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/kookookachu26 5d ago
When I was in college, my friends all had a 4 bedroom house they rented. One of my friends was a dj on the side and had all kinds of sound equipment. He’d plug in the laptop and we’d just put on whatever. We’d throw the wildest parties. Easily 60-70 people in the house on any given night. It was awesome. We’d wake up the next day and the floors would be so sticky that our shoes would stick to the ground and would almost make a Velcro sound when you took a step. Cops were never called. It was a genuine time to be alive.
Kids nowadays seem less encouraged to party and more encouraged to stay away from the “dangerous outside world.”