Prom is Now a Marriage Rehearsal

[Thomas Merton]

Just read a USA Today article which confirms a trend I saw developing as a high school English teacher from '90 - '05. Prom has become a 2 day affair complete with dinners the night before, the obligatory limo/dinner beforehand and structured all-night after parties at bowling alleys, lazer tag places or cruises. PTA groups spend thousands to convince kids to party safely at their events. Total cost is well over $1,000 if done "right."

My prom in 1980 included borrowing my dad's '78 Firebird(1st time he let me drive it), having dinner at a friends house that all the girls made together, drinking beer in the parking lot of the Springfield, Va Hilton, and culminated by an after hours party at the Howard Johnson. Finally, I groped my way to 2nd base in the Firebird and called it a night. Total cost: around $100 including corsage.

Am I old and a threat to progress or justified in my mockery of these kids today and what it costs to have a good time these days?

[Tenbatsuzen]

Prom weekend was spent in a drunken haze in seaside heights.

I think I hit someone with a frying pan.

[Don Stugots]

prom night was spent cursing the girl that came with me and left with someone else.

[burrben]

prom sucks. you make one dead baby joke and one anti-semitic joke and all of a sudden you're the bad guy

[IamFogHat]

I was blotto. There was a pool at the friend's house of the afterparty. Um, there are pictures, they indicate a good time was had.

[MrPink]

Prom was spent on the verge of blacking out. I wore a black suit with a sky blue shirt, no tux, no tie. My date picked me up in her dad's car. Showed up drunk, almost caused a scene. Afterwards, a few of us went to my buddy's house and had jungle juice. Don't know what happened next. Point is, prom was no big deal at my school. Or at least with me.

[Jughead]

I was singing in the band that played at my prom.... My girlfriend/Wife 2 years later(1975) was Queen..What a night!!!!!!!!I dont remember the song we did so I could dance with her??? ....But me and another member switched between lead singer and bass....For many many years later..I could never get down the playing bass and singing at the same time....Even though my dad is/ was very very good at it....

[Jughead]

I was singing in the band that played at my prom.... My girlfriend/Wife 2 years later(1975) was Queen..What a night!!!!!!!!I dont remember the song we did so I could dance with her??? ....But me and another member switched between lead singer and bass....For many many years later..I could never get down the playing bass and singing at the same time....Even though my dad is/ was very very good at it....

[Death Metal Moe]

Prom night was spent hanging out anywhere but at my prom. I didn't fit in socially at my high school so I didn't waste my time or money.

[cupcakelove]

My Junior prom me and some friends rented a limo and did it up. The next year I barely rented a tux for that thing. What a waste.

[Tall_James]

My prom was spent taking this mousy little girl as a joke and making her feel all special. Then, as a goof, we crowned her prom queen and as she was enjoying this one good thing that happened in her life, me and a couple of buddies dumped a bucket of pig's blood on her head.

[Ritalin]

prom night was spent cursing the girl that came with me and left with someone else.

Ha! Fag!

[extracheese]

a 100 dollars back in your day IS EQUAL to 1000 today. I can prove it. Your firebird probably cost you 3000 bucks, today a car like that is 30,000.
10 times. Get it?

[Snacks]

back at my prom we had "prom weekend". Firday night was the actual prom, at a wedding place. I forget were it was but it was $150 per couple for the meal. We rented a limo, tuxes and the girls bought dresses. I think the limo was $250 per couple and my tux was $100. After the prom we went to someones house got drunk, drove around like kids in the back of the limo trying to get some action. Then it was off to Wildwood NJ for 2 night and 3 days of drinking, girls, drinking, girls and clubbing. The whole thing wasnt cheap but you only do it once. I think my parents paid for the limo, tux and prom and I paid for the weekend at the shore.

[SatCam]

I think my parents paid for the limo, tux and prom and I paid for the weekend at the shore.

who paid for the whores?

[Midkiff]

The hotel after the prom is honeymoon practice.

