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Prom
April 15, 2018 at 9:45 pm
Did you go? Why/why not? If you are a girl, did you dress in anything this revealing? Would you allow your own daughter to?
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RE: Prom
April 15, 2018 at 9:48 pm
Went to a number of school dances/socials.
Wouldn't wear anything like that to one.
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RE: Prom
April 15, 2018 at 9:53 pm
Never went to prom. I was the one at home reading books while everyone else was too busy worrying about being socially cool.
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RE: Prom
April 15, 2018 at 9:57 pm
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I didn't go to prom, but I did enjoy other social dances in Sr. year. But more for the eye candy than anything.
I would never have a kid, but if I did, she'd be grounded if she even talked about dressing like that. In fact, it would take a lot for me to allow her to go to prom. Gotta earn your way. No limo, no decolletage, etc.
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RE: Prom
April 15, 2018 at 10:01 pm
I was too shy a guy to go to the prom. Took me a few more years before I was ready to relate to girls without jizzing my pants.
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RE: Prom
April 15, 2018 at 10:03 pm
Oh, jizz away. I'm 42 and still feel like I'm a teen at times.
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RE: Prom
April 15, 2018 at 10:05 pm
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(April 15, 2018 at 9:45 pm)c172 Wrote: Did you go? Why/why not? If you are a girl, did you dress in anything this revealing? Would you allow your own daughter to?
Jaysus. I would never let my daughter out of the house like that.
I went to prom. No one asked me so I had to ask a friend from another school who was a grade below me. The next year, when it was his prom, he took someone else! The whole thing was pretty lame, TBH.
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RE: Prom
April 15, 2018 at 10:05 pm
That would be crossing the line for me.
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RE: Prom
April 15, 2018 at 10:08 pm
My mom didn't have money for it and my aunt gave me a choice between prom and new glasses. My glasses were old and beat up and I couldn't think of anyone to go with anyway. In hindsight, there probably was one. Or two really. Options. I wouldn't have tried to go with two girls.
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RE: Prom
April 15, 2018 at 10:15 pm
Went to prom because a pretty girl said yes. As for the dress, people don't just all of a sudden where an outfit like that. You'd have to have passed on a lot of parenting opportunities to slow that train down for it to get to the point of wearing that dress to a high school prom.
Then again, maybe that's just how the kid rolls. If the decision to wear that dress comes from a healthy place, then maybe it's not actually a big deal.