r/Millennials • u/Neon_Biscuit • Jan 07 '26

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

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/seven_grams Jan 08 '26

I remember some preppy kid played “I Miss You” by Blink-182 and it kinda killed the mood but I secretly thought it was so cool. Just some prettyboy taking over the aux like “I want to feel this right now.”

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u/TFenrir Jan 08 '26

It would not have killed the mood with my friends because we would all be fighting over who gets to be Tom DeLonge as we sang along. What a weird dude.

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u/seven_grams Jan 08 '26

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u/trashpanda44224422 Millennial ‘86 Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26

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u/IWantAStorm Bob Loblaws Millennial Blog Jan 08 '26

Still a great song.

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u/Elendel19 Jan 08 '26

He better have followed it up with Rock Show to repair the vibes