May 21, 2025 • 28 mins
Remember the dramatic entrance, the nerve-wracking search for the perfect dress, and the unspoken pressure of needing a date? Prom season sparks a fascinating conversation between hosts Chrisy and Kerry about how this quintessential high school experience has evolved over the decades.#prom #dysfunctionjunkiespodcast #promposals
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DJ Nick (00:07):
Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast,
where we may not have seen itall, but we've seen enough.
And now here are your hosts,Chrisy and Kerry.
Kerry (00:21):
Hello Dysfunction Junkies .
I'm Kerry
Chrisy (00:25):
and I'm Chrissy.
Kerry (00:26):
How you doing over there, Chrisy?
Chrisy (00:28):
I'm doing just fine.
Kerry (00:29):
Well, today should be interesting, because let's just
say that our show is notsponsored by a certain coffee
company, but Chrissy's got eightshots of espresso in her, so
this will be exciting.
Chrisy (00:43):
It's early this morning.
I needed to do something.
Kerry (00:47):
Well, we're at the end of May and prom season has been
upon us and Chrissy's got ateenager in the house, and so we
thought, oh, this will be goodto reflect on prom back in the
day and how it is today.
There's a lot of weird thingsgoing on with prom these days.
Chrisy (01:04):
It does not look like it did when we were in school or
participating.
And my daughter, yes, she's ofteen years, but she's just a
sophomore and so she's notcompletely ready to go, but it's
coming.
Kerry (01:17):
It's coming, but they've had other dances and things.
Chrisy (01:20):
Oh yeah, homecoming, Right right, they have a winter
formal where she's at.
Kerry (01:24):
Okay, exactly, yeah, yeah , I think what's interesting
nowadays is this whole promposal.
Chrisy (01:31):
Yeah, that's a good place to start, because it's
crazy.
Kerry (01:34):
It is crazy.
And what caught my eye aboutthis was I was just saw on the
Facebook reels or something likethat, where all these accidents
that have happened duringpromposals like there is
something about a kid was on amotorcycle for a promposal,
going through a red light and hegot, you know, in an accident,
(01:54):
and then there's like a lawsuitsuing the school police for like
a million dollars.
Like all these crazy thingsthat happen on promposals gone
wrong.
Chrisy (02:04):
So I know this gender reveal thing was getting out of
hand, but now this is alsodangerous.
Kerry (02:10):
Yes, same thing.
Yes, we didn't have promposals.
Chrisy (02:13):
We didn't have that.
No, either.
You just was, you were datingand you were going.
Kerry (02:19):
It was a given.
Chrisy (02:20):
Or well, first we probably should mention that now
it's not uncommon for girls andI guess the guys to to do a
stag thing, going without a dateand go in a group with friends
and just have a great time,which I'm all for.
It's great Right, but when wewere in school, not going to
(02:40):
have that was basically yeah,you couldn't do that, you would
be shamed.
I would think it just wasn'tanything we even thought of
being able to happen.
Kerry (02:45):
That was basically yeah, you couldn't do that, you would
be shamed.
Chrisy (02:45):
I would think it just wasn't anything we even thought
of being able to do.
Kerry (02:49):
Yeah, it was a couples only event.
Chrisy (02:51):
Pretty much, yeah, and I don't even know that if I
didn't have a date, I don'tthink my mother would have put
the bill for a dress.
She'd be like I'm not buyingyou a dress just to go with
another.
You know, with your buddies youmight as well just forget it
exactly so but I mean, I thinkthat's wonderful that they can
do that and they have a greattime and they don't even think
(03:11):
like there's anything.
No, it's just like your head.
This is the way we're goingwe're gonna.
Kerry (03:15):
Why shouldn't we enjoy it another saturday night hanging
out with my friends?
Yeah, with fancier clothes andbetter food oh yeah, no.
Chrisy (03:22):
So yeah, it's amazing.
I just because my daughter willmention this.
She's gone with a friend forthe homecoming in the winter
formal, but she has no issue ifshe doesn't have a friend to go,
she's going to go with a bunchof her buddies, wow.
And I just have to sort of sitthere and bite my tongue because
that old me is like you know,that's not seem cool, man,
(03:45):
you're uncool.
Why would you do that?
Kerry (03:47):
But that does show great strength of character, though,
that they're willing to stand ontheir own and they, you know,
not conform, so I have to thepart.
I really like that.
I wish that was something thatwould have been.
We would have been strongenough to have back in our time.
Chrisy (04:01):
We.
Well, if we did there have been, I would have never been strong
enough to do that.
Well first of all, what buddywants to go with me.
Kerry (04:11):
I would have went with you.
Chrisy (04:13):
Oh well, you would have.
Yeah Well yeah, yeah, but Iprobably would have got you in
some big trouble.
Kerry (04:19):
So probably better you did.
Yeah, when your daughter wentto the winter formal, did she
have a winter formal proposal?
Chrisy (04:27):
She did get the proposal type thing.
Yeah, to all of her dances sofar with the sign and, oh my, a
bouquet of flowers.
It's like it's crazy, I mean,and they usually the person they
have to come up with these likelittle you know, smart little
saying.
Kerry (04:44):
Yeah.
Chrisy (04:44):
You know, A catch.
Yeah, I catchphrase like oh, ifyou, would you please do this
to come to homecoming with me,or would you do this to go to
winter, formal and again, it'slovely and it's so creative, but
man, that's a lot of pressureit is.
Kerry (04:57):
I was just thinking that, like, what if the girl doesn't
want to?
It's kind of like it's like awedding proposal, you know,
especially when they make itpublic.
What do you do when you're likeI don't really want to marry
you?
Well, what do you do?
I don't really want to go toprom with you.
Chrisy (05:10):
I'm wondering if they go through all this trouble with
the sign and the flowers onlywhen they think it's a sure
thing.
But yeah you know what?
I'm sure there's a lot of themthat don't.
They were not sure things andthey probably did go through all
that trouble and it ended upbeing a no, which is devastating
.
Kerry (05:28):
It is devastating.
Chrisy (05:29):
It's hard enough to get a no when you just ask.
Kerry (05:31):
Right.
Chrisy (05:32):
And then you're standing there with a sign and a bouquet
of flowers and they're like no.
Kerry (05:36):
Well, in 30 years they're going to have a podcast
explaining how that traumatizedthem.
I'm sure I'm traumatized justfor them thinking about it, so
but what was the pressure of in,or did you even have any
pressure about getting the right?
Chrisy (05:53):
dress, yeah, and my junior prom.
I got a really great dress.
In my opinion.
It was red, which I really likeas a color for me.
Isn't that nice?
I say that it's such a lovelycolor for me.
(06:13):
Everybody out there red and Igot it at a shop over.
A lot of people went over intoPennsylvania.
Kerry (06:22):
Does it begin with a W?
Nope, oh, okay.
Chrisy (06:24):
It was a woman's name, helen, I guess I could say it.
I don't even know if it's stillin existence and it's just a.
You know, they're not a sponsor, right?
I guess I think it's calledHelen Freed, okay, and it was
just like a big deal to maybe goover there.
A lot of people did, and theyhad beautiful gowns and this was
(06:44):
just sort of unique because itwas probably the color of it,
being red the way it was.
