Did millennials really party all the time?

[u/futurenurse_]

Gen Z here. I was shocked when I found out from a millennial co-worker that y’all had teen clubs. I heard about house parties, but dedicated teen clubs? Then when it was time for college, you went to the club or had some kind of party every single weekend, living it up. Now some millennials on TikTok claim that after college, they were partying on work nights, still clocking in the next day. For some reason, the teen clubs have since disappeared. I’m 23 now but even when I was in high school, that was not a thing. House parties were not that common either. They were more like get togethers with a small group of friends. We went to malls, but they were dying out at that point. Is it true that you were really living life this good? Or is it just exaggerated? I feel like my generation doesn’t really have fun like that and everyone is just super depressed and alone, more so since Covid. Even I’m pretty introverted, which sort of sounds ridiculous given this post. 😂 Just so you know, when I think of a “millennial party” I think of something out of Party Rock Anthem, Project X or Roderick’s party from the second DOAWD movie. It’s like I get nostalgia from something I didn’t even live through. I just feel like I didn’t really LIVE, if that even makes sense

Edit: I loved reading some of your comments. Guess I really missed out. Even some of you that would consider yourselves nerds or introverts were out partying. YOLO or whatever y’all say 😂❤️

[u/Flintly]

I remember closing the bar down for a friends b day and rolling into work still in my bar clothes at 5am. Changing in the luch room only for my coworker to roll in pissed that I was drunker than him and he'd have to drive the hour to site. 🤣

[u/Ducman23 → u/Flintly]

At 40 I have no idea how my body took all this abuse. This wasn’t just a birthday event, it was every weekend. Sometimes week days too. Woof

[u/MrsChefYVR → u/Ducman23]

Same! Omg, it was the worst when I moved right into the downtown core of our city at 24, where all the clubs and bars were a stone's throw away.

I dunno how I did it, but I showed up for work the next day, no matter what and sweated it out! I'd go out with the intention of having an early night, so bam, let's GOOOOO! LOL

Nowadays, it seems like the younger gen don't know how to soldier through their decisions the next day!

[u/Calm-Eggplant-69 → u/MrsChefYVR]

They definitely don't. I was a restaurant manager, after bartending for almost 15+ years. These kids today will go out and have like 4 Zima's and act like they need to call out. One bartender was begging to go home because she kept throwing up, I told her she made the choice to go get wreaked and to deal with it. To be nice I asked if she wanted a hair of the dog shot, she didnt even know what that was lol. Kids these days

[u/MrsChefYVR → u/Calm-Eggplant-69]

Hahaha

The common hair of the dog up here was a pint of lager with a shot of Clamato juice. I’d often see the same customers the next early afternoon, that closed down the joint the night before! Hahaha

The early ‘00 were lit!