Poll: Who didn't go to senior prom.

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I went to all 3 dances, 5,6 and 7. Mainly because I really wanted to wear an evening dress. I had a date for 6, though I didnt see him for most of the night. He was really shy. a really awkward date with my friends brother which I was talked into for 5, and was single for 7 and went with friends. Had a great time at all 3.

most people in my school didn't go as "dates" but as groups of friends. since i didn't really have any high school friends left i didn't think it would be very comfortable or fun to go. plus, i didn't actually graduate until 13 years later, so i thought it would be a bit silly to go.

oh, and nobody asked me as a date either. my future husband attended (it was about a week before we started dating), as he had some friends who were going and they invited him along. at the aftergrad party he made out with 2 girls at one time. if i had observed that with my own eyes i would never have dated him! so in retrospect i was glad i didn't go.

Fnord, that sucks. That's why I was too shy, I was afraid of the rejection.

I was more afraid of my father, who told me he'd smack me if I didn't have a prom date, so I asked 27 girls in my senior year without success. Dad only grounded me for two weeks, but being punished for being unpopular is some kind of ... I haven't the words to describe it ...

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Dang, insult on top of injury. My parents forbade me from dating until I was over 17 as my siblings had caused all sorts of problems. I was not helped by authoritarian ways either.

I was just too shy to ask because my high school life sucked, got picked on, had low confidence/self-esteem, My family was really dissapointed and my father especially cause he is a pervert and thought I was homosexual.

I went to prom alone (no date or group of friends) my senior year.

I didn't enjoy it, and it was the only year I went to prom.

What about "im a boy and i didnt want to go"
Not all of us didnt go because we didnt have someone.

I went by myself and it was a total bore. I don't want to socialise with dicks from school. I'd rather dance with randoms in town.

I "had a date for prom" but in the end I didnt go.
To summarize
I was extremely close to a female class mate(bff kind of thing).
One day I was getting out of class with her and one of her close friends approached us and asked if I was going to the dance, she later asked if I had a partner and if I wanted to go with her.
I barely knew this girl but as she asked me in front of our friend in common I was unable to find a polite way of saying no(random strangers arent generally my idea of a perfect date) so after a brief awkward pause I said that I´d go with her.

The next day I receive a fr at facebook from her asking if she could have this dance. I told our friend in common(we told each other almost everything) because I found it somewhat cute and she started telling me about how I should be carefull because she had become obsessed with a couple of students since the beginning of the year.

I took it as a bad joke but she started displaying several signs of neediness that day:she started waving at me whenever we came accross each other at school( I think it went as far as 8 times in 5 minutes), she made sure eveyone knew she was going with me and I was a jerk so I told her that prom just wasnt my thing.

The following day I run accross her(most of the cool guys went binge drinking together and somehow I was invited) and she made out with a couple of guys so I think she took the rejection quite nicely.

What are you talking about?!? Sure they can!! ! I had a girl ask me to her senior prom when I was in college, actually (a freshman, I think). And that was two decades ago. Things have to be even freer for girls these days, I would think.

I actually hardly knew her and didn't have the faintest idea why she asked me. It was completely out of the blue. But, ultimately it didn't matter so I didn't ask. I just assumed that she felt safe with me and knew that I could handle being just a date for the evening. (Maybe I'm giving myself too much credit. The truth is that I was the only guy she knew who owned a tuxedo 'cause I was a musician ... LOL!) I didn't particularly want to go, TBH. (It wasn't my prom after all.) But, I was flattered that she asked and understood how important it was to her. So, of course I said yes. (This, BTW, is something that adult friends do for each other -- help them out of awkward social spots. It doesn't end at prom -- believe me. There's always going to be a work function or whatever that someone needs to bring a date to.)

Anyway, the entire thing was totally uneventful (at least for me). But, in retrospect, I'm really happy that she's not sitting around 20 years later saying she never went to her high school prom.

Chrissyrun, find someone to go with! (I'd go with you, but alas, at 39, I think my best prom days are far behind me!) Good luck!

I never regretted not going to mine but if I was friends with a senior girl who asked & I thought there was a possibility it might could turn into more than simply friends; I would gladly go

Really? There would have to be that possibility -- otherwise you wouldn't be interested? Proms are actually pretty unromantic affairs. They're very public and everyone is dressed up in uncomfortable outfits! My post was more about participating simply because you are just friends. Chrissyrun wants to go to her prom -- and not alone. Totally understandable, right? I think she should feel comfortable inviting one of her guy friends without having to deal with the pressure of its having to mean anything romantically significant.

We don't have proms in Denmark
so no

Asking someone to go with you to a dance implies asking em out on a date & I don't understand the point in having a date if you are only friends & not dating.

I didn't go to my one even though I was begged to death to do so.