I attended a Catholic grammar school that went from first through eighth grades. Beginning in 7th grade, we were allowed to attend the school dances. Sometimes really good local bands played. But it was a thrill to slow dance with girls. I remember soft, fuzzy sweaters and boobies. The girls were just starting to blossom, and the ones with boobs were popular.8.
I do remember wearing bell bottom pants, Beatle boots, a Neru jacket and gold chain with a peace sign medallion to some of those dances. LOL After all, it was 1966-68.
I think I attended the 8th grade graduation prom, but nobody paired up as dates. It was just like another dance.
I went to an all boy's Catholic high school in 9th grade. Co-ed dances were regularly held at the girl's Catholic high school.
There was also a dance every Saturday night at a local park in a building they called the Canteen.
I remember the same thing - boobies in tight sweaters. It was a novelty for a 12-15 year old boy.
I began public high school in 10th grade. I was an aspiring rock guitarist and vocalist and my friends and I started going to concerts a LOT. We also went to see good local bands. Some of the psychedelic light shows at those local events were amazing.
So I watched the bands but also danced with girls. I didn't hook up or meet any of my girlfriends at any dances, though.
I didn't attend the high school senior prom. For some reason, my girlfriend and I decided not to attend. We were kinda into the hippie/rocker thing and probably didn't want to get dressed up in stupid clothes for the prom. We were kind of anti-establishment by then.
Actually, I went fairly often. I had a blast in my high school years and attended all sorts of social events.
In terms of dances, I went to my senior prom. We did not have a junior prom but to compensate for that, our senior prom was about two weeks before graduation and then on the night of our commencement ceremony we had one last all night party. By the time of my junior year I had a steady serious girlfriend and so we attended those events.
Also, I attended all the homecoming dances save the one in my sophomore year. That one I missed only because I had the flu.
As I say, starting in my junior year, I had a steady serious girlfriend and I really enjoyed those dances. However, even the earlier ones were a lot of fun and I did not mind going stag. You'd go, talk to friends, maybe get a random dance here and there.
They were great times and I would not have missed them for the world. As I say, I had a blast in my high school - and college years, too!! Great times and great memories and I will always have a bit of nostalgia for those years.
We only had one dance, but my high school experience was very different from the average person's. I went to a very small high school, we're talking a graduating class of 14 kids being the largest that the school had seen during my time there.
It was an underfunded, but very intimate, christian private school. It was great for me when I moved from a school that had 100 kids to a grade to less than 100 kids in the entire student body, but that came with a lot of limitations. We didn't have a building, which was a big reason why the school was so small, the administrators rented out rooms for use in 3 different churches over the 4 years I attended. And the headmaster "didn't believe in school dances" so there never really were any. There was a senior formal, which was as close as they would get to a Prom kind of deal, where there was a dinner and parents were invited to come up and speak about how proud they were of their kids, accolades got announced, etc. but there was never any dancing. Just prom outfits and formal wear.
It wasn't until maybe the last year or two I was there that all the students got him to add in a dance to the senior formal so they started booking a DJ. Obviously, everyone wants the high school experience of a dance or two, but that would be the only one they ever held all year. As far as I know, they still don't allow for dances outside of that singular event even now, though I imagine there are plenty of students petitioning for them to change their minds like the kids before me did.
Yes, every time they was a dance, I went. Me and my two girl friends always did. It was fun. There was always something to talk about the next day at school. People would be buzzing from it.
They're memories everyone should have, I think. It's absolutely terrifying to ask someone to dance, but everyone should do it sometimes. It builds character, confidence, and it's a fantastic feeling when you actually get what you wanted.
I wish I could forget my prom. It was the worst night of my entire life!
@musicbrain5 Awwww. Don't let it define you though, k? 💐
I liked the small dances, but I had some negative experiences too. Both times I got up the courage to ask guys to a dance or prom, they turned me down. (Nicely, but that stings.)
One guy went with my ex-best friend (years prior, we weren't close at that point). She was pretty, cute, more popular. But she drank too much and spent the night throwing up in the girls' bathroom toilet. I did not feel sorry for her, or him. I imagined him trying to kiss that stinky mouth, lol. (He was a nice guy though. We were friendly and I didn't really hold a grudge. And he wrote something nice in my yearbook at the end, to say goodbye.)
The other guy, he was in a different crowd, good looking, parents were wealthy. He also said no. But then when he was drunk later, and everyone was partying and dancing, and asked me to dance, on a slow song. I don't know what was up with that, or him.
I moved on. Found men later, much more deserving of my attention and affections.
I'm sure yours was much worse, but whatever happened, it's in the past now. You are probably no longer that same person. A married musicbrain sounds pretty damn good.
