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@ox0Shad0w0xo I've noticed that girls who don't care about it seem to care way less than guys who claim to not care about it

@Reticent: nahh I'm not that fun haha. but idk i'm not much into the social scene... I didn't even step foot on the dance floor x_x I really don't know what I would have done other than stuff my face. Bread was great though. Think I OD'd on butter that night.
tbh I just love small servings of hard bread.

My prom was okay. I don't regret going but my life definitely did not become more fulfilled that I did go.
My date and girlfriend at the time had to be back super early because her parents are super strict so we couldn't really do anything.

[quote=hangwithhung]i'm socially inept for the most part. the only reason I went to prom was to feel like I was a part of something and in the end I kind of regret having gone.
my date and I ate all the bread on table within minutes and we proceeded to raid surrounding tables for their bread baskets, too. we asked for several refills and eventually ate so many rolls of bread we couldn't finish the main course lol.[/quote]

You sound like an amazing person to go to prom with. I love bread too, man. But then again, paying so much for prom just to eat bread. o-o But you asked for refills for BREAD. That takes guts. *squeees* *swoons*

Went to prom because my mother insisted I went.
Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, especially the dancing.

i'm socially inept for the most part. the only reason I went to prom was to feel like I was a part of something and in the end I kind of regret having gone.
my date and I ate all the bread on table within minutes and we proceeded to raid surrounding tables for their bread baskets, too. we asked for several refills and eventually ate so many rolls of bread we couldn't finish the main course lol.

Lmfao these people who didnt go to prom was because #1, They don't have any friends or dates or go with and #2. They broke af. I enjoyed prom and it was a great experience, its not much considering its once in a life time.

I have mixed feelings about my prom. I went to prom with my best friend, which was cool, we were weirdly close to the point where people thought she was my girlfriend (she had a boyfriend she'd been with for 5 years already though). She was a great dancer (I was the only person she danced with at every school dance) and we could talk about whatever, so I figured, great person to take.

But what made it not so fun was two things. 1) Me and 3 of my bro's put money together to rent a limo. One of my friend brought his girlfriend, whom I'd never met before. She was trying way too hard to be funny (he's a class clown, so she was trying to be funny too) and she was being bossy to people she'd never met. My date and I wanted to go do our own thing after prom with just me and her, rather than go sit at IHOP like his girlfriend wanted us all to do. Everyone else was like sure, no problem. But she kept trying to tell us that we wouldn't have fun if we didn't stay with the group. Which wouldn't have been so bad, but she wouldn't shut up about it all night. So that annoyed me, and pissed off my date. And 2) no one freaking danced! The dance floor was empty the whole night and my date didn't want us to be the only ones out there dancing because everyone would just be sitting there watching (which admittedly would be awkward). Everyone just stood around taking pictures, talking and eating the finger food. But other than that, the limo was nice, and spending the evening with my date was fun, since our prom was on the Queen Mary (A cruise ship in long beach). Got to stare out over the ocean and just talk.

But my prom story aside, I wouldn't say prom in general is overrated. Some people make way too big of a deal about it, stressing for months about the planning. As if it's the only way you can go out with someone at your school, and if you mess it up you're forever alone. But it's just a dance where everyone dresses up. Go with someone you feel you'd have fun with, even if she isn't your girlfriend. Don't stress about how to make her fall for you before the night is over or how to convince her to get "intimate" because then you won't really be having fun. You'll be focusing too much on a "goal" rather than being in the moment (which is why everyone takes pictures, to remember the moment). Just go with the expectation that you're going to dance, eat some food, and take some pictures and you'll be content. That's not to say you can't take a girl you want to go out with (or already are), just don't go overboard with what you want to happen.

So, I'm a senior, crush is a junior, I literally just got back from hanging out with her (we went Geocaching...if you don't know what it is, Google it).
The topic of prom came up, because we were talking about paintballing and she said she was gonna go paintballing instead of prom, I guess kinda jokingly (apparently she's not very social even though she's extremely cute and actually funny).
And I didn't ask her to prom then, I just said it'd be cool if she wore a white dress to paintball and THEN went to prom.

So did I mess up? Crap. I was so close to asking too, I just didn't know how to put it...

Well, she seems like she's not planning to go unless someone asks her, and I think she kinda wanted me to ask her (maybe), so even though there's only 3 weeks til prom, maybe we'll hang out sometime soon and I can ask her then. But after hanging out with her today, I get a strong sense that she thinks that she's not gonna go. Like she said she has no friends and it actually kinda seemed like it.

[quote=Hatchet]I don't think

not going to prom = a loser.[/quote]

lol all the nerds in my school didnt go to prom so yeah

for me, prom was a waste of time.
now grad night was awesome though.

[quote=DragonBandit]TIL 60%+ of basilmarket are losers. No surprise there.[/quote]

I don't think

not going to prom = a loser.

TIL 60%+ of basilmarket are losers. No surprise there.

fun? yes
grossly overrated? also yes

Didn't go to prom since I was super heartbroken. Though, I don't think you'd miss out on much. No one that I knew that went to prom was that amazed by it. Plus you have to pay a lot for it + rent a tux. The works.

Prom was kinda lame since they searched our limo and the whole time, you couldn't do anything unless you managed to sneak something past the search in the bathroom. I feel like it was more so for the girls as your date made you take like 5,000 pics with them </3 After prom was fun though. Went clubbing with our limo <3

my school to broke for a prom

I went to jr prom and it wasn't bad it was just boring. there r better things to waste money on. I skipped out on senior prom

After party is where its at, if you don't go to prom, just make sure you go to the after party.

My school didn't get to have a prom

Prom was actually a lot of fun for me. We had this after party at school where they gave out prizes and stuff. I won a few things.

ahh i remember prom lmao.... it was fun af the after party tho was way better

I've basically made it my goal to avoid Prom and graduation day. I'm not big on big events.
Friends have asked me to go to Prom to have fun with them, but I've turned down the offers. I just don't think I'd enjoy it.