19 Prom Stories That'll Make You Relieved You Never Went

As different prom play comes and goes, we asked the BuzzFeed Community to stock their wildest stories from the dance. Here's what they had to say:

1. "I've ever been a unspeakable dancer, but I decided to creation connected prom nighttime and not attraction what anyone thought. The adjacent time everyone asked however overmuch I'd been drinking. Sadly, I was chromatic sober."

2. "I erstwhile got into a car mishap the time of prom. I inactive went to prom. My day made maine spell due to the fact that helium rented a tux and didn't privation to discarded his money."

—Aleah, Oregon

3. "I was connected a treble day with my bestie Lori and her day who drove. I knew my day didn't person a batch of wealth (neither of america did), truthful erstwhile we went retired to meal I played it harmless and ordered the aforesaid happening helium did. I had ne'er had scallops before. They were good. We're astatine the prom an hr aboriginal and I consciousness a small queasy. It didn't pass. We got our pics taken. You person ne'er seen specified a pasty, shiny, sweaty look successful a prom pic!"

4. "I asked my friend's friend/neighbor to prom aft hanging retired with him and getting to cognize him for a fewer months during my elder twelvemonth of precocious school. He said helium couldn't due to the fact that helium was going connected a household vacation. I said it was good and that was that. Prom time comes and my friend, who is besides friends with this kid, has america each astatine her location for pics. Who shows up with different miss from my grade?"

"I don't straight telephone him retired due to the fact that I was truthful shocked, but the miss helium showed up with was a person of excavation and had NO IDEA I asked him and got rejected. She was furious but we inactive went to prom successful the aforesaid limo. I was truthful embarrassed. It was aboriginal revealed that my being overweight was excessively overmuch for him to woody with and helium didn't privation to beryllium seen with me. The miss helium took ended up not adjacent looking astatine him each nighttime and each the girls successful the country stayed with maine and danced. It was ace hurtful and I inactive retrieve that sinking feeling, adjacent present successful my 30s."

—theicebox720

5. "Our schoolhouse main recovered 3 utilized condoms connected the level during cleanable up aft prom my freshman year. At slightest they were utilizing protection?"

6. "This is much embarrassing than wild. At my elder prom, I won prom queen portion my precocious schoolhouse fellow did not triumph king. The idiosyncratic who won prom king was idiosyncratic connected the shot team, who besides was attending prom with his girlfriend. I was a band/theater kid and my people was implicit 600 people, truthful we had nary hint who each different was. I deliberation this was the lone clip I ever interacted with him. Anyway, the DJ past insisted that the prom queen and king should dilatory creation unsocial connected the creation level successful beforehand of everyone. Since we were strangers we conscionable stood there, and aft 45 seconds of Ed Sheeran, the DJ yet fto different radical articulation the creation floor."

"The prom king and I divided ways and went to our important others. Later connected that night, I went to the bath and ran into 3 drunk girls. One of them was throwing up. They congratulated me, but the miss throwing up told maine however embarrassing the full country was."

—sfallen1s

7. "Not chaotic similar a Carrie prom oregon anything, but present that I americium middle-aged and a precocious schoolhouse teacher, it is WILD that my parent fto maine person a 22-year-old prom day erstwhile I was 16."

8. "I brought straws to prom due to the fact that I didn't privation drinks to messiness up my lipstick. When the teachers checked purses astatine the door, they grilled maine implicit the insubstantial straws I brought. I told them the crushed and they yet dropped it. A fewer hours later, I realized wherefore they were being truthful harsh connected me. They thought I was going to usage the straws to snort drugs astatine prom. FML."

—sfallen1s

9. "One of our strictest teachers bought a ample vessel of alcohol, past began to effort to creation with 1 of the students drunkenly. They were fired."

10. "One fractional of our school's 'cutest couple' dumped his longtime woman to inquire maine to prom, contempt my repeatedly telling him successful nary uncertain presumption to permission maine the hellhole alone. He was a creep. I did extremity up having a large prom nighttime astatine a friend's prom, wherever Mr. 'cutest couple' was guaranteed not to be."

—losfrangeles

11. "My girl and her longtime fellow broke up a mates of months earlier her elder prom and she didn't privation to go. She changed her caput a week before, truthful we bought her a ticket, went formal shopping, the works. She had an awesome precocious schoolhouse acquisition up until then. She cheered, was an grant student, and had tons of friends, truthful I expected adjacent though it wasn't going the mode she'd pictured, she'd inactive person a blast. The time of, she got ready: hair, nails, tan, and a gorgeous dress. She was stunning."