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I went to junior and senior prom during both junior and senior years. Had a wonderful time. Scored points (no not that kind of score) from my date senior year because I had the florist dye the baby's breath flowers to match her dress color. They accompanied white roses.
I wish I had gone to prom with a guy like you!
@musicbrain5 ... blushing...
When I was in highschool, I wasn't popular per se but everyone knew me. I was still a kind of loner, even though I spent time in all the groups. I just never felt a connection with most of the people I went to school with.
I'll never ever forget the night of the prom though because I was in my car working a pizza delivery job and I had the steering wheel in one hand and a gigantic wad of cash in the other.
I remember thinking to myself that I felt better in that moment than I ever felt with any of those guys.
I was happy then and I'm happy now about the decision.
I hated EVERYTHING to do with my school. I only went to senior prom because my girlfriend wanted to and I did not want to upset her. Of course my bullies were there as well and did everything they could to try to ruin things for me and my girlfriend.
However, I was able to blackmail the football captain into having the football team protect us due to me catching him smoking weed in the locker room 2 months before prom. I told him that as long as he and his teammates made sure nobody messed with me, my girlfriend, her friends or any of her friends' dates and as long as they promised to leave me alone the rest of the time they were on the team, I'd forget what I saw.
So when my bullies tried to mess with me, they all got messed with by the football team and that made our prom very memorable :)
Absolutely! I went to all of the regular dances, I went to all of the formal dances, I wrangled invitations to nearby schools proms and homecomings; I went to every dance I could. As to whether I had a good time… Bear in mind that as a boy my objective was always to receive some kind of sexual gratification. My enjoyment was contingent upon my level of success.
The goal of course, was to take my date (or someone, if I didn’t come with a date) to some quiet place for mind-blowing Prom sex…or, maybe, to get head in the parking lot…or grind against her on the dance floor to rub myself through my khakis…or, steal a kiss in a private corner and let my hands wander…or, failing all that, to get a feel for some hot girls as they pressed against me on the floor and ogle them in their dresses; storing up inspiration for some later satisfaction.
As a teen boy, dances were all about sex for me. —whatever I could get.
Probably my most memorable dance was the time I went with some friends to an 8th grade formal at their little Christian school. When my “date” came into the house to pick me up, I took one look at her in that dress and excused myself to the bathroom. I knew nothing would happen with this very good girl at this very strict school’s dance. So, when I saw her body in that dress, I figured I better get myself off immediately to try to cool my desires. As soon as we were in the backseat of the car and on the road, she had her coat across our laps and was working on getting her hand down my pants. The whole evening is a glorious blur. (But I panicked in the back seat; worried what she would find and how she would react.
My worst dance was the Prom where we had all night in a hotel room by ourselves but she was sick and I ended up holding her hair while she vomited and then taking her home. I never did get her in bed.
Yes. Skipped homecoming freshman test didn't have a date, sophomore year went with no date it sucked, Skipped Jr year HC, went to Jr Prom with a date it was okay.
Went to Sr Homecoming with a date it was fun!
SR Prom: went but didn't have a date. They were okay.
Went to the last one as a senior. It was great because it was probably the one things I didn't regret doing. And that was the beginning of soft-core rebel. And now I'm at the point in my life where there will be no regrets in anything I do now.
Nope. I hated the majority of my classmates and didn't spend any time in school outside of going to class. Plus i couldnt choose between the offers i had as prom dates and each of them expected to get laid after so i definitely didn't want to go. There was actually one prom dress i adored but the owner of the store was racist and ran away her black customers so there's that as well
My school did not have this. And as far as I am concerned this was a good thing, as I never found the concept (which you see often in American movies) to be any appealing; I don't like large crowds or loud music, and I especially don't like dancing.
I went to them, but never really enjoyed myself to be honest. I never had a date for any of them and spend most of the time sitting at the table watching everyone else. I even left prom early, in tears, after a guy humiliated me in front of everyone and ripped my gown. I had to call my dad to come and get me.
I did not as I had to switch to a new school and didn't really know anybody. I kinda feel like I missed out but a lot of our class had some stuck up people in it and the one girl I would have liked to have taken went with a jerk of guy... lol. I was a tad jealous.
Yeah, I didn't really like any. Shitty music, shitty food and evceryone trying to get loaded. Maybe is used to be a rite of passage when students had real sex but since that's been pushed back to middlw school I don't know. I was living w/ legal guardian by then and I said I wasn't going and they got pissed off.
I went to two on the first and second years of gymnasium, third year was cancelled due to covid-19 (gymnasium=US high school (only three years, since the school system is different than in the US here in Denmark)). It was okay, never been big on parties.
