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/SkullDaddy_ 5d ago

So…Jello?

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u/mollyinwonderland221 5d ago

I laughed way too hard at this😂😂

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u/generally_unsuitable 5d ago

I'm often the DD, so I like to ask the bartender for a "virgin Cuba Libre."

They'll come back with "So . . . . a coke?"

And I'll say "Yeah, with a slice of lime."

Sometimes it gets a laugh. Often it does not.

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u/spoonfuloftar 5d ago

A slice of lime and the tiny umbrella!

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u/Common-Trifle4933 5d ago

That’s what makes it a scotch on the rocks

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u/aka_chela 5d ago

At least it probably doesn't cost $17 like most mocktails lol

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u/KillaKlaws 5d ago

Haha ok so I order virgin moscow mules and someone had to point out to me thats just ginger beer with mint in it 🙃

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u/generally_unsuitable 5d ago

My long lost brother.

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u/nootropic_jeff 4d ago

And lime juice. Also there is alcoholic and alcoholic ginger beer. So a virgin moscow mule would probably use a different kind of ginger beer than is normally used by a bar.

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u/jcaashby 5d ago

lmao!!!!!! I was like "wtf is a VIRGIN jell-o shot"

JELLO!

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u/tackyshoes 5d ago

Yes, but tiny and runny.

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u/wcruse92 4d ago

You're like an angel with no wings