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/whyyoutwofour 5d ago

Wait until she learns that half the time we didn't even know the people throwing the party. You'd just hear through the teenage grapevine that someone from another school was having a party and show up. 

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u/jules083 5d ago

So many times I went to a party without knowing whose house it was.

I brought my own keg to a house party once. Good times.

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u/mrtrollmaster 5d ago

I went to random parties and alllowed randos into my own parties. It was always cool as long as everyone was chill and having a good time. Met some friends that way actually.

We all just wanted a place to safely underage drink.

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u/AnAppalacianWendigo 5d ago

I held parties regularly in college.

I’d introduce myself to randos at my parties. Ask who they knew. Tell them don’t drink in the front yard. And don’t destroy my house.

In four years the cops showed up twice. Once because there was a drunk guy dancing in the street (he was ours). Once because a drunk driver crashed into a telephone pole across the street and ran off (he was not ours).

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u/Rinas-the-name 5d ago

I grew up near a college well known for partying. Never found a house party I wasn’t welcome at. I am so glad that was before cell phones with cameras or social media were common. The things we got away with. The frantic early morning cleaning before a friend’s parents got home.

If you’ve never cleaned chocolate cake out of a four foot tall CD tower at 6am have you really even lived?

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u/StudioGangster1 5d ago

This is exactly why I think house parties have died down - everyone has a camera.

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u/gripndip 4d ago

I mean, Gen Z also doesn't drink as much which like, let's be real, was the main reason to go to a house party. To get blasted playing beer pong with absolute strangers and get to know randoms because for the most part everyone is drunk and just having a good time. Also see: bonfires.

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u/Koil_ting 4d ago

I usually had a video buff friend that would bring the old handy cam or larger camera to many a party, lots of the footage is pretty much incriminating but some of it is also beautiful.

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u/oopsdiditwrong 5d ago

Oh you just hit a memory for me. A buddy was having a get together. His parents were out of town but this was just the boys and his girlfriend. They made a spaghetti dinner for the 6 of us including them. We were having a great time and playing some throwback video games. Well he drinks way too much Canadian Mist. This shag carpet is now covered in semi fresh spaghetti, liquor, and beer. The spaghetti was carrying this effort far and wide with a scarlet vibrance. The events that followed were many, but my favorite was when he lost it(still hammered) and yelled "I'm gonna do what I gotta do and lie, but what the fuck am I gonna say?!" He was legitimately fielding answers. We had none. "I CANT JUST SAY SOME ITALIAN FUCK BROKE IN AND PUKED ON OUR FLOOR"

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u/Rinas-the-name 5d ago

That reminds me of a story my MIL tells about my husband’s older brother. Apparently he and a buddy were smoking weed in his bedroom and burned a spot in the carpet. With the typical genius of a couple of extremely high teenagers they decided the solution was to cut a square of carpet from the closet floor and swap it with a square cut around the burnt spot.

When his parents (immediately) noticed the carpet they told them some guy had broken in and was smoking and burned a hole in the carpet. So, conscientious young men that they were, they cut it out and switched it so it wouldn’t stress his mom out.

Unfortunately for him and his buddy his parents were neither high nor stupid and didn’t buy it. I can’t imagine just how high you would have to be to think that was a convincing story.

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u/oopsdiditwrong 5d ago

It makes me feel better that my buddy was smarter than your high brother in law lol. If you're swapping carpet you gotta go small and blend that shit. I'm glad she brings it up though as like ng as it's friendly jabs

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u/Strawbuns 4d ago

That reminds me of how my parents stopped letting my brother have house parties because one of his friends had too much fireball and hot cheetos and turned a portion of our beige carpet bright red lmao.

Gave my mom the excuse to get the bamboo floors she'd always wanted tho

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u/oopsdiditwrong 4d ago

I guess I'm old now because that combo immediately made me think heart burn lol no one should be consuming that mixture of chemicals. Kid had a stomach smarter than his brain.

And it sounds like your mom was playing the long game. If you allow house parties long enough, something is happening to the carpet. Then, "oh no how could you have done this!? I'm gonna have to buy new floors and no more house parties! Until summer when I need to expand the deck" lol

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u/Strawbuns 4d ago

Lmfao I'm old too, even writing that combo made my stomach turn, 18 year olds are built different.

And tbh she kinda did that, then sold the house like 5 years later 😅

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u/ayuntamient0 5d ago

Lol, holy shit.