Kerry (06:49):
Yeah.
Chrisy (06:50):
We had big dresses then we did Big hair, big dresses.
Kerry (06:53):
Like they were almost like bridesmaid dresses.
Oh yeah, you know.
So you know we had.
I remember my first prom dresswas it literally had the hoop,
the hoop in it.
Chrisy (07:03):
Oh yeah, To make it go big.
Kerry (07:05):
Those were yeah, and a lot of those dresses then had
the hoop.
Chrisy (07:09):
Now mine supplemented for that didn't have the hoop.
It had a ton of Kremlinunderneath it oh, Kremlin, yep.
So that helped make it likehuge.
It was just.
It was a really nice dress.
I loved it to death.
Kerry (07:27):
And you're going to believe this, what I still have
it.
Sorry, I just blew every one ofyours out.
Chrisy (07:30):
It's packed away, chrissy.
Kerry (07:32):
What you still have it.
What do you think yourdaughter's going to wear it?
Well, maybe I want to wear it.
Chrisy (07:40):
I'm going to stuff my 50-plus-year-old body in that
dress that I wore when I was 16,and that's going to be the end
of it, and I don't want to hearany BS about it.
So, yeah, I still have it.
Kerry (07:54):
Oh my gosh.
Chrisy (07:55):
And I think I looked really great in it because I'm
really self-centered.
Kerry (08:01):
You probably did because you're beautiful.
Chrisy (08:03):
Well, I appreciate that I'm not making you any sign.
Oh yeah, could you imagine,nick?
My proposal, yeah was, like youknow, in the car while I'm
driving, going to get tacos foryour wedding, so I would love to
know what nick's sign would beif we would have known each
other in high school for prom.
Kerry (08:25):
Yeah, really but.
Chrisy (08:28):
I think you should surprise me and just do it like
a recreation, like what youthought would be good and just
like surprise me with it.
Kerry (08:35):
Have you heard about these proms?
I don't know.
I should look and see whatthey're called, when people our
age that maybe didn't get to goto prom they have proms now like
they can recreate it and theygo to proms like our age.
Chrisy (08:50):
Well, I know they have what is that called?
It might have a name, but I'mnot completely unaware of.
They do have like the retroflashback type dances for people
our age where it's like 80sthemed but this is kind of like
totally recreating the prom.
Kerry (09:04):
In fact I know somebody that just went to one, so I'm
trying to quickly look throughmy text messages here because
that they were talking about andthey sent me pictures of them
at this like prom do they getthe big dress and stuff?
Chrisy (09:15):
no, they're just dressed now, like you know now you
wonder why I kept my dress,because I'm not gonna wear it to
this.
You can wear it to it, yeah, ifI could fit.
I'm not that much heavier thanI was in high school, but even
if I wasn't the body, everythingsort of moves in different
places, so you know there's adifference between 50-year-old
(09:35):
body and 16-year-old body.
Kerry (09:37):
Yes, yes, everything sort of goes south a little bit, but
yeah, you know.
Chrisy (09:43):
That's what they got all them flippin' boostier stuff
for I just you know some scotchtape and some rubber bands and
I'm back in business.
Yeah, here comes Rubber Girl,because I'm too wimpy to have
surgery.
Kerry (10:03):
I'll just, if it's not happening.
No, I'm too cheap with my tohave surgery.
I'll just oh yeah, no, no, no,it's not happening, no, I'm too
cheap with my money.
I spend money on that I doremember.
I think I actually enjoyed ourschool dances more than I did
our prom, like you know.
I know school dances were atthe, in the school, in the
cafeteria.
Chrisy (10:21):
Oh yeah, we had like a Sadie Hawkins down there, I
remember the cafeteria.
Oh yeah, we had like a sadiehawkins down there, I remember,
but we also just there were,just like I don't know what was
it like once every two months?
Kerry (10:27):
or just be a dance, I mean, it didn't.
Sometimes it had a theme, likeit had the what's that, where
you wear the, the toga like atoe oh, you know like they would
have themes, but it was just adance, you know.
But the, the prom dance was, Idon't know.
We went to that other churchthat had a big hall and I think
it was our church, wasn't it theor something.
Yeah, yeah their hall.
Chrisy (10:49):
That's where we had varsity okay varsity, but our
proms were actually at thewarner brothers theater in
downtown youngstown, which wasactually yeah, yeah, the stampa
it was called.
What was it called back in thelate?
80s, early 90s it's the dr diorperforming arts now, yeah, yeah
, okay, but it was the warnerbrothers, because they were from
(11:09):
youngstown.
It was their theater and it's agorgeous inside venue.
I mean the ornateness of thelobby you would think, was it
powers powers.
Kerry (11:19):
Yeah, yeah, that's what it was called when we went, so
but I just remember it was likeso formal and the dresses were
so, you know, different and itwas just so.
It was fun and it was nice, butit wasn't as relaxing and fun
as the just the dance for noreason dances.
Chrisy (11:36):
I wasn't relaxed.
I really admire that you wereable to say at this dance I'm
going to have fun, and at thisdance it's a little stressful.
For me, it was just stress,stress stress.
Kerry (11:47):
It was a lot of, I guess, for me because I was in a
relationship with a boy that Ieventually married that there
was no stress of it because itwas like, well, this is who
you're going with, this is whoyou're dancing with.
So there was no like, oh, am Igoing to have, is somebody going
(12:09):
to dance with me or am I gonnabe the wallflower?
And then I was gonna talk, youknow everything to be around,
that much people and stuff.
It was a lot of peoplingwithout a lot of peopling.
So, but the formal one seemedmore stressful.
Chrisy (12:16):
I don't know so I went with a friend who then ended up
being a boyfriend right for awhile and then we weren't
boyfriend and girlfriend for along time.
That was like my junior year,just to and I think a lot of
schools are like this now tomake mention of this.
So there's an understandingwhen we were in school, you had
to be either a junior or seniorto go.
(12:37):
Yes, any lower grades did notgo to correct.
And then and I think actuallyat our school because now I hear
a lot of people say that youhave to be a junior or senior,
but as a junior or senior youcan invite a lower grades person
, but at our high school theyhad to be a junior or senior
(12:58):
also and the other thing was, isthat my friend that I went with
didn't go to our high school?
Right?
Kerry (13:04):
Same with me so.
Chrisy (13:04):
I actually had to have.
Do you remember having to havethe paperwork filled out?
I don't remember that I had tohave, and I'm guessing you did
too.
You had to tell them who wascoming with you.
Yeah, it was almost like theywere going to do a back.
I don't think they did.
Kerry (13:17):
It almost felt like they were going to do a background
check on who was coming, butcheck on who was coming.
But here's the crazy part,though.
Okay, so the guy that I wasdating was older than me, so how
was it that I was allowed tobring an older guy to our senior
prom who was already out ofhigh school?
Right, like, how'd that roll?
Chrisy (13:37):
It was yeah, they didn't have an issue with that, Right.
Kerry (13:40):
But you couldn't bring.
You know a.
Chrisy (13:43):
A lower gradesman that actually went to your school,
your school, right?
Kerry (13:46):
Yeah, I don't know, that was sort of a strange but that's
what it was, because my friendA little dysfunctional in the
school system rules there, Wellyeah.
