Did you go to your prom?

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If you didnt' go you were a loser. It might be stupid now you look back, but come on. We all had fun there. But this is ATOT. It's totally fine to denounce prom and not be known as a douche. It was for the memories, and while senior prom was a ripoff, I still had fun. Junior prom rocked though.
 

coldmeat

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Originally posted by: DLeRium
If you didnt' go you were a loser. It might be stupid now you look back, but come on. We all had fun there. But this is ATOT. It's totally fine to denounce prom and not be known as a douche. It was for the memories, and while senior prom was a ripoff, I still had fun. Junior prom rocked though.

There's such a thing as junior prom? Seems kinda silly.
 

Superrock

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No by choice. All my friends went but I thought it was a waste of money going with someone you didn't really like. The girl I liked went with somebody else.

I thought I was alone! I found my people!
 

EGGO

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No I didn't. I went to go to a place that would play better music and would have better people. I had more fun and met one of the greatest girls I'll ever meet who actually came to me to dance.
 

zinfamous

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not the High School dance kind of person.

but I went my junior Year b/c some senior gal wanted to go, and asked me to take her...I obliged
/shrug

nice gal, she was.
 

Leros

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I went my junior year. I had an ok time. I don't like to dance so I was either being dragged to dance by my girlfriend, kinda unpleasant for both of us, or socializing, which I enjoyed. I never liked dances or anything like that.

I did not go back senior year.

 

zinfamous

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Originally posted by: Quintox
I did. I went with a girl as friends, but of course, as soon as I asked from that day on everything was weird b/t us, mainly do to her. She kept sitting beside me at lunch and taking my best friend's seat, and kept acting weird (not in the sense that she had a crush or anything).
[snippy]

wait


your best friend had a "seat?"





weird.....

were you guys, like, on Saved by the Bell, or something? was there a third wall, where you all had to sit in the same spot so that everyone else could enjoy your antics?
 

MotionMan

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I went to at least four proms (that I can recall): I went to a small high school, so prom was for seniors and juniors, so thats two. I went to a junior prom with my then-girlfriend at her HS and a senior prom the next year with another friend at her HS.

Proms are just excuses to go to After Parties.

MotionMan
 

zinfamous

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Originally posted by: markgm
Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: pontifex
love the "no, by choice" answers. I'd be willing to bet most of them should be under "no, couldn't get a date"

I think it's more like "No, I'm too scared to ask so I convince myself prom is boring while I sit at home and play computer games"

Maybe it's like that now, but that's not quite how things were where I went to school when I went.

yep

a lot of ATers don't realize how recent a phenomenom computer games are...

;)
 

Kirby

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Junior year I went with a girl I liked. She turned out to be a wise and beautiful woman.

Senior year I went with a friend, had a blast.
 

zinfamous

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Originally posted by: TehMac
Originally posted by: pontifex
love the "no, by choice" answers. I'd be willing to bet most of them should be under "no, couldn't get a date"

It's more like "fuck off, I don't really give a shit about high school or the people in it."


yes, I'm bitter. :p


I plan to go next year, but unless I went with a girl with something between her ears, it would have been a really awkward really useless night.

yes...b/c you must be a brilliant specimen yourself. :roll:


I thought as you did back when I was in high school...and I was just as stupid to think so.

realize this: It's fucking High School, you don't know SHIT ABOUT ANYTHING..

so have fun, and enjoy it. and especially enjoy the brainless ones when you can, b/c they get more annoying later on in life :p
 

Locut0s

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Nope. Never have been a really social guy and didn't have a GF then, or now. I was probably popular enough amongst a small crowd that I could have gone but it just wasn't me.
 

AznAnarchy99

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We just have one prom for all classes here unlike you guys with the Senior and Junior prom.. I didnt go this year, i spent the night with the girl im seeing doing what people who went to prom probably did... I did however had to do the clean up the next day... taking all of my girl-friends to Planned Parenthood for day after pills... geez people L2 use BC.

I do want to go next year however for my Senior Year.
 

PHiuR

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Originally posted by: Quintox
I did. I went with a girl as friends, but of course, as soon as I asked from that day on everything was weird b/t us, mainly do to her. She kept sitting beside me at lunch and taking my best friend's seat, and kept acting weird (not in the sense that she had a crush or anything).

Then on the way to the place to eat for pre-prom, we were going to meet her friends there (none of whom I cared for) and I almost wrecked 3 times and then I drove to the restaurant, in which she asked me why we were there. Uh, well that's we were eating....ended up her friends were on the other side of downtown to take pictures, so we sat on a rock for 30 minutes till they came. Meanwhile, as we were sitting there, an art festival was going on so there were people everywhere and I was in a tux and her in her dress. Then when her friends came, we had to kill time before our reservations so we walked around and her friend's feet were hurting then her dress got dirt all on it and she was practically crying.

When we finally got to eat, she spent $60 on food. Finally we got to the actual prom and then it was good because I told her to go dance with whomever and don't ask me to bump and grind b/c I don't want to. So I had a great time talking with my friends, and like an idiot she asked me to dance while a rap song was on she got DEE NIED. It was great. :D

On the plus side, my prom pics were me between 4 girls, since those are who I took everywhere.

you're an idiot.
 

blazerazor

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WTF?.! QqwertasdfWASD!%
I didn't go. Vt'd ....
I went to a keg'r.
btw. .... Zz .zzZ
also didn't have date.
*shrugs*

Just b'n trufull here.

 

runzwithsizorz

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Our parents knew, and understood we'd be out late, and indeed we were,------ just not at the prom. ;)