While many of us remember senior prom as our final carefree romp before entering the hellish real world, the class of 2009 is under a bit more pressure to keep the cost down. The dress, the flowers, the meth, the limo, and the ticket itself can add up to quite a bundle, and mom and dad have woes of their own. I mean, look at dad. Ever since he got laid off he just sits in the garage in that tattered bathrobe varnishing that disfigured piece of drift wood over and over again. It’s kind of disturbing, really.
Anyhow, while some fret about the lost luster of the momentous end-of-innocence celebration, plenty of enterprising teenagers are taking back the prom by being resourceful. Some have decided to skip the fancy venue and rent out an old folks home instead (i would say ’senior’ but that would get confusing). Many have decided to skip the limo in favor of driving or quickly walking to the event. Rather than going all out on the dress and the hair, girls are borrowing items or making them out of discarded burlap.
Many whose family’s are so strapped that they couldn’t afford prom tickets were desperate for a solution, which thankfully emerged in the form of an alternative event sponsored by a local seafood processing plant, aptly titled ‘Prawn 2009′.
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