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| Share Your Prom Stories; Inspired by Ben | |
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| Luke's Dad | Apr 4 2009, 06:57 AM Post #1 |
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Ben's post last week about asking his crush to the prom, got me thinking about a similar thing that happened to me my senior year in HS, and I thought it might be fun for us to share some prom stories. My senior year of HS, the head of the theatre department asked me to be in that years musical, The Fantasticks. I had been active in the past with theater class, regular plays, set building, etc...I was one of her favorite students, but every year, when the musical rolled around, I always opted for the pit orchestra as there weren't many people that could switch between Alto, Tenor, Baritone Sax, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, and Flute. The Fantastiks didn't use a Pit Orchestra, just a piano and percussion. So, I agreed and was cast as Hucklebee. During the auditions, however, we discovered that we had too many talented girls auditioning, including a new transfer student named Shannon. The director decided to take the two fathers' roles and split them into fathers & mothers. She and I then spent hours going through the script, and splitting the parts up between four instead of two (I got an assistand director credit in the program). Anyway, Shannon was cast as my wife. Mik would have loved her. 75% Irish, 25% Native American, she was tall (5'10"-5'11"), leggy (was also on the track team), had beautiful long red hair, and could sing like nobody's business. Needless, to say, I was smitten. As she had track practice every day at the school, and I was there every day working on the script, sets, or Jazz Band, we were always there for rehearsal well before everybody else, and usually stayed after everybody else. So it made sense for us to ride to school and home together every day. We got to know each other really well, and the more I got to know her, the more I liked her. I finally got the nerve to ask her to the prom and told my best friend that I was going to do it. (Big mistake, JJ was the biggest gossip in school) That evening before rehearsal, she and I sat there making small talk. It was kind of awkward, you could cut the tension. Finally, I asked: Me: "So, are you going to the prom?" Her: "I have an friend from my old school that said he'll take me if I don't find a date here, but today I that this guy I really like alot is going to ask me, I hope he does." Me: "Ohhh." In my head I was crying, NOOOOOOOOO! There's somevbody else she likes here, and he's going to ask her! So, I never asked her. I still never got the message when she went to the prom with her old friend from the other school. It wasn't until that fall, when I was visiting home on break that I ran into her (at this point she had started dating a friend of mine), and she told me that she had really liked me, and had heard I was going to ask her to the prom and wanted to know why I didn't. Anyway, that whole thing taught me an important lesson regarding self-confidence, women, and going for it. I'm glad Ben didn't have to learn the same lesson! Anyway, what's your Prom Story? |
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| schindler | Apr 4 2009, 07:41 AM Post #2 |
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My school didn't have a prom - I was homeschooled. Great story, right?
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| Renauda | Apr 4 2009, 07:56 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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What's a prom? |
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| Larry | Apr 4 2009, 08:11 AM Post #4 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Always go for it. The word "no" won't kill you. |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| Larry | Apr 4 2009, 08:21 AM Post #5 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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My prom story: My first wife was 5 years younger than me (ok.. so I like younger women - shoot me...) anyway, she started college in her junior year of high school, so we met at college, but she still got to graduate from high school with her classmates, and go to the prom. Since we already knew we were going to get married, I went with her to her prom. We had it all planned - a bunch of her friends were going to skip out of the prom early and go somewhere, and if anyone asked, we were with them. But in reality, we went back to my place to have a glorious evening of sex....... ![]() But what does her best friend do?.... takes the whole gang to my exwife's house saying "Are they here yet? They were supposed to meet us here - I'll bet they went to Larry's apartment instead...." Grrrrr..... Right in the middle of things, we hear a loud banging on the door. It's her parents, and her dad is clearly pissed..... They take her home, and the next day I go to their house and ask to speak to her father. He's so angry he can't speak, but he goes outside with me to listen. I told him I loved his daughter and that we wanted to get married, and asked him for his permission.He teared up a little, then told me he appreciated that, and then began a rambling, odd "story" about how I should think about it a long time, he was married to her mother, and if he could he'd not have done it..... lol |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| jon-nyc | Apr 4 2009, 08:24 AM Post #6 |
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Cheers
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My junior year we went to Niagra falls and didn't return until the next day. Her name was Jennifer. The next year was more tame, still stayed out all night but didn't leave my suburb of Rochester. Her name was Lara, she's now a mother of three and an attorney here in the city. I had lunch with her 2 years ago. |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 4 2009, 08:47 AM Post #7 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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My junior year I was on house arrest and was paying lawyer bills, not tux rentals and corsages. Besides - as a result of said legal inconvenience I also had a restraining order against me goinmg anywhere near my beloved. My senior year was another matter.. three of us ditched the whole thing and went to New Orleans for a few days on the pretense of looking for offshore jobs, which were plentiful in 1973. It was fun untilwe ended up getting robbed at gunpoint while trying to forge some new business relationships. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| blondie | Apr 4 2009, 09:47 AM Post #8 |
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Bull-Carp
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Mik's my pik for my prom date this year! I like 'em hot & daring! ![]() But I'd sneak out during the ceremony with Jon & from the dinner with Larry (sorry Mik .. just me ya see )I didn't go to any of mine. I did a Larry one year; a Jon another year; and a Mik with a guy I was dating who was on parole & didn't finish school (that was at his brother's grad & yes, he & I were 'friends' too ) .Oh I graduated with honors btw, and the Social Science award. But, being blonde, no one cared about those things. :sigh: |
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| CTPianotech | Apr 4 2009, 01:09 PM Post #9 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Went to my Junior prom with a couple buddies and our girlfriends. Did the limo, thing, and much to everyone's surprise, I actually put on the tux. It went pretty well except for a couple very minor wardrobe issues. Issue 1, was the rubber band holding my hair back broke, and I didn't have a spare. (if i had worn the jeans like i wanted, there'd have been one in my pocket ) Issue 2 was my girlfriend hated the feeling of the strapless bra thing she was wearing. That wound up spending the most of the night in the jacket of my tux.Didn't make it home until early the next afternoon. ![]() Long story short, prom-date and I now have 4 kids, a minivan, and a mower that starts on the second or third pull.
