Where is it carved in stone that you have to
have a date for a formal dance that is only four hours long?
Let’s be serious, paying an excessive amount
of money on a date for a high school dance is ridiculous. The total to pay for
a date can add up to almost a hundred and fifty dollars. This includes a fifty
dollar prom ticket, forty dollars for a party bus, fifteen for a stupid flower,
a twenty dollar picture in front of a prop with your date and thirty dollars
for any activities after the dance. Why would someone pay all that money to go
just as friends with someone for one night? It is understandable if you are in
a relationship and feel obligated to pay for your date, but other than for
taking pictures, it may be better to go solo to this dance. Going with a group
is also a much better thing to do if you are going stag; you are not going to
drive just with your date to prom anyway. A large group of friends usually goes
with one another to make the ride one of the more enjoyable parts of prom.
Going by your self to prom is not something
that’s strange. The only thing you don’t have is someone to take a million
pictures with. Still, you will have more fun if you are taking pictures with a
group of your true friends and not a random date whose name you will forget in
under a year. Even then, dates aren’t attached to each other’s hips. You will
be able to take pictures with a guy or girl one on one through out the entire
night.
Once you are at the hall, what happens? You
eat dinner and then everyone starts dancing. From this point on, no one cares
if you have a date or not and they will dance with you regardless. Going single,
having fun and, if the chance arises, dance with everyone else’s date, that would
definitely be way more fun than dancing with one person the entire night. You
might be caught searching for a partner to dance with during a slow song at
first but there are going to be other people who went to prom without a date as
well. You will almost instantly find someone to slow dance with even if you are
not the best of friends, you will both just appreciate having someone to dance
with.
Another perk of going alone is you have no commitments or
responsibilities. You would not have to go on a ride to the hall without your
friends because you don’t get to decide what you want to do for the night. Also,
there is no worrying about if there is something in your teeth or if you are
talking too much. You will not have anyone nagging at you all night that you
are not dancing with them enough because you want to dance with your friends.
Even after the dance you have no commitments. By not taking a date, you get to
choose where you want to go after prom.
Overall going to prom alone is not as
farfetched as most people think it is. Lake Shore Spanish Teacher, Mrs. Czopek,
says, “I wish I went to prom alone. I went with the guy I dated all four years
of high school and had a horrible time.” My advice to anyone who is on the
fence about whether or not to take a date to prom, take a chance and go alone.
I think prom will be much more enjoyable by yourself. You will be able to have
the time of your life and not worry about anything else.