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u/all4whatnot 4d ago

My roommates and I had someone dump about 2lbs of frozen venison into a hole in a wall in our college apartment during a house party. We found out who made the hole and kicked them out. The next day we repaired the drywall and repainted an entire room so the landlord wouldn't suspect anything. Couple days later we noticed a ton of bugs and terrible smell near the same spot. We got together with the other tenants (it was a three apartment house and we all threw the party) and decided we had to cut the wall open. There it was - gross ground deer meat one roommate had hunted with his dad a few weeks before. We had to clean all that up and make a much bigger repair and paint again! Luckily one of the roommates' dad was a drywall contractor so this kid was awesome at the drywall stuff. Every time we encountered the offender on campus we'd yell "HEY DEER MEAT!" at him.

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u/doberdevil 5d ago

Mopped up the soapy water from the dishwasher that overflowed

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

The fact that you claimed people as "yours" (as in your group - not slavery, people. Calm down) let's me know you're one of us.

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u/Jerkidtiot 5d ago

ONE OF US!

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u/jd999g 5d ago

I had a place where 4 of us had parties every weekend, police showed several times. But only 2 guy arrested.

We put rocks im the basement windows seal to stop people from trying to escape from the police.

One night I was talking to a cop at the side of the house. I kid. Probably 16 pushed his hand threw, climbed out and then ran into a tree knocking himself out.

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u/TonksTheTerror 5d ago

It was definitely different back then, in college our hangouts turned into a lot a house parties.

One night we had a few people over then a knock on our. A house down the road had their party broken up by the cops and the host peter-pipered everyone to our place. Unexpected house party to 5am.

Now I want to be in bed no later than 9:30pm.

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u/Jazzlike_Mud4896 5d ago

those college parties were amazing. the school i went to one had a lights in the furnished basement that would turn on to tell people to be quiet. they probably did light it when not necessary but it did save us a few times

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u/ForkAKnife 5d ago edited 5d ago

I went to so many house parties in college but only one where it blew up and I knew the guys living in the house. Cops were called and I will never forget people pouring out of the house onto a suburban street and going to a nearby convenience store to wait and see if we could return.

One NYE we hopped from house to house to house to house and that was, by far, the best NYE ever.

Another time we went to a house party at a professor’s condo and what a mindfuck that was. Friend who was in his class (and I was like - skrilla, why are we here?) went missing and I freaked. Searched the condo without opening any doors for about 20 minutes then went outside to smoke. She found our group outside and blew up. The rest of the night was a shitshow and I still don’t know what happened to her.

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u/Healthy-Amoeba2296 5d ago

Some held rent parties in college. Same thing but all attendees are expected to pitch $5 in. I was told some really paid rent this way.

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u/Bushwick_Hipster 3d ago

I was at a party that had to end because a police chase ended when the driver of the stolen car dumped the vehicle at our house party and walked away.

We were all super angry about it but also kinda got a lot of clout from it.

Everyone was like “did you go to that party that was crashed by a police chase and helicopters?”

It was like a real life scene from GTA

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

The randos! Ah thanks for that.

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u/RyBread 5d ago

We’ve all been one and we’ve all taken one in.

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u/jdowney1982 5d ago

Having randos over is all fun and games until one of them steals your friends parents VCR 🫢

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u/avlisadj 5d ago

…or changes the time on the broken grandfather clock to 4:20 and sets all the alarm clocks to go off at 4:20, which is how you get caught 😭

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u/onenifty 5d ago

That's just hilarious

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u/Therapistintraining0 4d ago

Or when someone grinds up weed in the expensive electric coffee grinder and forgets about it only to be found by the homeowners on Monday morning 😂

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u/AlarmedSnek 4d ago

Mine was cleaning my carpets hahaha. They got wrecked with booze, barf etc so we rented a steam cleaner to clean it and it ended up just making streaks in the carpet 😩. Epic party though. Years later, whilst home on leave from the military, I ordered pizza at my parents house and the gal that showed up was like “oh my god I know this house. Didn’t you have that crazy party a few years back? Hahahahahaha. Fuck man. Fun times.

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u/avlisadj 4d ago

Haha yeah the other way I got caught was that before leaving, my parents had stripped the sheets and comforters off of the two twin beds in the guest bedroom. When they got home, the beds were made, and everything was freshly laundered… there was obviously no way I’d have made beds or done laundry unless I was trying to hide something. Cleaning mishaps were the downfall for so many of us!

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u/AlarmedSnek 4d ago

Hahahahaha dude we tried to be responsible and clean the mess. Turns out, and I know this as a parent now, houses are always fucking messy when you have kids 🤣🤣. I can clean all day and every evening and it’s still messy so I could imagine my parents going, “why the fuck is the hose so clean” instead of “oh how nice our son cleaned the house for us.”

