JUVENILE PARTIES
“Mom, we’re just going to Burger King, we’ll be home in a while…”
It happens every summer as soon as school lets out. Sometimes a few weeks before school lets out. Easter break, Christmas break, Spring break. Any break from school and it seems like the cool thing to do is throw a party. Not just a “have a few friends over party”, but a full blown juvenile drinking party.
We get calls on the weekends for numerous drinking parties at residences, usually on Friday and Saturday nights. There are certain common characteristics we see in all of these parties and after 15 years of responding to these calls I have yet to see these not be the case.
The first being Mom and Dad had no idea what was taking place at their home. They were out of town on vacation or on business and decided to leave their older children home alone. What I’m reminded of here is the saying “when the cat’s away the mice will play.”
(Here’s a scary thought. On a few of these calls, Mom and Dad were home but didn’t think anything was wrong with their kids having a party for their friends…that is until one of their friends kills themselves while driving home.)
