# Treasure Hunters 7/3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-3/363111 "2006-07-04T01:23:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-3/363111/21 "2006-07-06T11:01:50Z")
[QUOTE=lorene] My date went to the prom with me, but left with someone else. No joke. [/QUOTE] Oooh, _harsh_! I ended up going to the prom with my best girlfriend at the time, whose own prom was the week before so – and here is the key element – _she already had a dress_. I mean, my god, my hair was already done, and my mother was _not about_ to let me waste a perfectly good $25 hairdo, you know? We ended up having a great time, and as an added bonus I didn’t have to put out, so there’s always _that_. You know: “When life gives you limes, make margaritas” and all that rot. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-3/363111/22 "2006-07-06T11:15:25Z")
No, no, Robot Arm. Half a prom means that the other prom-goers witness the fact that you are suddenly date-less. Jeez, I may have to go back into therapy after this. Can open, worms everywhere. Oh, and to tie it into _Treasure Hunters_, the guy was from Boston. Phew! Thought it might look like a thread hijack for a while there. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-3/363111/23 "2006-07-06T12:53:34Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] **Draelin** , I believe I have asked you this before, but … _are you me?_ Because you sound a lot like me, you know? Only funnier. [/QUOTE] Wow. That’s exactly what I think about _you_. (insert little “ **rockle** said I’m funny!” happy dance here) My prom date was the most annoying guy I knew, but the guy I’d been planning to go with ditched about two weeks before, and _this_ guy’s dad owned a limo company … ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-3/363111/24 "2006-07-06T13:08:37Z")
[QUOTE=lorene] Oh, and to tie it into _Treasure Hunters_, the guy was from Boston. Phew! Thought it might look like a thread hijack for a while there. [/QUOTE] Yes, and to tie _my_ story back into “Treasure Hunters” … uh, I got my prom dress at a Filene’s Basement in Boston (Braintree, actually). For $7.24. No kidding. And I ended up marrying a Red Sox fan, who I took to Boston on vacation for his birthday one year, and we visited the cemetery at the Old North Church on one of Dork Tourist Excursions (the Ghosts and Gravestones Tour, which is quite awesome). Good times, good times. > [@Draelin](#): > > Wow. That’s exactly what I think about you. And FWIW, I like you better than I like 50% of my own sisters, so there’s _that_, too. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-3/363111/25 "2006-07-06T13:17:30Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] And FWIW, I like you better than I like 50% of my own sisters, so there’s _that_, too. [/QUOTE] I don’t have sisters, but I definitely like you better than my brother. And I think I might still owe Filene’s money because they were dumb enough to give 20-year-old-me a credit card. I have to say, it was fun to see places I recognized in Boston–I lived in Chelsea for a while, but in a not-so-converted crack house. We never had treasure hunters come sniffing around unless they were armed and it was the middle of the night. Oh, and to answer **Robot Arm** ’s question, I heard of the show earlier this year, but I think it was already too late for entering. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-3/363111/26 "2006-07-06T14:14:00Z")
[QUOTE=lorene] No, no, Robot Arm. Half a prom means that the other prom-goers witness the fact that you are suddenly date-less. Jeez, I may have to go back into therapy after this. Can open, worms everywhere. [/QUOTE] Sorry. Here, let me help you pick those up. And for what it’s worth, I didn’t go to my prom. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-3/363111/27 "2006-07-06T14:22:49Z")
I would like to officially apologize to everybody for ever mentioning the prom. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-3/363111/28 "2006-07-06T17:47:42Z")
[QUOTE=Draelin] Air Force needs to cut down on the paranoia pills. Okay, _yes_, the other teams _were_ plotting against them a little–because they’re _good_. And because _they were already gone when the rest of the teams got to the school_. If you idiots hadn’t left because you thought you knew what you were doing, maybe you would have been asked to the prom and your feelings wouldn’t have gotten hurt. Yes, everybody hates you because they’re jealous. And because you’re helping the _Effing Fogals_. [/QUOTE] I feel sorry for the Air Force team, because they don’t deserve it. The Fogals deserve any crap they get - from anyone, ever, in the course of their lives. They’re crappy people. But from what we saw, the Air Force started out being decent to whoever was near them, and frequently, the people near them had been the Fogals. The scene at the cemetary was bizarre. “We tried to make you lose and screw you over. And we forced you to pair off with people we hate. Now you should help us instead of the team that we forced you to pair off with. And if you don’t, we’ll screw you over even more because you’re working with the people we hate” “Huh?” Sorry, no prom stories. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-3/363111/29 "2006-07-06T19:01:14Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] Yes, and to tie _my_ story back into “Treasure Hunters” … uh, I got my prom dress at a Filene’s Basement in Boston (Braintree, actually). For $7.24. No kidding. [/QUOTE] Wait! You lived in Massachusetts? You too, **Draelin**? You know, the Boston Dopers are having what’s being called a mini DopeFest (but is, in fact, turning out to be larger than any I have been to or heard of in this area) next week. Just sayin’. **Robot Arm** and I are both scheduled to make appearances. We won’t even mention proms at all, I swear! (At least we’d better not!) ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-3/363111/30 "2006-07-06T19:19:22Z")
[QUOTE=lorene] Wait! You lived in Massachusetts? You too, **Draelin**? You know, the Boston Dopers are having what’s being called a mini DopeFest (but is, in fact, turning out to be larger than any I have been to or heard of in this area) next week. Just sayin’. [/QUOTE] Love to, but I moved out of Boston ten years ago. 🙂 And I never even make it to the _New York_ Dopefests because I suck a little. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-3/363111/31 "2006-07-07T00:15:16Z")
[QUOTE=lorene] Wait! You lived in Massachusetts? [/QUOTE] _No_, sadly … but I visited there several times. And when I took my husband to Fenway Park for his birthday, he told me he married me in anticipation of that moment. Does that count for anything? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/treasure-hunters-7-3/363111.md?page=1)