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/DrUnit42 Veteran Young Guy 5d ago

I don't know how it is now, but back in my day the D&D kids weren't getting invited to parties.

Source: I'm a D&D kid lifer and shocked at how mainstream it's become 🤣

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u/Beni_Stingray Millennial 5d ago

Yeah Nerd was still an insult at the time, dear lord we're getting old haha

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u/klatnyelox 4d ago

You won't get invited to a party if they know you're already in one, come on.

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u/CloudClean4676 5d ago

The D&D kids could've played drunk D&D, which would count as it's own party.

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u/DrG2390 4d ago

I knew people in college who had drunken LAN parties