Prom Crashers
June 19, 2009 
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This morning I was thinking to myself, “It’s the end of June. You know what that means — prom season.” Now, I know that prom season is earlier nowadays, but my prom was at the end of June (so I always think of that time of the year as prom season).
Think how much fun this would be. You go and buy a corsage for your woman. You make her buy a dress from Forever 21 (as all the dresses from there look like prom dresses). You rent a really bad tux . . . and you crash a prom.
Forget about wedding crashers, I want to be a prom crasher. How much fun would it be to go dance the night away to a really bad 80s cover band?
You could be the one who brings the booze (because you’re the only one there who can legally buy alcohol), and you could spike the punch. Just think what a hero you would be at your prom.Â
For those of you who had a bad prom experience, this could be your chance at redemption. If you were the guy in the corner who was sitting there basically miserable, or if you were the girl who didn’t get asked to dance, then think about the instant popularity you’d garner by being the one who brings the booze and spikes the punch.
You are going to finally be popular! All the kids are going to look at you say, “Dude, you are so cool!” You will be the “it” person at the prom.
You’ll get to dance with the prom queen (or king). Your date is going to get so turned on, because it’s going to take them back to high school and they’re going to realize that they are with the cool person who spiked the punch.Â
How much fun would this all be? I know most of you saw the movie Wedding Crashers which was really funny, but prom crashing brings back a lot of memories with it.
You can rent a cheesy limousine, and pick up your date in it. Then, after the prom, you can invite everybody back to your house and party.
Even more fun than that, why not bring your date back to your parents’ house. Your parents will be sitting there watching television, and when you come in they’ll say “You kids can go down to the basement as long as you leave the lights on.”
Did it really matter if the lights were on or not? I remember my parents would always give me the “as long as the lights are on” stipulation. You could of course still hump with the lights on. Parent mindset is so funny. It’s like they think to themselves, “We’re parents. We’ve been having sex for the last eighteen years. We’re not attracted to each other anymore, and we turn the lights off so we don’t have to see each other.”
That’s how parents are. They forget about the fun days when a naked body was something amazing to look at, and you actually wanted to see your partner naked. They forget what it’s like to look at someone and marvel at how good they look naked. Parents think that if you leave the lights on, then nothing sexual is going to happen.
Actually Motel 6 leaves the light on, too, so if you have a little extra cash at the end of your prom date you can take your date to the Motel 6. Motel 6 also probably thinks that nothing sexual happens there, because who the hell would have sex on those rough sheets?
Anyway, how much fun would that be to re-live your prom? What a great date idea.
Now, I wouldn’t suggest you go to the prom by yourself to try and meet people, because then you look like “Chester, Chester The Child Molester.” You don’t go to a prom looking for dates, unless of course you’re one of my young readers (I’ve got a lot of guys reading this blog who are 17 and 18 years old). If that’s you, then why not put on a tux and go crash a prom?
Just think if you did that. All the kids would be trying to place who you are. People would be whispering, “Is that Joe who dropped out? Oh my God, we haven’t seen him since 9th grade!”
Now, if I can just convince my girlfriend how much fun it would be for her to put on that awful dress again, for me to put on my awful tuxedo and for us to actually go and crash a prom. Anybody want to join?
This is hillarious!
I love this in theory . . . but I think the black and fuscia dress I wore in the 80s would not be quite as flattering on me now in my mid-30s
David — I’d love to see you sporting a vintage tux though…
I’m sure you can hunt down a nice powder blue one SOMEWHERE…
Kristen,
Been there done that…another Fuchia one shoulder number with matching Cummerbund and tie set..Yikes Matchy Matchy….real eighties. Bet there would be some on this board who would venture down memory lane on this one. If you do report back please. (-: Jacob could most likely get away with it..
Only been one year and my girls and I wish we could redo prom. So we’re having a girls night and wearing our prom dresses or something formal
I always saw prom as having a date, so when the time came and I didn’t have a date yet, I asked my last resort which I will not disclose about here, and he agreed to go with me if I really needed one. So he went with me to my prom, but it turns out, I sort of ditched him and danced with my friends instead. I now know that I jsut wanted someone to look good with me lol. I did dance with him and converse etc though. The new trend as they say (because of movies like High School Musical and shows like Gossip Girl) now is going to prom single with your friends. Its not really a trend, its just what we end up doing.
Oh Marina….
Matchy, matchy doesn’t even cover it I’m afraid. While you accurately guessed my date did sport a cumberbund and bow tie in a perfectly coordinated shade of fuschia to match my dress … I also had the died to match shoes and (I am almost too embarassed to admit), the ultra high fashion Lee Press-On Nails painted in that same fuschia.
Add in my slightly orange hair from the bottles of Sun-In I used to lighten my brunette head throughout much of the 80′s and my very BIG bangs … and I was the WHOLE PACKAGE
I had a white wedding dress-like prom dress with my Farrah Fawcett feathered hair that I curled with my clicker curling iron powered by butane and scented with Loves Baby perfume:) Hot stuff!!!
Kismet…love the redo idea:)
Kristen,
I must have a severe case of selective memory…forgot about My Matchy Fuchia shoes..Well I mixed the leather dye to hit the right tone of fuchia..Funny this whole thing. could live without this fashion Faux Paux, but the date was great, actually my first boyfriend.
Kristen and Kimberly, the hair thing is a across the pond trademark, that we did keep natural, except for the few that had been exchange students in the states.
For someone like me who didn’t go to their prom…sure, why not?! It’ll be the re-do…for the first time
Vic
A redo with a lifetime of experience!
Me: I remember my prom but I was unable to go since the people I went to school with did not inform me that my husband could wear a nice suite with a vest. So if they did not want me to go to there prom I wont go to their stupid class reunion. But I do remember my mom busting one of them though in front of her mother. I believe my husband backed out also and did not want to go.
To change the hands of time hell yeah I would go. Let me now when Dave and I will join in on the fun for I love to party….