Chrisy (13:54):
They're like yeah you can bring this unknown person of
mystery to our dance.
Kerry (14:01):
We don't know what they're going to you know that's
already out of high school.
Chrisy (14:05):
And yeah, sure, yeah, mine was too my senior prom,
because I went with the sameperson in my senior prom, even
though at that time, right, wewere still just friends.
Kerry (14:13):
Right but yeah, so that was sort of a weird thing, but
did you dance though at theproms, like were you a dancer?
Do you like to dance?
I can't remember.
Chrisy (14:22):
Yeah, I will dance.
I don't remember.
My dress was just so big.
How can you?
Kerry (14:27):
fast dance with that.
I really had to just do theslow dances.
Of course, the slow dances.
Chrisy (14:34):
Yeah, no, we danced and we went with some friends Now I
don't remember, and we went withsome friends, Now I don't
remember, did you because youwere very serious with I mean,
obviously he was your-.
Kerry (14:41):
Yeah, future husband.
Chrisy (14:43):
Future husband.
Did you go with other couples?
No, you didn't, it was just thetwo of you.
Yeah.
Kerry (14:48):
Did you guys rent a limo?
Chrisy (14:49):
Like, do people?
Kerry (14:50):
do?
Do they still do renting limosnowadays?
I think they do but I don'teven I mean, unless it's a
hearse.
I don't remember ever seeinglimos on the street these days.
Chrisy (15:04):
Yeah, it does sort of startle you when you see one,
and it was such a thing when wewere in school Right.
Kerry (15:09):
Oh, that was big.
Chrisy (15:10):
So yeah, my junior prom we did rental limo because we
had other couples that were withus.
But my senior, my senior prom,he just drove my Camaro.
Well there you go.
Kerry (15:19):
Oh, do you remember back in the day how we would decorate
the cars?
Or you would take the Kleenexesand make like a carnation.
Chrisy (15:26):
I have in fact a picture , do you still?
Kerry (15:27):
have one of those carnations, chrissy.
No, no, no, no no but for whenwe graduated.
That was the other thing.
Chrisy (15:33):
Yes, they were.
You decorate your car.
Kerry (15:36):
Yes.
Chrisy (15:40):
And it was for like senior day or whatever and it
had the signs on the car and youdid all those like little
tissue things.
Yeah, what funny.
We can maybe mention that againif with weddings and stuff.
But because I live near thepark Mill Creek Park and a lot
of people went down there totake pictures in between their
church reception and thebeautiful park setting.
So where I lived we had a ton ofcars that would come up the
street after taking pictures oron their way to the cars.
(16:03):
The other thing was was whenthe wedding party would drive
around in those cars.
They were decorated right.
They would be.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And so you would hear themcoming.
Kerry (16:12):
Yes.
Chrisy (16:13):
And the whole thing was fingers.
Natalie, if you're listening wewould a big deal was you find
those in your yard, because theywould fall oh yeah, they'd fall
off and it was like a big deal.
If you found one, you keep it.
You'd be like, oh my god, Ifound.
But yeah, I don't that's.
I don't think they do that atall.
Kerry (16:29):
I don't think so.
No, what about corsages?
I feel like that's anotherthing that's gone to the wayside
.
When your daughter went to herformal or winter formal thing
did she?
Did her the boy give her acorsage?
Chrisy (16:40):
well, these kids are young and I don't know that they
have the full concept of that,although maybe they do.
And I'm much older, not mucholder.
I don't want to sound like I'mreal old, but my husband and I
are a little bit older and we doremember that that was really
important.
Yeah, so, generally to take thepressure off of her young man,
yeah, I would order her thing,plus the fact that I'm so crazy
(17:03):
I have to make sure it matchedher dress.
It had to be the right thingand I just was like you know,
don't worry about it, I got you.
Kerry (17:10):
Okay.
Chrisy (17:10):
Right, and I would get his boutonniere too.
Kerry (17:13):
Yeah, I remember taking the dress to the florist shop to
make sure the ribbons matchedthe.
The ribbon of the corsagematched the ribbon on the dress
wow, yeah no, I just, you neverwent that crazy well, no, I just
what the color?
Chrisy (17:27):
was.
This is what the color was andthen you know the other thing
too.
Talking about our dresses realquick, remember you had to
register your dress oh, that wasfor those of you that had money
well, no, when you?
Where did you get your dress?
You don't remember.
Kerry (17:41):
Well, I think the one year my dress was actually a
bridal dress, a bridesmaid dressI had worn for a wedding,
because we couldn't, we didn'thave a lot of money, so I
repurposed.
Chrisy (17:50):
Carrie, where this whole thing with?
I don't remember there beingany sort of.
I mean, you just were notaffected by this.
Kerry (18:00):
Uh-uh.
Chrisy (18:01):
Love you for it.
Love you for it.
Kerry (18:03):
Now, I think the one year with the hoop dress, because we
went to that one store.
The Winner.
Yeah okay, they might havewritten down something, but I
was probably the only onewearing a Gone with the Wind
dress.
We all were wearing Gone withthe Wind dresses.
Have you seen anybody?
Chrisy (18:17):
else's pictures?
Yeah, no, we had.
They would ask you what highschool, because their whole plan
was that you would registeryour name, the high school you
were at with your dress, becausethat shop would not sell your
dress to another person who wasgoing to your prom.
Ok so you didn't show up and belike hey, you know, it's so
(18:38):
amazing, it really worked.
Kerry (18:39):
Do you?
Chrisy (18:40):
ever remember anybody having the same dress at a prom.
Kerry (18:43):
No, I don't.
Chrisy (18:44):
That's crazy, but I don't even know if they do that,
Well, no, because a lot ofpeople they just go to
department stores now or Amazon.
Oh my God, yeah, try toregister your dress with Amazon.
Don't sell anybody else mydress, yeah, else my dress yeah,
(19:05):
right when it says five left instock.
Yeah, right.
Kerry (19:06):
So yeah, the prom thing crazy.
Chrisy (19:07):
Yeah, so yeah yeah, how is this crazy and dysfunctional
for us?
Well, because there's a lot ofways.
Kerry (19:11):
There is a lot of ways, because it really sets us up for
all future events that happen,like at like.
It's setting you up forweddings.
It's setting I mean there's somany things you know.
It's setting this, this anxietythat we get over.
I have to be the only onewearing that dress.
You know what kind of flowers,what kind of food do I?
What do I get?
The limo Do I not get the limoWas the proposal.
(19:33):
I could totally see this.
This has affected us going onour lives, yeah, but when it
comes off.
Chrisy (19:39):
I mean I just felt like, Look at you, You're glowing
right now.
Kerry (19:43):
You're like so happy and glowing.
Chrisy (19:45):
My senior prom dress wasn't as dramatic, but it was a
nice dress, and my mother, ofcourse.
I picked out a dress that wasvery low, plunging in the front,
and my mother was having nopart of this.
She actually noticed something,finally, she said try that on
and she's like uh-uh.
Kerry (20:06):
So she made me go to a seamstress and they had to put a
little piece in added a littleruffle here in the to add a
little coverage because it wasjust way too.
Chrisy (20:17):
now she's compromised the integrity of my gown Meanie,
totally mean.
