This is soapland, and such 'realities' are suspended in the interests of drama.
Let's face it, in the average street / pub / factory / sandwich bar, nothing remotely exciting happens for months on end - if ever - wheras soapland is positively exhausting to live in with everyone gossiping, schemeing, and generally having entire conversations without ever interupting each other, tripping over words, forgetting what they were saying, spilling anything ... oh heck, I'm doing it now!
It's just TV - let it drift over you, like it's supposed to. Try analaysing it, and you hurt your head.
Next week - Dallas - why do so many multi-millionaire adults still live at home with the siblings they patently loathe, and why do they never ever finish a meal?
Crikey, this thread could run and run ....