I've only experienced prom season watching our son and then our daughter prepare for theirs and that was in every respect of the word enough for me. I didn't go when I was in high school (it was an all-boys school so who would have had me then, or now, come to think of it?) and I never really grasped the origins of the word in the first place. But 'back then' we didn't have Google and now we do, so now I know.
Knowledge is intoxicating, isn't it? I can still feel my legs wobble after that promenade through etymology. Heady stuff.
Limousines, horse-drawn carriages, a parent's fancy car, you name it, and someone's child has experienced it unless you're Sherman Bynum. whose idea of arriving for the prom in a Sherman tank was almost as original as his crowd-funding page to pay for the tank rental.
I'm sure everyone involved was tankful for the opportunity to be part of an iron-clad memorable moment.
-bill kenny
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