Why going to PROM is a BAD thing?

People put a lot of pressure on making it the BEST night of your yong lives, when in reality.....it's really a great deal of fuss over very little. It's a little like New Years Eve where your *expected* to have this wild, fun , time........and expectations are so ridiculously high..........that it can't help but being a little disappointing. .....when you realize how dull it actually is........and that you are trying way too hard to have "the night of your lives" . And that's even if you go and have a killer date........and for many.......the night comes and go, and they don't even have a girlfriend...........much less the one they actually want.......so the Whole thing is ultimately depressing for many . Of course, the football jock who gets to take the prom queen home andf bang her brains out...........he's probably having a good time.

It's not bad, but it sure wasn't all that great either. I'm not sure how or why it's come to be looked upon as the pinnacle of the high school experience. It's just another boring school dance, except a lot more expensive.