Mom, the silly butthead, ruffleover here your ruffled cleavage
.
Kerry (20:28):
Now, that just draws more attention.
Chrisy (20:30):
If you ask me, it's like , well, what's happening?
But yeah, I really, especiallymy junior prom.
I just I have to admit this isbecause that's so horrible.
Kerry (20:39):
As if people don't already know I'm horrible.
Chrisy (20:41):
I just I really felt so pretty, I have to say, because
we had to go into the oneentrance yeah it's almost like
going to an award ceremony itwas.
Kerry (20:52):
It was exactly.
Oh gosh.
Dj nick here is making hispromposal sign.
Chrissy, will you go to promwith me?
I'm so glad you have one.
He's thinking about you in thatruffled cleavage dress.
Oh yeah, you were saying theentrance it was.
It was like a red carpet eventBecause all the parents and
stuff were lined up and therewas like flashes.
(21:14):
Yeah, and then you'd hearpeople say oh, that dress is
pretty, or whatever.
Chrisy (21:18):
Look at her hair.
So yeah, good, good time.
A little glimmer, a moment intime where you say I felt good
for that time.
Yeah, I don't have any reallybad feelings about it, but going
to like nieces and nephews whenthey were starting to do all
yes.
I have to admit, a niece wasgoing to prom and she went to a
(21:42):
fairly strict school.
She looked beautiful, she had abeautiful dress.
You planned for this, yeah.
And just remembering back towhen I went to prom, this like
really bothered me.
I found out that they simplyjust like, did like, because,
because I know, prom meanspromenade, which means, I guess,
walking, yeah, walking in.
(22:04):
Yeah, I think that was all theydid was the promenade.
And then they went to dinner.
They weren't allowed to dance,oh, and I said, I said wait a
minute I was so offended.
She dressed so beautifully, shelooked great.
She went through all thistrouble and she was not.
They were not going to dance attheir prom.
What I said, this is sofootloose.
Kerry (22:22):
Oh, she was robbed.
Yeah, footloose, you're right.
So do you remember that DJNick's shaking his head?
Chrisy (22:30):
yes, you have no response to this.
It's offensive, no.
Kerry (22:36):
I think it was a very religious school and no dancing.
Chrisy (22:40):
No dancing catholic school said go for it but okay.
Kerry (22:46):
But on that note, they had the monitors around the
dance floor that we're watchingto make sure that you didn't get
too touchy, feely or where ourplace what, chris?
I thought they were just tryingto record my every move no,
because if people startedkissing or hands started
(23:07):
floating, they would come breakyou up they could have tried.
Chrisy (23:14):
I've been like I can't believe you don't remember that.
No, I probably saw monitorsthere and I just would go by and
probably fluff my hair and makesure my makeup wasn't running.
Kerry (23:24):
Well, I guess maybe that is where maybe I was a little
naughty, because I remembergetting the tap on the shoulder.
You did yeah because we weregetting a little too close.
Chrisy (23:33):
Carrie was, I'd be like don't you dare mess up my dress.
Kerry (23:44):
Don't you dare.
But really I do think that nowthat we're talking about this, I
think this is where it leads upto a lot of issues.
You know where we have thewhole.
You know bridezilla things andall the pressure on weddings and
all these events that we haveto do, because it started in
high school, the pressure ofprom Pressure, of all these
(24:04):
dances, yeah, Pressure of thehair Pressure of who you're
going to go with.
Chrisy (24:08):
Yeah, I just I do feel like it was a lot of pressure
and it was almost like aminiature wedding.
It was, I do remember, like theday of prom, like you didn't
eat.
Kerry (24:16):
Oh yeah, no.
Chrisy (24:17):
There was no way you could eat anything, just because
you were so nervous and youdidn't want to feel like you
know, you were full or bloatedor anything and just getting
ready and not really being ableto function in any capacity that
day.
Kerry (24:29):
Right.
Well, how could you, when youwere eating ice cream and hot
dogs all week, for dieting forthat?
Chrisy (24:37):
predated that one yeah a war after that, but yeah.
Oh God Well no, actuallyprobably it was, but I probably
had moved on to anotherdysfunctional diet.
By then there was a lot ofpressure with that because you
just were told all the and Iguess they look at the magazines
now too yeah, but remember weget those prom those, the teen
(24:58):
magazines.
Right had the prom dresses.
Kerry (25:00):
Right, prom those uh, the teen magazines, right, had the
prom dresses right.
But what's so funny is you know, again, like, like we said back
then the prom dresses were morelike a formal gown, but now
it's more of a short cocktaildress, kind of like.
As the years have gone by, thedresses have gotten smaller,
right, yeah?
Chrisy (25:16):
yeah, they.
I mean they definitely havechanged to the point where I'd
be like, but I think it's forthe better and it it's just ours
definitely dated.
Oh, very, you've got teenagers,or maybe for some of our newer,
younger listeners, what was?
Kerry (25:28):
your promposal like.
Chrisy (25:45):
Yes, we would love to know that.
And nightmare proms, oh yeah,like something malfunctioned
with the dress, malfunctionedwith your date Right,
malfunctioned with all kinds ofthings.
You know, did you trip Right?
And there's another nightmare.
You're always terrified you'regoing to fall or trip or look
like an idiot.
Kerry (26:00):
This is true.
I have to commend you, chrissy.
We have went through this wholeepisode talking about prom and
you did not give a moviereference.
Chrisy (26:08):
Oh my God, I was just about to.
Ah, you said Footloose.
Well, I did say Footloose, yeah, but I'm thinking the big prom
movie reference.
Oh, was there a big prom.
What carrie?
Oh geez, well, carrie, yourname's well.
Did anybody out there get pigblood dropped on them at their
(26:28):
prom and then set everybody onfire?
That's classic.
That is the classic prom.
Kerry (26:34):
That's what I'm saying.
Chrisy (26:35):
I can't believe I was gonna mention another crazy
movie that I thought washilarious, with Drew Marymore in
it.
Never Been Kissed where she'sflashing back to her days in
high school.
Kerry (26:47):
That was so cute.
Chrisy (26:48):
And she remembered how horrible, because that kid
played a joke on her that shethought really wanted to go to
prom with her, and when heshowed up in the limo he had
another chick with him and thenshe got pegged with an egg.
Yes, I was like anybody outthere get smacked with an egg
because your date was messingwith you.
I mean, god, I'm sure I wouldhope that nobody has this
experience.
But you know, there areprobably some nightmare
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experiences where maybe lastminute you just decided you
couldn't, you know, go with thisperson.
Kerry (27:15):
yeah, you said yes to the promposal but you really didn't
want to go and didn't know howto get out of it.
Chrisy (27:20):
Yeah.
Kerry (27:20):
So you just didn't go.
Chrisy (27:21):
Yes, yes All right.
Kerry (27:24):
Well, thank you for joining us today.
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Chrisy (27:35):
Yes, send in prom pictures of, if you can, that
would be so great to put thoseout there.
Kerry (27:40):
Yeah, we could have a little fashion show of prom.
Chrisy (27:42):
We can try and guess what decade you went to prom,
because the dresses might beable to tell us that.
Kerry (27:47):
There we go.
