to hate school proms

[MargoLovebutter]

Maybe it is just my DD, but I cannot wait for her bastarding prom to be over. I think I am just about managing to feign interest, so that DD doesn't think I am a total killjoy, but it is doing my head in.

I am so fed up of talking about dresses, looking a photos of other girls dresses, going to try on dresses, ordering dresses, sending back dresses, getting dresses altered, looking at more photos of other girls dresses, talking about dresses....... OMG, she's going to wear it for 3 hours!!!!!!!

I am so fed up of talking about potential dates, other girls dates, dates that won't happen, dates that may happen, unsuitable dates, looking at photos of dates ......

I am so fed up of paying through the nose for so much bloody stuff for a 3 hour shin-dig - the dress, the shoes, the fake tan, the event itself, I drew the line at professional make up and I'm debating about professional hair dresser. Apparently a limo is now involved too, with everyone chipping in - the kids live, at most, 15 minutes away from the flipping venue!!!!!

I am also having to hear about pre-prom and after-prom. Whose allowed to have a drink, who isn't, which parents are trying to control alcohol intake, which parents aren't. Who is likely to try and sleep with who at after-prom, who will break up, who will get wasted, who won't drink, who will have a crap time, who will be smoking, who will try and smuggle in spirits, which teachers may try and go to after-prom and the endless speculation about collection time .......

Gah!

Ah stop being a kill joy!

My dds loved their proms. It’s fun. It’s life. There’s years for mortgage, kids, jobs worries. Let them have some fun.

Oh and listen with wine

Some of my sixth form 'friends' hired a limo for our leavers meal, and claimed to have forgotten to invite me. I was very hurt. But one of the lads who always had long scruffy hair, had had it cut off. And completely eclipsed their arrival, as he arrived at the same time. Served them right!

Yes of course, IFailed .

I was trying to inject a little humour and also to illustrate that debs have been around for decades in Ireland.

Yes, debs are a trickle down of the original debutantes balls and cotillions. No, debs (or proms) as a concept clearly is not something English people have been familiar with for a long, long time, if the comments about vulgar American imports and simple school discos of yore or signing of autographs are anything to go by.

It's been a big thing in Ireland for a long time, maybe thanks to the fact that such a huge proportion of school leavers stay in school all the way to age 18 and leaving school is a genuine watershed for a huge number of 18 year olds every year. There are no interim special occasions - people leaving education after the Junior Cert collect their certificate and move on.