Prom Experience

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Hello everybody, did anyone here get the experience of going to the Prom when you were at School. I never did but i live in UK and its only started to catch on here in the UK. I wish sometimes that i had stayed at school to have experience with being in a girls company but i think i was too shy.

I went with a girl as a friend. It was all right I guess. I didn't really know how to dance. My most vivid memory is when one of my other friends and I decided to check out the party afterward. We were stunned by the amount of alcohol that was there, and we left after five minutes.

I went to mine (in the UK) back in 1997. It was awful. I couldn't afford a dress and so I wore one I'd worn to school several times (a maxi-length velvet thing), and bought a pair of cheap nasty heels which didn't go with it because I had almost no money. It was held in a hotel. There was no band, just music and a photo booth. Everyone got drunk and I spent most of the evening sitting on the floor in the hallway because it was too loud and too crowded.

I went to both of my proms (as a junior and as a senior) in high school. They were not the worst day in my life, but they were not something that I fondly remember by any measure. Neither time did I have a date, so I went alone because I was forced to by my parents. I do not dance well, so I mostly watched the video screen for the music videos that the DJ was playing. I was asked to dance by a few girls in my class who felt I was left out of everything, but their dates stopped them and told me to "%#@ off". (I got a beaten down later the next week by those guys because they did not want me to be at prom at all.)

I went to the school sponsored after-prom parties because there were supposed to be prizes, but it was rigged. All of the good ones went to the popular kids, while I got stuck with a free "grocery store brand" pizza coupon each year and got made fun of because of this. Had I known that it was a setup, I would have just stayed home and used those hours constructively.

There were other after prom parties that I was not invited to that I found out about later. Those would have been alcohol intensive ones. Needless to say, I would not have went to those if I would have been invited as I am allergic to alcohol and detest being around misbehaving drunk people. My rural hometown has a major drinking problem that goes down the generations in the major families that started the town. Many of the old timers do not think drunk driving laws should be enforced there because they got away with it when they were younger. They will go on and on about how tragic it is if someone dies because they were driving drunk and hit a tree on the way home from a late night party, never mind if someone else got hurt or killed by them in the process.

I went and lasted about an hour. I went with a few friends but I really didn't have any fun. The flashing lights on the dance floor and loud music really bothered me.

I went to my year 11 prom with a boy (as a friend). I was on the prom committee so I knew what it was going to be like, and I knew I wouldn't enjoy it lol.

I don't get that kind of dancing, I had to wear a corsage which made me cringe, and the whole thing was just too contrived and social. One of my friends spent about £500 on her dress, more on transport, more on makeup and a hair dresser and fake tan and.... ugh. Not my cup of tea at all.

The only part I did enjoy was my dress, mainly because it's not too prom-y and I've worn it since:

We didn't have them when I left school in 1984. There was a disco in the school assembly hall but everyone just wore what they normally wore outside of school. I just went with a group of friends. My daughter's prom is coming up and as far as I know she's just going with some friends. She got her dress the other day and luckily knew better than to ask if I liked it or not - I just can't do that "oh, it's lovely" thing that others seem to find so simple.

To be honest I don't like the idea of them and feel it puts too much pressure on the person to "have a date" and also on the parents to buy a dress/tux which will probably only be worn once and they may not be able to afford.

I went to a private, religious school, so we didn't have a prom. We had a junior-senior banquet, which was quite nice both times, especially my senior year. I think it was for the best I didn't have a prom, because I would never have had a date or been asked to dance.

Never went because there was not much I liked about it. I am not sorry despite missing out on what many people consider an important moment of their lives.

The theme song was "Color My World" by Chicago. I have no idea why I still remember this trivia from an event I did not attend 42 years ago.

Ah, my high school organised a prom for all us higher-years on the verge of leaving too, but I get the feeling we Brits aren't very good at this yet.
The event did seem a hit for the popular kids though, not so much for me. At the age of 16 I had never even worn makeup or a pretty dress before, and was very much out of my depth but thought I should turn up, dateless, because the teachers enthused is was a milestone. I actually heard some of the other kids express surprise in hushed tones that I turned up. It was socialising hell.

i went to prom, but we call it grad. i regret going. i didn't have a good time, but i felt like if i didn't go then my classmates would rub it in my face. i was at a table full of couples so i just sat on the sidelines watching people have a good time.

Of course, I went to my high-school proms, both of them. But, I was one of a few paid employees from the stage crew running power cables, hanging lights and getting first crack at the catering at 4:00 p.m. before hiding out backstage. Boy those were good times!

Completely gay, nerdy and autistic, I was.

Note: I had to be PAID money to go to my proms.

No, schools like mine didn't have prom or dances or things like that. Not that I'd been invited anyways. I have nothing positive whatsoever to say about my school experience.

Oh, me too. Public education for autistic gay kids in Utah was (and, too often, is still) simultaneously terrifying and insulting.

Speaking of Utah, I read something by CNN recently. It said Utah is the "best state for business with a lacking education system." I've never heard of Utah's education system being referred to as amazing, states like Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey are usually considered that.

I amn't surprised that CNN would state that. Utah is frequently ranked among all U.S. states as spending near the lowest education funds in the nation with crowded classrooms. Most news reporters and other talking heads turn that fact into dire straits for "those dumbed down Utah students." If the commentators would even scratch the surface of the truth, they would learn that, despite having one of the least funded edcaution systems in the nation, rates of student testing and graduation remains one of the highest in the nation. Sooo, why throw more money around needlessly? As for the business angle, Utah's budgetary and taxation policies give it high ratings as one of the most business friendly states. Utahns routinely survive national economic downturns better than most other Americans.