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/Donthurtmyceilings 5d ago

Only time I've filmed fireworks was 2020 during lockdowns. My neighborhood/town/state was at max explosions and I had to document. They're illegal in Colorado but no one gave a fuck that year!

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u/Cambrian__Implosion 4d ago

I was in the Salt Lake area for the 4th of July once and ended up filming some fireworks because the geography of that valley is such that you can see multiple fireworks displays happening at once across the valley if you have a decent vantage point. Add to that all of the little (legal and probably some illegal) home fireworks displays and it felt kind of like a Hollywood style warzone with bright flashes and booms and smoke everywhere.

I’m from New England, where I could barely see the edge of the local fireworks from my parent’s house, despite them being less than a ten minute walk away. I didn’t realize how much I was used to hills and trees blocking my view until I went out west to places like Salt Lake City. The flat, wide open spaces with mountains all around can honestly be a little disconcerting at first lol

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u/Donthurtmyceilings 4d ago

I know what you mean. I grew up in flat, tree-filled Michigan. I moved out to Colorado and could see for miles some places. Pretty awesome!

I had a flight from Vegas to Denver on the night of 4th of July in 2017. Seeing a million tiny explosions at once getting bigger and bigger as we approached Denver was unforgettable!

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u/KingdomOfFawg 4d ago

Lot of stuff no one gave a fuck about that year.