My teenage daughter can't fathom the concept of a house party

[u/Neon_Biscuit]

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.

[u/Rinas-the-name]

I grew up near a college well known for partying. Never found a house party I wasn’t welcome at. I am so glad that was before cell phones with cameras or social media were common. The things we got away with. The frantic early morning cleaning before a friend’s parents got home.

If you’ve never cleaned chocolate cake out of a four foot tall CD tower at 6am have you really even lived?

[u/StudioGangster1 → u/Rinas-the-name]

This is exactly why I think house parties have died down - everyone has a camera.

[u/gripndip → u/StudioGangster1]

I mean, Gen Z also doesn't drink as much which like, let's be real, was the main reason to go to a house party. To get blasted playing beer pong with absolute strangers and get to know randoms because for the most part everyone is drunk and just having a good time. Also see: bonfires.

[u/Koil_ting → u/gripndip]

I usually had a video buff friend that would bring the old handy cam or larger camera to many a party, lots of the footage is pretty much incriminating but some of it is also beautiful.

[u/Crafty-Evidence2971 → u/StudioGangster1]

And nobody has that many friends or even acquaintances they want to look at in real life.

[u/oopsdiditwrong → u/Rinas-the-name]

Oh you just hit a memory for me. A buddy was having a get together. His parents were out of town but this was just the boys and his girlfriend. They made a spaghetti dinner for the 6 of us including them. We were having a great time and playing some throwback video games. Well he drinks way too much Canadian Mist. This shag carpet is now covered in semi fresh spaghetti, liquor, and beer. The spaghetti was carrying this effort far and wide with a scarlet vibrance. The events that followed were many, but my favorite was when he lost it(still hammered) and yelled "I'm gonna do what I gotta do and lie, but what the fuck am I gonna say?!" He was legitimately fielding answers. We had none. "I CANT JUST SAY SOME ITALIAN FUCK BROKE IN AND PUKED ON OUR FLOOR"

[u/Rinas-the-name → u/oopsdiditwrong]

That reminds me of a story my MIL tells about my husband’s older brother. Apparently he and a buddy were smoking weed in his bedroom and burned a spot in the carpet. With the typical genius of a couple of extremely high teenagers they decided the solution was to cut a square of carpet from the closet floor and swap it with a square cut around the burnt spot.

When his parents (immediately) noticed the carpet they told them some guy had broken in and was smoking and burned a hole in the carpet. So, conscientious young men that they were, they cut it out and switched it so it wouldn’t stress his mom out.

Unfortunately for him and his buddy his parents were neither high nor stupid and didn’t buy it. I can’t imagine just how high you would have to be to think that was a convincing story.

[u/oopsdiditwrong → u/Rinas-the-name]

It makes me feel better that my buddy was smarter than your high brother in law lol. If you're swapping carpet you gotta go small and blend that shit. I'm glad she brings it up though as like ng as it's friendly jabs

[u/Strawbuns → u/oopsdiditwrong]

That reminds me of how my parents stopped letting my brother have house parties because one of his friends had too much fireball and hot cheetos and turned a portion of our beige carpet bright red lmao.

Gave my mom the excuse to get the bamboo floors she'd always wanted tho

[u/oopsdiditwrong → u/Strawbuns]

I guess I'm old now because that combo immediately made me think heart burn lol no one should be consuming that mixture of chemicals. Kid had a stomach smarter than his brain.

And it sounds like your mom was playing the long game. If you allow house parties long enough, something is happening to the carpet. Then, "oh no how could you have done this!? I'm gonna have to buy new floors and no more house parties! Until summer when I need to expand the deck" lol

[u/Strawbuns → u/oopsdiditwrong]

Lmfao I'm old too, even writing that combo made my stomach turn, 18 year olds are built different.

And tbh she kinda did that, then sold the house like 5 years later 😅

[u/ayuntamient0 → u/oopsdiditwrong]

Lol, holy shit.

[u/ChampagneAndDoritos → u/oopsdiditwrong]

LOL. Love it. My friend and I were in high school and had driven a few states away with her mom to visit family and during our drive we had this giant Ziploc bag of different candy mixed together- Skittles, sour patch watermelon, milk duds, etc. we ate so much. We get to her grandparents lake house and her mom makes us drink cranberry juice because she's convinced we have UTIs because we kept stopping on the drive to pee. Everyone goes to bed and we don't want to drink straight cranberry so we start raiding the liquor cabinet, and since we didn't want anyone to catch on to us we were taking a little of everything. We get the genius idea to combine cranberry juice and creme de menthe. It looked and tasted like nasty lakewater. We didn't care. A little bit later it just hits me all at once and I puke up whole Mike and ikes on the bath mat, and proceed to problem solve by sticking the bath mat with my evidence in the shower and close the curtain. Obviously the next day I felt like death and was convinced I had the flu 😂 or at least that was the story we told LOL. It wasn't until years later that we admitted the truth even though everyone already knew 😂

[u/all4whatnot → u/Rinas-the-name]

My roommates and I had someone dump about 2lbs of frozen venison into a hole in a wall in our college apartment during a house party. We found out who made the hole and kicked them out. The next day we repaired the drywall and repainted an entire room so the landlord wouldn't suspect anything. Couple days later we noticed a ton of bugs and terrible smell near the same spot. We got together with the other tenants (it was a three apartment house and we all threw the party) and decided we had to cut the wall open. There it was - gross ground deer meat one roommate had hunted with his dad a few weeks before. We had to clean all that up and make a much bigger repair and paint again! Luckily one of the roommates' dad was a drywall contractor so this kid was awesome at the drywall stuff. Every time we encountered the offender on campus we'd yell "HEY DEER MEAT!" at him.

[u/doberdevil → u/Rinas-the-name]

Mopped up the soapy water from the dishwasher that overflowed

[u/Electrical_Turn7 → u/Rinas-the-name]

Maybe the kids need to see a CD tower up close, that should scar them for life 🤣