Skipping Prom

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I'm not going to the prom at my school. I don't like crowds. When I am in a crowded place my chest becomes tight.

I considered going for some time but then my friend convinced me not too. I did things the logical way, we wrote out pros and cons and the cons outweighed the pros 5:3 so I didnt go and I never regretted not even for a sec. I would've hated it because I hated the people in my highschool. I was obviously never asked.

I was dating someone at the time. My then partner went to a different school- a huge public school. (I attended a small Catholic school.) She wanted to go to prom but I didn't want to be around all those strangers. Since she had previously gone to my school, it made sense for us to both go to mine where we both knew almost everyone.

I had fun but only because I knew everyone. My friends made sure we all sat at the same table so I knew everyone sitting at my table really well. Our table was off in the far corner so we just sat there talking about the same stuff we'd normally talk about during lunch. It also was such a small school that it really wasn't too crowded. I thought I was going to completely hate it but prom was actually really fun. The only thing that I disliked about the event was the loud music. (The strobe lights would have sent me into a tizzy but I got lucky and they broke.) However, my girlfriend didn't like dancing that much so we just sat outside under the stars for most of the dance part.

We left early and went with her best friend back to the hotel. I already knew her friend so I was happy we'd get to hang out with her but then more people showed up. They were drunk and annoying. Not fun. When they left we tried to have sex but they burst in and my girfriend went after them throwing things at them and hitting them. Then she came back and started throwing things at me for not having done anything when they came in.

I'd say if anyone decides to go- bring a pair of earplugs and splurge on your own hotel room.

Yep im skipping mine ( not cuz i will probably be alone ) But cuz me mah gf and mah friends are all goin out togetha It will be 1000000 times better than sitting in a corner of the room watching all the others doing The classic prom thing ( wuteva that is xD ) anyways our way is more fun

I went to my senior prom with my then girlfriend who was the worst date ever. She would disappear for 20 minutes at a time, and they mostly played horrible gangsta rap. Imagine a bunch of rich, suburban white kids in formalwear "raising the roof" and singing along with Dr.Dre...

However, it wasn't ALL bad. I got to rent an awesome pinstripe zoot suit with a hat (like this: http://www.tuxedojunction-lv.com/images ... a_zoot.jpg). I also got the DJ to play "Ice Ice Baby" near the beginning, which was very amusing. There was also free food. I especially enjoyed the strawberries and fondue.

Overall, I didn't regret going... but I wouldn't have regretted not going either.

I don't plan on going to mine. There isn't much to do if you don't dance and don't like to socialize and get annoyed by loud music, and why the heck would I spend the money on a ticket/dress for that? Bleh.

My friends have dragged me to formal dance things before. I told them beforehand I wasn't going to dance, and they said alright, but the entire time I was there they kept trying to make me go and dance no matter how many times I said no.

So there's just no reason. I expect to get a lot of flak about it (just like I got a lot of flak for not wanting to spend a few hundred dollars on a class ring) but oh well. I'll have way more fun at home on my computer or at a bookstore anyway.

I can't stand going to dances. I hate being around the loud music, and being around the people in my school. Like many people have said, kids would probably use me going to a dance as an opportunity to pick on me or belittle me. I don't want to go through that. In middle school I went to our end of the year dance, and another student picked on me so much that I went into a crying meltdown. That of-course made them harass me even more. My parents made me go because it was going to be my "last moments of middle school". I didn't enjoy it, and I will refuse to go to any more dances the rest of my years in school.

i went to see billy joel at the jazz fest. it rained the whole time and it was freezing cold...but i got to be with my sister. she's always so busy with her millions of friends. she doesn't even see what's happening. she's drifting.
we danced in the rain and sang loud and proud to every song.
my brother almost got pneumonia as well.
it is night i will never forget.
i went to school the next and a slacker type asked me "dude, why didn't you go to the prom?"
i just laughed and shook my head.

In my Junior year I wanted to go to the prom because I was at an all girl's Catholic school and it would have been a female only lighthearted kind of event. My parents (despite not wanting me to get mixed up with boys) wouldn't let me go because they said it sounded lesbian.

Fast forward to my Senior year at a co-ed school, surrounded by people who mostly thought I was weird. My parents were desperate for me to go to prom and forced me to go. My boyfriend couldn't make it, and the boy who was fixed up with me and I hated each other so much that we both ended up avoiding each other as much as possible during the night. (He was a boorish vulgarian.)

If you ask me, many parents just want to have the prom photos as a souvenier so they can imagine you older and married, etc., despite all that talk of lifelong regrets.

Not sure what I'm going to do about prom. Mine's next July I think. I wanna go, but I don't wanna wear a dress. I don't wanna wear a tux because I've already got the "dyke appeal" at the moment. This is where I'm stuck |:

We didn't have a prom. Ha.

But coming up! A friend of mine decided to make her birthday a classy one. Dresscode? Fancy... dresses, smokings. I just try to look at it as a challenge and actually got myself a dress, pumps, jewellery, lipgloss and what else. Another achievement to conquer.

I loved my prom! I didn't dance or hang out in big groups or anything, I just hung around the edges of the hall with my best friend messing about. I tried to dance with my other friend but I was crap so I gave up, I wasn't too bothered I was there to have a laugh, and that I did.

I never went to my Junior or Senior Prom in High School. My Junior Prom conflicted with a meeting I had. I was invited to my senior prom and did attempt to get a date, but I felt that my invite was unattractive and that no one I asked wanted to go. I kind of feel bittersweet about my invite but do not regret my decision.

I didn't go to my high school prom, and have no regrets whatsoever. With my looks and social skills being exponentially worse than they are now, plus not having a car (a guy had to have a car in order to date in my school), finding a prom date was out of the question. If I could lower my standards (I didn't start doing that until college), I probably would be able to get a date, but oh well. Then again, here's how the costs would break down for my school, at least under the traditional "guy pays for everything" model.
Limo ---------------- $100/hr * 3hrs = $300
Tuxedo ------------- $100 rental = $100
Prom tickets ------- $ 60 * 2 = $120
Pre-prom Dinner -- $130 (for 2) = $130
After-prom Party -- $ 50 = $ 50
Grooming ------------ $100 = $100
Flowers/Corsage -- $ 50 = $ 50
Total Damage = $850

For the girl, the cost is generally limited to the dress and spa treatments. Not sure how those break down, but definitely much less than the guy's expenses, with the total being only a few hundred dollars. Plus you got the Glass Slipper Project charity, which provides girls with used prom dresses at no charge! (No equivalent exists for guys, so they have to pay for tuxedos regardless of their economic situation.)

As you can see, the cost/benefit ratio for attending prom is infinitesimally small. First of all, all the popular people will definitely be there, and will use the last remaining chance to pick on me. Two, knowing my pick-up skills, I'd be lucky if I get more than a hug and/or a kiss on the cheek from my date. Three, back in high school, I couldn't dance well even if someone held an AK-47 to my head, which means I'd embarrass myself. And all that for $850? No thanks!

I skip all school dances partially because I constantly hear stories about vodka being slipped into drinks at my high school.