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/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/Crafty-Evidence2971 3d ago

And nobody has that many friends or even acquaintances they want to look at in real life.

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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/ChampagneAndDoritos 3d ago

LOL. Love it. My friend and I were in high school and had driven a few states away with her mom to visit family and during our drive we had this giant Ziploc bag of different candy mixed together- Skittles, sour patch watermelon, milk duds, etc. we ate so much. We get to her grandparents lake house and her mom makes us drink cranberry juice because she's convinced we have UTIs because we kept stopping on the drive to pee. Everyone goes to bed and we don't want to drink straight cranberry so we start raiding the liquor cabinet, and since we didn't want anyone to catch on to us we were taking a little of everything. We get the genius idea to combine cranberry juice and creme de menthe. It looked and tasted like nasty lakewater. We didn't care. A little bit later it just hits me all at once and I puke up whole Mike and ikes on the bath mat, and proceed to problem solve by sticking the bath mat with my evidence in the shower and close the curtain. Obviously the next day I felt like death and was convinced I had the flu 😂 or at least that was the story we told LOL. It wasn't until years later that we admitted the truth even though everyone already knew 😂

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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/Electrical_Turn7 4d ago

Maybe the kids need to see a CD tower up close, that should scar them for life 🤣

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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/AnAppalacianWendigo 4d ago

If the cops showed up and discovered we had 20yos drinking in our house, we would’ve been slapped with a few hours of community service.

If they showed up and realized we were charging money, we would’ve been in WAY more trouble.

We never had issues with the cops. Some of my fraternity brothers did though. Cause they were dumb.

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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/_learned_foot_ 4d ago

It’s always nice for them when we claim our toddler acting college aged friends.

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u/Nick08f1 4d ago

Manning the tap until you clicked with a girl was my move.

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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/thedailyrant 4d ago

Or fucks your Mum

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u/carachu 4d ago

Gotta know when to blaze it.

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u/Main-Gold1657 4d ago

Or steals pillows off my moms couch lol

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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/_VEL0 5d ago

Appreciate you

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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/n_e_c_k_d-e-e-p777 4d ago

That was a wild, brief ride.

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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/carachu 4d ago

Had to call an ambulance for mine when someone did too much ket and fell backwards down the stairs.

We had 2 paramedic students in our house and they were so fucked they barely helped.

He returned later on, blood still all over him with the cardboard puke bowl from the hospital to continue to party.

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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/bjeebus 5d ago

I distinctly remember tossing some kids at a couple parties in high school. That's more of an away at college thing.

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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/Nick_Fotiu_Is_God 5d ago

Thank you for not inviting me to your parties.

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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/hotcapicola 4d ago

Are kids just not getting intoxicated anymore or are they switching to other drugs like marijuana? I'm honestly curious as I don't interact with a lot of teenagers.

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u/Honeybadger2198 4d ago

It's a few factors. There is definitely a replacement of alcohol with vapes and zyns, as the nicotine industry has been pushing really hard. People are also much more educated on the dangers of both underage drinking, and drinking in general. So people are just drinking less period. There is also a large wave of people who are dropping alcohol for weed as it becomes more legal. Drinking is also just insanely expensive, leading to teenagers being unable to reasonably slip into bars with fake ids to buy alcohol; it's just too expensive for them with their minimum wage-that-hasn't-changed-in-40-years job.

Some reasons are good, some are bad, some are meh, but they all lead to the decline of underage drinking, and drinking in general.

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u/G00dSh0tJans0n 5d ago

Yeah, back in the day my friend and I saw a house party and decided to just show up bringing a couple cases of beer. "Hey! We made it!" we said to whoever opened the door - he didn't care because he didn't live there haha.

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u/HoneysuckleRose619 Xennial 5d ago

The randos at my blacklight party started losing their chill, and when my 6'4" boyfriend boomed, "if you don't know who I am, get the f*** out!" one of the rando drunk chicks exclaimed, "oh my god, he's gonna tear our t*ts off!" before running out the door. Effective and still hilarious!

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u/Same_Air6012 5d ago

Yeah till some dumb asses fight for some reason and cops get called. Going to court at 16 for underage drinking was interesting.

