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| Ok, this is just my opinion. Although many people would disagree with me, I know there are some out there who think prom is just an over-rated high school dance. I didn't go to prom my junior year (and there's a story behind why), but this year I went undercover to show the world that PROM SUCKS! |
| ~THE PERFECT PROM DATE~ 1. A date can make or break your social standing at prom, which goes to show how shallow high school really is. Going with a date is a game of intimidation. Even though most people say it's OK to go stag. But who really wants to get all that dressed up for no one in particular, and sit all the slow songs out? 2. Dates you wouldn't even consider try to ask you to go with them. 3. You have to get up the nerve to ask someone to go sometimes. 4. It's really sad when your twin sister gets a date for the prom and you don't. 5. When your boyfriend says "if my ex can come back to town that weekend, can I take her to prom instead of you?" (This happened to me once.) 6. When you want to go, but your boyfriend/girlfriend doesn't. (Been there, done that...) 7. Age limits on dates. Often times, the dance is closed off to underclassmen and graduates. 8. When you keep a boyfriend/girlfriend so you have a date on prom night. 9. When you get dumped on Prom Night, and watch your boyfriend/girlfriend hook up with the school sleeze/player. |
| ~THE PREPIARATION~ 1. The attire. Renting a tux, finding a dress...and when prom rolls around, you have no money. 2. Hair appointments, nail appointments, tanning appointments, and make-up appointments have to be made months in advance. Rescheduling them later is impossible. 3. Renting a limo is expensive, so you decide to take your POS car, due to lack of money, and it breaks down on you on prom night and you end up walking to the prom. 3. Spending hours out shopping for the perfect dress only to realise that someone has the exact same dress on prom night. |
| ~THE PERFECT DRESS~ 1. Spagetti straps. All of the really cool dresses have no bust support. 2. Open backs. You kinda can't wear a bra with them, unless you want it to show. 3. 2 Pieces. They expose your stomech. Some are really skimpy. So what is this, the swimsuit contest? 4. Speaking of skimpy dresses, guys think that "less is more." All of the above, plus the enviornment and some grinding, gives them hard ons. 5. Poofy skirts make you look fat. 6. Long skirts are easy to trip on in heels. 7. Finding the right shoes to go with your dress, which you don't really wear half of the night because they're uncomfortable to dance in. |
| ~THE DINNER~ 1. Expensive restarunts with food you can't pronounce, or eat half of. 2. The risk of spilling on yourself or your date. 3. High school guys don't have good dining ediquate, although they have improved since they were toddlers. 4. Not knowing which fork to use. 5. Candles can be romantic, but also a fire hazard if your date is a pyromaniac and lights to light random objects on fire. (Been there, done that...we set off the smoke alarm.) |
| ~THE GRAND MARCH~ 1. Standing infront of the whole entire community with your date. It's like you're getting married. 2. Tripping on your dress, or your date tripping and causing a domino effect in the line. 3. Who really cares who's going with who? 4. This year our grand march was broadcasted over the internet through our school webiste. Although the people who did all the tech work for it are friends of mine, I think that wasn't nessisary. If people wanted to see it, they wouldn't sit at home and watch it on their computers. |
| ~THE DANCE~ 1. The usual bad DJ from the local radio station playing bad dance songs like the Macarana, YMCA, the Chicken Dance, and the Hokie Pokie. 2. Bad decorations that took hours to put up, but are destroyed by the end of the dance. 3. Hot, sweaty, smelly, loud... 4. Not having someone to dance with. 5. Having someone to dance with. Skimpy dresses, and the enviornment can make a guy horny. 6. Let's face it...guys can't dance. 7. Getting your toes stepped on by your date. 8. Not enough room on the dance floor. 9. expensive pictures that in 15 years you'll be embarassed to show your children. 9. Another over rated high school dance with a bigger price tag, and a stupid theme that is suppose to sound romantic, but gets an 11 on the Cheesy-O-Meter. |
| ~AFTER PROM~ 1. Another ticket fee of $20, $35 if you want a T-shirt. 2. The T-shirts are ugly. 3. Unrealistic hypnotists, unhumorus comedians...need I say more? 4. Seeing school pricks make asses out of themselves, which you can see any day of the week. 5. Carney games that rip you off. 6. Prizes you don't know what to do with. 7. Premiscious sexual activities that happen when you skip after prom, or before after prom starts, or after the after prom party, that are supposed to make the evening "special." If you catch my drift... 8. Beer parties & drunks. |
| ~THE PROM COMMITEE~ 1. Picking the theme. Hopefully one that everyone will like. 2. Fundraising, & staying within the school budget. 3. Working concessions for "prom points" so that you can go. 4. Paying $10 per point because you didn't work concessions, plus class dues, which brings the total to $40. 5. Decorating. 6. Booking a dance hall, entertainment, etc... 7. Booking prom night on the same night as your rival school across town. (It happens a lot here.) 8. Prom Royalty: always all the popular types. The only ones that really care, because they would get no attention otherwise. 9. Invatations and tickets. |
| ~THE AFTERMATH~ 1. After-MATH, literally. According to an article in the Des Moins Register, the average couple spends an average of $800 to $1,200 on prom night. 2. Comming home at 5 in the morning, and suffering from lack of sleep. 3. Hangovers. 4. Doing it all again next year. |
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| And last, but not least, the thing about prom that sucks the most... People who think prom is supposed to be perfect, and then realize that the night you've been planning for months, and dreaming about for years is far from perfect. |
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| Since Prom just sucks, I update this page whenever I feel like it. This page was last updated on: 04/29/2002 |
| Email me at: h2_02@yahoo.com |
| Copyright (C) 2002 by Heather A. Hoffman |
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