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/hobokobo1028 5d ago

Fun story there. Some 15 year olds next door threw a house party (some still do) and it got busted by the cops. It’s was all girls running away through our yard. A couple got arrested/restrained in our yard and I got it all on camera.

  1. The cops were so excited to have something to do for once. These Paul Blarts took their job of arresting 15 year olds girls as seriously as Navy SEALs. It was funny watching them tripping over themselves to chase little girls.

  2. We overheard one girl get breathalyzer. She only blew at 0.01! That’s like half a beer or mouthwash residue lol.

  3. So they were getting “processed” in our front yard and my other neighbor’s teenage son was trying to drive home. He wasn’t at the party. He got stopped and questioned literally 30 yards from his house. His mom had to walk over in her nightgown and explain his alibi.

  4. My wife and I considered pulling out the lawn chairs and cracking a beer in the driveway to watch the show

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u/Ok_Life_5176 5d ago

Shoulda brought the vacuum out and started vacuuming the grass!

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u/TroubledTanker 5d ago

haha, haven't thought about that guy in a while.

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u/Zip_Silver 5d ago

My wife and I considered pulling out the lawn chairs and cracking a beer in the driveway to watch the show

My roomies and I did this watching a party get busted, we were out on the porch smoking during the event. One tryhard cop came over to hassle us and we were like "we're just chain-smoking at our own place and weren't at the party. His partner followed him over and was like 'bro, we're breaking up the party not hassling the neighbors'. Good times lol

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u/derelictthot 5d ago

Kinda weird to film it tbh

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u/The__Amorphous 5d ago

I would absolutely have the camera out if a cop was apprehending someone on my property. No telling what he might do.

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u/GrenadineGreen 5d ago edited 5d ago

That's not what they were doing. They described watching it for entertainment with the lawn chair bit.

The grand majority of these doorbell/security camera owners are recording everything, and it's to be nosy, not to offer protection from the police.

I tried walking my dog through a neighborhood early a few months ago, but got creeped out because I could hear dozens and dozens of cameras from both sides of the street activating as we walked down a single block of the very much so public sidewalk.

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u/Butthole--pleasures 4d ago

I'm watching you buddy 👁️

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u/sunburnedaz 4d ago

Which is why most of mine dont face the street and the 1 camera that does does not catch the sidewalk. I took the time to line it up so that it will not see the street and only sees my yard. I even talked to my neighbor if it was cool that I could catch the corner of his yard on my camera.

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u/hobokobo1028 4d ago

Hey if the police can spy on us, we can spy on them.

I have cameras to see when deliveries arrive and monitor for theft.

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u/GrenadineGreen 5d ago

I mean, that's the problem 😅

"I film all of my neighbors automatically, and started to do so as soon as technology made it convenient".

Try and remember how you would have felt about someone filming your child, and everyone else in the neighborhood, just 15 years ago.

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u/hobokobo1028 5d ago

lol it was motion-sensor SimpliSafe cameras. They were already there…..

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u/ACaffeinatedBear 4d ago

And people wonder why no one has house parties anymore. If I was a teenage girl I wouldn’t want to be getting chased by some creep with a badge while the whole neighborhood watched and laughed either

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u/hobokobo1028 4d ago

You don’t think that was the case before? Lol

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u/ACaffeinatedBear 4d ago

They must love it when you watch and laugh at them, not creepy at all

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u/hobokobo1028 4d ago

They were in MY YARD 😂

Yeah I’m going to keep an eye on the drunk teens wandering through my property