High School prom, did you go?

I went. Of course unless you're planning on getting drunk or laid after there's not really any point to it, and those two things don't really have anything to do with prom. So just get drunk or laid, there you go, you got everything good that has anything to do with prom.
 
I went to prom with this cute girl. Turns out, she's got a bland personality and doesn't like to dance. Huh. The music was hardly audible (though not necessarily a bad thing), it was crowded, and the food sucked. But it was something to do, I suppose.
 
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yep you can put me in the multiple proms stack too I went to my first as soph when a girl I worked with asked me to hers, 3 junior year, 3 senior year and a couple after I graduated - one with a younger girlfriend and one with an ex of mine that wasn't going to go. Told her I would be her date if she wanted to go since she had never been to a single prom.
 
Just go with friends. The more you hype it up, the more you get disappointed. It's what you'll make it - so just have a good time. It can be as dramatic as you want it to be. I went single with a big group of friends, so wasn't really a big deal.
 
I didn't go to prom and I didn't walk during graduation, I did get my diploma, I just picked it up a few days later. fuck all that bullshit. People say that they know high school is stupid bullshit but yet they do all the stupid bullshit stuff to "fit in" or why ever the fuck you would want to spend money to hang around people you don't like or to put on a dress and sit in the heat while some fuck head who you'd sooner kick in the head gives a speech peppered with "amusing" quotes and anecdotes.

If you're smart, really smart, you know that shit means nothing. It's just stuff they think you want to do, nobody wants to do any of that stuff, they just don't have enough people to stand up and tell them to take their prom with a shiity DJ and shove it up their ass.
 
[quote name='JimmieMac']I didn't go to prom and I didn't walk during graduation, I did get my diploma, I just picked it up a few days later. fuck all that bullshit. People say that they know high school is stupid bullshit but yet they do all the stupid bullshit stuff to "fit in" or why ever the fuck you would want to spend money to hang around people you don't like or to put on a dress and sit in the heat while some fuck head who you'd sooner kick in the head gives a speech peppered with "amusing" quotes and anecdotes.

If you're smart, really smart, you know that shit means nothing. It's just stuff they think you want to do, nobody wants to do any of that stuff, they just don't have enough people to stand up and tell them to take their prom with a shiity DJ and shove it up their ass.[/QUOTE]

Indeed.
 
I went with my girlfriend for the senior prom. It wasnt that fun because she was in a bad mood the whole night. Even if she was in a good mood I dont think it would have been that exciting. If you feel the need to fit in i guess you should go but really you'll most likely see less and less of these people from your school so who gives a crap.
 
I went with a date.

After seeing how much it was going to cost I almost didn't want to, but I figured it's just something I would regret not going to.
 
I went one year, but the ticket price ($100 a person) and everything made it not worth it, especially because it was in the freakin' gym and was crowded as hell. They also had breathalyzers so we couldn't drink.
I just went to the after party the next year and got drunk.
 
fuck prom. I don't think I would've gone even if I had had a date at the time.

Seriously:

My ticket - $50
Her ticket - $50
Limo - $300
Tux - $250

=

$650 dollars to stand around a mob of bratty teenagers texting on their sparkly pink cell phones and dancing to Soulja Boy.

No thank you.
 
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I went both junior and senior years, with dates.

I went to a very small high school and everyone knew everyone (less than 250 people, methinks). High school was also a great time in my life, so I certainly had fun.

Of course, the majority of that fun came after prom. Still, I'm certainly glad I went. (I was one of the guys on the court senior year too.)

As far as some of the ticket prices above: yow! I'm almost certain our prom was less than $20 to enter...and I'm thinking it was $10. :lol:
 
I got to attend two prom's due to my wife being a sophmore and me a senior. My brother was also in the same graduating class, so I got to go to prom with him as well. At the beginning of my graduating year I had no intentions of going to prom, but then I met a special girl and the rest is history.:D Both the proms were awesome because they were held on the top floor of the highest skyscraper in Fort Worth. The view of downtown and the surrounding area was spectacular.
 
