Did You Go To Your Prom?

[Parche]

What is a prom??

:shrug: :shrug: :hi:

[supernova]

1. No, I didn't

No one asked me, and I was too shy to ask anyone else.

And this is small town rural NC, you just didn't show up stag. Although, I'm relieved to see that is an option now.

[Lex]

2. Same here

right down to small town rural NC . . .

:hi:

[supernova]

8. Hey, Lex!

:hi:

I was thinking about a get together to watch election returns in a couple of weeks. Would you be interested?

edit: :hug: for missed prom. I even ask people out now! :D

[abq e streeter]

25. meant to reply to OP---everyone told me I'd regret not going, but never did , (except

for the "Leondra" incident below)...but I did go downtown with two friends and shoot high powered water pistols at the "cool kids" from behind parked cars across the street from the Orrington Hotel...Interesting post script to all that though. I remembered a girl named Leondra jokingly ask me to go with her while sitting in the senior lounge one day that spring ( hey, had to go somewhere while ditching classes). I kinda remember laughing back, and that was the end of that. But I was relating that incident to someone at my 35th reunion,( first one I'd ever gone to; I was paralyzingly shy in H.S., and too much of a misfit to even fit in with the misfits, and so HATED my 4 years there, but had a surprisingly enjoyable time at the reunion). They remembered Leondra and reminded me that while she was popular, she was quite overweight, and so probably not asked to go, and probably actually was asking me, and doing it casually and jokingly so as to not be hurt by a rejection... which I did; being too much of a clueless dork with girls for it to have occurred to me that she meant it. So wherever you are 40 years later: oops, sorry...

[SPKrazy]

27. Small town rural NC?

I for some reason was thinking you lived in California, duh...

Someone missed out (edited to add out) by not asking you to the prom. People didn't go stag in my little town either.

:hug:

[DarkTirade]

3. Yes, but I just went with a friend.

Granted, shortly afterwards we started going out. And that was the first girl who ever let me get past first base. But at the time we were just friends. :P

[skygazer]

4. No - I had tickets but went to a party instead

A friend and I were going to go together just for the hell of it and because no one at our school would ever expect either of us to show up.

But there was a kick-ass party down by the river that night so we went there instead. :rofl:

[BrotherBuzz]

5. Nope. We were extrtemly altruistic back in our day...

we voted to send the money we raised for the prom to Biafra. :shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

Jello Biafra? Sweet!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Nope.

I was (am) a total geek and didn't get any offers.

[RoyGBiv]

7. I went to a Morp ...

Does that count?

Weren't none o' that gosh darn dancin' in our school, by golly. Could lead to all sorts of things ... like, well, you know ...

<whisper>

blisters on your toes

</whisper>

[eyesroll]

9. Nope. I went to Second City with some friends instead.

:hi:

[JTG of the PRB]

10. I went to my Senior Prom, but only with a friend.

I mean, I asked her out the next year, but she was still only a friend at that time.

It was a lot of fun, but really it was just a bunch of hoopla. We went to dinner with friends, danced with friends, took pictures with freinds, went to a huge prom after party until 5 am, stayed up with friends to watch the sunrise over Boulder, and I finally dropped hr off at 7am.

The after prom stuff with my friends was a LOT more fun than just the prom.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Oh, God no.

:scared:

[Radio_Lady]

12. Yes, I did. It was in the summer of 1956 and here's the PHOTO to prove it!

Our prom was at the Fountainbleau Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida



Thanks for the memories!

[BeachBaby]

56. What a lovely picture! You looked so pretty....

and happy!

Thanks for sharing the pic with us! :)

[triguy46]

13. The mating ritual of the hormonally enthused. Here' video of mine:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4142/saturday-night-live-nerd-prom#x-4,cClips,16

[LadyoftheRabbits]

14. No...

and yeah, I wanted to. :( :P

[madrchsod]

15. yes...twice

i had a rather nice time...

[KitchenWitch]

16. I conveniently dropped out of high school in eleventh grade and avoided the whole shit.

[snailly]

20. Me too.

Saved a lot of money that way. lol

[KitchenWitch]

22. True, true...but there was the rumor that I was preggers

Which would have been quite the feat since I was not at all sexual until I was an adult.

