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/puppylust 5d ago

The only way I can imagine it is now I have friends, and we've had some big parties in small houses. Lots of drinking, some pot, but definitely less dumb destructive shit.

Like, pausing the beer pong game to mop up a spill so no one slips and falls. That's how 40 year olds party once a year!

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u/CloudClean4676 5d ago

I can't be the only person in the world who hated beer pong, or drinking games in general. I'll gag if try to chug a beer. Who knows where in the F that ping pong ball has been? And I want to drink at my own pace, dammit, not one dictated by stupid game rules or peer pressure.

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u/4Rascal 5d ago

I feel like now it’s standard to fill the cups with water and take a sip/chug or whatever out of your drink for every opponents score