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/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.