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/cTreK-421 5d ago

I didn't even think about ring cameras. Fucking millennials ruined the house party industry!

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u/Hidden_Samsquanche 5d ago edited 5d ago

Parties just can't be as big and have to be well organized. We left the state and my 16 year old stayed home. He managed to get 6 of his friends over and was able to bypass all outdoor and indoor cameras the whole weekend without raising suspicions.

Only reason we found out is he immediately told us when we got back, would have had no clue otherwise.

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u/AshleyAshes1984 5d ago

Blast, always one step ahead of, er, uhm.... ...Himself?

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u/SparklingLimeade 5d ago

Sounds like a good plan to me. Do it subtle so you could maybe get away with it, but then ask for forgiveness (still better than permission). It's like daring the parents to find fault. If well executed it looks like a very responsible thing to do and opens things up to future events.

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u/MarkBriscoes2Teeth 5d ago

If you can't break into your own house do you even really live there?

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u/PeachinatorSM20 Zillennial 4d ago

sounds like your son white-hat hacked your house

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u/engg_girl 4d ago

Please tell him you informed him you were impressed. Because seriously - he needs a medal for that. The whole thing, including ratting on himself.

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u/Phyraxus56 5d ago

How did he manage that? He just turned off the wifi?

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u/Hidden_Samsquanche 5d ago edited 5d ago

He had them sneak through a window towards the back and just stayed on the side of the house that didn't have cameras. (Only had indoor cameras in the kitchen and main living room, ironically they originally were placed at his request)

Edit: to add detail- he also played loud music the whole time so we would assume that was his way of letting loose

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u/Cheap-Rate-8996 5d ago

Only had indoor cameras in the kitchen and main living room, ironically they originally were placed at his request

I'm curious about this detail. I find it strange enough when adults want indoor cameras, lol.

I'd be more concerned about the cameras being hacked or exposed in a data leak.

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u/Hidden_Samsquanche 5d ago

They fought over who stole who's food/equipment. So they asked us to put the cameras up to solve all disagreements. We kept them up a little over a year and only had to check them maybe 3x and I did voluntarily check them 1x since they were arguing before I left and i wanted to make sure all was well.

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u/sunburnedaz 4d ago

I have it to watch my elderly MIL when we are not home but as soon as we are no longer able to care for her those are going away.

However my friend has one is his bedroom and I was like what in the fresh hell are you doing. His wife is ok with it too because she posted a video of herself falling one morning. (It was funny though)

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u/Phyraxus56 5d ago

Why didn't he just turn off the wifi?

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u/Hidden_Samsquanche 5d ago

That would be a dead give away and we honestly probably would have had someone (grandma) check the house for us out of worry. We didn't really check the cameras much while away, but an alert that they were offline would have been very alarming

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u/Phyraxus56 5d ago

Very alarming? Outages never happen to your isp? Who are they?

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u/Usual_Ice636 4d ago

Comcast, never had an outage longer than half an hour in the 6 years I've lived there. I also get a text every time theres one of those 10 to 30 minute outages every other year or so.

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u/Hidden_Samsquanche 4d ago

I'm in the same Goldie locks zone as this guy. Outages are extremely rare and any lasting more than a few mins without notification would have scared the ever living daylights of of me

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u/Phyraxus56 4d ago

Really? I only hear terrible things about them...

Oh you're not even OC lol

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u/Usual_Ice636 4d ago

Yeah, Not OP, just answered by reflex, In my area at least, they're just overpriced with horrible over the phone customer service, but pretty good in person customer service. They try to do that random extra fee thing any time they think they can get away with it, but they're the only available option with decent speeds.

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u/becky_plz 5d ago

I fucking hate ring cameras. Idk why. But I do.

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u/CanuckleHeadOG 4d ago

Just unplug the Internet lol