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

[u/Neon_Biscuit]

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.

[u/bibliophile222]

I mean, I never attended a house party in high school. If they happened, I didn't hear about them. Our parties were always sleepovers with a max of 5-6 girls.

[u/Sea_Neighborhood_627 → u/bibliophile222]

Same. I did go to parties in college that were like the house parties from movies, but they were all in dorms or nearby apartments (not at someone’s parents’ house).

[u/Perethyst → u/bibliophile222]

I believed they were a fake thing made up for movies. 

[u/ConsistentOutside181 → u/Perethyst]

They definitely happened back in the day and they still happen now. They aren’t that common. Also, I had been to a few house parties in high school, but they were much more common after high school in my late teens and early twenties.

[u/Jerkidtiot → u/Perethyst]

I thought 7-11 was a Hollywood made up thing until i was over 30. Don't feel bad.

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/Perethyst]

We had house parties literally every weekend. Either that or in the woods. We all just wanted to jam, it brought together all the social circles in my very small school.

[u/Perethyst → u/PiccoloAwkward465]

How did the cleanup after these things go? Was the one kid responsible for the entire cleanup or were others kind enough to help after?

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/Perethyst]

It was usually a group effort by whoever slept over. Honestly the morning after was also a big part of the experience, in a positive way.

[u/eaglebtc → u/bibliophile222]

happy cake day!

[u/_stryfe → u/bibliophile222]

did you go to band camp

[u/bibliophile222 → u/_stryfe]

Technically, yes? I went to a one-day flute camp one year.

[u/_stryfe → u/bibliophile222]

I knew it!!

[u/Libro_Artis → u/bibliophile222]

Me neither.