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.Senior Prom
Our prom was scheduled for yesterday, on the roof of Metro67, a building in our downtown which serves most parties like ours in the area. Being the swagtastic class of '13 (13oss), my group decided to get a Lincoln limo and go to a classy downtown restaurant for our pre-prom meal. After prom, we went to IHOP, the classiest joint in town, to have some breakfast around 1:30 am. My date was falling asleep, and to be honest I almost fell asleep driving myself home around 2:10 am, so my night ended a bit earlier than some of my friends did.
What I want to talk about has to do with three things for this blog, I'll explain all of them in more detail later in the blog: one is that, though my overall prom experience was great, my riding group was awful; two is that the dance itself was a mix of awkwardness with normal partying, which was weird for our school's prom; three is the interpersonal relationships at prom, and how they made things better and worse for everyone.
The first part is fairly simple to explain, my group for prom did not fit together. My ride consisted of me sitting with my girlfriend who is younger than everyone in the car, including myself, trying to converse and be politely social; of course this was met with the people in my car's incomprehensible condescension, and I mean that in the most overt way possible. I guess we just chose a bad group, because the entire ride was people talking shit about people in the same limo. My cousin had come in, because she's dating a guy at my school (she lives in Virginia and I live in Tennessee), and she wasn't met with the same southern hospitality that most similar situations are met with. Literally from the time she arrived there with us to the time we left IHOP with the rest of our group, since I left a bit early with my date, she got non-stop shit. My girlfriend and my cousin, both of whom are dates of people in the group, were ostracized from the beginning. The quickest thing most people respond to when confronted with a similar situation is the trite, "They must have done something right?" and, though in some cases that line is pertinent, the response to it is a simple, "No, they didn't have a chance to do that."
The second part is a bit more complicated to explain. It's hard to explain the dance dynamic at my school, but I'll give a badly explained abriged version. Most people on TL I would wager, who live in the states, go to a public school or have gone to a larger highschool. Some of them are like me, who go to a small private school based on international students mixing with local students. We have the normal would be frat boys, the nerds, etc. we aren't that different, but the dances always tend to be extraordinarily awkward. This year it wasn't nearly as awkward. The inclusion of grades under 12 and 11 (seniors and juniors) created a lot more grinding, and generally less awkwardness as people didn't all know each other, or at least care what other people thought. All the guys were wearing tuxedos and the girls fluctuated between gowns and dresses see-through and tight enough to.. well you know, not that the guys complained too much about that
. I spent the majority of the time talking with my gf and awkwardly dancing in a circle, as I'm sure most prom-goers do, and a minute amount of time grinding with my gf because apparently my friends who went with their friends as dates didn't want to let my gf and I have any time to ourselves >.>. The final part here is the general things that pissed me off and made me happy about the evening. I grew angrier at my friends as they made snide comments about my gf throughout the night, and as they made similar comments about my cousing. I'm sure at least some of that was levied at her dress. While my cousin wore a normal dress, she showed some cleavage (this is incredibly awks to say because this is my cuz) the amount of ceavage on her wasn't nearly as obvious as some of the people in my group, who had nip slips and whose boob size I could pretty much guess from the amount of tops falling off. The fact that a guy I know told my gf he didn't care if he hurt anyone's feelings and that, "that has never stopped me before," was probably the low of the night for me; I just kind of realized the group I was in, at least for the majority of people in it, was not the one I'd keep up with. There were some highs though, my cousin spent time with her long distance bf, I enjoyed being at IHOP with my gf, I talked to people I normally don't get to talk to, and most of all I didn't hit the armadillo crossing the street at a breakneck pace of 2 mph at 1:40 am. Most importantly though, I enjoyed prom, even though there were some low parts, and as a senior in highschool attending my last prom, I think that is about all that matters
. Thanks TL, sorry for the late blog, I'd attach the photos if they didn't have other people in them, I'd rather not show all of them without their permission just as a matter of principle. I wish I had some on hand, I might update it, but I'm nothing special to look at haha.
Giving your GF a hard time without even knowing her smells more of jealousy than anything else mate, same with your cousin 