All right, junkies, you haveyour task for the week.
We'll see you next week.
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye,bye-bye.
Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast,
where we may not have seen itall, but we've seen enough.
And now here are your hosts,Chrisy and Kerry.
Kerry (00:21):
Hello Dysfunction Junkies .
I'm Kerry
Chrisy (00:25):
and I'm Chrissy.
Kerry (00:26):
How you doing over there, Chrisy?
Chrisy (00:28):
I'm doing just fine.
Kerry (00:29):
Well, today should be interesting, because let's just
say that our show is notsponsored by a certain coffee
company, but Chrissy's got eightshots of espresso in her, so
this will be exciting.
Chrisy (00:43):
It's early this morning.
I needed to do something.
Kerry (00:47):
Well, we're at the end of May and prom season has been
upon us and Chrissy's got ateenager in the house, and so we
thought, oh, this will be goodto reflect on prom back in the
day and how it is today.
There's a lot of weird thingsgoing on with prom these days.
Chrisy (01:04):
It does not look like it did when we were in school or
participating.
And my daughter, yes, she's ofteen years, but she's just a
sophomore and so she's notcompletely ready to go, but it's
coming.
Kerry (01:17):
It's coming, but they've had other dances and things.
Chrisy (01:20):
Oh yeah, homecoming, Right right, they have a winter
formal where she's at.
Kerry (01:24):
Okay, exactly, yeah, yeah , I think what's interesting
nowadays is this whole promposal.
Chrisy (01:31):
Yeah, that's a good place to start, because it's
crazy.
Kerry (01:34):
It is crazy.
And what caught my eye aboutthis was I was just saw on the
Facebook reels or something likethat, where all these accidents
that have happened duringpromposals like there is
something about a kid was on amotorcycle for a promposal,
going through a red light and hegot, you know, in an accident,
(01:54):
and then there's like a lawsuitsuing the school police for like
a million dollars.
Like all these crazy thingsthat happen on promposals gone
wrong.
Chrisy (02:04):
So I know this gender reveal thing was getting out of
hand, but now this is alsodangerous.
Kerry (02:10):
Yes, same thing.
Yes, we didn't have promposals.
Chrisy (02:13):
We didn't have that.
No, either.
You just was, you were datingand you were going.
Kerry (02:19):
It was a given.
Chrisy (02:20):
Or well, first we probably should mention that now
it's not uncommon for girls andI guess the guys to to do a
stag thing, going without a dateand go in a group with friends
and just have a great time,which I'm all for.
It's great Right, but when wewere in school, not going to
(02:40):
have that was basically yeah,you couldn't do that, you would
be shamed.
I would think it just wasn'tanything we even thought of
being able to happen.
Kerry (02:45):
That was basically yeah, you couldn't do that, you would
be shamed.
Chrisy (02:45):
I would think it just wasn't anything we even thought
of being able to do.
Kerry (02:49):
Yeah, it was a couples only event.
Chrisy (02:51):
Pretty much, yeah, and I don't even know that if I
didn't have a date, I don'tthink my mother would have put
the bill for a dress.
She'd be like I'm not buyingyou a dress just to go with
another.
You know, with your buddies youmight as well just forget it
exactly so but I mean, I thinkthat's wonderful that they can
do that and they have a greattime and they don't even think
(03:11):
like there's anything.
No, it's just like your head.
This is the way we're goingwe're gonna.
Kerry (03:15):
Why shouldn't we enjoy it another saturday night hanging
out with my friends?
Yeah, with fancier clothes andbetter food oh yeah, no.
Chrisy (03:22):
So yeah, it's amazing.
I just because my daughter willmention this.
She's gone with a friend forthe homecoming in the winter
formal, but she has no issue ifshe doesn't have a friend to go,
she's going to go with a bunchof her buddies, wow.
And I just have to sort of sitthere and bite my tongue because
that old me is like you know,that's not seem cool, man,
(03:45):
you're uncool.
Why would you do that?
Kerry (03:47):
But that does show great strength of character, though,
that they're willing to stand ontheir own and they, you know,
not conform, so I have to thepart.
I really like that.
I wish that was something thatwould have been.
We would have been strongenough to have back in our time.
Chrisy (04:01):
We.
Well, if we did there have been, I would have never been strong
enough to do that.
Well first of all, what buddywants to go with me.
Kerry (04:11):
I would have went with you.
Chrisy (04:13):
Oh well, you would have.
Yeah Well yeah, yeah, but Iprobably would have got you in
some big trouble.
Kerry (04:19):
So probably better you did.
Yeah, when your daughter wentto the winter formal, did she
have a winter formal proposal?
Chrisy (04:27):
She did get the proposal type thing.
Yeah, to all of her dances sofar with the sign and, oh my, a
bouquet of flowers.
It's like it's crazy, I mean,and they usually the person they
have to come up with these likelittle you know, smart little
saying.
Kerry (04:44):
Yeah.
Chrisy (04:44):
You know, A catch.
Yeah, I catchphrase like oh, ifyou, would you please do this
to come to homecoming with me,or would you do this to go to
winter, formal and again, it'slovely and it's so creative, but
man, that's a lot of pressureit is.
Kerry (04:57):
I was just thinking that, like, what if the girl doesn't
want to?
It's kind of like it's like awedding proposal, you know,
especially when they make itpublic.
What do you do when you're likeI don't really want to marry
you?
Well, what do you do?
I don't really want to go toprom with you.
Chrisy (05:10):
I'm wondering if they go through all this trouble with
the sign and the flowers onlywhen they think it's a sure
thing.
But yeah you know what?
I'm sure there's a lot of themthat don't.
They were not sure things andthey probably did go through all
that trouble and it ended upbeing a no, which is devastating
.
Kerry (05:28):
It is devastating.
Chrisy (05:29):
It's hard enough to get a no when you just ask.
Kerry (05:31):
Right.
Chrisy (05:32):
And then you're standing there with a sign and a bouquet
of flowers and they're like no.
Kerry (05:36):
Well, in 30 years they're going to have a podcast
explaining how that traumatizedthem.
I'm sure I'm traumatized justfor them thinking about it, so
but what was the pressure of in,or did you even have any
pressure about getting the right?
Chrisy (05:53):
dress, yeah, and my junior prom.
I got a really great dress.
In my opinion.
It was red, which I really likeas a color for me.
Isn't that nice?
I say that it's such a lovelycolor for me.
(06:13):
Everybody out there red and Igot it at a shop over.
A lot of people went over intoPennsylvania.
Kerry (06:22):
Does it begin with a W?
Nope, oh, okay.
Chrisy (06:24):
It was a woman's name, helen, I guess I could say it.
I don't even know if it's stillin existence and it's just a.
You know, they're not a sponsor, right?
I guess I think it's calledHelen Freed, okay, and it was
just like a big deal to maybe goover there.
A lot of people did, and theyhad beautiful gowns and this was
(06:44):
just sort of unique because itwas probably the color of it,
being red the way it was.
Kerry (06:49):
Yeah.
Chrisy (06:50):
We had big dresses then we did Big hair, big dresses.
Kerry (06:53):
Like they were almost like bridesmaid dresses.
Oh yeah, you know.
So you know we had.