[dolo amber]

17. Define "go to"

I went to the venue where it was being held and stayed long enough to get evidence I mean pictures taken...then it was out drinkin' in a cheap motel with about 25 others until dawn.

I got to dress up faincy tho, if that helps. :hi:

[bigwillq]

18. Yes and yes.

And I had a wonderful time! :hi:

[lizziegrace]

19. nope

my boyfriend didn't think I'd want to go... :eyes:

[WinkyDink]

21. No.

[SPKrazy]

23. Yeah, I went to it both years

I don't remember much from the second year of going.

I do remember dancing to Head East, Led Zeppelin, and REO Speedwagon songs...

dates me doesn't it :D

[pitohui]

24. yes i did

i have to say that my date was the envy of my class, and to be honest, i felt that i was physically out-classed (in other words, i felt he was way hotter than i) -- ah, the glory days!

[EstimatedProphet]

26. No - I hated almost all my classmates

[LibDemAlways]

36. My daughter is a high school freshman and feels

exactly the same. She can't stand most of the kids at her school - calls them "preps" and won't have anything to do with them. I'm a substitute teacher in the district and I have to agree with her. They are an exceptionally self-absorbed and rude bunch.

It's a shame, because it's a fairly small school and there is little opportunity to meet anyone new or anyone who might share the same interests. I keep telling her to hold out for college. Things will get better.

[Connonym]

28. no fucking way. I never went to any dance at all

I think I'd rather be water boarded.

[Fox Mulder]

29. Nope.

Never went to prom. I saved my money for better stuff.

[femmocrat]

30. Yes, both years.

And I was on the prom committee! I loved the prom.

[appal_jack]

31. 'Proms are for capitalist pig-f*****s'

'Proms are for capitalist pig-f*****s' is something I would have said (and may have actually said) back when I was a high school senior. By the end of high school, I had gone through several political transformations, starting as a mildly politically aware child of Democrats and union members. But Reagan was a bastard and nuclear war seemed all to possible in the mid-80's, so I was ripe for the picking by NYC activists. The sidewalk rantings of a twenty-something agitator from "The Spark" helped transform me into a radicalized Marxist (I read the whole Communist Manifesto in a day back in 9th grade, but never got too far into Das Kapital). But after less than a year of that, the inevitable contradictions, oppressions, and shortcomings of Marxist-Leninist dogma sunk into my consciousness. By around 10th grade, I had begun reading Proudhon and Kropotkin, and began identifying as an anarchist, envisioning a hopeful and oppression-free future of voluntary association, mutualism, committees of correspondence, etc. Of course, these days, I would be thrilled if we could just get the Constitutional Democratic Republic firing on all cylinders here in the USA, but I digress...

The fact is that my beliefs at the time kept me from ever considering the prom (and indeed the class consciousness I picked up from those Marxists sticks with me, and I STILL don't enjoy dress-up occasions, limo's, or conspicuous consumption), so I made other plans with my anarchist buddies. And on prom night, those plans included meeting with a bunch of other left-wing crazies to plan how we would present anarchism as a cogent philosophy on none other than the Morton Downey Jr. show, which was taping on this very topic the next day. So we gathered on the roof on one of the Lower East Side squats, sat in a circle (at a judicious distance from where the roof had caved-in), and planned until well after dark. That planning session was immortalized in a Stan Mack Real Life Funnies comic strip that ran in the Village Voice back in '89: the two long-haired skinny hippy kids in the circle were my friend Carlo & me.