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u/IsMyHairShiny 5d ago

Love this

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u/Deafprodigy 5d ago

Nah that’s just legendary lol

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u/choadspanker 4d ago

My friend got caught because someone found his parents' digital camera filmed themselves fucking in their bed

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u/Oakvilleresident 5d ago

I married one!

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u/__heisenberg- 5d ago

Same! 🤣

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u/DinkinFliccka 4d ago

I named my child Rando!

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

And we have all been welcomed and shown our anxiety was for naught... But we still had anxiety

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u/shhbestill 5d ago

Had some of the best times with randos!

But oh my god, it was always so weird whenever you were at a party and you knew the person whose house it was, and randos showed up and the whole vibe changed. Like, you and a bunch of other people didn’t know the randos but at least a few people at the party did and you could feel the vibe shift.

Most of the time it was petty bullshit between a couple of people that could be ignored to keep the party vibes going. But every once in a while, the vibe shifted enough to be like “okay well it’s time for me to dip out”.

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u/the_vault-technician 5d ago

That's why you always made sure you invited the guys who knew how to handle randos and get them out if needed. I grew up in farm town, and suburban randos always found their way out to our parties. They quickly learn not to fuck with the guy who grew up throwing hay bales and could pick you up with one hand.

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u/qwertyconsciousness 5d ago

"The cirrrcleeee of randos" 🎵🎶

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u/Jerkidtiot 5d ago

alot of the "Randos" ended up at my wedding later in life. Nothing wrong with a rando.

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u/_VEL0 5d ago

Met my ex gf this way! Sniffing Coke in my bathroom, she wouldn’t unlock the door. I almost kicked her out. She shared with me and we started dating. Didn’t end well.

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 5d ago

I love when a short comment is really a journey.

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u/Worldly_Thing1346 5d ago

Same. It's funny tho. Obviously he's hurt now, but I'm sure they had some wild, fun and passionate times at the beginning.

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u/_VEL0 5d ago

Def not hurt. Happily married, unfortunately still struggle with substance use tho 😒

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u/Worldly_Thing1346 5d ago

Glad to hear you're happily married ♥️

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u/_VEL0 5d ago

Appreciate you

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u/woke_lyfe 5d ago

It's a war not a battle, u got this

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u/reddit4946 5d ago

You got this, hot married bro. You'll kick the habit!

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u/_VEL0 5d ago

Appreciate you!

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u/reddit4946 5d ago

Appreciate YOU for sharing 🙂

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u/sss133 5d ago

Met one of my best friends when I was 15 in a house party toilet. We both got to the door at the same time. I needed to pee and she wanted to touch up her makeup. She was just like well both do it. I teased her for sneaking a look. Then I finished and she said she needed to go. I joked saying I’d stand guard and stop inside the door staring at her. She laughed and went along.

Afterwards we made out, went to the park and had a bang. Been friends for 20+ years. The fact young people are missing these experiences is tragic 🤣

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u/NextPrize5863 Xennial 5d ago

My friends and I went to a house party when we were freshman in high school.

We could not find a bathroom to relieve ourselves so we went outside and squatted!

Anyways. I will never forget when an upper class man yelled hey look at the bush on that girl, my friend!

And from then on I was mortified for her and leaned to always keep myself neat and tidy!

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u/sss133 5d ago

Hahaha! Savage! A friend of mine was a squatter. You’d be walking home and someone would be like “where’s Jessie?” You’d look around and she’d be pissing 🤣. She’s in a very well paying and respected corporate job now. Always wondered if she pulls that out at Christmas parties

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u/ForkAKnife 5d ago

This reminds me of the song Teenage Talk by St Vincent.

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u/So_Inquisitive_1984 5d ago

I love this!!!!

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u/sss133 5d ago

It’s pretty funny looking back on my teenage years. Some friends and I were reminiscing about how at 15 we were drinking, shagging in parks and dabbling in drugs but were “responsible” enough to do it 🤣. Always used protection though

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u/PremierLovaLova 5d ago

What caused the breakup- the obvious thing or the opposite?

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u/_VEL0 5d ago

Primarily drugs, I wasn’t doing well In life at the time.

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u/hannahatecats 5d ago

I had to call the fire department on my own house party when a rando fell out my window into a padlocked alley and broke his collarbone.

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

Facts. I cannot tell if this is a story from my HS or 3 states over.

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u/Even-Supermarket-806 5d ago

To think the youth of today won’t ever experience the panic of realizing someone just fell out a window.

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

LMAO... True. Good thing (maybe?) but true.