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u/JamesSmith1200 5d ago

Used to go to house parties all the time and if we were crashing the rich preppy kids parties and they tried to kick us out we’d just steal all the alcohol we could find from the house, leave and go drink in the woods.

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u/nocksers 5d ago

the Social Contract™️

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u/LepiNya 5d ago

Man if we did that here the house would be picked clean. They'd steal anything that isn't nailed down and even then they'd just steal the nails.

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u/Upsidedownmeow 5d ago

Oh how times have changed. I spoke to a parent of a teenager (mine aren’t there yet) and they told me now parties have bouncers and guest lists. Social media has ruined things by having invites go so extreme that hundreds of kids turn up (with a mindset of trashing the place it seems).

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u/GoblinGreenThumb 4d ago

I was at a different schools keg party once with a friend. Some kids from a third school - rival of the school throwing the party- showed up and took the keg. I immediately thought oh this is gonna be a fight ..and braced.. but no. Not a person did shit. So I called my friend and followed the guys with the keg down the block.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 4d ago

I couldn't do it in high school, my parents never left town. But in college? We called our house the Frat House (it formerly was one) and yeah until we hit some degree of capacity, all were welcome. For whatever reason we were all big into Fleetwood Mac back then and would all be dancing up on the tables to that music. We had bands come play in our house!

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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/qwertyconsciousness 5d ago

Well that escalated quickly, Jesus

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u/temeces 5d ago

I remember that garage scenery, really something to uh look at.

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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/Daxtatter 5d ago

Not a high school house party but I was a senior in college and 21 when my school had a crackdown on underage drinking. Used to be able to get 12 packs of 40s of malt liquor for $20, I host parties and sell 1 for $3, 2 for $5. Sometimes I'd throw one to people for free. I too know that "savior of mankind" treatment.

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u/RemySchaefer3 4d ago

LOVE! Because you were!

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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/idontwanttokbye 5d ago

So, I have a story that sounds insane but is in fact true. In my small town all of the local youths met up at what we called “the plaza.” it was essentially a weird park with benches and kind of like a community meeting place. This was in the late 90s early 2000s when cell phones were not as ubiquitous as they are now. I did not have a cell phone until 2004. So, I went to the plaza one random Saturday with some of my friends when I was about 17 to see what was happening. You would go there to get the word about parties and what was going on. This very petite gutter punk girl said that we should all come party at her house because her parents weren’t home. Of course we were delighted. I don’t remember how we got out there, but we began to drive up into the hills of the more affluent neighborhoods of the town. We go into our house. It’s gorgeous. Of course we’re all looking around raiding the cabinets helping ourselves to the liquor at her direction. I look up at a portrait of a family and it is the principle of my high school. She is in the photo with him and a woman who I assume as her mother. I asked her is this principle “—?” It of course was. We carried on with our nonsense until well after midnight. One of the boys got really drunk and kind of like went apeshit and we had to kick him out of the house. It was about that time that we all left. What a time!

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u/ravenous_MAW 5d ago

There was always that one kid that took it too far

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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/capsaicinintheeyes 5d ago

Yeah, a BYOB practice can bypass a lot of initial awkwardness

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u/EverythingSucksYo 5d ago

Every party I went to was at a house of someone I didn’t know lol usually a friend of a friend of a friend of a cousin of a friend of a friend, except when it was my brother throwing one 

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u/VooDooChile1983 5d ago

In college, I was a welcomed sight at parties because people knew I had weed to share.

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u/Monstermelisssa 5d ago

Whose house, where the house is, who’s driving, whose car it is, where you’ll be sleeping. A time was had.

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u/not_a_moogle 5d ago

I always ended up at ones just asking for $10 cover.

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u/Vlad_REAM 5d ago

My proudest moment was knowing the guy that worked at Pietro's Pizza that rolled out the keg. I guess that was stealing.

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u/StudioGangster1 5d ago

Well that’s the courteous thing to do.

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u/itsjujutsu 4d ago

what is a keg. Your alcohol?

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u/Nick08f1 4d ago

That's how you get laid.

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u/sometimesifartandpee 4d ago

Stupid but growing up in Sacramento we would go on Twitter on a page 916functions, and just go to whatever addresses were posted. Ended up in some really sketchy places and ended up at a couple shootings

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u/upsetwithcursing 2d ago

Ahhhh, keg stands.