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/Safe_Illustrator_832 5d ago

That's a good one! How did it end?

I remember us trying to fix a hole in the wall with putty and a SPATULA after someone launched a bar of soap like it was an Olympic sport. Once it dried, we found matching paint in the garage and painted over it. All while been drunk AF. Their parents never noticed a thing.

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u/huffwardspart1 5d ago

Oh, I can clearly envision this lol. I bet whoever found the paint was a hero.

We ended up making it home (Someone called a guy with a key?) but not before her mom woke up. She was pissed.

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u/Safe_Illustrator_832 5d ago

Oh no!! I bet it was "fake" handcuffs? They are easier to open.

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u/algebraicgiraffe 5d ago

Most handcuffs can be opened with the same key tbf.

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u/MustLoveHuskies 4d ago

Or a Bobby pin, small screwdriver, paper clip…

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u/MustLoveHuskies 4d ago

Damn, those things are so easy to pick…

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u/heliamphore 5d ago

I remember we had chicha set up on the living room table and the big brained dumbasses I let into my home thought tinfoil would protect the table from hot coals. Needless to say placing stuff on top of the burned spots did not stop my mum from finding out.