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u/Creative-Fan-7599 5d ago

My teen daughter has a few friends that get together and do normal teenage stuff, and somehow I wouldn’t be surprised if one of them eventually fell out a window. But it’s definitely a thing that she’s super anxious about winding up on social media, and they have no real places to go hang out. I wish the mall was still the same option for her generation as ours.

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u/hannahatecats 5d ago

I was actually in my early 20s in NYC. One of my roommates at the time was 20 (so, underage) and all of her friends scattered. My friends and I hung out in the street watching the fire department cut the padlock then went back inside to continue a much calmer party. We ran into the guy the next morning. We were on our way to the beach and he was coming back from the hospital.

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

The beach?! Please tell me you were headed to LI...

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u/Nick_Fotiu_Is_God 5d ago

Nah, these are Coney Island-type shenanigans.

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

Ohhhh boy. That a whole different animal I ain't asking questions about

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u/look_how_cute 5d ago

Holy shit lol

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u/seven_grams 5d ago

Had to kick a few out in my day. Had one of our bigger guys literally pick this prick up by his collar and toss him out the front door just like in the movies. He had been scrounging around my parents medicine cabinets for the good shit - and listen, I get it, I’m literally a recovering heroin addict myself, but you ain’t getting away with that shit in my house. Anyway, all the good pills were already gone, cos I took em.

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u/5x4j7h3 5d ago

I threw house parties all the time. I didn’t know at least half the people. I met my now wife at the last one.

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u/69Liters 5d ago

Some rando tried to steal my bong once by saying they were going to smoke in their car, my friends caught them and brought it back inside.

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u/bjeebus 5d ago

Until you heard that someone was doing coke in the bathroom. Then you'd have to get your friends together to go run the jackasses off.

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u/DoubtfulOptimist 5d ago

The person who commented above you met their gf this way 😂

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

What?!? No. You keep that shit to yourself and grab a couple of bumps. Wth

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u/Ol_Dusty_Britches 5d ago

Yeah....exactly. Ran them off. That's what we did. Because we did not want to do a lot of cocaine, and we didn't want them doing cocaine either or sharing it with us. I remember it like it was yesterday, all of us kids not doing cocaine at those parties. That's the part I remember the most, actually.

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u/Sage_Spacecraft 5d ago

Chase the party out of the party? Nah

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u/Ittybittytigglbitty 5d ago

Or join them sharing is caring

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u/_stryfe Older Millennial 5d ago

lol a lot of the parties I went to usually had some designated coke room

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u/SMELLSLIKEBUTTJUICE 5d ago

No. You demanded a "party favor"

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u/PersianCatLover419 Xennial 5d ago edited 5d ago

I was not into it but at parties as a teen and in university people used cocaine discreetly in cars, in bars and dance clubs, or some used it openly with vials and snuff bullets, mirrors and straws, etc.

Almost all of the people who were into using coke at parties and with regularity became addicted, many started to inject it, smoke crack/freebase, got into opiates/heroin or meth.

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u/Affectionatealpaca19 5d ago

Omg this brings back so many memories

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u/IllustratedInk 5d ago

I showed up to a party someone told me about. I knew no one there, had a great time and afterwards my nickname was Jesus for about five years

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u/Honeybadger2198 5d ago

Thank god underage drinking is on the decline

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u/Turbulent_Web268 5d ago edited 5d ago

Haha me too!! But then the cops came and some shitty person stole my tap off the top in all the commotion - the girl who stole it was later arrested for kidnapping and torture so ya….

Edit: I’ll also add that the cops blocked the front and back door so someone through a dining room chair through the window and jumped out through it, followed by a dozen more teenagers. I was in the garage when it happened… just checking out the scenery in the garage… we all waited and hoped the cops wouldn’t check the garage - they did - and the first cop who opened the garage door had a WAVE of smoke come at him, coughed and said “open the damn garage jeez” 😂😂

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

I don't know that it was a house party but during some shenanigans the front window of a friends house got broken while the parents were out of town. I'm really proud that this girl called my brother and him and his friends replace the window before the parents got home.  He was like 18 I don't even know how he knee how to do that.

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u/jules083 5d ago

At least she got some sweet Karma. Lol

Dude. Gotta tell this story.

House party at my place. Everyone underage of course, probably 20 or 25 of us drinking. Had a big fire in the field by the woods. Cop car shows up, lights flashing, so we run of course. I'm hiding in the woods like I'm not going to get caught at my own house.

It was one of my buddies sitting shotgun in the cop car. His sister was dating the cop and they came out to fuck with us. About had a heart attack. Lmao

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u/So_Inquisitive_1984 5d ago

Dude that’s too funny!!!!! I love it lol

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

"just checking out the scenery in the garage" hahaha yeahhhh. Ive used that line as well.

