Prom season's almost here, so I'm dying to hear the guys' favorite prom memories. Tell us the good, the bad, the ugly and any photographic evidence you may have from that big night. Readers, please share your prom memories in the comments!
Funny Guy says:
When I was a junior in high school I was "cool" enough to be invited to the prom by a sexy senior girl. I wore a tux with a tail, and had my theater teacher blow dry my long, curly locks until they were 1970's Cher-straight. I rolled up looking like a Barely Pubescent Dracula Hippy Troll ©. Instead of a limo, we opted for a giant yellow school bus. She wanted to make out the whole time; I was too nervous.
Then my senior year I was "too cool" to go to my prom, so my friends and I threw an anti-prom. A prom on our terms, man! We jammed out Nirvana, Phish and Zeppelin covers on our instruments, skinny dipped in the above ground pool and downed a few cases of wine coolers, all whilst making fun of "those mega-losers at the real prom." #Winning1994Style
Wise-Ass says:
Junior year I asked a girl I barely knew but had been admiring from afar. Bad move. I drove a group of us and all she did was complain all night--she even dissed my bitchin' red and white Plymouth Duster when the AC dripped on her Podeswa (?) shoes. I offered to let her walk home, but she declined. The night was downhill from there--we split up and each hung with friends the entire prom until it was time to leave. On the way home I went the wrong way down a one-way street and almost killed everyone in the car. No, I wasn't drinking, I had lost a contact lens earlier in the night and also my rented bow tie suddenly started to reek of vomit--not sure why, no one puked on me--so I was trying desperately to get it off before I got sick myself, then I missed my turn and ended up going the wrong way against four lanes of traffic. It was like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Cars were honking, I was swerving, the guys were laughing, the girls were shrieking. My date started crying and said I did it on purpose to freak her out. (I didn't but I wish I had.) We didn't speak the entire way home. When I walked her to her door I said, jokingly, "So... you free next weekend?" She slammed the door in my face.
Chic Geek says:
My junior prom was great. Like Amit, I went with a senior in the "cool" group who I was head over heels in love with at the time. Unlike Amit, I was not cool. I was definitely in the theater geek/actual geek clique. (Big shock, right?) But junior prom was different. I got a tux, a corsage for her, and an invitation into the inner circle of my high school's cool kids for a night. It was basically the entire popular/druggie/partying group of seniors and me, the one nerd. Kind of like "She's All That," only gender reversed and without Freddie Prinze Jr.
We had limos, and I remember they all got mad when the driver wouldn't stop so they could buy cigarettes. I was like, "Yeah! Down with the man! Parents just don't understand!," along with them but I couldn't have cared less. I was just happy to be with [name redacted] and to be popular for one night.
Girls' BFF says:
My most fond memory about my prom was that when I was a senior, my prom date looked like an actual disco ball. I thought I was going to have an epileptic fit due to the lights bouncing off that horrendously shimmering gown she wore. And it was turquoise. In our prom picture, I had this look like "why on Earth did she pick this gown? I can't see. Can somebody hand me some shads?" Fun night, but it was also near the end of my relationship with this particular woman so I can't say we had a good night. In fact, I remember looking at my wallet, then looking at her and thinking, this is SO not worth it. I did manage to have fun with my friends. By the way, that chick? Still calling...damn this charm.
Reformed Player says:
I avoided my prom like AIDS for a variety of reasons, most of which were "I have to get up at an ungodly hour and spend most of my waking day with these people, most of whom I don't like and most of whom don't like me", which is also code for "I didn't have a date and I was flat broke anyway." At the time I was self-funding my own movies.
I spent my prom drinking in a parking lot with my friends who didn't go to prom. When people try to pity me, I point out I didn't have to rent a limo or a motel room, and there are no pictures of me in a rented tux trying awkwardly to get into the pants of my date. And I also learned you can light cheap vodka on fire if you get the right fuel-air mixture. I came out ahead of the deal.
Gal Pal says:
I skipped my senior prom. It was that or go with the Slovakian exchange student. Not that there's anything wrong with Slovakian exchange students, but he and I hadn't so much as made eye contact the whole year. And he also smelled of sauerkraut. That's why I love prom parties now that I'm a grown up. Revisionist personal history!
I miss my prom!!! My date was a friend of mine who graduated two years before and didn't go to his prom because his dad was ill. He and I were the only ones who had jobs so my friends and I couldn't afford a limo. We drove separately in his mom's car, he got me a corsage, we all took pictures in the local arboretum for free and went to the local high-end Japanese restaurant where he paid for our dinner. His mom had called me about a week before to ask what color my dress was and inform me that she had a friend who would make my corsage, and raved the entire time about how pretty I was and how excited she was for her son; but it was still fun.
That's such a sweet story and your friend's mom sounds super sweet. Glad you had fun!
Prom was so much fun lol. At first it kind of sucked because there were only 50 something kids there and my date and I only danced to one song. We ended up leaving early but before we got outside I told him I wanted one more dance. He had Louis Armstrong on his ipod so we picked a song and slow danced in the parking lot. It was so sweet and romantic.
Oh, that slow dance in the parking lot must have felt like you were in a movie. What a romantic guy!
It did. That's exactly what I was thinking that night. :)
My junior prom was a total fiasco. I went stag, and my dress had a cutout section right where the band of my bra would have been, so I opted not to wear one. And then I started dancing, and the girls were flopping all over the place. Not to mention, someone else's date kept telling me that he was related to Tom Cruise.
My senior prom was wonderful overall. There were some bad points, but I love the memory mostly because I was with my now fiance and he made the evening great for me, despite the bad things. We slow danced a bit, talked and cuddled, but unfortunately a couple other girls thought my guy was cute too. One even went so far as to pull the "whoops my dress slipped" right in front of him (with me right there). Twice. He kindly excused us and we went to sit somewhere quieter and less slutty. When we were leaving I tripped (especially tall heels) and twisted my ankle, so he picked me up and carried me. :)
I got my first kiss on my prom night under the stars outside my house after the dance from a guy I'd had a crush on for three years.
Sounds like an Anne Hathaway romantic comedy but it's totally true. Wouldn't trade it for anything!
so romantic!
I went with a guy that was really good friends with my family, but I never talked to him much...I actually kinda made him go. lol! It was kind of awkward the entire night. He got mad at my friend for screaming in the restaurant, we almost hit some lady crossing the street, and we didn't dance at all. When we did the "midnight march" for all the parents at midnight, he stepped on my dress and when I told him, he said, "walk faster!" He took me home, came into my house to talk to my brother to make plans for a duck hunt in the morning, and upon finding my brother "asleep" in the living room, my date noticed that a porno was on TV (we swear that my brother was trying to fake-sleep and avoid confessing that he was watching it!!) Most. embarrassing. moment. of. my. life. But now, we're best friends. We tell each other pretty much everything. We laughed about that entire night. I guess it wasn't so awful after all :)
Both of my proms were pretty bland. I went with a friend my Senior year, and he won Prom King, so that was cool! But then he got in trouble by our homophobic principle for dancing with another guy, so he was pissed the rest of the night. :/
But both years, I spent most of the night playing cards with my friends. (We were all exceptionally bad dancers. :P)
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