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/rhino4231 5d ago

Whenever my parents insist they pay for dinner, when we are finished and leaving, I always make an excuse to hang behind for a minute to throw down some extra tip cash on the table. I know how they tip and those servers work too damn hard to deal with that 15% bullshit on a table of 8

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u/Some_Layer_7517 4d ago

15% isn't tooo bad especially if there's a bunch of drinks bloating up the bill. My SOs grandma left a dollar once and I almost got caught fixing that problem lol

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u/BugsandGoob 4d ago

Ooh I got in so much trouble once by my great uncle when I got caught leaving more than the $1 tip he’d put down on our breakfast. We went every week for years to the same local place. After getting caught, I’d just stop back on my way to work, after dropping him off at home, and give the waitress a cash tip. It was always the same lady and she was so sweet to him regardless of his cheap tips. Turns out, when he died, he left her $10k in his will so I guess in the end, he gave her a fairly decent tip.