Did you go to your prom?

[ButterflyBlood]

I heard now my little brother is. If I was at home I'd probably mock him a little. Fuck the prom.

[eyesroll]

1. I went to a comedy club with some friends that night

It cost maybe $25 for the whole evening, with none of the accompanying BS.

[Cuban_Liberal]

2. Yes, and I had a great time.

:)

[freetobegay]

3. "no and I'm glad I didn't." thats really sad!

:cry:

[Interrobang]

10. No, it's not. High school sucks!

I'm glad I didn't go. None of my friends went, and I'm sure we had more fun at the parties I hosted anyway...

I'm still upset with myself that I went to my convocation, which was an utter waste of time, and the valedictorian pissed me off totally by saying something about how Jesus Christ had helped us all to graduate, or something (speak for yourself, Ben!)...

[LastKnight]

4. was last saturday...and HELL NO.

whats the point?

-LK

[cedahlia]

5. I went to a punk show instead

Absolutely no regrets about that one! I hated high school and most of my friends were older or went to different schools so I had no desire to go.

[kixot]

6. High School sucked.

I couldn't WAIT to get away from those people. Good riddance!!!

[Cush]

7. Hell No

[NMDemDist2]

8. was asked by a letterman on the basketball team

and we couldn't afford a dress :cry:

it was humiliating and sad

[flamingyouth]

9. I went to mine with a friend

We had a nice dinner and a decent time at the prom - I'm glad we went together.

[Triple H]

11. Hell no...

and I'm glad I didn't partake in that shit.

[Nlighten1]

12. I hated my high school.

There was no way I was going to go to its bs prom.

[Duncan Grant]

13. Sure I did, it was great.

I ran out of gas while wearing a powder blue tuxedo with black velvet trim. Who wouldn't love to begin a night out like that?

True story.

[goddess40]

14. Proms need to be re-vamped or done away with

they are know only for the rich snobs, or maybe it's always been that way. Anyway, if everyone can't go and feel welcome then it is time to dump the whole process.

[HEyHEY]

15. Well, us crazy Vancouverites call "prom" "grad"

I wasn't going to go, part of my young rebel agenda I guess. Then I realized I may have fun because all my friends went. I bought THE LAST ticket available.

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. I had really, really bad strep so it was a crappy night.

I had the hot pink dress, the hair done to the side, the hoop skirt, the boy (who I cannot remember the name of) in the tails and top hat. And I was all icky feeling. I wish I could go back and do it healthy. Oh, and we lost the keys to his daddy's car. :(

[TexasProgresive]

17. I should get 9 votes.

In 4 years of High School I went to 2 at my school, 6 at my long time girl friends school 3 were actual proms and 3 were virtual proms put on by her drum and bugle corp, and then one after we broke up with a girl from another hgh school. And yes I enjoyed them, they were a bit more expensive then the usual date but not too far out of line. We didn't go into that limo crap, so corsage, tux, fancy dress were the only real extras as all of my circle of friends like to eat together in nice restuarants and then take in a movie or go dancing at one of the school dances.

[Faygo Kid]

18. Nope. 1969; too political for such things.

Still, Diane wanted me to take her, and I have never forgotten that she was disappointed. Maybe it wouldn't have killed me to go, but such airheads there, when we faced the draft and Vietnam, that I couldn't do it. She was very nice, though, and hey, maybe I would have tolerated it. No regrets about the prom; regrets about Diane. She was early on the list of "I could have done better by certain women," but I got kicked the other way, too. That's life.

[Rowdyboy]

19. No...I really wasn't "prom material"

I only dated two girls in high school (grand total of maybe 6 dates).

[SarahB]

20. It just wasn't worth it (sad tale)

Let's see, head back to 1990. A friend hinted at wanting to go with me a couple months prior, but then he was a jerk when I said I wasn't sure yet because I was going to ask ex-boyfriend #2 if he would go (he was in college and we were never serious). Asked ex #2, he said yes, but would have to leave by 10:30. I said "never mind". A friend set me up to meet one of her boyfriend's friends and he liked me, but I thought he was a moron (he was). He ended up going with a friend of mine and gave her Herpes a few months later (I find I'm generally a good judge of character).

Maybe I'm just too selective, but I can't stand stupid people or people who won't put in any effort and it just didn't seem worth going with whomever just to say I went. The big issue was that ex-boyfriend #1 (also in college) was going to be there with another girl and I just didn't want to see him again. That year, he managed to kiss me quite intensely at times and showed up at my job, etc. all while with this other girl and I was still "in love" (whatever the Hell that means) with him. I had no desire to fork over that much money only to be miserable the entire evening.

I just went to some after-parties and with the events there, I would have been better off just staying home. It was the last time I ever got really drunk in my life (before that consisted of a handful of parties senior year). My parents found out and sent me to rehab because of it (I'm not an alcoholic by any means, but just being young and irresponsible), told me they would pay nothing toward college, kicked me out after rehab, and never did much for me again. I've learned the hard way in life, I have no room for mistakes.

[Faygo Kid]

22. Geez. Cut yourself some slack.

If you have no room for mistakes, you have no room to be a human being (which means making mistakes), and will lose all sense of compassion (which means forgiving others' mistakes). Which is what your parents may have done. My prom was in 1969. Betcha I have made a lot more mistakes than you (plenty here), given that I am so much older and have had so much more time. Better make some room for mistakes. You will make them. You are making one now, by not giving yourself the slack and compassion you deserve. It's a big one, I am afraid. Unless there is a note of self pity here. That's another mistake. See? Can't avoid them.

