Prom memories

[Kaleigh]

OH PNP, that is just awful. I knew there would be some horror stories when I started this thread but that takes the cake. What a bummer.

 

[justjulia]

Holy moly PNP!
Glad it went well Kaleigh!!

 

[sk8rjen]

These stories are funny -- and sad, but I''m sorry that I''m glad I wasn''t the only one with a less-than-stellar prom. We had 2 prom-like dances a year (co-ed was the girl-ask-guy) and I went to that with a guy friend who had a crush on me, but I didn''t feel the same and spent the whole night trying to find and dance with the guy I liked. Bad me. Ended up being boring, did nothing afterward.

Senior prom whould have been fantastic. I was dating a guy for several months leading up to it who I was totally "in love" with (yeah, first love I guess) and he went to the other school in town (lived in Wyoming at the time) so I should have had 2 senior proms, actually But no, after I found and spent a great deal on my dream dress (at the time!) he dumped me just beforehand and went back to his ex. So prom was really the least thing I was devatated about, but I still wanted to go.

I asked my drama-partner, best guy friend, to go with me b/c he was adamant about NOT going and therefore didn''t have a date. Most girls at my school found him really attractive and couldn''t believe he was going with me (yah, some were jealous which was a nice change for me!) and by prom, I saw him in a new light and my crush on him was full-blown. He had agreed to go with me if I paid for everything (he wasn''t cheap, just really did not want to go) and so I did b/c I knew we could hang out together and it would be fun. I even had the guts by the end of the evening to tell him "how I felt" about him --- hee hee --- got rejected and felt awkward for a LONG time after.

So here it is 2006 and we are still very good friends (and he''s actually in hollywood acting) but he has been with his *husband* for a decade now!!

He always *did* say he had something important to tell me someday... just took him until after we graduated!

My pics are funny (I have half a shaved head growing back in, bad 1991 haircut overall) -- but I don''t know how to put pics in a post...

jen

 

[AsscherGirl]

PNP - that is awful! But at least you finished the night with some White Castle - yummmmmm!!!!

 

[Caribou]

My prom was pretty uneventful. I went with an ''underclassmen'' but he was so nice. I don''t even really remember most of it, it was so long ago.

My prom date died a few years ago, that''s was kind of sad.

He was allergic to peanuts and while on a business trip, ate something with peanut oil in it.

 

[fire&ice]

Hah! I forgot the memory. I had been dating a guy exclusively who went to another school. So, we were going to his prom. He forgot to ask for the night off from work. Well, they made him work & then proceeded to make him work the second later shift. There I sit at home with my new gown, hair done, etc. eating macaroni and cheese (we were suppose to go to dinner, etc). Well, he shows up at my house at 10:30! The prom was all but over by the time we arrived. I remember going to some after parties. I didn''t know a sole.

The memory of my prom wasn''t any better. I had a "what were you thinking" dress on & he didn''t know anyone at my school. BORING!

 

[saturn]

Glad to hear your daughter had a good time, Kaleigh!

Prom was actually a lot of fun for me. At my school, prom was only for seniors. I went with my first boyfriend, and it was the first time someone actually asked *me* to a dance (I had always done the asking before).

I wore a lovely pale blue satin dress, had my hair, and felt like a princess.
Then-BF worked as a waiter at one of the fancier restaurants in town, and so we decided to go there for dinner. When we arrived at the restaurant, it turned out that he had convinced them to set up a table for us outside the restaurant, in a gazebo right by the river. It was so romantic! (Although I did feel bad for the waitress who had to carry all of our food down the bumpy hill to our table). After dinner, we went to the dance, which was actually kind of forgettable. Then we went to a friend''s house and stayed up all night with a bunch of friends.

 

[SoonIHope]

For my junior prom, all of my friends really wanted to bring dates, so they talked me into asking this sophomore I was sort of friends with to go with me. I thought I made it clear that it was just as friends...but he apparently didn't realize that. The worst part is that even though I didn't have a crush on him, I thought he was nice and funny (well, way over the top funny), but one of my friends COULD NOT STAND HIM and would roll her eyes whenever he would like touch my shoulder or anything. So even though I wasn't particularly enjoying his advances to begin with, I was just really self-conscious about making sure I didn't LOOK like I was so that she wouldn't think less of me, but also not being mean to him since he really was a nice guy, but also trying to signal that I wasn't interested in dating him....so complicated! Afterwards we all went to a diner for a bit, then I drove him home (he had wanted a limo because he was only 15 at the time, but since I was so not a prom kind of person and I didn't want him to think it was a real date, I insisted on driving him) and he kissed me goodnight...which was kind of awkward. Later one of my friends said she saw him sitting alone at lunch gazing fondly at pictures of us from prom!!! Eeeek!!! But we sort of managed to stay kind of friends after that, and we hadn't been that close before so it was fine. I still have the plastic flower bouquet his mom made me instead of a corsage!!! It always makes me giggle.

Senior year, my friends all decided to go as a group of girls, which would have suited me much better, but I had already spent however much money on the junior year prom which I really didn't enjoy that much, and the part I liked the LEAST was sitting around in my school caffeteria (YES that is where our prom was

) not-dancing (I hate dancing), so I bowed out. One of my friends also decided not to go, so the two of us ended up going to the fancy pre-prom dinner with everyone else and then going to watch a movie and hang out by ourselves. Which I was excited about and was good for a while...until she started feeling sorry for herself for not getting to go to her senior prom and I had to comfort her for the rest of the evening...

 

[AmberWaves]

Ha ha, Albi, we have so much in common! I wanted to go to my prom with my neighbor in our AP Lit. and Comp class. Turned out he asked another girl (

) and I was pissed. Anyway, his best friend (a sophmore) asked me, which was funny because he was an underclassmen, "Will you go to your prom with me?". I said yes, and it was murder. The guys (the one I was going with and the one I wanted to go with) shopped for tuxes together, corsages together.. we were trapped. We ended up going with my old girl scout friend and her boyfriend, who amazingly enough had been in a boyscout troop with my date (the BF was from a different school). I wore my aunt''s vintage dress, black silk, v-neck, with a brooch at the chest at the bottom of the V. My date was a foot and a half taller than me, so I wore super high heels. I tired to give the ol'' "I don''t like you like that" hint, but no good. When we finally got up to dance the one slow dance I promised, I got claustrophobic and had to sit down. After prom we all shared a hotel room, and I got groped by my pre-school buddy. Who then got slapped. Yeah, high school was great.

At least the prom was in a cool place, the Downtown Biltmore hotel in Los Angeles. It was very "old school" glamour.