Oh god no. Course I didn't go to any school function while I was there. I got dragged to my girlfriends dance the following year, she was still in school but a different one. Oh, and some of us went to homecoming that fall after we graduated only to see some of our friends still there.

Outside of that I never went back. Why would I want to subject myself to more school BS than I had to? If your greatest moments were in high school then you haven't moved forward. Same reason I didn't go to the ten year reunion. I didn't really care to see who got married, divorced, on welfare, drugged out, etc.

My closest friends I met in college.
 
I went to a small school where no one rented a limo, and the tickets were relatively cheap.

Junior year, I went with my (at the time) girlfriend.

Senior year, I went with this chick from a different school, who actually suggested that I ask her to my prom if I didn't have a date. Considering how hot she was (and still is), I decided right then to ask her before even considering anyone else.
 
Prom wasn't much to talk about, as I went with a girl who was a friend because I wanted to go. I did win an N64 at post prom casino night, though.
 
Nope, I didn't go to my junior prom nor senior ball.

Junior Prom: had a girlfriend at the time, and she was being a b*tch, so I said, if you're going to be such a b*tch, I'm not going to go. And I didn't. Except with my mom to pick up my sister. Should have seen her face when she saw me show up at the end :).

Senior Ball: My girlfriend from junior prom (we had started dating in 9th grade and were on and off until the end of junior year) was dating another guy at the time (one of the several guys she used after the last time I broke up with her in order to forget me and make me jealous), and seeing as how I still liked her at the time, I skipped it. Really didn't want to go anyways. Got a call from my friend at ball telling me her "boyfriend" broke up with her and how she still wanted me. Good times.

I can honestly say, aside from maybe seeing that b*tch cry, there's nothing I regret about not going to either one.
 
I went to prom when I was a senior with my girlfriend at the time. I really appreciated her going that because she had already graduated the year before. It was real cool because we double dated-it with my best friend and his date. I don't regret going but she was right when she told me that it's not that great. It was pricey then and I'm sure it's a lot more now. Basically it's a costly memory but I've still got the keychain, pictures and candle from it.
 
Very interesting results here. I felt more would have went to prom single at least, but I see many did not go.

[quote name='cindersphere']Hell yeah I went to high school prom. It is basically like the culmination of all high school. If you are American and in high school you got to go to prom. Graduation is optional, but prom is mandatory. The only people who missed it at my school were people who thought they were too cool for school, the depressy black wearing vampires, and the occasional ugly chick. Although the prom was horrible the after parties were really fun. Plus girls your age + booze + that awesome garter tradition make for a fun time that leads you to have a big smile on your face at the end of the night if you play your cards right.
Seriously though don't think about questions like these or you will regret not going. Plus they make bad threads.
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All right, I'll give my explanation.

Junior year, I was too upset with most people in my H.S. after what happened my Sophomore year, so I preferred to just not go. I felt there was no girl who would EVER want to date me due to being turned down a bunch of times when asking girls out (I explained all that crap in a blog entry before). When looking at the cost especially my Junior year, I said forget it, I'll just buy Dreamcast games instead. While the prom was going on, I just did homework and play Dreamcast. And since I'm not into drinking, I felt I had no reason to be there.

Senior year, I wasn't as upset with people, but I didn't exactly care all that much (I mostly just wanted to finish H.S.). Didn't really feel like paying money, going single, didn't want to get turned down again by a girl, and so on. Senior year is also when I had my big RPG marathon, where I was beating an RPG every week. While prom was in session, I just played Xenogears most of the day and finished it. I also didn't care for drinking.
 
