Post by MixedBerryJam on Jan 14, 2017 10:28:10 GMT -5
My parents never left us overnight. On a similar note, I went out of town one weekend and my brother (60 at the time) stayed here to watch the animals. When I came home I found an empty beer can in an otherwise empty dishwasher and a couple of weeks later noticed a shallow but kind of large ding in the wall that almost looks like a basketball bounced off it. He claims to have no idea how either one of those things happened (and in truth the wall thing could have been my son when I just wasn't home) and he's never previously lied about anything to me. It's a cold case until someone fesses up.
I never did because my dad never went out of town with me. ...and we lived in such a small home that I never brought even my friends over because it was so little.
My H (and his brothers), on the other hand, still to this day talk about their parties when their folks weren't home. Epic, I guess. Ha.
No. My mother's house was her house and everything in it belonged to her. We were allowed to live there by her kindness, with the understanding that we didn't pay bills and were on her dime. I would have trashed any other house in the universe before I would have trashed hers.
Once, my brother and his hoodlum friends were talking about stealing a car and gas cards from their parents and taking a road trip. My mom had this pimp Oldsmobile and one of the guys was like "Man, we should take your mom's car!" And my brother, who would just as soon rob you blind as look at you, said "My mom would have us all in prison for grand theft so fast, you wouldn't know what happened. Don't steal from her if you want to live, man. Believe me." LOL
My parents went to HI every year during MLK weekend for a week starting when my twin sister & I were 15 and older sister was 16. We were goody goody kids who wouldn't throw parties. Plus we lived in the boondocks so friends didn't want to drive out there in bad snowy weather.
My parents left town for a weekend for the first time when I was 21, so yes, I had friends over for a little party. I didn't drink in high school, and they never left for a weekend then anyway because my Grandmom, who had Alzheimer's, lived with us, and they were her full-time caretakers.
Post by starburst604 on Jan 14, 2017 22:45:31 GMT -5
I usually had friends and/or boyfriends over when my mom went away, nothing big. Until this one time over the summer between junior and senior years when my mom went to Europe for a while. Word got out and all these people started showing up. It got so out of hand that when the police showed up I was glad because they made everyone leave. My house looked like the aftermath in Sixteen Candles. Some stuff got stolen that I didn't even know about until my mom came home and pointed it out. It's one of the top 3 things in life that I still feel absolutely rotten about.
My brother, who was a year older, and I had a lot of the same friends. My mom and step-dad were in the "honeymoon phase" of dating and left us alone more than a handful of times. My bro was the arranger of the get-togethers (nothing too huge). The one time we got caught was my BFF's fault though... she left a pair of panties in the hottub, which ended up stuck in the filter system (and she was too drunk to go looking for them later). Mom found them later that week. My parents were pretty chill and social butterflies themselves, so they weren't tooo upset and just wanted to make sure everyone stayed safe. We also lived in BFE, so most parties were outdoors at places / farms with property, so no house damage, and people would tent it.
Post by mrsjuleshs on Jan 15, 2017 19:54:30 GMT -5
I had a few friends whose parents were cool with us partying there, we just all had to stay over. For the most part it was a bunch of tailgate parties. There was an old abandoned house in some woods not too far so we went there a lot. One time when it was raining we partied under the freeway overpass. It was wooded and we had a dirt trail and there was only 1 4 wheel drive truck the cops had and we all drove trucks. We did a lot of dumb things. The 1 time I went out of town this year, DD didn't even have a party here but went to a party at her friend's house instead. Her BF doesn't drink at all and she doesn't really so they end up coming here when it gets a bit crazy. She and her BFF are moving to Austin for college and have already decided no parties at their place. She's a total neat freak and couldn't handle people making a mess.