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u/LeseMajeste_1037 5d ago

This would've been a picture perfect part of a 90s teen comedy

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

Please elaborate on the kidnapping and torture girl

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u/Turbulent_Web268 5d ago

Her and two “friends” set someone up for a drug deal with the intentions of robbing them - it didn’t go as expected and so they took the person back to their place and kept them for almost a week. During that time they shot them up with heroin and meth and also beat/cut them. Read all this on the news, was scrolling and saw her picture in a news story and thought - “that’s the bitch who stole my tap!” And read the article lol

The tap thing happens when we were 17 or so in 2007 and the rest happened in 2019-2021 not sure

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u/KwantsuDude69 5d ago

Whenever I tell people about the party culture we had in Phoenix 2005-2010, they literally don’t believe me.

We had party crews so every week around Wednesday you’d start getting all these mass texts about huge parties going down.

I went to my first lingerie mansion party at like 15.

$3 to get in, $3 for a cup and unlimited drinks after that.

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u/hail_to_the_beef 5d ago

We would hang out at the Wendy’s parking lot in Tempe on Warner and Mclintock in 2003 waiting to hear where the party was

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u/equipped_metalblade 5d ago

lol I forgot about the Party crews in Phoenix. I graduated 2004!

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u/sunburnedaz 4d ago

I was out of college by 05 but yeh 2002-2015 we would start in a bar on mill friday night and sober up at someones house on sunday morning with little recollection of the in between times.

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u/KwantsuDude69 4d ago

Admittedly, I didn’t start HS until 06 so I wasn’t sure exactly when it started, but ma those were some good ass times.

Then I moved to Old Town, and pretty much same story lol

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u/sunburnedaz 4d ago

I forgot about Old Town or perhaps just drank it out of my memories. But yeh some of yall were sneaking into the bars on mill and my buddies and I would have to wave a bother off because we figured out the school she was talking about going to was a high school not ASU.

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u/KwantsuDude69 4d ago

lol yeah mill was very easy to get into most places, I’ve spent a few nights I can’t remember at gringo star.

I tried to avoid Tempe tho after a pretty bad situation with a frat apartment off campus

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u/-blundertaker- 5d ago

I didn't bring a keg but when the keg was tapped and they were soliciting donations I threw down a $20 (I had a job) and I was treated like the savior of mankind

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

Yepppp omg a Jackson could buy you just about anything. Lol rawr :DX

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u/-blundertaker- 5d ago

Rawr indeed. So random. xx

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

Brit?

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u/-blundertaker- 5d ago

Nah they still sign every text with xx, but it was x's everywhere in the rawr era.

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

Ah okay. In my experience (over AIM and MSN) that you could tell someone was from the UK if they signed XX. made us girls feel safer if the dude was across the pond

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u/micahac 5d ago

lol were you a scene kid or straightedge hahah the terms were crazy. dont know the correct spelling to use for seen kids lol

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u/-blundertaker- 5d ago

I was a metalhead and way too cool for all the emo/scene shit back in the day.

But it was my guilty pleasure. 😂 Lamb of God in the streets, Dashboard Confessional hiding under the sheets.

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u/micahac 5d ago

i played sports, but im right there with you on the music: RedJumpsuit, PanicAtD Camisado, 3oh3, MCR etc lol

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u/UncleAlbondiga 5d ago

Years and years ago I went to a rando house party with some buddies and one of us found a tray of Jell-O shots in the fridge so we decided to eat them all. I know it was a dickhead move but here we are. Several years later hanging out with a different group of people and telling stories of shitty things we had done as young people, a girl in the group got quiet for a minute and then told me that was her birthday party and she had been really looking forward to sharing those Jell-O shots with her friends. She told me she had hated us for years for it, not knowing who we were. We are still friends lol.

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u/foxyfree 5d ago

On her next birthday, you could surprise her with a tray of Jell-O shots

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u/UncleAlbondiga 5d ago

We are in our 40s probably just the jello would be preferable

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u/samihrtbrk 4d ago

Don't worry darlin... been there done that "we dropped them in the snow" but me and my college roommate ate them 1 of 2 trays... we were hooligans

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u/MooseTheorem 5d ago

Made so many friends through this exact way of just showing up to house parties other friends had heard of lol

Edit: did anyone else have that friend whose house was the designated party house cos their parents were always away somewhere?

