Prom-Posal

[Anonymous 1]

Average amount spent on just proposing to some bitch for high school prom..
$300.00 That’s just asking her to go with you. Its all the young mans risk too. she could say No, and your still on the hook for more of course if she says yes. Kinda like a mini marriage proposal.

It seems like they are just getting these young boys primed for a lifetime of this crap. Young laydeez as well.

Source: Story in 17 targeting young girls, High school age. Study done by Visa
http://www.seventeen.com/prom/news/a39988

[AwakenedParticipant 35202]

I remember buying a shotgun instead of taking a lil sweety to the prom. I could have had a date, but I just thought it was a waste of CASH, and personally just wasn’t “interested” in going to an expensive dance.

UNFORTUNATELY, for me I didn’t keep that same mind set as I “matured”. F~~~, I knew more at 17 then I did when I was 27, but somehow I was brainwashed to believe the opposite.

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[Anonymous 1]

I spent my 20’s looking for some fun, especially early twenties. I’m 30 now. The allure of tight young women can change a man.

Now I just tend to see it for what it is. EVERYWhere

[hmskl’dParticipant 6408]

My philosophy is as always, money does’t grow on trees. If I had an extra $300 I’d never spend it on that. I’d get myself three red slicing tomatoes ($3.49), a burger and fries combo meal next time I’m in town ($5.68), I’d buy some fuel stabilizer for my summer lawn mower gas ($7.99) and finally I’d get that SSD I really need for my notebook ($89.99) .. the remaining funds ($192.85) I’d bury in the same zip-lock freezer bag next to the apple tree by my garage where I keep the rest of my petty cash for summer expenses. No Prom thing .. and for that matter no Sadie Hawkins either. Imo, the money dumped into a relationship pays no dividend other than emotional turmoil, gastrointestinal distress .. and in a worse case scenario, very possibly gnashing of teeth. I don’t need that axis. Here’s to a pleasant, quiet, yet productive ghosting summer in monk mode .. with the exception of a few backyard evening whistling bottle rockets and aerial spinners with report and floral bursts .. now and then .. when I’m grilling, that is.

[narwhalParticipant]

My 16 year old ex-step-son got invited to the senior prom. He’s only a sophomore. I’m very curious to see how the costs are going to be split. I’m guessing he’s going to be expected to pay for his own tux and half of dinner/limo. Being that he barely has a job, I doubt he has the cash for that. That means his mom will have to pay.

I’m also curious because he’s a rather quite kid. Not very social at all. I’m shocked a senior girl even noticed him, much less asked him. He may be more social at school, but never goes out with friends away from school. I also would be surprised if he’s sexual active. Wonder if Mom’s going to talk to him about that.

Ok. Then do it.

[Mr. SpockParticipant 10911]

I never went to my Prom or Homecoming. I felt it was a waste of money. I like how the girls talk it up like it’s a rehearsal for their wedding while the guys are only interested in going because they think they are going to get laid. The girls play that angle too. They talk about all the drinking and drugs they are going to do in order to sucker some guy into taking her. We all know that you take her to the prom and she ends up doing Chad at some point.
I often frequent Craigslist just to look at the ads for entertainment. I noticed quite a few ads looking for prom dates.

Feminism isn't about equality with men, it's about leverage over men.

[Anonymous 1]

Waste of money, I hear you.

hmskl’d wrote:

the money dumped into a relationship pays no dividend other than emotional turmoil, gastrointestinal distress

And who wants that?

This “monk mode” sounds pleasant.

I can understand the goodbye to friends, lets get a little crazy, maybe get laid thing. It takes money to have a good time. I just don’t remember anything like this for anyone I knew in 2004.

And Narwhal, Your probably a good person to have in his corner.

Mr. Spock wrote:

I often frequent Craigslist just to look at the ads for entertainment. I noticed quite a few ads looking for prom dates.

Get outta town! That’s pathetic

[bigboy83Participant 11312]

I heard while back huge group of boys in Connecticut, i think. Stayed home from the prom, the girls didnt know what to think. Lol

They rather play video games, then get laid. Lol

Shit Tested, Cunt Approved.

[Anonymous 1]

That’s one way to do it. Good stuff

[ScarberianMPTGLParticipant 3286]

Yeah, I remember not caring much for Prom when I was a senior. Just didn’t see all the fuss. Didn’t bother going.

I, Lelouch Vi Britannia, command you, all of you, to Go Your Own Way!!

[Elric GreenstoneParticipant 1637]

hmskl’d wrote:

the money dumped into a relationship pays no dividend other than emotional turmoil, gastrointestinal distress .. and in a worse case scenario, very possibly gnashing of teeth.

narwhal wrote:

I’m also curious because he’s a rather quite kid. Not very social at all. I’m shocked a senior girl even noticed him, much less asked him.

Yeah. She may have asked him because she wants to go to the prom.

My junior year I was sort of asked to prom by a sophomore girl I barely knew. It was vaguely a set up. Sort of like how, in the Mafia, they take people out to the Pine Barrens to meet someone. That kind of set up. During the course of the evening, my date and one of my best friends decided to broadcast their apparently ongoing relationship so that they could have sex. Said best friend’s girlfriend, who was in college, was . . . not happy. I briefly attempted the 99-yard field goal by trying to connect with the best friend’s girlfriend of over two years, but that wasn’t going to happen to anyone including Tom Cruise. My soon-to-be-no-longer-buddy, after his now ex-girlfriend stormed out, doing some property damage on her way out of the driveway, asked me if I was bothered by everything. There’s not a great response to that, although years later holding out my hand for my expenses, plus time, wouldn’t have been bad.

There is a mild happy ending to all of this. Like two years later, the ex-buddy and I reconnected, and he told me that dating my briefly-prom-date was the worst mistake of his life, and that she was completely insane and had basically ruined much of his life. I recall shrugging my shoulders at the time. Not my circus, not my monkeys.

The next year during my senior prom I did cocaine in a very expensive hotel room overlooking the city of my birth with other seniors (yay prep school). I then basically overdosed, more or less, and went home and lay shivering on the bed for the next seven or eight hours in abject terror, not really wanting to discuss with either of my useless Me-generation divorced parents that perhaps a wee trip to the emergency room or at least some weed and downers might have been a good idea.

Ironically, nowadays, I don’t even drink, and am about to get back into bodyweight exercises. Time is a funny thing.

Where were we? Oh, yeah. Prom. F~~~ that noise. I vaguely wish my proms had been either pleasant or sexual, but my sense is that most people wind up wishing that. I think I would have better off spending the cash on literally anything. I have some photos of prom when I was in eleventh grade. So young, so naive. Yeah. Bad times.

"You can either love women, or understand women. You can't do both. Because once you understand women, you realize that there is really nothing to love."

[MeisterParticipant 2093]

I’ve never asked anyone on a date or prom in my life.

Women lose all respect if you do.

You have to be a real idiot to do this.

Monk

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