Did any of you attend your senior prong?

[LuckyCharms]

Post your stories! Reminisce!

What was your high school senior prong like?

What did you wear?

Where did you go to eat?

Thank you in advance for sharing your memories.

[jodymarie aimee]

1. what in the helll

is a senior prong? Got to say no...must have missed that particular fad....

[LuckyCharms]

4. You know...it's an old tradition...

Traditionally, the young man would ask the young woman..."would you like to go to the prong with me"? But these days, I understand that the women are asking the men also. Although not done when I was in school, couples of the same gender also go to the prong these days.

The men wear a tux, the women wear a nice dress, then they go out to eat (sometimes driven by a limosine), then they go to the actual prong, where they dance, etc.

[ret5hd]

29. When the young man picked the young woman...

would they ring the door buzzard or just sit in the car and honk?

[MLAA]

32. Good one!

[Yonnie3]

2. My prong is my own business.

Especially now that I'm a Senior.

[LuckyCharms]

6. I'm a senior as well...

but the memories of my senior prong will never fade.

[Yonnie3]

8. Ah yes, the memories are strong.

Indeed.

[LuckyCharms]

10. I actually went to two of them...

My girlfriend was a year ahead of me at a different high school.

[Yonnie3]

13. I left HS before graduation - examed out early.

I was on my way to Oaxaca, and missed the prong activity.

Stirring up memories.

[Kali]

3. I only went to my senior prawn.

Went with a little shrimp of a guy.

[LuckyCharms]

5. LOL

[Ptah]

7. Oh my!

[lame54]

19. I bet you had a few Cocktails and got Sauced

[MLAA]

33. Did you wear a Jimmy Buffet Pink Crustacean on your wrist?

[Shrike47]

9. As I dimly remember it, most of the pronging was in the backseat of the car.

[LuckyCharms]

11. Was it a '65 Impala?

[Shrike47]

15. Maybe a @1952 Hudson? I really can't remember, it was a lonnnng time ago.

[Dave Starsky]

21. Back Seat '38 Dodge.

[Soxfan58]

12. 1976

Peach tux w/ apricot shirt. All pictures have been lost. Thank god

[LuckyCharms]

14. 1976 also.

Prong #1...navy blue tux, off white shirt, looking sharp.

Prong #2...Lime green tux, some kid of green shirt...looking hideous.

[steve2470]

25. mine was 1976 also

White tux with red cummerbund I think ? She looked ravishing of course.

A few weeks later, she ditched me for the sailor she would go on to marry. Good times.

[Arkansas Granny]

16. Senior prong? We didn't even have a senior prom?

Rural SW Missouri, 1964. Dancing, especially to R&R was sinful, I tell ya, and not to be condoned and certainly not encouraged.

We had a Senior Banquet instead. We raised money throughout the year for food and decorations. Tables were set up in the gym and we were served by members of the junior class. Girls wore prom dresses and the boys wore suits. I don't remember any entertainment.

Pretty tame stuff.

[CurtEastPoint]

17. Oh, I thought you said 'senior PRAWN!'

[orleans]

27. hysterical! n/t

[justhanginon]

18. Went to a Lutheran High School and no dancing.

As I recall , it was held in a church auditoriumThis was in about 1951 and myself and some buddies thought it was a monumental waste of time and money so we got a six pack of soda, yeah soda, and went to the foot long hot dog stand and saved,(at that time for us), a small fortune so we could fix our cars. Didn't like the damn school anyway.

[SeattleVet]

20. 1972 - ours was canceled due to lack of ticket sales.

They were, IIRC, $100, a huge amount in 1972.

The band was going to be this new bunch of unknowns that called themselves 'Kool and the Gang'.

[Ron Obvious]

22. Boy, I could tell you some stories about mine!

Not that I went or anything. But that wouldn't stop me from making up and telling stories about it!

[KayF]

23. I had the tine of my life!

[smirkymonkey]

24. Yes, it was kind of like this...

[unblock]

26. Ah, my senior prong. First time I got forked.

[orleans]

28. !!!

[steve2470]

30. very clever!

[applegrove]

31. Went with someone who was a friend at the time. We rented old fashioned

dresses and went stag together. I forgot to pay the head boy for our prom tickets. Felt bad for years after. We were going up to the cottage to study for a calculus exam so I didn't drink much. On the way up to the lake a guy drive off the highway in front of us. He was okay. We stopped and waited for the police. The police must have though us idiots me in champaign coloured satin dress and my friend at the time in a go go dress, and high heels, out in the wilds of Quebec. I tried to speak french while translating miles per hour into kilometers. Policeman laughed at me. Got to the cottage where my friend at the time wanted to talk about her issues the whole weekend. She was brilliant and didn't need to study. I needed to study but did not get enough time. She was anxiety filled, I was passive and depressed at the time. Don't know how I passed that test. We did not study much. I came very close to failing which meant I would not have graduated. On the whole not a great weekend. Wish I had not gone. I was too shy to be out socially at the time. I would have been happier at home with a non fiction book or watching tv.

[malthaussen]

34. Yes. I also went to two of them.

White tux, black pants, blue ruffled shirt, butterfly bow tie. Both times.

Both times, the actual prom was followed by a "prom party" at the same venue, which went until about six a.m. Got a lot of dancing in. Even persuaded the band to play "In heaven there is no beer" so I could polka my partner all over the dance floor. Think I stepped on her foot a couple of times.

First prom was a blind date with a girl who had just been dumped by the guy she had been engaged to marry. She was a bit depressed, yes? I did my best to be supportive and kind. It must have worked, she kissed me at the end of the date. I believe she might have even had a tear or two in her eye, but mine were kind of blurry, too so I can't say for sure.

Second was with a friend of mine. Much more cheerful occasion, despite stomping on her tootsies.

-- Mal