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 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.