Homecoming Parade Permission Slip: Fill & Download for Free

Did I go to my prom? No.Do I regret it? Absolutely not.Some context about my school. Small school made of two towns that are a 20 min drive away from each other. Only 180 students per graduating class. Four 80 min classes per day with a 20 min advisory between 3rd and 4th block. Advisory is like homeroom - 10–15 people and one teacher, meet every day in a specific room after 3rd block for 20 mins for some kind of student community bullshit. Most people hate their advisories (the people in it are random - you’ll most likely hate at least one person in it). Mine was good. We all still talk, especially since our advisor has a little baby that we all adore.No junior prom, just senior prom. And homecoming every year as well as a spirit week and pep rally. I’ve skipped as many of these events as I could. I’m a little bit of a nerd. Top 20% of my class, a small group of friends (mostly band and art kids and at least 50% were from either the junior or sophomore classes). I also highly disliked the vast majority of people from my grade. I went to homecoming freshman year - hated it, never went again. Only participated in max. one event a week for spirit week. Suffered through pep rally freshman year. Avoided it sophomore year under the pretense of putting away instruments after the band performance. Hid in the girls locker room with a friend during pep rally in junior year. And just left school altogether during it in senior year. I did dress up for Halloween though (Jack Skellington onesie, hell yeah). I didn’t get a class ring either. Wasn’t gonna pay $300 for a clunky piece of jewelry I was never gonna wear. I got a new laptop instead (cheap one, just to hold me over until college).Back to prom.I had decided back in sophomore year that I wasn’t going to prom. When senior year came around, I stuck to that. Most girls in my grade spent upwards of $500 on nails, hair, dress, etc. I helped other girls with dress decisions, nail decisions, hairstyle decisions (I’m great with advice). I always got asked why I wasn’t going. Like it was asinine that I wasn’t going. Let me tell you the reasons why:1 - MoneyNow, money actually wasn't going to be a problem because I wouldn’t have payed for it. My parents would have, just like they payed for everything else in my life. I’m fortunate like that. But anyways, I figured I could use that money elsewhere. I did that with my class ring - used that money to get a new laptop. I did it with my first car - parents allotted $15k for me since they spent that much on my older sister’s first truck - and got a $13k 2014 Buick. Extra $1k went to graduation gifts. Now that $500 that would’ve gone to prom? Given $500 cash to do with as I please.2 - DateNow, to me, a date is not important for prom. Plenty of people I know went alone/with a group of friends rather than with a date. Plus I’ve heard plenty of horror stories about people going to prom with dates. Particularly a friend of mine broke up with his girlfriend two weeks before prom. She spent $90 on her ticket and ordered a prime rib steak as her entrée. Her now-ex-boyfriend (who I was friends with) brought a broom with a picture of our favorite art teacher’s face printed and taped to the top. He also got to eat two delicious steaks that night. Glorious for him, aaaaand not so much for her. Yikes.Plus, I didn’t like anyone enough at the time to try and ask anyone out, nor was I attractive enough for anyone to attempt to ask me.3 - AttireOkay, I’m totally a tomboy. I hate - HATE - wearing dresses/skirts. I could have just got a jumpsuit or something but eh. I’m a sweatpants/t-shirt type of girl. Also, I don’t own a pair of good dressy shoes that actually fit. I have issues finding anything in my size - I’m a little on the heavy side so tailoring a dress to me would be expensive and an issue. I also am a like quarter size in shoes. 7 1/2 is too small, but 8 is too big. See my issue?4 - Transportation/LocationOh god, the location. I live in Connecticut, USA. The venue was in New Haven. Fucking. New. Haven. The armpit of CT. The place sucks. The venue was nice I guess, but parking - absolutely horrendous. Driving myself and finding a parking space would have been a nightmare so my only option would have been to get a limo or party bus. But that’s very expense and a hassle. Let me share with you a story about my friend Gabby. Gabby was going solo and was planning to take a limo/party bus thing with a group of 12 friends. Only her and one other girl were going stag, every one else was a couple. Now starting price was $70-ish per person. One couple dropped out. Price raises to $80-ish a person. A second couple drops out. Price raises a bit more. Eventually a third couple drops out. Now, price was edging approx. $100 per person. Gabby paid $70 for her prom ticket (originally $90, but we could get discounts from fundraisers we did). Eventually, she and the other solo girl ended up carpooling to the venue and back to one of the others’ houses for the afterparty. Don’t know what happened to everyone else in that situation, but I know they still took the damned limo thing. Who in their right mind pays $800 for a limo when you could spend $20 on gas and carpool instead?5 - FoodOkay, this I didn’t realize until after tickets got sold and shit but it pissed me and a lot of other people off a lot. Usually when you go to prom, you’re allowed to choose your meal - normally a choice between some kind of chicken, a fish option (usually shrimp or salmon depending on the venue), a vegetarian option and, of course, the best option - the prime rib. Many people were so excited to see the dinner options. A lot of those people planned on dining on prime rib during their prom. When they received the slips to order, however, prime rib was not on the menu. In fact, there was no beef option at all. Reason? The head of the prom committee was “disappointed in the steak from last year’s prom” (she went with a senior the year before) so decided not to have it as an option at all. One - plenty of people from last year’s prom loved the steak. Two - who the fuck does she think she is? Let the people eat meat, Jesus Christ. Let them decide for themselves whether the meal was good or bad. Three - our prom wasn’t even going to be at the same venue as last year’s. Like what? How does her reasoning even apply then? So prom-goers were stuck with veggies, shrimp, or chicken. It wasn’t even good chicken like a francais or chicken a la joseph either.6 - MusicOkay, y’all are gonna hate me here but - I don’t like most popular music. Like the stuff most high schoolers listened to in 2018/2019? Hate it. I think it’s garbage. Sorry, I don’t wanna spend a night listening to how whatever rapper or singer is gonna fuck some girl or guy, or even attempt to discern whatever the fuck that mumble rapper is saying - I presume something about drugs or partying or sex or…killing people? Whatever. I’ll stay home and listen to some awesome punk/alternative rock like Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Forever the Sickest Kids, Mayday Parade, or some K-pop like BTS, Stray Kids, D-Crunch, ATEEZ, and Seventeen.My summarized reason for not going to prom? Why go to a place I don’t like, with people I don’t like, wearing something I don’t like, and stress about all these things and spend ridiculous amounts of money to not have a good time, when I could be doing other things and saving money? Exactly.So what did I do instead? I slept over my best friends house. We went on a hike. I played with her dogs and cats. We ate burgers and dogs and super awesome chicken wings smothered in a sauce whose recipe was literally made up that same day by her absolute crackhead of a father who is like a second father to me. What was the sauce, you say? Brisket rub and hot sauce. Best damn wings I’ve ever had. We had a fire and made s’mores. We danced and sang to K-pop and then finished off the night with a wine cooler (parent’s permission of course) each while watching anime on Netflix. Also, her cat Trigger slept with me instead of her so I feel good about that.So, do I regret not going to prom? No, not at all. I had a great time not being there.Should you not go to prom? Now that depends. Are you like me and really really didn’t wanna go - maybe for reasons similar to mine or any other reason or you just don’t wanna? Then don’t go. If you wanna go, see what it’s all about - then go. You do you. And I hope you’re prom is a lot better than mine sounded lol.