School dances, your experiences:

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Hey guys, it's homecoming week at my school and I'm not going so I figured here would be a good place to wallow in self pity about being forever alone.

Then I realized no one wants to hear that shit, so instead I'll ask what have been your experiences with school dances. Did your school have dances? Did you go to any of them? Were they fun or terrible? Did you find something cooler to do while everyone was at the dance being lame? Can you take pity on me and say something positive so I don't feel like such a whiney misrable pile of-oh wait, sorry. On topic. Discussion value.

Anyway, share your experiences with school dances and such...

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Hmm. A bunch of tales involving girlfriends.

One year I went with a girl who was a good friend without telling my recent ex. My recent ex apparently didn't understand "this isn't working out", so there was a big scene (it was like 7th grade, cut me a break). It was actually pretty humorous.

Fastforwarding to 10th grade, I had told my girlfriend (new one, we'll call her Mary) I was gonna meet her up there. But that day I had went to a friends house and for the first time ever, played a Call of Duty multiplayer game. I was hooked on it, and was about to completely blow off the dance(my thought process being that our relationship wasn't going that well anyways), but realized that I was blowing off women for a video game, so I changed my mind.

I ended up going to the dance. One of the best romantic nights I had. i was glad I went.

11th grade dance, the girlfriend from tenth grade and I had broken up, and I had unknowingly been dating one of her friends (we'll call her Sarah). We had both come to terms with the fact that it wasn't really working out, so we kinda both just decided to remain friend (to this day we are). But Mary apparently decided that I was just dating Sarah to get on her nerves, and she ended up offhandedly insulting me every time I saw her. I ended up cussing her out, and there was a big fight between us. I think somewhere over the next year or so we kinda worked it out. we at least don't hate each other anymore.

Now 12th grade. I took a good friend to the dance (we'll call this one Slutface) who knew that I had liked her for a long time. We had plenty of fun to the point of where she invited me back to her house. My guy friend Steve tagged along with us for a while, and we ended up eating out, doing all sorts of fun stuff. The romantic tension was there, and we both recognized it. I ended up playing it safe and going home that night seeing how I really wasn't able to get away from my guy friend, cock blocking Steve.

It turned out that Slutface ended up inviting over her boyfriend who she had conveinantly not told me about. They did God knows what, and I ended up hearing about it from a friend later.

We still remained friends and even dated at one point, but that ended pretty terribly. A story for another time though.

TLDR; They're a rollercoaster. Don't try to cause any fights and you'll enjoy yourself oh so much more. Don't worry about not having a girlfriend. If the energy in the dance is right, you can pick up chicks like that.

 

[Berethond]

They're fucking awesome! At least the one I went to was.
It was great, loads of fun. I love dancing. It's just I usually went to dances outside of school.

 

[JaceArveduin]

Closing thing I went to is my Prom. I went, stayed for about an hour, got bored of the crappy music and the fact that I never really made friends, more acquaintences, then left. I was rather unimpressed with the whole thing, not that I expected much, it's just glorified over here in the US.

 

[TriggerHappyJoe]

Well, considering I was never really popular or attractive during school, most of my school dances involved me sitting in the corner with a friend as he cockblocked me when I was still in an awkward phase where I wasn't sure if I liked girls or guys yet.

And as someone who didn't fit in with popular music choices, I also never danced and hated everyone who did dance because they had 'terrible taste in music'

 

[Instant K4rma]

At my senior prom, I invited a friend to come with me as a friend. I made this very clear that we were going as friends, but by the time we got there, she though we were "serious". Being that we were good friends, but not really interested in a relationship with each other, she was awkward and quiet pretty much the whole time. That was an interesting senior prom.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Hey guys, it's homecoming week at my school and I'm not going so I figured here would be a good place to wallow in self pity about being forever alone.

