips into a bite sized air filter. Despite my having wanted a convertible my entire life, I will never get one. My hair is too important to me.