I didn't go to prom or Grad Night (at Disney World). My school was known throughout the state for being a mini-prison (i think a few of you have said this as well about yours). I was known by the normal people to be a friendly person who played a lot of games & helped everyone with their work, while the future inmates hated me because of the way i look & because I was the only person in our class who never had a girl the entire duration of HS. Me and my little group just hung out with each other that night & played Gears.

I didn't wanna go to graduation either, but I wanted to be the only one who cheered for this girl I liked. Turns out she didnt even hear me >.<

Do all schools even have grad night? I know at ours there were schools from NY, TN, etc.
 
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[quote name='bigdaddy']Didn't go, never wanted to, happy I didn't. The tickets were like $60 then at least $100 for a tux, fuck that. Didn't buy a class ring, didn't buy a yearbook, would love to forget those years ever happened.[/QUOTE]

QFT.

I hardly ever went to any school functions, period. Never went to graduation, dances, barely went to other things. I only went to what I had to go to.

I didn't even go to 8th grade "commencement." Instead, I went to the arcade and played games all night. It was sweet.
 
[quote name='The Mana Knight']Junior year, I was too upset with most people in my H.S. after what happened my Sophomore year, so I preferred to just not go. I felt there was no girl who would EVER want to date me due to being turned down a bunch of times when asking girls out (I explained all that crap in a blog entry before). When looking at the cost especially my Junior year, I said forget it, I'll just buy Dreamcast games instead. While the prom was going on, I just did homework and play Dreamcast. And since I'm not into drinking, I felt I had no reason to be there.

Senior year, I wasn't as upset with people, but I didn't exactly care all that much (I mostly just wanted to finish H.S.). Didn't really feel like paying money, going single, didn't want to get turned down again by a girl, and so on. Senior year is also when I had my big RPG marathon, where I was beating an RPG every week. While prom was in session, I just played Xenogears most of the day and finished it. I also didn't care for drinking.[/quote]
#-o

It's funny, because I stumbled upon a picture of myself from prom today.
 
[quote name='JohnnyFoxDarko']#-o

It's funny, because I stumbled upon a picture of myself from prom today.[/quote]

:rofl: @ TMK.

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Pics or GTFO. :cool:
 
[quote name='mrmafia33']My gf broke up with me shortly after prom. I later found out her long trips to the bathroom were really long trips to my friend.[/quote]


Oh...snap?
 
[quote name='Phorty Ounce']Oh...snap?[/quote]
that was exactly my reaction. good thing I ordered that bitch the wrong meal. she wanted the pasta, but i got her the chicken (im sure she had more than her share of steak that night)
 
I went with my g/f at the time and a bunch of our friend's. Had a lot of fun and got made fun of for my lack of dancing skillz. We didn't go to any of the after parties and she ended up puking from the Denny's we had after prom. Kinda killed the frisky business that was going on in the car, but it made me the hero when I got to take care of her afterwards :)
 
went with a girl I was interested in, she ended up spending more time dancing and eventually hooking up with a "friend" and i ended up getting angry, then drunk, then sleepy. To make matters worse someone recorded the whole night, and my parents ended up seeing the tape of me wasted.
 
[quote name='Ikohn4ever']went with a girl I was interested in, she ended up spending more time dancing and eventually hooking up with a "friend" and i ended up getting angry, then drunk, then sleepy. To make matters worse someone recorded the whole night, and my parents ended up seeing the tape of me wasted.[/quote]

Wow that blows.
 
I like the earlier topic about folks getting laid on prom night. It would have been hard as crap to have sex after prom at my high school, not that I was really thinking about that back then (I'm sort of an innocent who has taken a little longer to get to that point, and a girl, btw).

I went to a private school for arty kids (read: mostly moody, smug kids who think they're the best thing since God). The dorms were separated, and the boys and girls could never, ever visit each other in their rooms. For our junior and senior prom, we were bused to some very nice hotel to use their ball room and such, then we were bused back. We were not allowed to have limos or someone else drive us unless it was a parent. Seriously, we road the school bus to our prom.

