Did you go to your HS prom, dances, or sports?

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Why would I want to spend an entire evening with a bunch of people that I loathed with all my heart and soul doing something that I didn't care about?

As for sports, my physical education teachers didn't give a crap so I actually slept my way through the junior high school gym class and sports were optional in high school so I chose other stuff.

I did not go to any social high school social events or play sports. I have no memory of these things even happening. It's only because I see pictures of them in my high school year books that I even know they existed.

Amazingly, I was invited to a party once at someone's house and I went. I thought it was the most boring thing ever and a waste of my time that could have been better spent at home involved in my special interest. I was not invited to any more of them.

anyone else not buy yearbooks?

I didn't but I only had one year where I had a chance to buy one. I think my mother was too cheap and I either didn't want it or didn't care. That was in sixth grade which was the last time I was ever in a normal class in a normal school.

Since I was in the marching band, I basically had to be at sporting events, especially the football games and pep rallies. I did go to prom as well, and even went to a friend's prom after my freshman year of college. Prom was basically the only major dance I went to as I didn't go to any of the winter formals. The other big thing I went to was my Grad Nite which was held on campus, but after going out to dinner with my family. Judging by the line to get in to the event by the time I got there, most of my classmates did the same thing. It was held on campus, and it was done so nicely, you almost forgot you were in the gym.

I went to my junior and senior proms. The junior prom was with the original love of my life, and included THE best moment of my life. Since Pittsburgh is the "3 rivers" city, we had it on a big riverboat "The Majestic" and the theme song was "Unforgettable", which was old but really cool and appropriate. It had thunderstormed terribly that day, and the boat was jumping - you couldn't get away from the crowd. But back on the "poop deck" there was no one. The air was moist but had cooled down from 93F. We both decided to take a break, and went back and just stood and held each other while the boat happened to be turning around in the Ohio river. The whole city passed right in front of us, and only in that 3-4 minute moment, the rest of the world had completely disappeared. ------- So whenever I am having a bad time, I frequently revisit this moment, as (even then) I knew nothing would even come close. That girl since decided that we were too young to have an adult relationship (and I took a great many years to get over her), but we've long since settled down with good people.

Disclaimer: I have not and never plan on dancing - I suppose I only went to be present and supportive for my dates.

I did not attend any high school sporting events. Football games were just a big popularity contest and an ego-stroking mechanism. Thankfully, I had to work most Friday nights anyway, so I had an "valid excuse" not to go. My HS had (and has) plenty of NFL'ers, and they did NOT need my help getting there.

I did play Ice Hockey, though. Played against current NHL'ers RJ Umberger and Ryan Malone. I was the only Sophomore to make the Varsity team that particular year. Since my balance was bad, I could not hit for crap, so I had to make up for it in other areas. Before games, I would become overloaded with adrenaline, which caused me to barf over the boards. Luckily, I never barfed on the ice, though. I was a great skater with an incredibly hard shot, but did not get passed to much since I was "not the kind of sociable" that was compatible with the team's popular players. For example, they used to "box" each other in the locker room before games. And I would say "We're about to play a serious game, and you're beating each other in the head right before it?" They really didn't like me after that. But hey, I was the best shot-blocker the world had ever known. Due to pattern recognition, I knew how to play angles and when people would shoot - I would have welts all over my body for days after each game, and probably would've held the record if the PIHL actually kept them.

Looking back, I realize I guess I did go to more events than a lot of people on here.

The only sport I did was track in 8th grade. I was rubbish at anything else, especially team sports. I did get accustomed to watching volleyball as two of my sisters played volleyball. I was more heavily acquainted with the music and art departments though.

I did buy yearbooks, mainly for the organization pictures and things like that. Some years I wanted to reconsider though because our yearbook staff (and teacher) were both awful. Every year, the yearbook was messed in some way or another.

I did go to senior prom, but at that point I had already met my bf because he was my date. I don't think I would've gone otherwise. We did have fun though. Not accounting for the taste in music my urban high school had (songs like "feelin on your booty" by r kelly, "big pimpin" by jay-z, "bad boy for lyfe" by diddy and "shake ya ***" by mystikal were all played at my prom), but we did slow dance to quite a few of the slower r&b songs. A lot of the time we spent laughing at the monstrosities that happened there though, like rumors floated around that someone had snuck a few "special" brownies into the stack of brownies, and there were a few girls that showed up in very interesting numbers (like the girl who came in with her date sneaking very close behind her to get through the teachers because her dress dipped way down to show her thong in the back (yeah, even her twin thought it was trashy too). My prom was special in some ways though, because there was a partial power outage, so we did end up having a true candlelit dinner.

I went to homecoming my senior year with bf as my date as well. Usually the football game is a waste as the football team at my high school was no good. But my senior year, the homecoming parade was special because the school (and district both) were celebrating 100 years, so they did an awesome job of assigning different decades to different clubs and classes. Because most of my fellow classmates I was in PALS with, were also in drama club, and drama club was assigned the 50's because of Grease, so many people found it easy to do that (that and they wanted to help direct this guy who was dressed as the '57 tornado navigate because he was twirling), so there was nobody to do PALS (assigned the 20's) except me. So bf helped me, I dressed up like a flapper, and we held the banner and threw candy.

Pep rallies were mandatory. They were essentially a joke at my school though. The most candid one I remember went like this. They said "if you raise X amount of money for united way, then your administrators can get pied in the face!" That was popular. Then the diggers (a dance group) did the clean version of a hip hop song, and 3/4ths of the school stood up and sang the explicit version instead. One of the cheer leaders did a flip and farted loudly and one guy booed her, but then he rolled falling out of the stands and broke his nose. The bell rang, the principal said "wait until we release you class by class!" and everyone got up and left anyway and a bunch of people flipped him the finger, before running into the hallways screaming their graduation year at each other. The end.

