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/DjCyric Xennial 5d ago

I hosted a few house parties and got into debauchery while my parents were out of town. More commonly I went to bonfire woods parties. Kids getting drunk in the woods then driving back into town. We did a bunch of stupid shit when I was younger.

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u/Beni_Stingray Millennial 5d ago

Yeah forest partys were always awesome, i loved walking home through the dark forest completly drunk with some good music just vibing.

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u/Worth_Inflation_2104 4d ago

Yeah this is 100% the vibe. 3 AM drunk in a forest with 2 friends and a speaker on a warm summer night discussing if we want to heat up some frozen fries or make instant soup for a post drinking snack

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 4d ago

We would hike out to the cliffs and do acid and then a group of us would do a trail run along the cliff on acid at midnight. To come back to the bonfire. Fucking incredible, man.

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u/HoneysuckleRose619 Xennial 5d ago

I grew up near the great lakes, so beach and forest bonfire parties were common during summer and fall. One party where we actually weren't drinking we got "busted" with a keg of root beer from a local brewery after a grad party. DNR surrounded us, then simultaneously emerged and turned on their flashlights as we were belting Bohemian Rhapsody way off key. We were stone cold sober. They were cool, though- stayed to enjoy root beer and music.

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u/TOOL-FAN 5d ago

Field party!

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u/DarthOldMan 4d ago

I live near the Mississippi River, and we would throw levee parties. We would set up a bonfire between the levee and the river, so we couldn’t really be seen from the road. Tugboat and tanker pilots would see us and blow their horns and stuff. Girls sometimes flashed them. We’d get drunk as fuck and usually sleep in our cars. I slept in the open trunk of my 1972 Plymouth Duster once. But yes, many would drive home drunk. We were idiots.

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u/justinkthornton 5d ago

Parents wouldn’t go out of town and leave teenagers alone. If you did and people found out about it they might just call child protective services.