The Prom

[rpm]

I have being seeing lots of ads for limo and tux rentals and of course the prom dresses on sale.
Who went to the prom and did you have a good time?

 

[strongenough78]

Well, I helped out my old boss at the limo service saturday night and drove some kids to prom. Does that count? lol. It was a great run and the kids were so polite and well mannered. I had a great time.

 

[autowasherfreak]

I never went to prom or homecoming. I hated most of the people I went to school with because of the way they treated me. But then went to my 20th reunion, and couldn't get over how they changed. I have never received so many apologies as I did that night.

 

[ronhic]

I was on the organising committee for 2 of the 3 that I went to.

In Canberra, we change schools at the end of yr 10 (about 16yrs old) and do the final 2 years at 'college' prior going to university. As a result we have a 'formal' (formal clothes = 'formal') at the end of yr10 and then in college the yr11s get to go to the yr 12s....

...So I went to 3 over 3yrs...

I enjoyed them all....Not the most popular kid in school...let me see...glasses, braces and over weight - I get the trifecta..but they were fun. If I had to choose, then the yr 10 formal was the worst...

 

[polkanut]

I went to prom after I was out of high school (1988). I was 18 & dating a girl who was a year younger than me. There were quite a few from my class (1987) that were there. I remember my tux was double-breasted black with dark grey pinstripes, it was from the "Dynasty" collection. My gf wore a light blue crepe gown with a lace overlay. I gave her a gardenia wrist corsage, and I had a gardenia boutonniere to match. My dad had just bought a 1988 Dodge 600SE 2 weeks earlier, so we went in style. I was petrified the entire night that something would happen to the car. We broke up in August of that year, and she was killed in a head-on collision with a drunk driver in May of 1989. I still have the photo of us taken on prom night by the professional photographer that was hired for the evening.

 

[dogboy44]

I had a great time

you should have been there

 

[polkanut]

Dogboy,

Which one is you?

 

[xraytech]

I went to prom my Senior year, and only for a few reasons.
1. Our class officers were a lost cause so the teacher in charge of the Senior class appointed me to be a class manager and work with her(because I was responsible and also had 3 study hall periods because I had more than enough credits)So i put together not only the homecoming parade, senior banquet, graduation, and also set up all of the prom arrangements and picked the theme. Our teacher and myself did it all and excluded the officers.
Our prom theme was "Tropical Paradise" because our class refused to have a regular prom and also because we wern't allowed to have our desired theme of "Jungle Safari"
None the less we had palm trees and parrots, and waterfalls and volcanoes as decorations for prom.
2. Our class wasn't allowed to go on a senior trip because no one would chapperone us so prom was free for the seniors(all 44 of us)

I went alone because I didn't like most of the people in school and wasn't paying for someone outside of our class to go.

I wore a sage green double breasted tux with black and white wing tip shoes and I had a boutonniere of two white dandrobian orchids. I only hung out with my one friend and his girlfriend and he had a black tux with a bright orange shirt and brown snakeskin shoes and a top hat, she had on a matching orange gown, and she had an arm bouquet of bird of paridise and he had a matching boutonniere.

 

[jeffg]

Our prom sucked, but the day after, my two best friends and I headed to Vegas (we had fake IDs, this was before anyone really cared about age limits, and one could find lots of single-deck 21) and had a blast. We had just mastered Revere's advanced point count system for blackjack, we were ahead over $5K at Caesar's before the management asked us to leave. I still remember the system..

A- -4
K- -3
Q- -3
J- -3
10- -3
9- -1
8- 0
7- +2
6- +3
5- +4
4- +3
3- +3
2- +2
-----
-17 / +17 = 0

 

[DADoES]

I went for the sole purpose of taking a few pics for the yearbook. I served on yearbook for three years, editor for two years (the first time there had been a two-year editor in the history of the book up to that point, don't know if it happened again). The 2nd year I pretty much did the entire book myself, to very little appreciation from anyone other than the faculty advisor.

I don't recall how I dressed, but there certainly was no limousine or tuxedo involved. It was a very uncomfortable, awkward experience. I ate a little, snapped some pics, and left soon as possible.