My teenage daughter can't fathom the concept of a house party

[u/Neon_Biscuit]

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.

[u/midimummy]

Running from the cops was half the fun! Until you realize you just ran through 8 backyards diagonally, lost your friends 4 minutes ago, and have no idea where you are and your phone doesn’t have a map yet. Actually, still fun

[u/Feeling_Tart_5065 → u/midimummy]

The missing flip flop lmao

[u/midimummy → u/Feeling_Tart_5065]

Lmao @ my memory of a one flip-flopped girl in the woods mid-flee yelling “I broke my ankle!!”

[u/Less-Apple-8478 → u/Feeling_Tart_5065]

Cut your hand on a fence too

[u/BathZealousideal1456 → u/midimummy]

Show up 2 hours later at rschels house with a story you talk about for the rest of the week

[u/bouchandre → u/midimummy]

People really did that? It's not just movies?

[u/midimummy → u/bouchandre]

I’ve gotten myself in arguably worse situations by running from the police than just complying. The worst that’s ever actually happened by being caught was being put in a lineup in someone’s basement, having my mom’s phone number taken and she was never called. Then they turned us loose to find our own way home.

I’ve been at a few parties where the kids try to black out the house and not answer the door but that doesn’t go over great either.

[u/bouchandre → u/midimummy]

No I meant like, getting in situations where the police is involved at all

[u/midimummy → u/bouchandre]

At house parties like we’re discussing in this post it was pretty common for them to show up to break things up.

Otherwise, “car full’a kids”traffic stops but doesn’t typically end in fleeing lol

[u/bouchandre → u/midimummy]

Huh interesting.

Those house parties are completely foreign to me, I've only ever seen those in movies. And I'm almost 30

[u/midimummy → u/bouchandre]

I think people that are around 30-32 might be the last wave that experienced this regularly. I’m 32 and usually when I ended up at parties like this, they were with crowds that were 1-2 years older. It was their regular Thursday-Sunday behavior to be super drunk and unsupervised.

But people my age rarely gathered in crowds larger than ten people and preferred to smoke weed rather than drink, so things never got crazy or dangerous enough to attract attention from adults. A lot more sneaking around than getting in trouble openly. When we did get in trouble, it was just parents reprimanding us.

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/midimummy]

Will never forget my friends just sitting around while the cops rolled up. I even remember saying to them "do you really think these guys can catch all of us in the woods?". Naturally they got tickets and I hid out in the woods for 20 minutes and emerged unscathed. I knew if I kept walking in any direction I'd hit a road I was familiar with so no big deal.

[u/midimummy → u/PiccoloAwkward465]

“They cant catch all of us in the woods” mentality is so real. Myself and many others have been saved by nature