I remember my first prom dresswas it literally had the hoop,
the hoop in it.
Chrisy (07:03):
Oh yeah, To make it go big.
Kerry (07:05):
Those were yeah, and a lot of those dresses then had
the hoop.
Chrisy (07:09):
Now mine supplemented for that didn't have the hoop.
It had a ton of Kremlinunderneath it oh, Kremlin, yep.
So that helped make it likehuge.
It was just.
It was a really nice dress.
I loved it to death.
Kerry (07:27):
And you're going to believe this, what I still have
it.
Sorry, I just blew every one ofyours out.
Chrisy (07:30):
It's packed away, chrissy.
Kerry (07:32):
What you still have it.
What do you think yourdaughter's going to wear it?
Well, maybe I want to wear it.
Chrisy (07:40):
I'm going to stuff my 50-plus-year-old body in that
dress that I wore when I was 16,and that's going to be the end
of it, and I don't want to hearany BS about it.
So, yeah, I still have it.
Kerry (07:54):
Oh my gosh.
Chrisy (07:55):
And I think I looked really great in it because I'm
really self-centered.
Kerry (08:01):
You probably did because you're beautiful.
Chrisy (08:03):
Well, I appreciate that I'm not making you any sign.
Oh yeah, could you imagine,nick?
My proposal, yeah was, like youknow, in the car while I'm
driving, going to get tacos foryour wedding, so I would love to
know what nick's sign would beif we would have known each
other in high school for prom.
Kerry (08:25):
Yeah, really but.
Chrisy (08:28):
I think you should surprise me and just do it like
a recreation, like what youthought would be good and just
like surprise me with it.
Kerry (08:35):
Have you heard about these proms?
I don't know.
I should look and see whatthey're called, when people our
age that maybe didn't get to goto prom they have proms now like
they can recreate it and theygo to proms like our age.
Chrisy (08:50):
Well, I know they have what is that called?
It might have a name, but I'mnot completely unaware of.
They do have like the retroflashback type dances for people
our age where it's like 80sthemed but this is kind of like
totally recreating the prom.
Kerry (09:04):
In fact I know somebody that just went to one, so I'm
trying to quickly look throughmy text messages here because
that they were talking about andthey sent me pictures of them
at this like prom do they getthe big dress and stuff?
Chrisy (09:15):
no, they're just dressed now, like you know now you
wonder why I kept my dress,because I'm not gonna wear it to
this.
You can wear it to it, yeah, ifI could fit.
I'm not that much heavier thanI was in high school, but even
if I wasn't the body, everythingsort of moves in different
places, so you know there's adifference between 50-year-old
(09:35):
body and 16-year-old body.
Kerry (09:37):
Yes, yes, everything sort of goes south a little bit, but
yeah, you know.
Chrisy (09:43):
That's what they got all them flippin' boostier stuff
for I just you know some scotchtape and some rubber bands and
I'm back in business.
Yeah, here comes Rubber Girl,because I'm too wimpy to have
surgery.
Kerry (10:03):
I'll just, if it's not happening.
No, I'm too cheap with my tohave surgery.
I'll just oh yeah, no, no, no,it's not happening, no, I'm too
cheap with my money.
I spend money on that I doremember.
I think I actually enjoyed ourschool dances more than I did
our prom, like you know.
I know school dances were atthe, in the school, in the
cafeteria.
Chrisy (10:21):
Oh yeah, we had like a Sadie Hawkins down there, I
remember the cafeteria.
Oh yeah, we had like a sadiehawkins down there, I remember,
but we also just there were,just like I don't know what was
it like once every two months?
Kerry (10:27):
or just be a dance, I mean, it didn't.
Sometimes it had a theme, likeit had the what's that, where
you wear the, the toga like atoe oh, you know like they would
have themes, but it was just adance, you know.
But the, the prom dance was, Idon't know.
We went to that other churchthat had a big hall and I think
it was our church, wasn't it theor something.
Yeah, yeah their hall.
Chrisy (10:49):
That's where we had varsity okay varsity, but our
proms were actually at thewarner brothers theater in
downtown youngstown, which wasactually yeah, yeah, the stampa
it was called.
What was it called back in thelate?
80s, early 90s it's the dr diorperforming arts now, yeah, yeah
, okay, but it was the warnerbrothers, because they were from
(11:09):
youngstown.
It was their theater and it's agorgeous inside venue.
I mean the ornateness of thelobby you would think, was it
powers powers.
Kerry (11:19):
Yeah, yeah, that's what it was called when we went, so
but I just remember it was likeso formal and the dresses were
so, you know, different and itwas just so.
It was fun and it was nice, butit wasn't as relaxing and fun
as the just the dance for noreason dances.
Chrisy (11:36):
I wasn't relaxed.
I really admire that you wereable to say at this dance I'm
going to have fun, and at thisdance it's a little stressful.
For me, it was just stress,stress stress.
Kerry (11:47):
It was a lot of, I guess, for me because I was in a
relationship with a boy that Ieventually married that there
was no stress of it because itwas like, well, this is who
you're going with, this is whoyou're dancing with.
So there was no like, oh, am Igoing to have, is somebody going
(12:09):
to dance with me or am I gonnabe the wallflower?
And then I was gonna talk, youknow everything to be around,
that much people and stuff.
It was a lot of peoplingwithout a lot of peopling.
So, but the formal one seemedmore stressful.
Chrisy (12:16):
I don't know so I went with a friend who then ended up
being a boyfriend right for awhile and then we weren't
boyfriend and girlfriend for along time.
That was like my junior year,just to and I think a lot of
schools are like this now tomake mention of this.
So there's an understandingwhen we were in school, you had
to be either a junior or seniorto go.
(12:37):
Yes, any lower grades did notgo to correct.
And then and I think actuallyat our school because now I hear
a lot of people say that youhave to be a junior or senior,
but as a junior or senior youcan invite a lower grades person
, but at our high school theyhad to be a junior or senior
(12:58):
also and the other thing was, isthat my friend that I went with
didn't go to our high school?
Right?
Kerry (13:04):
Same with me so.
Chrisy (13:04):
I actually had to have.
Do you remember having to havethe paperwork filled out?
I don't remember that I had tohave, and I'm guessing you did
too.
You had to tell them who wascoming with you.
Yeah, it was almost like theywere going to do a back.
I don't think they did.
Kerry (13:17):
It almost felt like they were going to do a background
check on who was coming, butcheck on who was coming.
But here's the crazy part,though.
Okay, so the guy that I wasdating was older than me, so how
was it that I was allowed tobring an older guy to our senior
prom who was already out ofhigh school?
Right, like, how'd that roll?
Chrisy (13:37):
It was yeah, they didn't have an issue with that, Right.
Kerry (13:40):
But you couldn't bring.
You know a.
Chrisy (13:43):
A lower gradesman that actually went to your school,
your school, right?
Kerry (13:46):
Yeah, I don't know, that was sort of a strange but that's
what it was, because my friendA little dysfunctional in the
school system rules there, Wellyeah.
Chrisy (13:54):
They're like yeah you can bring this unknown person of
mystery to our dance.
Kerry (14:01):
We don't know what they're going to you know that's
already out of high school.