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 4 2009, 01:13 PM Post #10 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I love a woman with a checkered past...
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| George K | Apr 4 2009, 01:25 PM Post #11 |
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Finally
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Would I get in trouble if I stared a thread called "Share your pron stories?"
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| jon-nyc | Apr 4 2009, 01:39 PM Post #12 |
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Cheers
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| sue | Apr 4 2009, 03:45 PM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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LD, your story really cracked me up. And if there was any doubt as to why a lot of high school aged girls look for 'older' guys, that explains it right there.
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| sue | Apr 4 2009, 04:09 PM Post #14 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I assume 'prom' is what we call high school grad....yeah, I went. Big ol' fancy downtown Vancouver hotel, all I remember is how bad the band was, and everyone other than the poor schmucks who had booked (and had to wait for) limos, the rest of us left really early. I ended up taking the boyfriend's borrowed Datsun Z240 (something like that) for a spin on a long, dark stretch of road somewhere in NAK's neck of the woods. Picnic with a bottle of champagne somewhere along the way. The rest is foggy.![]() Oh, and no, no babies, no marriage with my date. He dumped me about a year later. (I finally got a scanner!!!) |
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| ***musical princess*** | Apr 4 2009, 04:13 PM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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he clearly had no taste sue x |
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| blondie | Apr 4 2009, 06:31 PM Post #16 |
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Bull-Carp
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WOW. Sue. Gorgeous, sultry, sexy you babe. Seriously. ![]() [We should tell our best getting dumped stories some night. Heh.] |
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| CTPianotech | Apr 4 2009, 06:44 PM Post #17 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Sue that picture is hot. srsly
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| Jolly | Apr 4 2009, 07:12 PM Post #18 |
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My senior prom? Wore a pale yellow, three piece suit. French cuff shirt with my favorite moneybag cuff-links and a silk yellow tie. Rolled up to the front door in a fire-breathing GS455, slinging BTO and ZZ Top out the speakers with the homecoming queen clinging to my arm. I was bad. I was nation-wide... |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 4 2009, 07:15 PM Post #19 |
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Every girl crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed man. |
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| Red Rice | Apr 4 2009, 07:15 PM Post #20 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Sorry, dude. I feel your pain. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Larry | Apr 4 2009, 08:43 PM Post #21 |
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Oooooh, Sue! I would have touched you all over and given you babies........... ![]() |
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| Renauda | Apr 4 2009, 08:49 PM Post #22 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Yeah I went too, but I refused to bring a date along. |
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| sue | Apr 4 2009, 09:02 PM Post #23 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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yeah, that would be fun.
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| Frank_W | Apr 5 2009, 04:35 PM Post #24 |
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Sue!! W0w!!!I graduated with diploma on January 23rd, mid-term of my senior year, and left two days later for active duty in the US Army. My "prom" was spent knee-deep in soupy mud, trying desperately to keep my M-16 dry, and shivering in 36F and drizzly rain/sleet all night. Kinda' romantic, really... I'd better stop before I'm accused of being sappy.
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) Issue 2 was my girlfriend hated the feeling of the strapless bra thing she was wearing. That wound up spending the most of the night in the jacket of my tux.
And if there was any doubt as to why a lot of high school aged girls look for 'older' guys, that explains it right there. 
Oh, and no, no babies, no marriage with my date. He dumped me about a year later. 


W0w!!!

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