Of course, the other facet of the memory of that time was the Morton Downey Jr. show itself. We NYC anarchists were shuttled out to New Jersey, fed some pizza, then trotted out on stage in front of an audience of acid-washed-jeans-wearing, big-haired (women) and greased-haired (men) meatheads who were not interested in or sympathetic to our cause. And our best foot hardly stepped forward either (hmm... anarchist plans not working out: who'd-a-thunk??) The loudest and most colorful among us stepped into the spotlight and gave Mort exactly what he wanted: a spectacle and some people whom his audience could hate. I think the most airtime was garnered by a mohawked fellow who had "Legalize PCP" written on his studded jacket. We all knew he was a disaster waiting to happen, but who were we (anarchists) to keep him off the van that morning? Anyway, I stayed in the background and never got a word in edgewise, but apparently was at least a little visible, since a few days later one of the bus drivers on the Forest Avenue bus I took to school stopped me as I flashed my "C" pass getting on and asked, "How come you didn't say nothin' on Morton Downey?"I just shrugged my shoulders. I guess anarchism wasn't a cure for shyness...

No I didn't have a typical high school experience, nor a typical prom night, but I wouldn't trade that memory for the world.

-app

[BeachBaby]

32. My school didn't believe in proms.

I was forced to be educated in the confines of a fundie Christian school. Dancing is BAD. Its appearance is of evil. Leads to sex. Sex makes babies. Unwed pregnant Christians are ostracized. A bad idea all around. Go ahead, roll your eyes - I am.

But I got to go with my boyfriend to his prom. He was the star wide receiver of his high school football team, so we were treated like royalty. And we danced. It looked evil, I'm sure. But we didn't have sex, so I didn't get pregnant, and therefore, didn't get ostracized from the church/school. Damn. :P

[av8rdave]

33. Nope. I was a "late bloomer"

[MorningGlow]

34. Yeah, junior and senior

I found them pretty boring. But I had a ton of fun making my dress for my senior prom.

[keroro gunsou]

35. yes...

but i was "asked" to leave as a result of bitchslapping someone that made fun of my date. defending your lady's honor... chivalry ain't dead yet...

[barb162]

37. yes

[Cant trust em]

38. Yeah, but not my reunion. NT

[LibDemAlways]

39. No, I wasn't asked, and back then you had to have a

date or forget it. Now, kids around here get together and go in groups. Much better idea and probably a lot more fun. I went to "Grad Night" at Disneyland with a guy I didn't like (again, you had to have a date) and I couldn't wait for the night to end.

[yellowdogintexas]

50. I wish we had had the nerve to do that, back in 1966. I went, and did not have a good time

at all.
my soph year I was invited by a guy I knew casually and liked as a friend and while the evening started out OK, he turned into an octopus / sucking eel and I spent most of the evening trying to keep him under control.

jr yr I asked a guy I had met at a local dance, he was from another school and we had been out 2 or 3 times, he was funny and I thought we Would Have a Fun Evening. Well he turned into the date from hell and spent the evening making me miserable

SR yr I wanted to go with a guy I had been dating who was in college but he was too far away to get down for the one weekend. So I accepted an invitation from a guy I had never dated but had been friends with all through high school. He decided to become besotted with me and while I really liked him, I didn't "LIKE" him ..so it wasn't as much fun as could have been. Dammit I could chat with this guy on the bus, in class, in the hall and we would laugh and have fun but put us in dressup clothes and boom like total strangers. And it was him, not me because I was acting like normal but it wasn't happening on the other side of the car.

OH and ours were not PROMS...they were Banquets, and our school was more sophisticated than the smaller schools in the county next door because we had a dance after.

The banquet tables were set up on the gym floor, and we had a raised bleacher section on one side of our gym that could be rolled back and that was where the dance was..sort of like a balcony which was kind of neat.

Of course the gym was decorated with every known concoction that could be made from crepe paper, tissue paper and chicken wire known to man (as long as the THEME was kept intact)

Times have changed. My sister's children and my cousins' children all went to same high school and their proms are Major PRoductions. Somehow the simplicity of what we did back then is nostalgic. Certainly it was less expensive.

What I got from those evenings was 3 really nice dresses, all made by my mother. I have no photos due to a house fire at my mom's home,

Oh yes I had a lousy time at my first college formal dance too.

My second one was better though because I went with a long time boyfriend and we enjoyed ourselves

[BreweryYardRat]

40. No. The only girls I'd have been interested in taking were either gay or had long-term boyfriends.

Not much of a point in going stag. I spent the evening at my local Barnes and Noble instead.