Chrisy (14:05):
And yeah, sure, yeah, mine was too my senior prom,
because I went with the sameperson in my senior prom, even
though at that time, right, wewere still just friends.
Kerry (14:13):
Right but yeah, so that was sort of a weird thing, but
did you dance though at theproms, like were you a dancer?
Do you like to dance?
I can't remember.
Chrisy (14:22):
Yeah, I will dance.
I don't remember.
My dress was just so big.
How can you?
Kerry (14:27):
fast dance with that.
I really had to just do theslow dances.
Of course, the slow dances.
Chrisy (14:34):
Yeah, no, we danced and we went with some friends Now I
don't remember, and we went withsome friends, Now I don't
remember, did you because youwere very serious with I mean,
obviously he was your-.
Kerry (14:41):
Yeah, future husband.
Chrisy (14:43):
Future husband.
Did you go with other couples?
No, you didn't, it was just thetwo of you.
Yeah.
Kerry (14:48):
Did you guys rent a limo?
Chrisy (14:49):
Like, do people?
Kerry (14:50):
do?
Do they still do renting limosnowadays?
I think they do but I don'teven I mean, unless it's a
hearse.
I don't remember ever seeinglimos on the street these days.
Chrisy (15:04):
Yeah, it does sort of startle you when you see one,
and it was such a thing when wewere in school Right.
Kerry (15:09):
Oh, that was big.
Chrisy (15:10):
So yeah, my junior prom we did rental limo because we
had other couples that were withus.
But my senior, my senior prom,he just drove my Camaro.
Well there you go.
Kerry (15:19):
Oh, do you remember back in the day how we would decorate
the cars?
Or you would take the Kleenexesand make like a carnation.
Chrisy (15:26):
I have in fact a picture , do you still?
Kerry (15:27):
have one of those carnations, chrissy.
No, no, no, no no but for whenwe graduated.
That was the other thing.
Chrisy (15:33):
Yes, they were.
You decorate your car.
Kerry (15:36):
Yes.
Chrisy (15:40):
And it was for like senior day or whatever and it
had the signs on the car and youdid all those like little
tissue things.
Yeah, what funny.
We can maybe mention that againif with weddings and stuff.
But because I live near thepark Mill Creek Park and a lot
of people went down there totake pictures in between their
church reception and thebeautiful park setting.
So where I lived we had a ton ofcars that would come up the
street after taking pictures oron their way to the cars.
(16:03):
The other thing was was whenthe wedding party would drive
around in those cars.
They were decorated right.
They would be.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And so you would hear themcoming.
Kerry (16:12):
Yes.
Chrisy (16:13):
And the whole thing was fingers.
Natalie, if you're listening wewould a big deal was you find
those in your yard, because theywould fall oh yeah, they'd fall
off and it was like a big deal.
If you found one, you keep it.
You'd be like, oh my god, Ifound.
But yeah, I don't that's.
I don't think they do that atall.
Kerry (16:29):
I don't think so.
No, what about corsages?
I feel like that's anotherthing that's gone to the wayside
.
When your daughter went to herformal or winter formal thing
did she?
Did her the boy give her acorsage?
Chrisy (16:40):
well, these kids are young and I don't know that they
have the full concept of that,although maybe they do.
And I'm much older, not mucholder.
I don't want to sound like I'mreal old, but my husband and I
are a little bit older and we doremember that that was really
important.
Yeah, so, generally to take thepressure off of her young man,
yeah, I would order her thing,plus the fact that I'm so crazy
(17:03):
I have to make sure it matchedher dress.
It had to be the right thingand I just was like you know,
don't worry about it, I got you.
Kerry (17:10):
Okay.
Chrisy (17:10):
Right, and I would get his boutonniere too.
Kerry (17:13):
Yeah, I remember taking the dress to the florist shop to
make sure the ribbons matchedthe.
The ribbon of the corsagematched the ribbon on the dress
wow, yeah no, I just, you neverwent that crazy well, no, I just
what the color?
Chrisy (17:27):
was.
This is what the color was andthen you know the other thing
too.
Talking about our dresses realquick, remember you had to
register your dress oh, that wasfor those of you that had money
well, no, when you?
Where did you get your dress?
You don't remember.
Kerry (17:41):
Well, I think the one year my dress was actually a
bridal dress, a bridesmaid dressI had worn for a wedding,
because we couldn't, we didn'thave a lot of money, so I
repurposed.
Chrisy (17:50):
Carrie, where this whole thing with?
I don't remember there beingany sort of.
I mean, you just were notaffected by this.
Kerry (18:00):
Uh-uh.
Chrisy (18:01):
Love you for it.
Love you for it.
Kerry (18:03):
Now, I think the one year with the hoop dress, because we
went to that one store.
The Winner.
Yeah okay, they might havewritten down something, but I
was probably the only onewearing a Gone with the Wind
dress.
We all were wearing Gone withthe Wind dresses.
Have you seen anybody?
Chrisy (18:17):
else's pictures?
Yeah, no, we had.
They would ask you what highschool, because their whole plan
was that you would registeryour name, the high school you
were at with your dress, becausethat shop would not sell your
dress to another person who wasgoing to your prom.
Ok so you didn't show up and belike hey, you know, it's so
(18:38):
amazing, it really worked.
Kerry (18:39):
Do you?
Chrisy (18:40):
ever remember anybody having the same dress at a prom.
Kerry (18:43):
No, I don't.
Chrisy (18:44):
That's crazy, but I don't even know if they do that,
Well, no, because a lot ofpeople they just go to
department stores now or Amazon.
Oh my God, yeah, try toregister your dress with Amazon.
Don't sell anybody else mydress, yeah, else my dress yeah,
(19:05):
right when it says five left instock.
Yeah, right.
Kerry (19:06):
So yeah, the prom thing crazy.
Chrisy (19:07):
Yeah, so yeah yeah, how is this crazy and dysfunctional
for us?
Well, because there's a lot ofways.
Kerry (19:11):
There is a lot of ways, because it really sets us up for
all future events that happen,like at like.
It's setting you up forweddings.
It's setting I mean there's somany things you know.
It's setting this, this anxietythat we get over.
I have to be the only onewearing that dress.
You know what kind of flowers,what kind of food do I?
What do I get?
The limo Do I not get the limoWas the proposal.
(19:33):
I could totally see this.
This has affected us going onour lives, yeah, but when it
comes off.
Chrisy (19:39):
I mean I just felt like, Look at you, You're glowing
right now.
Kerry (19:43):
You're like so happy and glowing.
Chrisy (19:45):
My senior prom dress wasn't as dramatic, but it was a
nice dress, and my mother, ofcourse.
I picked out a dress that wasvery low, plunging in the front,
and my mother was having nopart of this.
She actually noticed something,finally, she said try that on
and she's like uh-uh.
Kerry (20:06):
So she made me go to a seamstress and they had to put a
little piece in added a littleruffle here in the to add a
little coverage because it wasjust way too.
Chrisy (20:17):
now she's compromised the integrity of my gown Meanie,
totally mean.
Mom, the silly butthead, ruffleover here your ruffled cleavage
.
Kerry (20:28):
Now, that just draws more attention.
Chrisy (20:30):
If you ask me, it's like , well, what's happening?
But yeah, I really, especiallymy junior prom.
