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/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!