12. "WORST NIGHT: I was truthful excited. He bought tickets and neither of america were truly 'dance' people, truthful our going was benignant of a thing. I got a beauteous floor-length gown, his sister did my hairsbreadth and makeup, and helium looked handsome. It was large up until we walked in. He made oculus interaction with his ex. They danced each nighttime and helium near with her. He didn't accidental a connection to maine each nighttime erstwhile we got there."

"I had to inquire 1 of his friends for a thrust backmost into town. It was a tiny municipality truthful events were ever an hr away. It was the astir awkward thrust location ever. I ne'er spoke to the douche canoe again. He was my archetypal fellow and we pretended similar neither existed aft that night. Ah, precocious school."

—whaaale_whale_whale

13. "He ended our situationship aft prom due to the fact that helium wasn't implicit his ex-girlfriend. Thanks for starring maine connected buddy, it's not similar I had a immense crush connected you oregon whatever."

14. "I hadn't intended connected going to my prom. I was beauteous overmuch a loner/outsider with nary girlfriend. Some girls approached maine astir taking a miss who had conscionable breached up with her boyfriend. I had to unreserved astir to get an outfit, put a pre-prom dinner, and my ma asked 1 of my cousins if I could usage his marque caller Chevy Cutlass."

"We got to prom, descended the staircase, and she saw her aged boyfriend. She ran down the stairs into his arms with EVERYONE watching and laughing. She past disappeared into the ladies country and contempt my having seen her, her friends insisted she wasn't successful there. I softly slipped retired and drove astir successful that Cutlass for the remainder of the night."

—Anonymous, Washington D.C.

15. "My daughter's prom fearfulness story. She had already been to her prom with her boyfriend. They had amusive and everything was great. Her boyfriend's prom is 2 weeks later. They are getting acceptable to permission for meal reservations erstwhile they get connected his souped-up four-wheeler. He's going excessively accelerated and throws her disconnected the play cart."

16. "It was my inferior prom. I had been going dependable with a feline for 2 years and we were headed toward matrimony aft precocious school. My ma insisted connected sewing my prom dress. It had a precocious collar, agelong sleeves, galore buttoned cuffs, and was level length. I was truthful blistery and miserable. The lone tegument to get aerial was my caput and hands. I realized years aboriginal what she was up to!"

—DP, Michigan

17. "I had the wildest elder prom for a people of 42 people. First, a mates connected their mode to prom deed a cervid and showed up each bloody aft they dislodged it from nether the car. Next, the Baptist preacher's girl was wearing a halter-style formal and her fellow accidentally broke the clasp astatine the cervix truthful she flashed everyone. Finally, a feline threw an afterparty astatine his girlfriend's house. The woman was the 26-year-old erstwhile mathematics teacher who resigned the erstwhile December. We each are looking guardant to discussing everything astatine our 10-year reunion."

18. "The prom king was successful our prom group. The prom itself was fine. There was a limo, pictures, dinner, and dancing. We decided to bent retired aft astatine our friend's dad's onshore successful the mediate of nowhere. We had a bonfire going but the existent crushed for going to the onshore was these monolithic swings that my friend's dada hung up erstwhile they were little. You get astatine slightest 50 to 60 feet successful the air. Well, my prom day and the prom king decided to usage the 2 swings astatine the aforesaid time."

"It was similar a horror film. The flashlights we had died close arsenic they took off. One came connected conscionable successful clip to spot them collide, caput to beforehand teeth. Long communicative short: my prom day knocked retired the prom king's beforehand bony the nighttime of prom. He present has a fake beforehand tooth. Let's conscionable say, his parent was not thrilled with us."

—Hannah, Alabama

19. And finally, "A person and I were hanging retired trying to fig retired our plans for the evening. I remembered the adjacent municipality implicit was having their prom that nighttime truthful I asked him if helium wanted to go. He was like, 'What if we get caught?' and I said, 'What are they gonna do, apprehension us?' I was a elder truthful I had a stash of prom dresses ready. I besides had this chill turquoise and achromatic tuxedo overgarment I picked up astatine a vintage store for my 'date.'"

What's your wildest prom story? Share it successful the comments!

Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.