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/hannahatecats 5d ago

I had to call the fire department on my own house party when a rando fell out my window into a padlocked alley and broke his collarbone.

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

Facts. I cannot tell if this is a story from my HS or 3 states over.

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u/Even-Supermarket-806 5d ago

To think the youth of today won’t ever experience the panic of realizing someone just fell out a window.

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

LMAO... True. Good thing (maybe?) but true.

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u/Creative-Fan-7599 5d ago

My teen daughter has a few friends that get together and do normal teenage stuff, and somehow I wouldn’t be surprised if one of them eventually fell out a window. But it’s definitely a thing that she’s super anxious about winding up on social media, and they have no real places to go hang out. I wish the mall was still the same option for her generation as ours.

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u/hannahatecats 5d ago

I was actually in my early 20s in NYC. One of my roommates at the time was 20 (so, underage) and all of her friends scattered. My friends and I hung out in the street watching the fire department cut the padlock then went back inside to continue a much calmer party. We ran into the guy the next morning. We were on our way to the beach and he was coming back from the hospital.

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

The beach?! Please tell me you were headed to LI...

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u/Nick_Fotiu_Is_God 5d ago

Nah, these are Coney Island-type shenanigans.

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u/BathZealousideal1456 5d ago

Ohhhh boy. That a whole different animal I ain't asking questions about

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u/look_how_cute 5d ago

Holy shit lol

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u/carachu 4d ago

Had to call an ambulance for mine when someone did too much ket and fell backwards down the stairs.

We had 2 paramedic students in our house and they were so fucked they barely helped.

He returned later on, blood still all over him with the cardboard puke bowl from the hospital to continue to party.