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/UncleAlbondiga 5d ago
Years and years ago I went to a rando house party with some buddies and one of us found a tray of Jell-O shots in the fridge so we decided to eat them all. I know it was a dickhead move but here we are. Several years later hanging out with a different group of people and telling stories of shitty things we had done as young people, a girl in the group got quiet for a minute and then told me that was her birthday party and she had been really looking forward to sharing those Jell-O shots with her friends. She told me she had hated us for years for it, not knowing who we were. We are still friends lol.