[SoxFan]

41. Yes

Went with a friend of my sister. No "funny stuff", but she was (and still is) a lot of fun to hang out with, so we had a good time.

[neoteric lefty]

42. yep... went to senior prom and really screwed up afterwards

funny story!

I had starting seeing this girl during the spring semester of my senior year, but she had already agreed to go with a friend of hers. No worries from me. I knew we'd see each other and hang out after the prom anyways. So, I decided to take three female friends of mine who didn't have dates (hey, I wanted to be the BMOC with three beautiful ladies on his arms, walking into prom). Anyways, I had a great time at prom and headed over to the big "party" at a friends house. She was hanging out at another party, but told me she would be stopping by an hour or so after I got there. So I decided to have a few cocktails. Well, something like 2 hours passed and a few turned into a bunch. I was having a great time with friends, so I didnt care.

She finally arrives and comes walking through the sliding glass door to the pool where we were all at. Now, the rest of this story is pieced together from the stories of eye-witnesses. She walked over and I greeted her. I supposedly gave her a hug and began whispering something into her ear. People tell me she gave the most shocked look they have ever seen, pulled back, and proceeded to slap me square across the face. She stormed off and left the party shortly thereafter. I was told my response was, "Whoa! I guess it's party time for the rest of us!" I still had a great time, but I woke up at 11:30 the next morning bent over a air-hockey table with a half-full beer bottle lodged down the back of my pants.

To this day, I do not know what I said to her, and she didn't even talk to me until she saw me at a college party 4 years later.

It was good to be young!

Cheers :beer:

[zanne]

49. Awwwww...

You can tell that story to your grandchildren! :rofl:

[neoteric lefty]

64. ha

I probably will, once their old enough and if I can still remember it.

[Broken_Hero]

43. Yeah, I did...

I didn't enjoy it much, I should've asked someone else...my date was rather, boring.

[Rhiannon12866]

45. Yeah, I did and my date was gay.

He was a lot of fun and also my good friend. :-)

[Rhythm]

44. Nah... skipped that and went to the JROTC all-county 'military ball'

There were 10 high schools in our district, and all of them had JROTC programs. All of the cadet officers were REQUIRED to attend (i was a cadet Major at the time - BNXO). It was the mid-80's, so there was much pastel and taffeta and blue eyeshadow, but i had a great time, and even almost stole my best friend's girlfriend!

[Oeditpus Rex]

46. Nope

When I was a sophomore, this junior chick asked me if I'd take her, but she failed to consider that I was not yet blessed with a driver's license.

Anyway, I wasn't into her or school functions.

[Kitty Herder]

47. I was invited to a prom when I was 29. I didn't go, but still, it was cool to be asked.

It was an alternative prom for LGBT. I kind of wish I had gone; it might have been fun. But I had nothing to wear and would have felt weird with all those youngsters.

[zanne]

48. Yeah, yeah.

My boyfriend went to a different school than I did, so I had to go to both mine and his. I really thought proms were boring. The after-parties were better, but I never figured out what all the fuss was about.

[Midlodemocrat]

51. Yup. Had a wonderful time as well. Really enjoyed it.

[Orsino]

52. Three years in a row.

At least two of 'em were a lot of fun.

[KG]

53. yep. got laid, too! woohoo!

:hi:

[mitchum]

54. No, I was opening for Mother's Finest in a muddy field

the seventies...

[last_texas_dem]

55. Yeah

Junior prom was awesome. I asked a girl who I liked and who I had found out liked me as well and who had told me that she would go with me, but she had backed out at the last minute because she had a psycho ex-boyfriend who wasn't totally out of the picture. (Really long story not worth going into...) So she had decided just to go with a couple of her female friends, and I was just planning on hanging out with one of my friends that night. But she and her group ended up swinging by the house and basically "kidnapping" me. I ended up going to prom wearing jeans and an worn-out green t-shirt, unshaven (I lucked out on getting let in because my mom was a teacher and the person who took my ticket to let me in!) and had one of the best nights of my life. Stayed out really late and just remember it being very awesome... My date and I ended up officially dating a couple days later and for the next few years. And somehow she's still one of my best friends to this day; however, that's another really long story not worth going into...!