[reeshy]

I'm like Moe...I didn't go to my prom...I hung out with my friends and smoked dope.....then got the local hoochies to fuck us!!!!!!TeeHee

[Thomas Merton]

a 100 dollars back in your day IS EQUAL to 1000 today. I can prove it. Your firebird probably cost you 3000 bucks, today a car like that is 30,000.
10 times. Get it?


Got it cheese. I appreciate the economics lesson. I didnt include the price of the car in my prom expense tally. The beer consumed was $2 a six pack and since beer isnt $20 now I dont see how your example holds. Not sure how much the Ho Jo room was. But I appreciate the attempt to poke fun at my advanced age

[Bellyfullasnot]

Just read a USA Today article which confirms a trend I saw developing as a high school English teacher from '90 - '05. Prom has become a 2 day affair complete with dinners the night before, the obligatory limo/dinner beforehand and structured all-night after parties at bowling alleys, lazer tag places or cruises. PTA groups spend thousands to convince kids to party safely at their events. Total cost is well over $1,000 if done "right."

My prom in 1980 included borrowing my dad's '78 Firebird(1st time he let me drive it), having dinner at a friends house that all the girls made together, drinking beer in the parking lot of the Springfield, Va Hilton, and culminated by an after hours party at the Howard Johnson. Finally, I groped my way to 2nd base in the Firebird and called it a night. Total cost: around $100 including corsage.

Am I old and a threat to progress or justified in my mockery of these kids today and what it costs to have a good time these days?

Prom for some of us is Christmas in June! I've got a house that needs new windows. I wish prom was twice a year.

[drjoek]

Ultimate Stereotype

I popped my girlfriends cherry at our prom.

Bitch fucked me over later but I was the first

[A.J.]

As I said in another thread: Proms are a waste of time and money anyway -- right behind class rings.

Up yours Josten's!

[Midkiff]

Ultimate Stereotype

I popped my girlfriends cherry at our prom.

Bitch fucked me over later but I was the first

Classy!

[King Hippos Bandaid]

My Prom Weekend was in Wildwood, got soo drunk, dont remember much, just drinking lots of Vodka

Also got too drunk at Prom, to even think of scoring

Did the Tux Limo Thing, all wasted $$

:king:

[led37zep]

Rented a tux, borrowed my dads truck, took my chick out to dinner...you include the dance and everything I bet I spent about $250 on my prom back in '96.

I can't imagine dropping a Grand on a highschool dance.

[torker]

I don't see how snorting coke and getting a blowjob in the back of a limo prepaired me for marriage. If anything I set the bar too high too young.

[LordJezo]

For anyone interested in the article that started this conversation..

Click here to read it. (http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2007-04-15-proms_N.htm)

[Snacks]

who paid for the whores?

no one, it was high school the girls didnt take money back in those days!!!

[furie]

my prom cost me about $600 back in 1992. it was the prom itself, the limo, my tux, and then a night in NYC afterwards, which is what just about everyon from LI did.

[Mike Teacher]

Prom was going just fine until Billy Nolan poured that bucket of blood...

[patsopinion]

things you dont want to do but you do for her


prom(matching? wtf?)

weddings (even the ones that say its not that big a deal, it is)

eat muff (some say that i enjoy it, but they enjoy the reaction)

watch sex in the city (ugh)

i dont know anything else?

[Thomas Merton]

Um, how about doing nothing you really want to do?

My brother and best man gave me the best advice. When you think you've met the "one" start taking on a lot of activities, stuff you may not even be that interested in. Then, upon the engagement, start dropping those activities while loudly proclaiming you did it for her to spend more time with her. Finally, on that first Sunday in September after the wedding day, when your reason for living, football, is on and she wants you to do something like go to the flea market or some such nonsense, say "but honey, I gave up my bowling league and the Knights of Columbus for you. Can't I at least have my football?" Unless she a true nappy headed ho, she'll back off and maybe even bring you your next beer.

[narc]

My prom was a little like a wedding....there were organized afterparties with door prizes, a garter ceremony during (!) and limos.

I also made my date's little sister run off crying upstairs with my suaveness.