High School Graduates Share Their Most Excruciating Prom Horror Stories
For most of us, graduating from high school represents a major milestone.
After four years of living in one environment with the same group of people constantly around us, we finally get to see the light at the end of the tunnel. And the one moment that marks this culmination of an era most of all? Prom night.
People spend years imagining what the perfect, romantic prom night with their perfect, romantic dream date will be like, but, when the big day actually arrives in reality, it can often turn out just a little differently than expected.
Sometimes, it goes even better than expected, and then sometimes... not so much.
Here are 41 stories about prom nights that did not end up going exactly as planned.
38. Mixed Messages
I didn't think anyone would ask me to prom, but one of my guy friends actually did.
I was kind of excited, and we did color matching and the stuff you're supposed to, and then one of my other friends told me he had a girlfriend who went to a different school. So after that I wasn't excited anymore.
My whole grade wasn't that into prom, so a lot of us ended up playing Apples to Apples instead of dancing, including me.
My date told me as we were leaving that he was upset we didn't dance at all, but at that point I was like "What do you want me to do?"
And then I found five dollars. That was a highlight.
37. It Just Had to Be Today
My first prom I actually went to was as a junior in high school (around here it's usually just seniors that go), but I rounded up money from all my pals and their dates and we actually got a limo.
So we are going out to eat and we make it 75% there and we get hit by someone running a red light.
So we missed the reservation time at where we were supposed to eat, didn't get the full time we expected in the limo and got to the prom later than we wanted to.
It was funny afterwards (we were all okay) but it was one of those "it just had to be today" kind of things.
36. Lend a Helping Hand
I got invited to an afterparty by a girl I kinda liked and when she went to introduce me to her friend I went to shake her hand. Except that her hand was bent at the wrist permanently, atrophied, and smaller than the other one. Having not been expecting that, I didn’t react in the most polite way possible. At that point I was committed so I just grabbed a few fingertips and shook gently. Like Janosh in Ghostbusters 2.
And that was that.
35. Parental Guidance
My father was supposed to take care of our hotel arrangements but ended up chasing me around angrily. Had to go all mental on him…
