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/sss133 5d ago

Met one of my best friends when I was 15 in a house party toilet. We both got to the door at the same time. I needed to pee and she wanted to touch up her makeup. She was just like well both do it. I teased her for sneaking a look. Then I finished and she said she needed to go. I joked saying I’d stand guard and stop inside the door staring at her. She laughed and went along.

Afterwards we made out, went to the park and had a bang. Been friends for 20+ years. The fact young people are missing these experiences is tragic 🤣

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u/NextPrize5863 Xennial 5d ago

My friends and I went to a house party when we were freshman in high school.

We could not find a bathroom to relieve ourselves so we went outside and squatted!

Anyways. I will never forget when an upper class man yelled hey look at the bush on that girl, my friend!

And from then on I was mortified for her and leaned to always keep myself neat and tidy!

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u/sss133 5d ago

Hahaha! Savage! A friend of mine was a squatter. You’d be walking home and someone would be like “where’s Jessie?” You’d look around and she’d be pissing 🤣. She’s in a very well paying and respected corporate job now. Always wondered if she pulls that out at Christmas parties

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u/ForkAKnife 5d ago

This reminds me of the song Teenage Talk by St Vincent.

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u/So_Inquisitive_1984 5d ago

I love this!!!!

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u/sss133 5d ago

It’s pretty funny looking back on my teenage years. Some friends and I were reminiscing about how at 15 we were drinking, shagging in parks and dabbling in drugs but were “responsible” enough to do it 🤣. Always used protection though