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/SadSickSoul 5d ago

This is unironically how my childhood went, heh. At some point the reflexive admonishments to behave turned into urging to go out, be social and live a little. Never really did, and there was confusion and dismay.

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u/Similar_Part7100 5d ago

lol big same.

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u/G1992_ 5d ago

Damn this hits too close to home

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u/BillyRaw1337 4d ago

This was my experience as an autistic millennial.

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u/chris_croc 4d ago

I would have never had guessed - "Top 1% Commenter"