Then I realized no one wants to hear that shit, so instead I'll ask what have been your experiences with school dances. Did your school have dances? Did you go to any of them? Were they fun or terrible? Did you find something cooler to do while everyone was at the dance being lame? Can you take pity on me and say something positive so I don't feel like such a whiney misrable pile of-oh wait, sorry. On topic. Discussion value.

Anyway, share your experiences with school dances and such...

A review of my school dance experiences:

6th grade: Awkward. Ran around with a raccoon-skin hat as my "costume". I danced with this one girl I really liked, but it was so awkward I almost cried and learned a valuable lesson about attraction.

7th grade: More of the same, except I actually danced and goofed around more.

8th grade: Didn't go to any except for the graduation dance. It was pretty fucking awesome, the DJ played Metallica while we headbanged and popped all the balloons that where set up.

9th grade homecoming: It was alright, except this guy I was hanging with started coughing up "blood". I soon found out it that he was faking it.

Prom(10th grade): The best I've had. I went with my girlfriend(who looked stunning) and a bunch of weird shit happened like a guy offering to fuck me in the bathroom in a very comedic way. Making out with my said girlfriend was fun, too.

I hope my junior prom this year can top it, but I don't believe it can.

 

[Sariteiya]

Our school dances were awful. In Elementary school, they once decided to cut costs by putting a boom box next to the PA System Microphone and play the music that way. Auuuugh so lame.

High school they would rent one of those Much Music dance companies, so the production value was vastly superior, but after a while I came to realize that there just wasn't anything to appeal to me about school dances. The music was never to my taste, and I wasn't much for awkward teenage grind dancing.

Oddly enough though, I remember at the dances I did go to, there were always these girls making out together and grinding on each other, but I never remember seeing them outside of those dances... And no one ever mentioned them afterwards... It's like they were the lesbian tease phantoms of the dances...

 

[Mazza35]

School dances ect. Look like a huge waste of time and money (Several hundred dollars + sometimes)
I'd rather get coverd in oil and grease playing with steam engines, or have a quiet night reading a book.

 

[Nicolairigel]

I always thought they were *okay* up until highschool, where I discover freaking.

Man all my mixers at my school from there on out were some of the best nights ever.....

As for proms, I went too a valentine dance with my bestfriend's girlfriend's friend, and while it was slightly awkward we talked a lot and that summer we started dating, but it only really lasted like 2 months seeing how we couldn't communicate very well....

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I never attended a school dance - to the severe disappointment of my Mother.

 

[Nicolairigel]

Oddly enough though, I remember at the dances I did go to, there were always these girls making out together and grinding on each other, but I never remember seeing them outside of those dances... And no one ever mentioned them afterwards... It's like they were the lesbian tease phantoms of the dances...

Holy crap I thought those were just hallucinations of my teenage addled mind...

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I didn't have an escort for my graduation ceremony so I just kind of didn't have that experience. However, in grade 9 or 10 I found the guts to ask a cute girl to a dance that was happening at the civic center. I was incredibly nervous and she just ended out chatting with friends more than hanging out with me. I left for home alone and I've never liked dance/party scenes since. A small party with a group of very good friends? I'll do that and maybe I'll dance if you booze me up enough but I can't do the big formal dances. Not yet anyway.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

I went to one (Homecoming) when I was a freshman in High School. It sucked horribly. I went with a girl as a friend, really wasn't interested in anything more than that, thought it would be fun. Well, she spends most of the time with a different friend (Who was really annoying and kind of a *****, and I've never used that word to describe anyone before, so I don't use it lightly). Spends half the dances with some guy she wanted to fuck and leaves early so that she can hook up with said guy (She doesn't).

Only other person who might have danced with me is chained to her boyfriend who doesn't want to have any fun for any reason. So maybe I'll talk to someone else, the only people I could say I "hung out with" seem to all be boring and here for no apparent reason. Okay, you this thing is lame when the introverted shut-in is the life of the party. The music sucked, and since my dad was the ride home (And I didn't know when it ended) we had to leave early. I say "we" because my little brother was there with an *actual* date and had to leave her early (Ended up doing the same the next year). Oh, and the music sucked hard.

