My daughter is so straight it’s nuts - either that or she has me totally fooled. I’m pretty sure she and her friends are going to just eat a bunch of sweets and dance. I can’t really complain, she’s a great kid. I’m happy to spoil her with fancy dress because she worked really hard this year and deserves to have something that makes her happy.
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I mean, that’s it, though- right? It’s a time to get a fancy dress and act all fancy and ride in fancy cars and have a fancy night.
It’s when they’re doing test-runs on hairdos that it’s gone around the bend.
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LMAO, correct.
One sales lady told me she had heard that people were spending as much as $2000 on their prom dresses. We saw some girls trying on stuff that was easily $800 or more.
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… parents go to the prom? And the kids don’t die from embarrassment?
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“fuck that noise” is “throw-back slang” ?
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I don’t feel so good.
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perhaps its my gout
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oh what are the chances of that said every parent ever
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FWIW, I didn’t drink or muck with drugs at all until a fair bit later in life. Nothing at all in High School.
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I did not go to my prom. If my parents had been there I would have found a way to not go to it twice.
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Whenever I read about proms I always feel like they sound like too much effort to be fun.
But then, I am one of the people who tried to persuade my school to let some of us organise a rave. It would have happened too, if there hadn’t been a mass brawl at the school disco in the neighbouring school two weeks before.
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For me, from the late 90’s to the early millennium? Yep it is.
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Call it a rave, and everyone’s happy.
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needs moar pigeon-stopming
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Wait: prom or graduation? I thought prom already happened.
As for the seat sitter part: I can’t even.
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We have both this week. Thanks Obama!
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We had neither. High school graduation?
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The mind boggles.
Oh, wait, so did my kid’s high school: Saturday night and then Thursday afternoon. I guess it’s better than having it the weekend before finals, or something like that.
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Wanted to write something about schooling, proms and the like, but it came out way, way too dark. Might have some unresolved issues there, lol.
Seat sitters? Test-run hairdos?
SMFH, is all. Shaking .My. Fucking. Head.
More power to you. Don’t know how you do it all. 
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I feel you on that one. People I know talk about getting their kids into good schools* and I think, “What are you talking about? School is shit and there is nothing anyone can do about that.” I need to check that against reality a bit.
* In Ontario there really aren’t good and bad schools the way there are in some states. Here “good school” is actually a racist dogwhistle that is so high pitched even the people blowing it can’t hear it.
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