<p>Anyone? It looks like I'll probably doing the above...</p>
<p>-The Alone Coot66</p>
<p>I WENT ALONE TO MY PROM LAST NIGHT!!! And I've never had so much fun. Its actually no big deal. Just go with a group of friends. I liked it. I could dance with a bunch of guys w/o a date to weigh me down. lol. Everyone dances in one huge mob anyway. Yeah.. its super awkward during slow songs, but there are other stag people you can hang with. Its so much fun. You should most definitely go!</p>
<p>My prom is Friday, and there's nobody I'd care to go with within a several-hundred-mile radius of my city... so yes, I will be going without a date.</p>
<p>Did anyone ask you to go?</p>
<p>I don't know if you're asking me or the OP, but this is my answer:</p>
<p>There are 50 students in my grade, most of whom are girls, and none of whom I'm at all interested in going with. An outside acquaintance strongly hinted that he'd like to, but I tried my best to seem oblivious (and felt guilty, but so be it); the one I'd really like to go with lives five states away, and I obviously won't demand that he drive the eight hours down here to go with me to a glorified high school dance. I don't doubt that I could get a date if I really set my mind to it (while I'm certainly no beauty, I am not entirely unfortunate-looking), but I'd rather go with friends than spend the evening entertaining someone I don't really care about for the sake of looking good in pictures.</p>
<p>Edited to add: I'm sorry if that came out overly defensive. It's been a long day. :o</p>
<p>I know some people that went without dates to our prom.</p>
<p>If you dont let it bother you, it wont.</p>
<p>It's all about the pictures. Then do what you want.</p>
<p>I went stag, as did most of my friends. Turns out, we got a great group picture (there were a few couples). And I borrowed a friend's date for the couples picture. (: (Because my dad insisted that I get one taken.) It wasn't terribly awkward.</p>
<p>Er. Yeah. Pictures. Don't you take a picture with your date at prom? Will I have to sit that one out? And I didn't ask anyone. The one girl I would want to go with (as a friend), shunned the idea of going to prom. Another told me she's going to prom with a bunch of friends. A third isn't sure if she's going to prom at all. And, on top of that, I'm really shy.</p>
<p>-The Shy Coot66</p>
<p>going to prom w/o a date isn't a big deal.</p>
<p>going w/o a date and w/o a group of friends would be kinda weird imo</p>
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<p>It'd be awkward, at the very least. I'm assuming that at most proms, dinner is provided, and you arrange seating ahead of hand by reserving a table with your friends. It'd be incredibly awkward if you didn't have a table at prom, or had to squeeze yourself into one among people you don't know very well. </p>
<p>coot66 - If you don't have a date in the first place, then pictures shouldn't be a problem, should it? Couples can leave at various points throughout the night to get their pictures taken professionally. At least, that's how it works at my school dances. So it's not like the entire school will notice that you don't have a date.</p>
<p>On the whole, I think it's easier for a girl to go without a date than it is for a guy...but, if you're going with a group of friends either way, then prom will be fun. I know a couple guys who went without dates last year. I'm not sure how awkward it was for them, but they looked like they were having fun.</p>
<p>Please do. I thought my date was really respectful, friendly, and moderately social - turns out the more I got to know him, the more an emotional bag of sensitivity he became, along with revealing he was actually an insecure introvert and a COMPLETE NON-DANCER when I am quite the contrary. For fear of being rude/disappointing his sensitive nature, I didn't ditch him or leave him alone, and he ended up talking to me for 45 minutes of the one hour dance time we did have... the fun started for me when my date went home. </p>
<p>Point: going stag is fun, and usually much safer for your happiness.</p>
<p>I'm going with a date, but we're just going to go to a private dinner, not in a big, noisy group. Once inside, you can do whatever.</p>
<p>I didn't have a date, probably because I was invited by bunch of seniors (I'm a youngun XD).
It's more fun to have fun with your friends than have dates around.</p>
<p>looks like i might be in this group too</p>
<p>oh why r men such *******s and y is life so cruel</p>
<p>I went without a date and had one of the best nights of my life.</p>
<p>Seriously, don't worry about it. It'll only keep you from having an amazing time if you let it.</p>
<p>but how about the whole pre prom stuff with the corsage/?? if u dont have a date u cant do it :(</p>
<p>omg i wanna cry</p>
<p>...More bad news from me. Either I'm unwanted at my "friend's" table or they actually filled it up; it seems certain that if I go, I'll have to sit with people I don't really know/like. And I wouldn't mind doing that, if I had at least one close friend going (who'd sit with me), so I'd be able to hang out with them, but they're not, so yeah, it looks like I won't be going to prom...</p>
<p>-The Promless Coot66</p>
<p>Don't worry about it anyway. Think of the cash you'll save if you don't go. I didn't go to any proms or homecomings and nothing bad happened to me.</p>
<p>Basically, I didn't want to be bothered with dating. I had bigger fish to fry--academics, athletics, clubs, etc. And that included those dances. I usually went to a ballgame or something those nights. Our school didn't have a singles option until my senior homecoming but I had already made plans to go out of town that day when I found out. Prom never had that option. If I did go as a senior I was going to ask a freshman.</p>
<p>And like I said, it's no big deal. A year from now, heck, a month from now, nobody will care that you skipped prom. After the Monday afterwards when my friends had all their pictures, nobody even said much about prom.</p>
<p>My prom is really informal compared to some of yours-- dinner isn't included, it's free, it's at school (which is actually</a> pretty nice), dates are optional, pictures are digital snapshots, no one gets hair or makeup done professionally, most of the girls wear shorter dresses, and absolutely no one arrives in a limo. There'll be at most about 150 people (50 seniors, 60ish juniors, and various dates). None of my friends have dates that I know of, so we'll just get ready at my friend's house, have dinner at a restaurant, go to prom, and then go to an afterparty. It's very low-pressure and nontraditional, which I definitely appreciate.</p>