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Post by swamp on Jul 24, 2012 13:00:44 GMT -5
when mom and dad were away?
I used to do it all the time. I also went to a bunch. However, I knew enough to high tail it out of there when things were getting out of hand and the po po would be showing up.
How about you?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2012 13:01:10 GMT -5
I was a goody, goody in high school..
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 24, 2012 13:03:05 GMT -5
I didn't have enough friends to have a party.
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Post by susanb on Jul 24, 2012 13:03:49 GMT -5
Yes. I kept them small though.
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Post by lynnerself on Jul 24, 2012 13:04:59 GMT -5
Not me. I was the geek, not the party girl.
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Post by mandyms on Jul 24, 2012 13:08:00 GMT -5
I was the nerd that had parties at my house while my parents were watching TV in the next room...I wonder why nobody ever showed up.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Jul 24, 2012 13:10:05 GMT -5
No parties here.... Although one of my friend had the 'cool parents' and we all hung out there and had a good time..... without pissing off the LEOs
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Post by Phoenix84 on Jul 24, 2012 13:12:01 GMT -5
Never had any parties as a teen, I only had a couple of friends.
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Post by midjd on Jul 24, 2012 13:19:03 GMT -5
Nope. My mom never went out of town.
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Post by Opti on Jul 24, 2012 13:19:55 GMT -5
I didn't. Being one of those honor students most parties I did go to were small and well-behaved. I know my one sib probably regularly went to large parties in other kid's houses. Luckily my parents were never gone that I remember and she probably would have been too smart to hold one at our house. If not, I probably would have called the cops on her myself.
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 24, 2012 13:22:56 GMT -5
That too - my parents didn't leave me alone overnight until the first night in the dorms.
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Post by 973beachbum on Jul 24, 2012 13:33:07 GMT -5
My Mom went away with my younger brother for the summer before my senior year. I not only had parties but I didn't even have to worry about cleaning up right away. i could sleep off my hangover in peace before I cleaned up.
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Post by tloonya on Jul 24, 2012 13:33:55 GMT -5
So 99% of you here are...losers? That's what I was told by my teens. "I am not the loser who have no parties to go to..."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2012 13:36:22 GMT -5
So 99% of you here are...losers? That's what I was told by my teens. "I am not the loser who have no parties to go to..." You think we'd be here if we were winners?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2012 13:39:28 GMT -5
I went to parties but parents never went out of town, so I never had those types of parties.
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Post by moxie on Jul 24, 2012 13:39:26 GMT -5
Not a once, but I remember throwing a can of Lysol down the basement stairs to my pot smoking brothers when I saw Mom and Dad pull up in the driveway. They owe me BIG TIME!!
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Post by alabamagal on Jul 24, 2012 13:39:42 GMT -5
Went to a few at my cousins house. Also used to go to my BF house when his parents were gone for the weekend, not necessarily drinking but.....
Also in high school, we always had teenagers at our house, we were on a lake and had a boat. Drinking age was 18 and my parents were not too strict about alcohol, so we could have a beer or two as long as we were not driving. Kind of eliminated the need to go hog wild when they were gone.
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Post by moxie on Jul 24, 2012 13:40:58 GMT -5
I was pretty studious until I discovered REAL boys in tenth grade...the kind that don't tape mirrors on the tops of their tennies to see up your skirt.
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Jul 24, 2012 13:43:21 GMT -5
I would have never dreamed of doing such a thing, but when my youngst was 14-15, I came home early one Friday night and found a full fledged party going on. Drinking, smoking, the works. . As I walked in the door, someone said, "Who is that?". I heard my son say, "That's my mom. The party's over". And it was. He spent the next hour cleaning up the beer cans and cigarette butts. Oh yeah, he was grounded, but then, so was I (since that was the only way to enforce the grounding).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2012 13:43:45 GMT -5
We partied hard while my parents were out of town. But, that's kinda what you get when you leave your children home alone. They started doing it when we were in elementary school and figured it was none of our business where they went on vacation to because "we might call and bother them."
I called my grandparents once for advice and they didn't know my parents were out of town or where they were staying. Neither did we and it actually was an emergency situation. (no cell phones back then...)
My mother and step-father were just like this. They would go away and never left us any money for groceries or anything - even when we were in elementary and jr. high school aged. They said if they left us money then we would spend it on beer and not food. Okay.... they always claimed if we were hungry then we could root through the pantry/freezer and find something we could eat.
I remember thinking it was weird at the time that my parents would do this, and most of my friends agreed. Now that I have my own children, I can't imagine leaving them home at that age, much less with no contact information for an emergency situation!
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Post by 973beachbum on Jul 24, 2012 13:48:35 GMT -5
Went to a few at my cousins house. Also used to go to my BF house when his parents were gone for the weekend, not necessarily drinking but..... Also in high school, we always had teenagers at our house, we were on a lake and had a boat. Drinking age was 18 and my parents were not too strict about alcohol, so we could have a beer or two as long as we were not driving. Kind of eliminated the need to go hog wild when they were gone. This probably made a difference for me also. the drinking age was 19 by the time I was of age. It is a lot easier to get the booze legally when you are still in HS when the drinking age is 18 or 19 than today. The cost of getting caught wasn't more than a call to your mom and day. If they wanted to be a jerk maybe a ticket.
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Jul 24, 2012 13:56:52 GMT -5
Never had a party, never went to one. Well, in HS anyway. I went to two or three in college, and a couple after that. Never hosted though. Last party I went to I got chased home by some crazies that tried to run my car off the road. They quickly turned around when I pulled into the police station instead of continuing home.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jul 24, 2012 14:09:17 GMT -5
I didn't go to parties or have them when my parents were out of town, I had a neighbor that would tell or call the cops. Or both. My boyfriend did come over to visit though.
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ken a.k.a OMK
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jul 24, 2012 14:22:02 GMT -5
Not me. I was the geek, not the party girl. Well I was a guy. My mother always knew when I had my gf over. I thought a neighbor was telling her. Turns out she was guessing, hey I was a boy with hormones. I lived in a fraternity house in college, but we were somewhat civilized.
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ken a.k.a OMK
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jul 24, 2012 14:25:32 GMT -5
So 99% of you here are...losers? That's what I was told by my teens. "I am not the loser who have no parties to go to..." You think we'd be here if we were winners? I resemble that remark.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jul 24, 2012 14:30:20 GMT -5
Im hanging out with a bunch of nerds??? MM sad.... never knew you were the token cool kid, did ya MM?
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ken a.k.a OMK
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jul 24, 2012 14:30:50 GMT -5
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Post by Bob Ross on Jul 24, 2012 14:44:16 GMT -5
No way. Everyone knows that the correct way to party as a teen is at some other poor sap's house, where you proceed to empty their parents' liquor cabinet, leave some soiled condoms in the master bed, and upper deck all of the toilets. Then you point and laugh when the kid gets in trouble later. Rinse, and repeat.
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 24, 2012 14:45:13 GMT -5
Archie and I were both in marching band. Archie was the best marching cello player in school history!
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jul 24, 2012 14:45:37 GMT -5
My parents never went out of town and left me alone. If they had to be out of town, I went over to my Grandparents house (at my Grandparents request, I did not have a choice). The first time I spent the night alone in a house was when I was 21 and a senior in college. I have never spent the night alone in my parents house. I never went to any parties either. Not that my friends were dumb enough to throw them. If you through a party without parents around, the cops ALWAYS found out (very small community, cops had relatives in the schools, everyone found out eventually).
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