I just I have to admit this isbecause that's so horrible.
Kerry (20:39):
As if people don't already know I'm horrible.
Chrisy (20:41):
I just I really felt so pretty, I have to say, because
we had to go into the oneentrance yeah it's almost like
going to an award ceremony itwas.
Kerry (20:52):
It was exactly.
Oh gosh.
Dj nick here is making hispromposal sign.
Chrissy, will you go to promwith me?
I'm so glad you have one.
He's thinking about you in thatruffled cleavage dress.
Oh yeah, you were saying theentrance it was.
It was like a red carpet eventBecause all the parents and
stuff were lined up and therewas like flashes.
(21:14):
Yeah, and then you'd hearpeople say oh, that dress is
pretty, or whatever.
Chrisy (21:18):
Look at her hair.
So yeah, good, good time.
A little glimmer, a moment intime where you say I felt good
for that time.
Yeah, I don't have any reallybad feelings about it, but going
to like nieces and nephews whenthey were starting to do all
yes.
I have to admit, a niece wasgoing to prom and she went to a
(21:42):
fairly strict school.
She looked beautiful, she had abeautiful dress.
You planned for this, yeah.
And just remembering back towhen I went to prom, this like
really bothered me.
I found out that they simplyjust like, did like, because,
because I know, prom meanspromenade, which means, I guess,
walking, yeah, walking in.
(22:04):
Yeah, I think that was all theydid was the promenade.
And then they went to dinner.
They weren't allowed to dance,oh, and I said, I said wait a
minute I was so offended.
She dressed so beautifully, shelooked great.
She went through all thistrouble and she was not.
They were not going to dance attheir prom.
What I said, this is sofootloose.
Kerry (22:22):
Oh, she was robbed.
Yeah, footloose, you're right.
So do you remember that DJNick's shaking his head?
Chrisy (22:30):
yes, you have no response to this.
It's offensive, no.
Kerry (22:36):
I think it was a very religious school and no dancing.
Chrisy (22:40):
No dancing catholic school said go for it but okay.
Kerry (22:46):
But on that note, they had the monitors around the
dance floor that we're watchingto make sure that you didn't get
too touchy, feely or where ourplace what, chris?
I thought they were just tryingto record my every move no,
because if people startedkissing or hands started
(23:07):
floating, they would come breakyou up they could have tried.
Chrisy (23:14):
I've been like I can't believe you don't remember that.
No, I probably saw monitorsthere and I just would go by and
probably fluff my hair and makesure my makeup wasn't running.
Kerry (23:24):
Well, I guess maybe that is where maybe I was a little
naughty, because I remembergetting the tap on the shoulder.
You did yeah because we weregetting a little too close.
Chrisy (23:33):
Carrie was, I'd be like don't you dare mess up my dress.
Kerry (23:44):
Don't you dare.
But really I do think that nowthat we're talking about this, I
think this is where it leads upto a lot of issues.
You know where we have thewhole.
You know bridezilla things andall the pressure on weddings and
all these events that we haveto do, because it started in
high school, the pressure ofprom Pressure, of all these
(24:04):
dances, yeah, Pressure of thehair Pressure of who you're
going to go with.
Chrisy (24:08):
Yeah, I just I do feel like it was a lot of pressure
and it was almost like aminiature wedding.
It was, I do remember, like theday of prom, like you didn't
eat.
Kerry (24:16):
Oh yeah, no.
Chrisy (24:17):
There was no way you could eat anything, just because
you were so nervous and youdidn't want to feel like you
know, you were full or bloatedor anything and just getting
ready and not really being ableto function in any capacity that
day.
Kerry (24:29):
Right.
Well, how could you, when youwere eating ice cream and hot
dogs all week, for dieting forthat?
Chrisy (24:37):
predated that one yeah a war after that, but yeah.
Oh God Well no, actuallyprobably it was, but I probably
had moved on to anotherdysfunctional diet.
By then there was a lot ofpressure with that because you
just were told all the and Iguess they look at the magazines
now too yeah, but remember weget those prom those, the teen
(24:58):
magazines.
Right had the prom dresses.
Kerry (25:00):
Right, prom those uh, the teen magazines, right, had the
prom dresses right.
But what's so funny is you know, again, like, like we said back
then the prom dresses were morelike a formal gown, but now
it's more of a short cocktaildress, kind of like.
As the years have gone by, thedresses have gotten smaller,
right, yeah?
Chrisy (25:16):
yeah, they.
I mean they definitely havechanged to the point where I'd
be like, but I think it's forthe better and it it's just ours
definitely dated.
Oh, very, you've got teenagers,or maybe for some of our newer,
younger listeners, what was?
Kerry (25:28):
your promposal like.
Chrisy (25:45):
Yes, we would love to know that.
And nightmare proms, oh yeah,like something malfunctioned
with the dress, malfunctionedwith your date Right,
malfunctioned with all kinds ofthings.
You know, did you trip Right?
And there's another nightmare.
You're always terrified you'regoing to fall or trip or look
like an idiot.
Kerry (26:00):
This is true.
I have to commend you, chrissy.
We have went through this wholeepisode talking about prom and
you did not give a moviereference.
Chrisy (26:08):
Oh my God, I was just about to.
Ah, you said Footloose.
Well, I did say Footloose, yeah, but I'm thinking the big prom
movie reference.
Oh, was there a big prom.
What carrie?
Oh geez, well, carrie, yourname's well.
Did anybody out there get pigblood dropped on them at their
(26:28):
prom and then set everybody onfire?
That's classic.
That is the classic prom.
Kerry (26:34):
That's what I'm saying.
Chrisy (26:35):
I can't believe I was gonna mention another crazy
movie that I thought washilarious, with Drew Marymore in
it.
Never Been Kissed where she'sflashing back to her days in
high school.
Kerry (26:47):
That was so cute.
Chrisy (26:48):
And she remembered how horrible, because that kid
played a joke on her that shethought really wanted to go to
prom with her, and when heshowed up in the limo he had
another chick with him and thenshe got pegged with an egg.
Yes, I was like anybody outthere get smacked with an egg
because your date was messingwith you.
I mean, god, I'm sure I wouldhope that nobody has this
experience.
But you know, there areprobably some nightmare
(27:11):
experiences where maybe lastminute you just decided you
couldn't, you know, go with thisperson.
Kerry (27:15):
yeah, you said yes to the promposal but you really didn't
want to go and didn't know howto get out of it.
Chrisy (27:20):
Yeah.
Kerry (27:20):
So you just didn't go.
Chrisy (27:21):
Yes, yes All right.
Kerry (27:24):
Well, thank you for joining us today.
We look forward to all of yourfeedback.
Again, go to our Facebook page,our Instagram page.
Check us out on our websitedysfunctionjunkiesbuzzsproutcom.
Chrisy (27:35):
Yes, send in prom pictures of, if you can, that
would be so great to put thoseout there.
Kerry (27:40):
Yeah, we could have a little fashion show of prom.
Chrisy (27:42):
We can try and guess what decade you went to prom,
because the dresses might beable to tell us that.
Kerry (27:47):
There we go.
All right, junkies, you haveyour task for the week.
We'll see you next week.
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye,bye-bye.
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