And of course, when we got back to the hotel after prom, it was late, so there was no mingling off privately somewhere. We had curfew and had to go straight up to our dorms, each on their respective sides.

Don't get me wrong, my friends and I had a lot of fun, especially at the junior prom. But yeah, the guy I was with then (a lifelong friend I still somewhat date-ish), was even more the innocent than I, and still is, being the uber-Christian/no sex before marriage sort.
 
LOL hell no. Me and my friends didn't go to prom. We bough a few pizzas, a couple of drinks and played Soul Calibur, Power Stone and NFL 2k1 until we passed out. The Dreamcast era was simple times. *sigh*
 
I was lucky enough NOT to go to prom. Instead my 'rents felt bad i didn't ask anyone and gave me 300 bucks (what they probably woulda spent on me going). I wound up going to see "Gladiator" on opening night back on may 5th, 2000. great movie, f the prom
 
[quote name='JimmieMac']I didn't go to prom and I didn't walk during graduation, I did get my diploma, I just picked it up a few days later. fuck all that bullshit. People say that they know high school is stupid bullshit but yet they do all the stupid bullshit stuff to "fit in" or why ever the fuck you would want to spend money to hang around people you don't like or to put on a dress and sit in the heat while some fuck head who you'd sooner kick in the head gives a speech peppered with "amusing" quotes and anecdotes.

If you're smart, really smart, you know that shit means nothing. It's just stuff they think you want to do, nobody wants to do any of that stuff, they just don't have enough people to stand up and tell them to take their prom with a shiity DJ and shove it up their ass.[/QUOTE]

True true... I didnt walk, even though I was top 25 out of 500 in my class... the two proms I went to were for the girls benefit... dont remember too much of either of them other than getting laid...
 
[quote name='The Mana Knight']Very interesting results here. I felt more would have went to prom single at least, but I see many did not go.



All right, I'll give my explanation.

Junior year, I was too upset with most people in my H.S. after what happened my Sophomore year, so I preferred to just not go. I felt there was no girl who would EVER want to date me due to being turned down a bunch of times when asking girls out (I explained all that crap in a blog entry before). When looking at the cost especially my Junior year, I said forget it, I'll just buy Dreamcast games instead. While the prom was going on, I just did homework and play Dreamcast. And since I'm not into drinking, I felt I had no reason to be there.

Senior year, I wasn't as upset with people, but I didn't exactly care all that much (I mostly just wanted to finish H.S.). Didn't really feel like paying money, going single, didn't want to get turned down again by a girl, and so on. Senior year is also when I had my big RPG marathon, where I was beating an RPG every week. While prom was in session, I just played Xenogears most of the day and finished it. I also didn't care for drinking.[/quote]

Girls tend to think differently when prom comes around. You may ask one out on a date and get rejected, but if you ask that same girl to prom, if she doesn't already have a date, there's a much higher chance she'll say yes.

There were a few girls who I probably didn't have much of a chance with outside of school events, and they said yes when I asked them to these events, so prior experiences really shouldn't discourage you from asking someone to prom.
 
I ended up going to my senior prom after everyone talked me into it. I went with a friend whose boyfriend couldn't go to our prom for some reason or another. Basically we ended up taking pictures for two hours before prom started ending in us missing our dinner reservations. The actual prom sucked due to her running off and dancing with her girlfriends leaving me with her dopey friend's date to stand akwardly. We ended up leaving early and I was home before midnight.

I don't plan on telling my kids to go to prom if they don't want to.
 
TMK, why do you talk about stuff that happened in high school so much? Aren't you 26?

Also, I didn't go to either my junior or senior prom. It's extremely expensive and I couldn't afford to go. I'd like to think that even if I could have I wouldn't have spent that kind of money on something so trivial and short-lived.
 
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No. Maybe in senior year, but most likely not.

Truth is, I'd probably rather play Gears 2 than go to senior prom. Bunch of wallflowers = meh.
 
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