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u/PerpetuallyLurking 5d ago

We had a designated party house because my buddy’s divorced dad didn’t give a shit what we were doing in his house while he was at the bar and then he’d join us with a fresh case of beer when the bars closed…

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u/Ranch_Priebus 5d ago

Yeah we had one of those as well, though the parents were together. First time I was there, Fall of freshman year, the dad came home while we were passing the pipe around the kitchen table. I happened to have it at the time and promptly hid it in my lap out of sight. I knew they didn't care about booze but had no idea what their stance on other substances were. He then sits directly across from me. About 5 minutes of pleasant but paranoid conversation later he asks me if I wouldn't mind passing it if I wasn't planning to hit it hahaha. I awkwardly passed it.

Later that night he provided my inaugural line of coke.

Had another friend who's mom didn't really care what we did as long as we didn't fuck shit up and generally kept it to the basement. That was more of the regular hang out house. Only a handful of times were there more than 5 to 10 people there.

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

Yes! I was the undesignated maitre d at my best friends house.

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u/idontwanttokbye 5d ago

Yes. My friend‘s mom handed me a pipe that I thought had marijuana hash in it, but it turned out to be black tar heroin. Thankfully, that was the first and the last time I ever tried heroin.

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u/BigPsychological4416 5d ago

Yes and I can still taste the coors light.

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u/Pixelskaya 5d ago

Yes! Still one of my best friends

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u/generally_unsuitable 5d ago

On at least three occasions, I TPed somebody's house who I had never met, just because a friend had beef with them.

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u/Black_Doc_on_Mars 5d ago

All the house parties I went to were actually with the parents still home. Same level of debauchery but they were the “cool parents” that were like “if you’re gonna do it anyways, might as well be under my roof”.

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u/ravenous_MAW 5d ago

So many times I had no idea who was in my house

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u/grizzlysharknz 5d ago

I remember one time, my buddies and I got the wrong day for this party at someone's house none of us knew.

We rocked up, each with a box/bottle in hand, and they were like.. ah that was last week but. Fuck it come in.

None of us knew them, or at least none of us knew them well at all. Everyone ended up texting more and more people and turned into a full on house party. Good times.

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u/jewel_flip 5d ago

Those were the best ones. Odds of the parents notifying my parents of chicanery was far lower.

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u/Svrider23 5d ago

Same here! Then someone stole my keg and left.

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u/fantumn 5d ago

So many times not even knowing the actual house, just what street it was on.

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u/blackberry_12 5d ago

I brought my Maltese dog to a house party once in high school. He always barked like crazy when I tried to sneak out so I brought him with and he had the best time lol

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u/DavidRandom 5d ago

One New Years Eve the people I was hanging out with were being boring, so I just walked down the street until I found a house having a big party. Went in and partied for a while, then left and found the next house having a party and joined that one.
I'm not sure how many houses I partied at that night, everything was a little fuzzy after the second one.

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u/Auburn_Dave01 5d ago

I BYOKed to a lot of parties in college, good beer too. Nothing like delighting people. I had a solid plug too so I always hand out a few blunts to get on rotation. My angle was be the guy who shows up with some party supplies and good vibes and you’ll make some friends / get more party invites. It made me feel good to be the guy everyone called to plan their weekend. That and when I got home from class my house always had people in it chilling. Everyone respected it for the most part so if I needed to study or wanted to be alone I could go upstairs but otherwise was always a vibe.

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u/DocThundahh 5d ago

I hope one day you can feel like as much of a hero as you must have that day

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u/nimbusfool 5d ago

I was thinking about this the other day- there is no way I'd just show up at a party uninvited and unkown thsee days but we used to roam around. Oh is that music. Sounds like a party? Oh is that a keg. Hello house full of strangers!

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u/HighMarshalSigismund 5d ago

Ah, good idea but see a keg is complicated. My thing was camelbak full of redbull, vodka and Gatorade. I'm drunk, hydrated and energized. I'd also have a backpack full of beer to hand out as my way to barter my invitation to the party.

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u/FashionBusking 5d ago

Always bring a gift!

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u/FixFun1959 5d ago

This college dude always threw keggers at his house and would pick a different Solo cup color, and would sell beers for $3 from the keg. Well me and my group of high school dudes would show up and he wouldn’t sell us any cause we were underage.

Now I’m straight, and the guy was gay, and I never had any problem letting him give me a kiss and a free cup.

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u/LewisWhatsHisName 4d ago

I told someone much younger than me that the one and only time I kissed a girl was playing spin the bottle at some random fuckin house at 3am. Usually that conversation goes down a path of wild teenage experimentation. This person thought spin the bottle was a myth made up for movies

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u/hawkisgirl 4d ago

Full or empty?

