[ErnBatavia]

I graduated from high school in 1965; even then I kinda had the idea that all this Prom Biz was somebody else's idea of a "rite of passage", so I didn't even think about skipping my Friday night shift at Oscar's Flying A gas station.

(And, yes, I could have gotten a "date" for the affair)

Years later, went to the first two or three "reunions", where the same cliques did the clique stuff all over again....pretty silly, in fact.

[Campion]

Ain't it the truth?!?

I went to my junior prom, didn't particularly enjoy it. Asked a girl to the prom senior year, she turned me down (she had strict parents and I think she wasn't allowed to go, period), so I skipped it. Went to church with my parents that night, actually. :-)

And the clique thing at reunions is universal. Many of the same people who were nasty in high school are still nasty 20 years later.