high school xc coach wrote:
you tell your friends at school. they tell their friends. you hope and pray it stays at a reasonable number.
it was very easy.
and everybody had a landline in their house. we used them. some houses had multiple phone lines.
Exactly. Friday at school you would talk to friends, "Hey what's everybody doing tonight? Any parties?" Or if there was a football game or basketball game, "What's going on after the game?" There were places where we would normally hang out - like the mall or McD's or a pizza place - where you would run into people that you know and just invite people over or find out where other people were going.
Once a month or so, someone's parents would be out of town, and lots of people would show up. But most often, it was just a few friends in somebody's basement or back porch where their parents didn't mind people being there - and conveniently ignored any drinking.