Why does 98% of school drama happen at dances?

[MiniMandaRuth]

Everything is fine now between my friends, but last friday during pep band and the school dance, things were a little edgy. I mean, really awkward. A friend of mine and I just left them alone cause they were brooding so much.

They made up over teh interweb, but still... Can't we have arguments during THE day not during the DANCES?

[mduffy31]

1. When I was in HS

It seemed that this kind of stuff happened at dances because there seemed to be that extra little sexual tension because things were dark, people are dancing and getting close, and just because there is just something about a "dance" that changes things. Plus some people have indulged in a little drinky beforehand so that always changes the dynamic. But of course MMR you wouldn't do anything like underage drink...I know how you band girls are...I married one.

[MiniMandaRuth]

2. Never drank before.

Never done drugs.

Actually, the dances are very well controlled and supervised... although there is some bumpin' and grindin', as I showed the entire ninth-and-thenth grade part of the band with my boyfriend. :evilgrin: Just don't tell my parents.

[mduffy31]

3. Drugs are overrated

Trust me, I smoked a joint once in college and it wasn't really that cool.

[MiniMandaRuth]

4. Well, I'm allergic to pot,

(It makes my throat swell up and I can't breathe), so that will never be a problem.

Alcehol, that I have a problem with. It's too bitter for me, and the only stuff I think I would like are the sweetened alcopops, which have a very low amount of alcohol in them.

[mduffy31]

5. Not all of them

Some of them have up to 6% alcohol in them where mass produced beer only has about 4%. That is why the girls who only drink those tend to get drunker quicker.

[MiniMandaRuth]

6. Ugh.

At least I have more body mass than some of those 'Teeny-tiny eensy-weency' girls.

:puke: But I'll hold off 'till twenty-one.

[mduffy31]

7. That is a good decision

I was scared to get caught when I was young for two reasons: 1) I was an athlete and if you got caught in my day ('94) you had to sit out for 6 weeks, and 2) I didn't want to call my parents if I got caught. I will admit when I got to college I was a little more willing to indulge in things because I didn't live at home anymore and I was "on my own."

[Bucky]

8. It's a moment of truth thing. Sorta like a bull fight. But without the BBQ

It's a moment of high drama; everything's been building up to this twisted moment of ego flauting, this primate display-ritual of dominance, fertility, social pecking order, and suppressed hormonal lust. Plus those tuxedos goddamn itch. I'm suprised more fights--if not outright jousting, pillaging, and orgies--don't break out at the prom. Kids are weird.

[MissMillie]

9. Hopefully it happens at the dances because

when you're in class you're actually concentrating on your school work.

Kind of hard to pay any attention to teenage angst when you're taking care of business (school work).

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. With my daughter it happens on the bus...

They are on the bus for an hour so there's lots of time for two acts usually. :hi:

[tigereye]

12. two acts!

:rofl:

teachers can't be paid enough, in my opinion.

[bif]

11. Some kid puked at my daughters Homecoming Dance

On Saturday. Right in the middle of the dance floor. How embarrasing is thast?

[bbernardini]

13. How long until pictures show up online? nt

[bbernardini]

14. That's the intArweb, not the intErweb.

Boy, kids these days, I tell you whut...whut with their hula hoops, an' their fax machines...

[JoDog]

15. I think it's cause

emotions/expectations are running high, and when that's the case, folks tend to have less patience with other people. The same thing seems to happen at wedding receptions--witness the number of hookups and breakups that happen at them or immediately after. Or that "Bridezilla" TV show. As a friend says "It's not really a reception until there's a fistfight".

Or, maybe there's just something about the molecular structure of taffeta that makes everyone put on their fight faces...

[Left Is Write]

16. Most of my school drama happened in 1978, 1979 and 1980.

NOT at dances. During school. After school. Sometimes before school.

I would not repeat 7th and 8th grade for all the money in the world.

Sorry about your drama, though. Sometimes it's just tough being a teenager.