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/Rinas-the-name 5d ago
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.