<p>In honor of jym’s teeth – and the sure knowledge that regardless how her mouth feels now – it’s a lot better than hosting an after-prom party:::: my daughter – whose prom is this Saturday – just came down to dinner and announced that because absolutely none of her friends (read parents!) are willing to host an after-prom gathering… the ENTIRE GRADE is spending the night at the home of the only family fool enough to take this on. Hello? you there jym? I offered to fly you up since you have such expertise in this area – I’m sensing a new career!</p>
<p>I have a question. Is this a “shady” bar?</p>
<p>My son and his friends are taking a “road trip” after high school graduation. 6 boys in a mini-van, travelling 500 miles to Cedar Point amusement park to ride roller coasters. They’ll be gone 5 days. The organizer promised the others they’d save money by staying in “cheap” hotels. This led them to decide that cheap wasn’t fun enough, they want to stay in “shady” motels and eat at “shady” diners and truck stops. </p>
<p>So, here in Sinner’s Alley, I’m assuming this is a rather shady bar? They’re obviously the most fun kind.</p>
<p>Ivoryk, how many kids are in her grade?</p>
<p>You’ve got it, lafalum. The sun don’t shine on Sinners Alley. This joint is shady times ten. But we don’t want your S and his compadres to know :eek:. If they come here, where will we hide?</p>
<p>Let them get their own shady bar! For the under 21 set. Where the drinks involve fruit juices, sodas, grenadine and have names like Roy Rogers. So it hurts their macho pride… so what?! :D</p>
<p>100 in the grade – so I’m figuring 25% don’t go, but 25% take out-of-grade dates. Basically we’re talking 100 18-year-olds – about to graduate from high school – under one roof – post-prom. Am I crazy? I think I’d feel better if their gang was coming to SA…</p>
<p>There is not enough Xanax in the world for me to consider having 100 teenagers at my home. I would be calling somewhere for a facility to rent and parents or rent-a-cops to help chaperone.</p>
<p>ivoryk - <em>YOU</em> are the fool family :eek:??? Oh, my.</p>
<p>no…no…no…no… there is no way! Our house can barely handle 4 unreleated teenagers – and frankly it still makes me uneasy when one of the male persuasion is in my daugher’s bedroom. This is a family from another planet – either they are completely insane or completely unaware. But since no one else is willing to step up to the plate – I feel like all I can do is shake my head and say ‘call me if you want out, honey.’ sorry to have sidetracked the conversation from pina coladas and spoked toothpaste. I’m just left shaking my head – and still wondering where she’s headed next year!</p>
<p>Holy crow Ivoryk!
I bow at your feet!!
You are out of your !@@#$%%^^^mind!!! Where will you put 100 kids!?!?! How many other parents will be there to help? Now mind you, the night of our party I met some parents who had hosted one of these things with 200 kids several years back. They were very <em>interesting</em> people. I think they might have actually been normal before that party 
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<p>I intended (and still intend) to post my top 10 post prom all-nighter do’s and don’ts that someone requested (perhaps you ivoryk? I will check). I started that list, and I know it is around here somewhere. Really. As for the party, I am still trying to catch up on my sleep, and I am finally able to wear closed toed shoes over my smacked up toes…</p>
<p>Ivoryk, in all honesty, as <em>entertaining</em> as it was… I am really, really glad we hosted it. It was fun, they all had a great time, I now know my s’s friends better, and he has been a different kid since that night. I know he really appreciated it, and it gives me a feeling I cannot describe (no, not the knife through my eye feeling… a good feeling, really). You will have fun, if you survive. You will have memories you will hang onto. Take pictures.</p>
<p>I had almost forgotten that at the beginning of the school year I’d signed up (with lots of other parents of Juniors) to help host part of the seniors “last blast” (all-night) party. I am signed up for the 9pm-1am shift. However, since I have a root canal scheduled for the next morning, and we will be down one car (looks like s’s car is going to be totalled as a result of yesterday’s accident), I have been offered to pass, if I want to. To be honest, I am a little conflicted. If I can, I may go down there from 9-11 just to lend a hand. After all, its at school, not at my house, and lots of faculty will be there with the kids (my older s’s favorite memory was playing poker with his History teacher). So, all in all, it is a good thing to have the opportunity to do these things for our kids. We won’t have that many more opportunities to do things that will leave such a lasting impression on them.</p>
<p>But as for making a career out of hosting teen all-nighters… naaaaaaaah. I’ll pass.</p>
<p>AAhh- Ivoryk, I just finished my post and saw yours. So you are not insane. Glad to hear it. Will the hosts have lots of help? They will need it.</p>
<p>Forgot to mention, for all the challenges of this week, as I rent a permanent room at the dentists office and re-enter the used car purchase plan for s… I havfe good news. Older s took his first step without the aid of his crutches today! He called it a “hobble” and he still needs at least one crutch for general ambulation, but he did venture to take a unaided few baby steps. Why do I feel like he is 1 yr old all over again…</p>
<p>I hosted a party for 80 kids–but I put split them up into two different double decker buses and had them run around town in costume, photographing themselves doing crazy stunts and poses. By the time they showed up for the ‘awards’ banquet dinner at the Chinese restuarant (on their nickel), they were knackered.</p>
<p>I, however, was a bloody legend. </p>
<p>The kids had such a great time–I got heaps of thank yous from kids and parents alike.</p>
<p>JMmom, my son better not be looking for shady bars! Just shady diners and truck stops. I think I’ll tuck some pepto-bismol in his bag. No, it’s just dear ole mom hangin out here in the shady cyber-bar.</p>
<p>Ivoryk, are you going to let your kid go to a prom party with 100 people? As well intentioned as those parents may be, there’s just no way that’s going to end well. I don’t get why there has to be an “after-prom” party anyway. Isn’t the prom a big old party? Why do they need a party after the party? Back in dinosaur days, we went home and slept, then the next day everyone went to the beach or an amusement park. </p>
<p>Cheers, you are a genious.</p>
<p>Lafalum, welcome to the dinosaur herd! ::::errrrroooooofff!:::: Watch the tail, and try not to stomp on the little weeds coming up in the asphalt. ;)</p>
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We were so lame. </p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>Speak for yourself. I stayed up all night drinking beer out of kegs and flirting with boys I later dated for two months without learning their last names.</p>
<p>cheers-
Your mother must have been so proud :)</p>
<p>Our “post prom” was at the American Legion Hall. Way back then in the olden days, we thought it was pretty lame, but now!!! When we moved to PA when oldest was in middle school, I was absolutely shocked at the number of high school kids who went to the NJ shore for the rest of the prom weekend and partied–with parental blessings. I’m way past being shocked now, 6 years later. D and bf have been ostracized from their “group” of friends who are having a big post-prom party–(long melodramatic high school story), so they still haven’t figured out what they are going to do after prom.</p>
<p>How about they come to your house, pop in a great video, and snuggle on the couch, secure in their superiority over all the other herd-followers? Just an idea…</p>
<p>I’m so ticked about something right now, and I know I’m not supposed to whine in Happy Hour… ok, just make mine a double and I’ll just mumble to myself.</p>
<p>I have only gotten to page 2 of this thread and I am laughing so hard, tears are coming out of my eyes. It will take a while for me to get through all 440! pages, but I am looking forward to it. Thank you for the laughter, I needed it:)</p>
<p>Whining is allowed or even encouraged as long as it is clever, eloquent, funny, or simply straightforward and true.</p>
<p>And as long as you buy us all a round first.</p>