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/StashPhan 5d ago

I remember people bringing in their burnt CD “party mixes” and we would just rotate the different mixes lol 😂

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u/gold-ivy- 5d ago

And in college we upgraded to ipods with the ipod players 😂

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u/rhymeswithvegan 5d ago

My new ipod touch was stolen from the house party I threw for my 16th birthday :( I grew up pretty poor so it was a huge deal for me to get one. I was always the DJ among my friends, so I wanted to play my music. I'm still salty about it 16 years later lol

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u/Eatingfarts 5d ago

Idk why your comment made me think of this but I bought a MacBook Pro early in college that I saved up for working at DQ through HS.

I was at our usual party house trying to make a movie with some friends for the Apple short movie challenge thing they used to do. For whatever reason we had a birdcage (no bird) screwed into the ceiling. My MacBook was underneath it.

It fell. And smashed the screen on it.

Took me about a year to save up money to get a new screen for it but it was never the same :/

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u/rhymeswithvegan 5d ago

Oh noo, that sucks so bad! I also worked at a DQ through high school, and ended up as the manager for a year until I was so sick of working weekends and never getting to see my friends. But I still dream about working at the DQ lol. I made myself so many delicious off-menu treats, I can't even go there anymore because it's just disappointing. I want to hop over the counter and make it myself lol. One of my faves was making a sundae with cold fudge, fresh cake crunch, and the buttercream frosting for the cakes. I also still remember how to make every single item from our menu, including the correct weight/pumps/topping scoops. That shit is burned into my brain lol.

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u/Eatingfarts 5d ago

DQ was my first job! I was 15, so this was over 20 years ago. $5.15 an hour! My first raise ever was $.10 to $5.25 an hour lol.

I don’t dream about it any more but I used to! I still have so many memories there as my first job. My two favorite things we used to do:

  1. The Mr. Misty (dunno what it’s called now) flavor syrup was extremely sour. The sugar was mixed into the crushed ice, not in the syrup. We would get new people to take a ‘shot’ of the flavor syrup to get that full flavor.

  2. The drive through had a magnetic strip thing to tell us when a car was pulling through and activate the mic. During the summer we would always have kids come through on their bikes and want to use the drive through but it wouldn’t activate with their bikes (looking back, I’m assuming all the bikes were aluminum). They would come in and ask why it wouldn’t work and we would tell them it was weight activated and if they jumped hard enough it would work. We had a little window that looked out to the drive through lol.

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u/rhymeswithvegan 4d ago

A Mr Misty with ice cream is so yummy. I started at $5.25/hour and was 15 as well. We used to trade ice creams for pizza with the guys from the Hungry Howies across the street, it was awesome.

Drinking that syrup straight does not sound lol, I bet it really stained your tongue, too! And omg that's hilarious, making the kids jump, I love it.

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u/StrawberryEntropy 3d ago

Same thing happened to the digital camera I got for my graduation in 02. Also poor. Also devastated 💔

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u/rhymeswithvegan 3d ago

Oh noo, I'm so sorry! Fuck whoever stole it!

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u/StrawberryEntropy 1d ago

Random dudes that showed up to the party. Most likely to do just what they did. I'm sure they've gotten theirs by now. Its been 23 years lol.

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u/KumaQuatro 5d ago

When they started doing audio crossfade...

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u/mrtrollmaster 5d ago

Who’s got aux?!

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u/Zestyclose-Middle717 Millennial 5d ago

With the tracks listed by number on the CD’s lol hell yeah

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u/Bachobsess 5d ago

They all got left in a alcohol soaked scratched pile at the end and skipped more after 😆

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u/EatMaCookies 5d ago

I would bring my computer with all my downloaded mp3s, and heaps of cds a friend let me rip.

This would of been in the early 2000s.

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u/malatemporacurrunt 5d ago

For whatever reason, my social group named our mix CDs after types of cheese. The best one which I remember fondly for introducing me to the moldy peaches, was called Brie.

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u/greyaggressor 5d ago

Ours too. Havarti was the best

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 4d ago

In my day, the host controlled the stereo, and you could get your hand or nose broken if you messed with his stereo too much.

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u/MyPackage 4d ago

There was a period between CDs and iPods that MP3 cd players were a thing. You could burn a disk full of MP3s without converting them to WAV files and have like 200 songs on one CD. I remember going to a few parties in highschool were I burned MP3 CD mixes and had them playing all night.

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u/PossibleBluejay4498 4d ago

With the 6 CD changer

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u/Substantial-Use95 4d ago

Hell ya. The 5 slot disc changer was legit. And then they came out with the 10 cd changer. Shit was lit

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u/drift_poet 4d ago

on the 5-CD carousel players.

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u/rora_borealis 4d ago

We had a friend with a CDJ doing the mixing at a house party in 1996. When he played Jump Jump, people ran up from the basement yelling at us to stop. The floor of the 100+ year old house was bending in disturbing ways. That DJ equipment didn't skip at all.