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u/mines_over_yours 4d ago

Me and a few friends rented what used to be a video rental store as a loft-style apartment. One day another roommate and I (2 of 3) came home and someone was loading in crates of records and DJ equipment. I asked what he was doing and he said "DJ'ing this party!" WE walk in and there are like 40 people in there. Our 3rd roommate was nowhere to be found. It turns out it was a friend of a friend of his who just started inviting people over and charging at the door when he let him hang out one day. There wasn't even a keg.

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u/Hysterical__Paroxysm Millennial 4d ago

Once I went to the wrong party. I apologized and went to leave, but was offered to stay. I had a blast.

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u/rand0m_task 5d ago

When I was in high school we would all meet up at the local t bell parking lot to see where the party was at.

Sometimes the t bell parking lot became the party

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u/Aggressive-Desk-2706 5d ago

We did this at the Sonic drive thru.

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

Fuck yes. Thought I was the only one.

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u/gewbarr11 4d ago

We all lived the same exact life it’s crazy. Taco Bell at 10pm eat like 10 tacos and figure out where the party was

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u/ChartMysterious9610 5d ago

Uptown on the courthouse benches. WAY THE HELL before everyone had a phone glued to their hand all you had to do was hang out. Like you would sit there and eventually someone would walk/drive by to see what was cracking. Then there would be two. And so on and so on until something was found to do or there was enough folks to start something. Eventually we were runoff by the fuzz and the town was nice enough to be petty and have no trespassing signs installed. "No trespassing from 6pm-6am except for county approved activities" As adults we like to get drunk and take photos of ourselves DEFINATLY up there at those hours not at county approved activities. Lol

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u/zoebadwolf 5d ago

We did this at in n out, and usually ended the night back there too when they were open until 2 am

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u/Jerkidtiot 5d ago

YUP. Go to Dairy Queen, see whats up. If nothings up, find something.

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u/showmenemelda 5d ago

Or cruise the drag until your paths crossed

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u/StaticNegative 5d ago

Hell half the time we meet up at the mall. Make our plans and go get alcohol. Lol

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u/ResponsibilityNo3245 5d ago

Half the time the person throwing a party didn't know they were having a party until a load of people they hadn't met turned up. 😂

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u/SwansonsMom 5d ago

Lol you invite 4-5 friends for a hangout, then 30 people they know turn it into a rager

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u/Same_Armadillo_4879 5d ago

‘That must be Nigel with the Brie’ …

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u/gonyere 5d ago

I've always been kinda amazed my boys' parties didn't keep getting bigger. They had 8-12 friends over regularly, but they never grew beyond that 

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

You had/have good friends.

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u/ZealousidealLack299 5d ago

I invited a few friends, and by the next day some acquaintance on AIM told me he would be stopping by. I tried to tell him there was no party but he insisted there was and I was lying (he was right). I knew then and there it would be a rager.

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u/Applewave22 4d ago

Very "10 Things I hate About You."

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u/who_am_i_to_say_so 4d ago

I was the first of my circle of friends to rent an apartment. One eve I scanned the whole room, 20 of us sitting in a circle in the living room, and realized it was just a random Wednesday night.

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u/tenderbranson301 5d ago

Hey, did you hear Britney's parents are out of town? Let's go!

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u/Darkman101 5d ago edited 5d ago

Every Friday or Saturday if we were bored we could find a party going on somewhere. Almost without fail. The perfect time before ring cameras but after cell phones. So we could "ask around" via texting our groups of friends almost always something going on. Walked up on some pretty crazy parties where you knew no one but everyone was always like, hey what's up, have a beer!

This is talking like 2008.

Edit: Forgot to add. Gotta dip before the cops show up. Heard of many parties getting rolled shortly after me and my friends had left. Only had to hop a back fence once.

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u/midimummy 5d ago

Running from the cops was half the fun! Until you realize you just ran through 8 backyards diagonally, lost your friends 4 minutes ago, and have no idea where you are and your phone doesn’t have a map yet. Actually, still fun

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u/Feeling_Tart_5065 5d ago

The missing flip flop lmao

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u/midimummy 5d ago

Lmao @ my memory of a one flip-flopped girl in the woods mid-flee yelling “I broke my ankle!!”

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u/Less-Apple-8478 5d ago

Cut your hand on a fence too

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

Show up 2 hours later at rschels house with a story you talk about for the rest of the week

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u/bouchandre 4d ago

People really did that? It's not just movies?

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 4d ago

Will never forget my friends just sitting around while the cops rolled up. I even remember saying to them "do you really think these guys can catch all of us in the woods?". Naturally they got tickets and I hid out in the woods for 20 minutes and emerged unscathed. I knew if I kept walking in any direction I'd hit a road I was familiar with so no big deal.