Senior prom, oddly, was pretty boring by comparison. We did the whole fancy clothes, dinner, pictures, and all that junk, and didn't have nearly as much fun as the year before. I was already wiped out 'cause I had had a UIL state competition in Austin that I had just gotten back from late in the afternoon of the day of prom. The height of lameness was that my girlfriend and I left early and both fell asleep sitting on the couch at my house watching TV!

[Coyote_Bandit]

57. Uhhhhhh, no

I lived about 20 miles from school and rarely participated in any extracurricular activities. Never attended any school dance or party. Didn't go to sports events. Didn't play in the band. I did do some competitive speaking and drama - activities that permitted practice and preparation largely during school hours. Transportation was a big problem. Very few of my classmates were at all acquainted with me. Certainly, I did not socialize with them. Never dated any of the guys in my class. And I wasn't exactly fond of the jocks and cheerleaders - or the greaser dopeheads. It was actually a relief not to be asked to the prom. By the time prom rolled around I clearly was an outsider and even in the best of circumstances I would have been very uncomfortable had I attended. My dear mother however went out and purchased me a prom dress - one in my favorite color that I actually liked. To this day I don't know what she was thinking.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

58. Junior Prom, yes.

And that's all I have to say about that.

(Very bittersweet memories about the person I went with.)

Senior prom I was too interested in just graduating and getting the hell out of town and into college to be thinking about prom.

[Tikki]

59. We did....

Mr. Tikki was a year ahead of me in school. We went to at least three proms.
First one I wore something with blue chiffon scarves draping down the back. Next
year a metallic sparkle dress and then my senior year I wore my mom's
black velvet two piece cocktail type thingy.

What I remember most is that he always made a homemade corsage for me from
flowers in his mom's garden. Seemed a little simple at the time..now it's a
memory I will always treasure.


Tikki

[WannaBeGrumpy]

60. I have prom in two weeks...

I just bought tickets toady...and a dress on sunday!!! yay!

[Midlodemocrat]

65. Be sure to post some pics, you cutie!

[BarenakedLady]

61. Yes, Four of them.

Bow to my uberness.

[IronLionZion]

62. I went to my senior prom because a college girl I knew asked me

because she wanted to go. We went as friends and it was fun.

[Rob H.]

63. Yes, and then shortly after wished I hadn't

My date and I doubled with my best friend and his girlfriend. (Our dates were best friends, too, as it happens.) Turns out what I didn't know at the time was that my date only went with me because she was in love with my best friend. I was messed up for a while after that, to say the least.

[Ava]

66. i homeschool so nope, but

i'm damn glad to not go to it... the idea of fuchsia sparkly dresses, poofy big hair, more makeup than a beauty pagent, girls being dramatic and crying in the bathrooms, and crappy music doesn't really appeal to me.

then again apparently i'm a weirdo for that and must *really* want to go and just won't say it. :eyes:

[Dulcinea]

67. Yes.

My date & I double-dated with my best friend & her boyfriend. She got a huge wrist corsage that went all the way up to her elbow, & she had to take it off because it attracted bees.

We got stopped by the cops for making an illegal turn. Lucky for us they didn't find the bottle of wine in the car!

The prom was unmemorable, but we all went to dinner & a movie afterwards.

[geardaddy]

68. Yep. Two times

Junior prom at g/f HS and senior prom at my HS

[ceile]

69. Went w/ a friend.

The guy I was dating at the time didn't inform me he had a girlfriend in a different city and was taking her. One of the worst nights of my life. That was 14 years ago and the pain of it still feels like it happened yesterday.

[hyphenate]

70. Senior, yes

Junior, no.

It didn't make that much difference, though. The guy I went with was an ass, and he commented to my mom's friend (which is why I heard it) that if I wasn't overweight, he would have asked me out for real. Some men are just inconsiderate bastards, aren't they?

[Bombero1956]

71. Yes I did

Went with a girl I met in Junior Achievement. We were attracted to each other from the first time we met. She went to mine and I went to hers even though our schools were 50 miles apart. Check out this picture. I haven't seen her in years. I hope she's doing well.