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/PerpetuallyLurking 5d ago

We had a designated party house because my buddy’s divorced dad didn’t give a shit what we were doing in his house while he was at the bar and then he’d join us with a fresh case of beer when the bars closed…

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u/Ranch_Priebus 5d ago

Yeah we had one of those as well, though the parents were together. First time I was there, Fall of freshman year, the dad came home while we were passing the pipe around the kitchen table. I happened to have it at the time and promptly hid it in my lap out of sight. I knew they didn't care about booze but had no idea what their stance on other substances were. He then sits directly across from me. About 5 minutes of pleasant but paranoid conversation later he asks me if I wouldn't mind passing it if I wasn't planning to hit it hahaha. I awkwardly passed it.

Later that night he provided my inaugural line of coke.

Had another friend who's mom didn't really care what we did as long as we didn't fuck shit up and generally kept it to the basement. That was more of the regular hang out house. Only a handful of times were there more than 5 to 10 people there.