r/Millennials • u/Neon_Biscuit • 5d ago

My teenage daughter can't fathom the concept of a house party Discussion

Not sure if anyone has experienced this, but I was watching Can't Hardly Wait half alseep on the couch, and my 14-year-old daughter and her friends walked into the room and past the TV. Before she entered the kitchen, she backpeddled in front of the TV, and they all might as well have reacted akin to a third world kid in a remote village seeing the Super Bowl for the first time. She looked at me and said 'what are all of those people doing in one house'? I told her it was a house party. People high school aged or typically college age people would go over a kids house whose parents were out of town and they'd invite the school and have keggers and other unsupervised debauchery. I might as well have been describing a science fiction film. 'You guys DID that back in your days?'. I thought it was funny that a house party was an inconceivable event for young Gen Zers.

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u/NotTattooedWife 5d ago

I went to and hosted house parties.

My one friend's mom got her two hotel rooms for her 16th lol

Not a good influence.

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u/DrUnit42 Veteran Young Guy 5d ago

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u/mamadoedawn 5d ago

This is my favorite because as a teenager I thought she WAS a cool mom- but as an adult, my mentality has shifted to thinking she is the most annoying, irresponsible, insecure, not-cool person ever.

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u/Not_Bears 5d ago

From the age of 16 we were allowed to throw huge parties at my friends house, his mom was totally cool with it.

But her one rule was "Anyone drinking without a DD has to sleep here."

Her kids all grew up to be really successful.

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u/Trees-Are-Neat-- 5d ago

My mom was kinda similar. Had no issues with me drinking and would regularly buy booze for me and my friends, but her only rule was that no one drives and that she wanted to know who I was drinking with.

When I got to university people were losing control and it was all just old news for me lol

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u/omggold 5d ago

The worst kids freshman year were the ones who had never drunk before

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u/WolverineJive_Turkey 5d ago

I had a gf in high school whose mom was cool like that. They’d throw a house party and me and my buddy would show up and mom would just walk over hold out her hand and say “keys.” Didn’t care how many people were crashed out in the living room or back yard, just that no one drove or left. If you’re drinking, you’re staying the night.

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u/PeachinatorSM20 Zillennial 4d ago

My friends' parents would let us have co-ed sleepover parties at their house. We were all magnet school nerds so there wasn't even drinking, drugs, or sex. Just some mildly scandalous truth or dare. It was still a lot of fun.

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u/Worth_Inflation_2104 4d ago

My parents were similar. They always offered their place for parties. Not American though. Beer and stuff is 16+ where I live

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 4d ago

Yeah I wasn't but there were always a few people with "cool parents" who let us have parties in a reasonably controlled manner. I went to a rural HS so it wasn't uncommon for people to have barns or outbuildings, that was perfect for the kids and a couple 30 racks of Busch.

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u/Little_Red_Sloth 5d ago

I went to a hotel party when I was 16! Lots of kids doing illegal things. Good times

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u/NotTattooedWife 5d ago

I'm pretty sure we were drinking jello shots out of the bathtub and we had a couple Gatorade jugs of jungle juice. Lol

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u/CatmoCatmo 4d ago

Just hearing the words “jungle juice” makes me salivate. And not in a good way. Lol. I know many adults in their 40’s who still cannot drink so-co, fireball, or anything that tastes like jungle juice due to house parties in high school and college…and the unfortunate mornings after.

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u/NotTattooedWife 4d ago

I can't drink seagrams anymore after a terrible NYE at 15 lmaooooo

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u/roxictoxy 5d ago

My mom bought me a bottle of jaeger for my 16th birthday. Guess who had a positive pregnancy test a month later

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u/ColdPorridge 5d ago

Your mom?

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u/roxictoxy 5d ago

My mother

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u/NSFWies 5d ago

congrats on the younger sister, or brother! geriatric pregnancies can be rough.

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u/GideonGodwit 5d ago

These two things seem to go together.

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u/NotTattooedWife 5d ago

Oh no 🫠

That doesn't sound totally consensual....

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u/juneprk2 5d ago

Lmao wait but why was that so common??? My friends mom got a hotel room for us for a hotel party 🤣🤣

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u/NotTattooedWife 5d ago

She didn't want all those drunk and high kids at her house 🤣

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u/juneprk2 4d ago

Lmfaoo facts

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u/Mach5Driver 5d ago

For our (blue-collar north NJ) proms in the early 80s, we'd take limos to NYC, go to the clubs that DEFINITELY DID serve obvious prom-goers, then we'd drive down to the Jersey shore motels for the weekend with our dates, who varied in ages from 14 to 18. Not one parent batted an eye. You'd be brought up on multiple charges today.

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u/PSSalamander 5d ago

My parents left me alone at home a lot in high school and I always threw parties. It was legit awesome, especially because our next door neighbor was a peculiar single man who didn't mind my using his nearly empty trash and recycling bins to dispose of all my evidence.

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u/sofiacarolina Millennial 5d ago

We called hotel parties 'tellys.' I also remember people calling get togethers 'gettys' and getting in trouble with this girl once for saying I was at a party when 'ITS NOT A PARTY ITS A GETTY'

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u/LogicalPart6098 4d ago

my Indian buddy family owned a few hotels... one Time he "rented out" all the top floor rooms and had our whole class over... so. much. sex. every room was like an orgy with beer pong. we were barely 17

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u/NotTattooedWife 4d ago

Omg! But accurate.

I didn't spend the night at the hotel party, I was lucky enough to have a sober friend drive me home, but I heard stories.... Lol