Oh, the places you'll go

Places that would shock and disgust parents are unavoidable. 
 
Where students go to have fun or end up after a night of excitement might send some parents into alarm.  
 
Parties, raves, run-down bars, night clubs and wild concerts are a few of the things that could be considered the hand baskets supposedly carrying us to hell. 
 
Places students go out to might scare parents because fun for the young has mutated into something new and different from 30 years ago.  
 
Parties and going out for the night are something that one could say our generation has become a little more creative with. 
 
"I have been to parties where the main event might freak my parents out," said Brent Sheik, a sociology junior.  
 
"I went to a party with  
 
guys and girls having KY wrestling matches in swimming pools.  
 
"I know my dad would probably tell me it was weird and my mom wouldn't really approve, and she'd probably be shocked if I told her and say, 'Oh my God, are you serious?'" 
 
Aside from themed parties with special events, students can now pay for outrageous nights in dance clubs.  
 
Clubs today have the potential to be fun but could still mortify some moms and dads.  
 
"I went to a night club in downtown Tulsa where people were dancing in all these cages, which wouldn't really horrify my parents, unless I was in one of the cages," Rae Young, a liberal studies junior said.  
 
"My mom isn't really freaked out by a lot, but she always seems to worry if I am not out embarrassing myself in public places," she said. 
 
Parents are not completely wrong in being frightened by what they hear on the phone from their student; some places really do have the ability of being nothing less than scandalous.  
 
Students also share some of the same views as parents on these places.  
 
"I have been to a dance club where they had a weekly wet T-shirt contest," said Jessica Riley, a psychology sophomore.  
 
"When I went to this club for the first time, one of the girls out of the group on the stage got naked and started kissing her friend. It was pretty disgusting, and I never went back," she said.  
 
"Nowhere I go really scares my mother anymore; now that I am over eighteen, she knows I can keep myself out of trouble," Riley said. 
 
Parents become more trusting that their children will make the right decisions on where to spend their weekends and learn from making the wrong choices.  
 
Some students have been to places that would not only cause parents to jolt and spill their coffee but also give their peers a shock.  
 
"When I was a freshman, I was in Arkansas for a football game, and I had gotten into the bars, but the next morning I woke up on a concrete floor in Arkansas State Penn. with a roll of toilet paper as my pillow," said Landan McBride an economics senior.  
 
". All of the jails were full so they were bringing people to a holding cell in the prison. If my parents actually found out what happened, they would probably be shocked and have the usual parent reaction to something like that," he said. 
 
From the Baby Boomers to the Baby Busters, Generations X to the Millenials, generations will frighten their parents with places they go and things they do for decades to come.