As a kid with super-strict parents, sleepovers were absolutely necessary for me to catch a glimpse at how normal households worked - a chance to enjoy the privileges that other kids had. Eating junk food was a luxury for me, and all my friends parents seemed to fill their cabinets with food my mother would call garbage. Pop tarts. "Sugar cereal." I was besotted with frozen pizzas and french fries. Of course, sleepovers were also an opportunity to get into trouble. My friends either didn't have curfew or had really late ones, which allowed us to attend punk shows at the weird synagogue-turned-Korean church in Bensonhurst. Some of my friends had parents that would actually buy us alcohol.
None of this stuff would have been possible without sleepovers. But then, neither would the couple times we drunkenly puked a whole pizza, or got stopped by the cops while drinking in the park. While the ratio of good things to bad things at sleepovers was in favor of the positive, there was always a chance that something messed up would happen. A recent Reddit thread from u/skep_JoJoFan definitely exemplifies this notion. They asked redditors to share the most f*cked up things they had done at a sleepover. Most of the answers involve embarrassing or weird stuff that happened at sleepovers, so the stories are a tad more tame than one might think.