I never went to one of these crapfests again, wasn't worth the time, money, or effort in dressing up (Although, these days I'd love to dress up for something, but I don't really have the clothes for that). It was just a huge load of BS, like everything in High School, although I'll admit that I'm a bit jealous of the people who actually have fun at these...

 

[Tonythion]

First in seventh grade...I was mistaken for a girl at my first ever dance, just because I had long hair. The music was shit and all the girls (not the attractive ones) used me as a stripper pole...they did not know how to dance which made it even worse. They took my trying to leave as me being embarrassed...

The next two were Halloween dances in which I went in full costume (7th grade I was an honest to God fairy, wings and fancy long hair. 8th grade I was a Gentleman of Fortune, a pirate captain who takes pride in their appearance--wore a wig this time because I cut my hair) both times I ended up ditching the dance to hang out with my older friends because the music was shit.

After that I never went to any dances or school functions because by this time I was a social recluse. Except I went to my at-the-time-partners prom. The prom itself wasn't all that great since all they played was rap and hip hop...or those synchronized dances...and it was a white school so no one knew how to dance. We ended up leaving half way through to go to a party, we had a lot of fun there despite me almost dying trying to drive home with a drunk man scaring the shit of a little 15 year old me.

BTW I was the one driving seeing as he was too sloshed to see straight.

 

[Sacman]

only went to the ones in Middle School, which I don't remember too well... I would've surely been curb stomped if I showed up to one in high school...

 

[Link_to_Future]

Dances were generally tragic tales of rejection and angst. Mostly self inflicted since I was a bit of a dumbass in my earlier days.

My senior year was pretty good for high school gatherings though. Come to think of it, my junior prom wasn't bad either. It was a precursor to the relationship that took me out through my graduation and quite a ways beyond.

Other than that, they were always pretty lame. You haven't lived until you've seen people attempt to earnestly grind to Nickelback. >.<

 

[Viper1265]

I've only ever been to two school dances, graduating middle school and graduating high school.

The middle school dance took place in the school gymnasium and me and my friends generally stayed around the edges talking and walking around but avoiding the dense group of dancers in the middle of the gym. Overall I wouldn't call it the funnest of experiences but not overly horrible but I don't dance so of course I would end up bored at a dance.

High school grad dinner dance was a lot nicer, taking place in a 5 star hotel ballroom. I spent the time before dinner talking to an acquaintance I knew from a class the previous year, it was a largely one-sided conversation of him talking about D&D (I'd probably enjoy that game if I had any good friends who played) but it served to pass the time till food was served which was fairly good. For most of the "dance" part I was playing chess on my iphone with another friend with the same aversion to dancing as I though as I was heading out I jumped onto the dance floor just so I could say I did.

Now as my 19th birthday comes up I fear I'm going to be forced kicking and screaming off to some club by my sister and her friends, which as far as I know will be the same shitty music and the same lame dancing only with more alcohol, and as much as I don't dance, I don't drink either so I am expecting to have a [sarcasm]very fun night.[/sarcasm]

 

[darth.pixie]

Yes, we had dances every year. Not at school, but they always rented this huge club for it. I stuck around for the first year, which was lame. Second year, some mates and me made an appearance for show (my professor was the one organizing things and she would have had a fit if we weren't there) and after an hour or so we left and hit some heavy metal bars.

That was much more fun than the dance and we kept doing that for the rest of high school. I think we were 15 the first time we did it.

Get a group of friends and do something else. You don't need a date. None of us had one and we always had a good time.

 

[Smooth Operator]

On the whole they were all pretty shit, they just aren't my kind of party and having the schools gestapo regime enforced on parties really doesn't help.
Watching people atempt to dance was pretty entertaining but other then that I was looking at my watch when it's appropriate to scram.

I feel like I was born with the wrong genitalia for that dress up and prance about drama bullshit, because all the girls were all over it while the guys were just there to be all over the girls.