I had fun at mine. But then again, I didn’t get laid, so it wasn’t all that much better than sitting at home watching TV.
–Cliffy
Wotta cheapskate.
Big Kahuna Burger, good thinkin’.
KarlGrenze, at my school it was something like $30 for one ticket, $50 for a couple. And that included nothing but the prom itself – no dinner. There was a DJ, no live band. It was fun though. Oh, and if you wanted pictures you had to pay for those too.
As for me, I’m glad I went. My school had a Junior Prom and a Senior Ball. I skipped Prom because of some bitterness over a girl, and now I wish I had gone. Ball was awesome. Admittedly much of the appeal was because of the person I was with, but it’s still something I’m glad I did regardless.
Go alone.
OK, I realize this is being posted AFTER the prom, but there’s other dances in your future (senior prom? College dances?).
My law school just had its Barrister’s Ball yesterday, and I made like Han and went solo. A number of the women at the school just aren’t dating-oriented…believe me, many men (including myself) have been unsuccessfully been vying for dates for several months now. This led to a number of women simply NOT being asked to the ball. The way I saw it, there’d be no point in paying $60 to take someone there if she was planning to ditch me at the door.
My point is that in academic settings, a number of couples go together simply because they don’t have anyone else to go with. This isn’t even going “as friends”…it’s one step above an escort service. In that situation, going alone amounts to the same thing, except you’re not buying a second ticket.
I’m willing to wager that a number of your classmates at your prom didn’t necessarily want to be there with the person who brought them. Had you gone alone, you could have found any number of dancing partners. Seriously…if you looked around the room during any slow song, you’d likely see a number of members of the opposite sex sitting by themselves. There’s a perfect opportunity to show some chivalry by offering a quick dance to someone who’s probably feeling just as lonely as you.
I spent last night dancing with MANY women who weren’t my date, and had a grand time. Going alone is only a problem if you make it one.
I did not go to my Jr. or Sr. proms as at my school you had to have a date to go. Well actually here is how they worked that. If you date was from our school the tickets were 10 bucks. If your date was not from our school the dates ticket would be 15 dollars. So the cost going stag was not mentioned as it was not allowed. Come to think of it I should have just gone and shown up alone. After all I was Jr. class president and I pretty much raised the money to pay for the prom myself.
Duke, I think that stuff about how all girls put out at the prom is a myth. That should make you feel better.
I didn’t go to my prom either. I was going out with this guy for a couple of weeks before the prom. He had already asked his previous girlfriend to go before we started going out. She already had the dress, etc. I made him take her. I spent the night with 3 girlfriends drinking gin and tonics, got drunk out of my mind. To this day I still cannot stand the smell of gin. Oh yea, the boyfriend and his ex ended up getting married. That’s ok he wasn’t that great a catch anyway.
Well, if I(who was lonely) had started watching all the happy couples, I would’ve become depressed too. My purpose when I went was to enjoy it, I went alone, spent time with my friends, and danced with some of my friends or gasp alone, but not much.
It is in many ways overrated, and I hate the stereotypical view that one has to go with a couple, get some booze, etc. to have a good prom.
Another ‘the prom was so lame’ story…
I went to my senior prom with this dude I had been seeing, he was like in his early 20s. I was 17. It was a mess. I think the best thing about it was the wrist corsage I got.
We had been seeing each other for a few weeks, and he wanted sex, but I wasn’t interested. So he wasn’t happy. But everything was already bought, rented, etc, so we went anyway. Back then I didn’t drink at all but he wanted to, so he brought his own bottle of tequila and periodically went outside to drink some of it.
That gave him indigestion. Thinking about the whole mess is giving me indigestion.
So you likely didn’t miss much. But most people will not admit for several years afterward that they didn’t have fun.
I went to my senior prom and stayed just long enough for the pictures. Then we left and went to a real party.
Wow, am I the only one who had a good time at my prom?
Shhh!!! We’re trying to make him feel better!
Seriously, though, prom’s are like summer movies - not as good as the hype.
The only one I actually enjoyed was my junior one, and that was because I got to go with the girl I had a huge crush on. Nothing much came of it, but I got to spend the night talking with her. And she was really cute that night, too. :sigh:
Other than that, though, proms are just an opportunity to dress up years before you’ll have any other legitimate reason to. IMHO, anyway.
Our “Prom” in Ireland is called the Debutante Ball.
Basically, it is a underage pissup. I brought a lady friend of mine (had no girlfriend). and the two of us got rat arsed. I drank Vodka until I blacked out.
What a shit night.
:o Sorry, my bad. Wasn’t really thinking before posting.
This is true. I’ve been to better dances that weren’t hyped up all year long beforehand. Like you said, it’s kinda like going to see a movie coughEpisodeIcough that everybody has been waiting for and finding out that it’s not the awesome experience you were expecting.
Never went to a prom, nor do I feel as if I missed anything. Seems to me they’re getting out of hand. My daughter went last year - it was held in the Adams Mark Hotel on the river - obscenely expensive for HS kids. Does any school have it in the gym any more? Crepe paper streamers? Mirrored ball? Cheesy local band? I thought that’s what prom was all about!
Well we didn’t have a prom per se at my school but we did have a school disco type thing when I was sixteen and it was horrendous.
(feel better now?..)
First of all, my mum and an evil shop-type woman had somehow persuaded me to wear the most unflattering dress ever – a big black-and-white shoulder padded monstrosity. It looked like something my gran would wear. It cost £100 and I never wore it again.
Then again no one looked that great. One girl was wearing what looked like a wedding dress, and the coolest girl in school was wearing some kind of kitsch 60’s style mini dress which looked completely out of place (this was 1992).
Meagre consolation. I was so embarrassed by my dress that I stayed in the corner all night with my friends and some nerdy guys who were clearly regretting attending too (and even THEY didn’t ask us to dance, sniff).
When the slow dance came along out of desperation I found myself dancing with the skankiest guy in school and was aware of everyone else eyeing us with a shocked expression. (The day after, it was the question on everybody’s lips – ‘were you really dancing with XXXXX? Wow!’.)
During the dance poor Rose, a girl who I think was half-midget and didn’t have a partner, wandered round the dance floor, probably completely pissed, bawling her eyes out. And that actually made me feel BETTER.
Erm, so anyway. I would have been infinitely cooler if I’d stayed at home. 