Prom-too early for that. Maybe senior year but I am NOT going to dance to rap music! No way not in a million years. I'll wear a sparkle dress, a tuxedo and bellbottoms if I have to - I'd rather dance to "Stayin' Alive" Bee Gees and a bunch of slow 80s love songs.
Dances - Nope. Hate the music and why would I want to hang out with every stupid NT? I have a couple of REALLY good NT friends but not 300. That's what being on the football team is - playing and getting 300 prom requests...
Sports events-Three football games at Bellevue HS (2012-13 season), all 3 times the team beat up the opposing by at LEAST 35. Bellevue HS in WA is one of the best in the country for football. Plus a baseball game here in Yakima/West Valley. No basketball, soccer, softball or wrestling yet. I'll probably attend a couple more football games next season here in Yakima.
Yearbooks - Every year in Elementary school and junior high/middle until 8th grade. I moved from Bellevue High School mid-year and never received a yearbook, and at Monroe HS (Monroe WA) I forgot to ask the yearbook teacher about putting my picture in, before it was printed off. (So no picture in my book in Monroe). Then 10th grade came and I got a picture in the book, but then I moved mid-year again to Yakima! I was a WEEK late for getting my picture in the sophomore section. So this year it's yet another time of stapling a ton of paper and using *THAT* for signatures...I would like to send my $65 in if I can for the Monroe HS yearbooks...my picture is in it!
PEP ASSEMBLIES - Yes, these are mandatory and I don't really mind them as much as I used to. There were some assemblies back at Bellevue/Monroe that the band played SO LOUD that I had to cover my ears. I also don't really mind the "who can scream the most" part - I'm always yelling out at that part. I think the whole gym can hear MY screams when "SOPHOMORES...ARE...YOU....HERE?!" is called. But every time it happens I have a massive headache after school. The cheer segments are usually OK-good. Back at Bellevue they were incredible. The whole gym would roar with cheers when they did something good.

went to a few dances, one was fun, just jumped around with my friends, the other two were boring

No to all three, the only events I attended were during regular school hours and everyone was forced to go, I just used the time to do my homework or daydream. I do sort of regret missing the battle of the bands though although many of the performances are on YouTube and not that impressive, I would have been laughing all night so perhaps it was for the best that I missed it..

I only received my yearbooks if they handed them to me in person, I could not be bothered to dig out my student card from who knows where to prove my identity and stand in line in the crowded atrium for a depressing memento to remember how bad I did not fit in at place I wished I had never known. I am glad I have at least one though so I can search people on Facebook, that requires knowing how to spell names and the yearbook has them all.

I was on a few sports teams and attended grad, but no dances or prom to speak of. Just never interested me, and had nobody to go with

I never went to a prom or any other school dances. When I was in private religious school we didn't have any because dancing and physical contact between the sexes was strictly forbidden. Instead they had a special date night for Valentine's day where you could bring a date and have dinner at the school. I never went to one of those, the last thing I would have wanted to do on a date was have religious chaperones watching over me.

In public school they played country music at the dances, and I didn't find that remotely appealing, so I never went to one. I wish I had been born in a different time and place, I would have loved to go to an 80's new wave prom, or a 50's sock hop, but dear god, not a 90's country music jamboree. They even had a semi-famous country singer come out to perform at the school once. I found it embarrassing to go to a school like that, even more so than private school where all popular music was forbidden but at least they appreciated classical music.

I was in marching band so I went to every football game, and was in pep band for basketball games, but I never really paid any attention to the games, just the music. I was in symphonic band and jazz band and chorus so I performed in a lot of concerts. I played a clarinet solo at the fine arts competitions every year and sometimes performed those solos in concerts too. We did concert band and marching band competitions, and one year we played at Disney World. I went to district honors chorus one year. I played piano and wrote music for the drama club. Doing all of those activities helped me get a partial scholarship to college.

I went to my proms and to one dance when I was in middle school. The proms were okay because the boy who asked me liked me and we were already close friends. And we spent a lot of time at our dinner table. We slow danced once or twice and I found that particularly uncomfortable and awkward. I did not understand what the other kids liked about it. And I did not like the sensation of my friend's skin (his face) so close to me. I guess I did not like the sensation of his whole body that close to me.

But my mom had helped me pick out my dresses and they were very nice. My junior prom dress was gorgeous, almost stunning actually, I really looked like a fairy tale princess, so a lot of the girls complimented me on it. So my confidence was up then. And after junior prom I was invited with my date to an all night crepe making slumber party for the whole group that he was friends with. They were really good kids, well brought up so there was nothing inappropriate at all that night. We made crepes and then all slept on the floor in the living room and the parents of the kids who lived in the house were there. So it was a very innocent sweet and wonderful night. I have beautiful memories of it and still have our dinner table ornament.

The middle school dance was really uncomfortable and awkward because I had no friends at all there and I did not know how to dance like the other kids really and I did not know what to do with myself. No one talked to me at all so I just sat around and waited for my mom to pick me up afterwards.

I never attended sports events unless I was competing. I much rather be a part of the competition than watch it. I never understood the excitement the other kids had about going to games. I did go to a high school homecoming game though. I enjoyed the half time activities and the bonfire but I did not really understand how to get into the game. Now I can go to football or baseball or hockey games and really enjoy them because with football and baseball my husband is there to explain every play to me and I can latch on to his energy and his enjoyment and the same for my brother who is an avid hockey fan.

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I was ask out to the prom but the girl changed her mind.

That is terrible.

yep, a couple days before too.