We sadly didn't had stuff like that... I wish we did tho
Our "prom" was just us sitting in a big sports hall, listening to speeches of teachers and few choosen students and then go home lol
Same here, although I think we had music as background entertainment.
Yeah, same lol then they go and call it "Abiball" it had nothing to do with a '(tanz-) Ball' ...
I went to a couple dances in middle school and never enjoyed them, to me dances were just me going from girl to girl asking if they wanted to dance and getting rejected until I just ended up leaving early and then thinking the next dance would be different but always ended up being the same after that I stopped going to dances.
m we showed up because we had to, but then we would ditch and sneak out... lmao
a few friends and my girlfriend at the time... which, all happen to be my best friends, even to this day. lol
I never went to any dances and feel so awkward on a dance floor. It just doesn’t make sense to me in most circumstances. Throw your hands up and jump?… why? Lmao!!!
I take offence to this mister.
😂😂😂 oh no! I can see why you would. But that was not my meaning. I just meant that most of the dances I see are like that with little show of real talent. I know it would be much more impressive if you got on the dance floor.
Just prom. I went stag and danced with all the girlfriends of the guys who were too shy to dance, got a bunch of free drinks and generally had fun.
Otherwise I was usually too busy working after school.
I attended nearly every dance party & social event during my time in high school.
I had to since I was the one who mostly organized them.
And, yes, I enjoyed every one of 'em.
Oh you know it.
Ya gotta fight me to get me off the dance floor.
So yeah i was at every dance
I went to prom a few times. We just listened to music and took pictures, since we didn't get any food at our proms.
Yes I was very popular in high school I went to all of my high school dances and I had fun but I love the dance so that's no surprise.
u I never went, didn’t see the point in attending a social event full of people I didn’t like.
It was a long time ago. My High School had regular dances that I sometimes went to, and I went to my senior ball. They were all fun.
Did not learn to 'social dance' until after HS, then I went all the time, and even won a bottle of Champaigne at Marriott.
I never went to a high school dance and never went to the prom.
only during my senior year because everyone would say i'd regret not going. well, there was nothing special about it. and it was boring. waste of time, i'd say.
Never got an invite, and couldn't go even if I did.
Why did you have dances at your school? We never had anything like that.
Missed out on a lot but did go to a few and those I did go to, I had a lot of fun.
Yes, and not really. Those dances were popularity contests in a world in which i was not popular.
Our prom was cancelled because of Covid. I wouldn't have gone even if we had a prom.
Yeah, from what I remember they were fun. Senior Prom was 🔥
I never went to any dances in high school because I don't dance in front of other people because I'm afraid of being laughed at
the girl I was with back then did not want us to go as we were very happy with each other, so she would say she was going but spend it with me playing mums and dads you know what I mean.
I was a proper shy lad at school never attended school dances aha
I regret it. But I've always wanted to learn how to shuffle and cut shapes... And still really do
I was gonna go to prom my Senior year, but it got cancelled because of Covid, so sadly, I never got to go to any
We had one. I was so tired I fell asleep by the speakers and woke up when the principal entered.
Prom was a disaster. Christmas dances were fairly good.
It all had to do with my date and the reason we were together at the time,.
I enjoyed dancing with my girl friends. I never had a date to any of them so just went with my girls.
I had a chance to go to the Senior Prom, but bullies caused me not to go
There are no high school dances or proms where i live
I went to all boys catholic school and all boys public high school. Thankfully, we never had these ridiculous distractions.
I went to Junior and senior prom. Homecoming between the two.
I enjoyed all three.
Yaas I went to 3 of them and every single one was a blast. Even tho I didn't want to go at first I enjoyed them. Miss them so much.
Me and a group of girls had our own party at the school dance in the locker room.
Went to one at my school and one at an another. Both were kind of fun.
No because 🎶I can't dance worth shit🎶tht song is driving me boinkers lol
I went to junior prom and liked it not that much.
went to homecoming and prom and they were pretty fun
I was never the girl guys took to the dance. I was just the one they fucked under the bleachers.
Nope i never had the chance to go to any high school event all 4 years do to my own fuck ups
Yes as friend groups. I was the only guy who’d dance.
Yes, I went to all of them including the Jr and Sr proms
i never want to any highschool dances or like that.
i just found the stuff so stupid
never had any, and i only went to high one year, the 10th the left joined the Army went to Vietnam
I did, trying to dance to Led Zeppelin was a bit difficult
One or two Christmas parties 🥳 and no not particularly
Homecoming all 4 years and prom 3 years.
Was a prom queen. That was a nice time ^_^
I never went to any of that, not even prom.
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