[SarahB]

28. Not self-pity

Just point A in a long series of events. You know how in life sometimes, there are two roads, but you don't know how making that simple turn can change an entire course of events? I guess this was one of those times in my life (that's why the drawn out diatribe).
I have tremendous capacity for compassion which has been nice for everyone else, but not always for me in return. As for mistakes, I really don't have much room for them in my life.

[Guy Fawkes]

21. I thought about it...

but my friend Steve didn't think people would get the political message if we went as a gay couple. (My school has major homophobia problems within the faculty and administration, despite discrimination laws)

[fortyfeetunder]

23. The prom was one thing...

My sr. prom was at the same hotel where Reagan got shot a few years later....


My experience, I ended up asking a guy, set up by a classmate, who later told me, Oh BTW, he's my boyfriend, but you can take him to the prom!!

[Beware the Beast Man]

24. 4 proms in 2 years

They were all "friends," so I got nothing....just kidding, had a blast at three of them anyway!

[ACK]

25. Good night I got laid.

The dress up part was nice for her. Made for fun undressing thing.

[Mr. Blonde]

26. I'm on the fence

I actually had to go to my senior prom because I was a class officer, and that one was alright. I went to a small school, and we had a thing called prophecies (don't know who else had those) and me and my friend got to stand up and make fun of most of our classmates. Which was cool.

My JR. year I went with a friend who left and didn't bother to tell me. My lame ass had to have my mom take me back to the house. Fuckin bitch. I could have gone to a wrestling tournament in the Big Easy that weekend.

Overall, I don't think Prom is that bad. I guess as long as you don't get blood dumped on you.

[tigereye]

27. yes went to 2

one my senior year with my hippie- turned born again Christian BF who complained the whole time since all I seemed to be interested in was "drinking and sex." He had become a born-again after being a big time doper. He was gorgeous though, so I got a lot of attention, since I was a nerd and not supposed to have a good looking date. Note: Should have gone with his best friend. He wasn't a born-again. :evilgrin:

The other one was with one of my closest friend's brothers. Just to be nice. Not a good idea.

[Delano]

29. I didn't go. Thought it was "too stupid".

And in a way, I suppose it is, but I really wish I had gone. I wish may parents had nagged me into going, but they were always very hands-off. I wish I had gone because it would be a once-in-a-lifetime memory. Even if it had been sucky, it still would have been a cool memory. Unfortunately, at 17, I didn't understand "once-in-a-lifetime" at all.

If I could re-do high school, I would be totally different. Noisy, brash, funny. Probably would have gotten my butt kicked more, but instead I was always quiet, played it safe, not competitive or into too many activities. Now my HS memories bore the crap out of me, so I sure wouldn't want to bore anyone else with them.

(Sigh)

[TN al]

30. I went to my girlfriends prom from another school...

...but not to mine. I don't know how to answer.

[johnnie]

31. I went..

I wasn't really in to going and at the time my girlfriend said she didn't care if we did or not. I decided at the last moment to take her because I didn't want to be the guy that she talked about forever as that idiot that didn't take her to prom.
We didn't stay long, then we got a hotel room and partied.

[FunBobbyMucha]

32. No, I showed up at the after-party with my drunk friend Angie

who proceeded to puke all over the side of my truck while a cop stopped me. I actually tried to excuse her as being sick from dinner: "She ate something that didn't agree with her."

"What's that," the cop laughed, "a bottle of Jack?"

Prom was just another dance to me at that point, all eyes on college.

[MichaelUK]

33. Planning on going to my University one

not sure if I should, but I'm working on the assumption that I should go and regret it, rather than not go and regret it.

[felonious thunk]

34. In a shocking upset, I was on the prom court

I didn't win, but my girlfriend at the time and I were both on the prom court, so we felt like we were popular.

[BlondieK143]

35. Going to one in two weeks.

It's actually pretty special considering I'm a high school drop-out. It means a lot to me.

[MrSandman]

36. Spent the evening underage drinking...n/t

[skippysmom]

37. Went to the senior prom

with some asshole a friend fixed me up with. Dumped me soon after when I wouldn't sleep with him.

I didn't go to the junior prom. No one wanted to take me and for some stupid reason you had to go as part of a couple -- no singles allowed. And then they wonder why kids hate HS? Perhaps the dumb arbitrary rules like that one?

And 15 years later, I couldn't care less either one.

[Commendatori]

38. No, I was arrested because

I looked like someone the cops were searching for. Was detained six hours, missed my prom, and got dumped by my weeping date. This is described in the "any DUers been to jail?" thread at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x1066056 .

[Screaming Lord Byron]

39. Word got around I was going to show up in combat gear and/or Nazi uniform

It was requested that I stay at home.
CENSORIOUS BASTARDS!
:evilgrin:

[bubba_fett]

40. No.

I stayed home with my girlfriend, she didn't want to go either.

[chenGOD]

41. I went but it was neither great nor not great...

It was very amusing though, as i spent the whole grad night (what us canucks call prom) under a lysergic haze and a cannaboid fog.

Seemed to be a lot of hysteria there, although perhaps that was just me and my friend. We left after the meal and went to a hotel room with about 10 other people and got increasingly drunker (well as drunk as you can on acid). It was pretty enjoyable, not the best time ever, but not the worst.

[TSIAS]

42. No

I might regret it eventually, but I do not now.

[supernova]

43. No, I didn't

and didn't care to at the time either.

I didn't care much for high school and was glad to move on to college

[Insider]

44. and the famous Cotton Club after

just so we could say we were there. i think we were 6 of the total 8 people in the joint. it was cool.