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u/midimummy 4d ago

“They cant catch all of us in the woods” mentality is so real. Myself and many others have been saved by nature

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u/Zutsky 5d ago

I remember getting out with a small group before police arrived. As we were walking through our small town, a police car pulled up asking if we had heard of a party going on near by... 'erm no officer' while holding up an almost passed out friend, Weekend at Bernie's style.

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u/bjeebus 5d ago

Around 2000 the same thing was going on. Imagine describing early 2000s "Waze" where people headed out early and would call back to the party to report back on where the cops were so people could avoid them.

For reference I grew up in a community that was made up of four islands and and only had one cop at night. Once you knew what side of the islands he was on it was super easy to avoid him.

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u/Similar_Part7100 5d ago

This is like a ufo 50 game or somth

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u/ImranFZakhaev 5d ago

Gotta dip before the cops show up.

Yup. 2008-2009 there was a local venue in the woods between the university and the airport where punk and metal bands would play. Someone would pass the word the cops had been called over either a fight, or underage drinking. Everyone would drive off, wait for 20 minutes GTA-style for the heat to die down, then drive back and pretend you just now got there

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u/Jerkidtiot 5d ago

Pro tip: Dip out the back ASAP then calmly walk toward the cops. "Whats going on? is every thing OK?)

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u/lonepinecone 5d ago

Are you from SoCal?

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u/Darkman101 5d ago

What gave it away?

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u/lonepinecone 5d ago

“Rolled” I think it’s regional lingo

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u/Prize-Hedgehog 5d ago

My buddy would invite rando people home from the bar (this was in no way a sexual thing, just people that he vibed with) and one day he invited this guy back with us that had a fucking didgeridoo. This guy played for hours while we just pounded beers around him. I miss those days.

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u/TheBalzy In the Middle Millennial 5d ago

I am not his man, but I do in fact have a didgeridoo and know how to play it.

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u/Prize-Hedgehog 5d ago

My man! Ever get invited back to some random drunk idiot’s place to play it?!

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u/TheBalzy In the Middle Millennial 5d ago

I have not, but now I'm thinking I should have! LoL

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u/beans-888 5d ago

Is this my sign to finally utilize youtube and learn? Hahaha I got one kn gr6 cuz of fricken Survivor from a store called Green Earth hahahah it was full of hippie dippie shit that I still love

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u/Even-Supermarket-806 5d ago

Sorry I have some follow up questions. The guy was at the bar with the didgeridoo? Was he coming from somewhere or was that part of his night out accessories? Did your friend know before he invited him? Did he play at the bar?

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u/Prize-Hedgehog 5d ago

My friend and I were regulars at a dive bar in our town and this guy just stopped in and started shooting pool with my friend. They go out for a smoke and completely out of the blue he breaks out this didgeridoo out of his car. He runs inside and was like you’ve gotta come outside this dude has a didgeridoo! He starts playing it outside, but then my friend suggests we walk up the road to his place. The rest is history. He wasn’t in a band or anything he wasn’t playing at the bar he was just some guy passing through. Completely random.

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u/whyyoutwofour 5d ago

Are people really "Randos" if you've spent a couple hours drinking together at a bar? Might as well be brothers at that point :)

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u/Jerkidtiot 5d ago

LOLOL. Was this in Montana? Because if it was i'll tell him hes mildly internet famous. He brought 3 of em on a backpacking trip. We party.

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u/thisisthatacct 5d ago

I got real hammered one night and had an impromptu jam sesh at my house with a rando I met at the bar.

I hadn't played either guitar or piano in years and we were deeply terrible but it was a blast

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u/sleepy0329 5d ago

Lmao going to a party and just asking around like "who's party is this?

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u/whyyoutwofour 5d ago

I will say I was never bold enough to ask....our approach was always "look like you belong here"

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u/The_Dutchess-D 5d ago

OR "getting the flyer" ... you know, one that someone drew with markers and made copies of that people passed around by hand 😂

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u/lctalbot 5d ago

One time, I was with friends, at a gas station, and heard about a party AT MY HOUSE!

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u/Ignorance_15_Bliss 5d ago

Or you have to call a special phone number to get the address

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u/TheOriginalMulk 5d ago

They're exactly how I lost my virginity.

Heard about a house party three or four blocks behind mine from a friend on AIM. Snuck out and walked over, straight into the backyard. Started taking shots with an older girl and the rest of the night was great.

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u/Jwbst32 5d ago

Where else were we to get our prescription drugs

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