Did anyone try to go to the high school prom ?

by Pitchess Co-Gen 23 Replies latest jw experiences

  • exwhyzee
    exwhyzee

    My wife was an Elder's daughter and her Mom a regular pioneer. She was asked to go to the prom by a popular guy in school and she accepted but it meant that in order to go she had to sneak out of the house somehow. Her Dad was giving a Sunday talk in another town so it worked out that her parents and younger siblings wouldn't be home. After the Dance her date took her out to dinner with a group or other popular kids, to a place they could afford. While they were eating, the booth they were sitting in collapsed and they all wound up sitting down inside the wood box/frame that was holding up the booths seat cushion. The girls got up and went to the bathroom together to fix their cloths etc and when they came out to the lobby, the guys grabbed them and rushed toward the door saying " run....run ! The whole group ran out of the place without paying for their meal. When her date brought her home, she realized she didn't have her house key. Her older sister, who she ran into at the prom, had also snuck out to the dance and hadn't gotten home yet. There she was locked out of house so the guy, wanting to be the hero, pried open the little bathroom window and crawled in. On his way in, he slipped and grabbed onto the shower curtain to stabalize himself but it came loose from the rod. On the way down he grabbed the towel bar and ripped it out of the wall. The guy had to stumble through the dark house to find the front door and let her in. (probably tripped over her Dads Giant Elder book bag ) He opened the front door...she stepped inside...he stepped outside and just sort of stood there expecting a good night kiss and couldn't figure out why everything was such a big secret. At this point she was so worried about the damaged bathroom and flustered and embarrased by all that happened that she just said" Well....I guess I'll see ya at school" and shut the door. She still blushes at the thought of this today.

    She and her sister managed to get the bathroom all put back together before the parents returned the next evening. The two girls thought they were in the clear until her Dad got home from work Monday night. At the dinner table he casually asked "so....how did you girls enjoy the dance on Saturday night hmmmm? " Apparently one of the women he worked with was a Chaperone at the dance and had said she was surprised to see his girls there, being Witnesses and all but said how pretty his they looked. Her Dad was pretty cool about it and fortunately he was a pretty cool guy and was able to see the humor in it which in a way made them feel even worse about not only embarrasing him in front of his coworkers but having deceived him.

  • designs
    designs

    Major Bummer in High School, got asked by a really cute girl to....

  • clearpoison
    clearpoison

    Undercover's words brought some delightful memories in my mind. Thank you for that.

    I just loved our nerdy chemistry and physics club at school, it was one of the highlights of the week, and no, meetings did not fit to that list.

    CP

  • exwhyzee
    exwhyzee

    Wanting our Sons to have as balanced and normal as life as possible, and yet be JW's we allowed them to be on the wrestling and track teams and join Lacrosse. They were good guys...never any trouble...(other than being terribly untidy). They each went to their Prom and the youngest one was homecomming king but we couldn't tell anyone about any of their activities at school or that we privately acknowledged their birth dates by doing something special for them. Our out of town Witness reletives found out about the wrestling team and this news was met with much tut-tutting and dire warnings about bad association. They were both relatively quiet boys but being on a team or wrestling an opponent in front of a whole auditiorium of people was a real confidence builder for them and they enjoyed it so much.

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