- I get to the front desk where the check in is.
There's three cops staring at me holding flashlights.
(jazzy music)
I wasn't stressed out about prom.
I had a girlfriend at the time
so I was gonna go with her and you know,
get some good pictures.
Trying to figure out the after party though.
We were gonna get limos for the prom,
but then we realized like, we couldn't
bring any alcohol to prom if that was the case.
So we canceled the limo and I ended up
being the guy that drove everybody to prom
and holding all of the alcohol in my trunk in a cooler.
I drove to the prom, things were going smoothly,
we had some opening dances.
When over the loudspeaker I heard,
"Chandler please come to the front desk immediately."
Everyone looks at me from the table,
so I'm freaking out.
I get to the front desk where the check in is
and there's three cops staring at me holding flashlights.
They say, "We need to check out what's
in the trunk of your car immediately."
I don't know what to do, I don't know if I should run,
just dip into the front seat and drive away.
I don't know if I should tell them
to like, not look in my car.
I don't know what my rights are.
I don't know.
I still don't know what my rights are with cops.
(siren)
So they make me lift the hatch
and I open up the cooler.
It's like five handles of vodka.
I'm (bleep).
They take it all, so I ruin the after party for everybody.
I get sent home, kicked out of prom.
My license gets suspended.
And I find out within a few days
that I'm suspended for two weeks.
The worst part about this though was,
the reason I was able to drive my mom's SUV
was that my mom and my dad had driven down
to my brother's college graduation.
And my brother's a really good student.
He graduated from Virginia Tech in three years.
Cum Laude in engineering.
And they had just seen his college graduation
and were on their way home that night
and they get a call from the cops saying,
"Yeah, your son had alcohol at the prom."
So they have my brother in the backseat of the car
who's like the pinnacle of fine education
and I'm home just (bleep) my pants
waiting to see what my parents are gonna punish me with.
So, yeah.
I was the bad son that day and many other days.
I'm not condoning, like bringing alcohol to prom,
but you know, I'm kind of a legend now after the prom,
after the senior prom and just being made an example of.
So, hey man,
do you in high school and you'll have
some fun stories to bring to your high school reunion
down the road.
- In high school I was somewhere in between everyone.
I was a band geek and I also did a lot of theater
However, I was out of my mind boy crazy.
And so I started to develop a crush
on a boy who played the saxophone.
I didn't what to do, I didn't know how to approach him.
I was just like the most awkward girl of all time.
(chirping)
So obviously I have very curly hair.
So I decided for prom, I'm gonna change it up
and I'm gonna get my hair straightened.
Oh, boy!
I just looked terrible.
I went into prom already having this
kind of (bleep) feeling.
But I gathered the courage to walk up to this boy
and ask him to dance with me.
I don't know why I thought this was a good idea.
But, I went and requested a song
for this particular dance, up to the DJ.
It happened to be Eric Clapton's,
'You Look Wonderful Tonight',
because my mom loves it and my mom and dad danced to it
so I thought, oh this is such a good idea,
I'm gonna request this song.
It comes to the time for my dance
and my song starts to play,
and I go out on the dance floor by myself
standing in the center of the dance floor
and I'm kind of looking around and waiting.
When you're a young girl and you think like,
oh, my prince is coming it's gonna be like a dream sequence.
It was a nightmare sequence.
(scream)
I was on the dance floor and all my friends
were looking at me,
everybody was kind of looking at me like,
oh what's happening?
'cause I was the only person out there.
And then I look to the door and I see that he is leaving.
I burst into tears and I'm crying
in the middle of the dance floor.
To add insult to injury, the DJ on the microphone goes,
"Don't cry."
Everybody started to stare at me.
Bless her heart, the prom queen came over to me
and she just kind of grabbed my hand
and took me off the dance floor
and she was like, are you okay sweetie?
And I will never forgive that prom queen,
Jaime, I have never forgot the kindness
and the love I felt from you, so I really appreciate that.
I never saw that boy again 'cause like,
I think the next week was graduation,
so it was all good I guess from there.
I'm now a happily married woman.
Guess it all works out.
- I didn't have like the traditional high school experience,
so like I didn't have like that many dances,
or like homecoming, or like rallies,
like that kind of thing.
So when it was time then your a junior and a senior,
like it was a huge deal 'cause like
we waited so long for like these dances.
I guess my senior year was like a hot mess
because like my friend group was like
kind of in shambles, 'cause we had,
me and one of my really good friends
kind of had a falling out.
Because me and my friend had a falling out
I started getting close to like, this other guy
who was in my stats class.
Over the course of like the year,
like things have just like kind of started
to build up to the point where people were like,
oh like, will they, won't they?
Like what's gonna happen.
At the end of our senior year we had like this huge party.
At this huge party, like me and this guy
we like hooked up.
It was like very public, like everyone saw
because like we were in the middle of the woods,
so there was just like this clearing.
I think we ended up on like peoples Instagrams
and like IG stories.
It was like a millennial Gossip Girl almost,
like people were like, oh my God like Ehis
and so and so caught hooking up
like in the fields, like, (gasp) tea.
Initially, I was just like I'm too cool for school,
like I don't care about prom.
Like then as it got closer and closer I was like,
actually no, like this is gonna be like
my last night with like, all of these people
who I've spent like six years with.
Which is why I'm still (bleep) pissed
because this one girl had to ruin my prom experience.
The guy who I did hook up with,
she like had been crushing on him for a while,
but like, she's the girl with the crush,
whatever, he's not interested,
he's clearly interested in me.
So like I just didn't pay attention.
And I didn't think it was gonna be a huge deal
until I got to prom.
Like I walk into prom, like I'm super excited.
And then there just comes a point in the night
where like, we crossed paths on the dance floor
and like, were on the dance floor.
We weren't off to the side,
we were like literally on the dance floor.
The girl who like had a crush on him saw us.
In front of everyone like somehow over
the DJ who was pretty loud, like looks at both of us
and then turns to me and she's like,
wow Ehis, so you didn't get enough of him,
can't you let somebody else have a turn?
In front of our entire senior class.
I was mortified.
I don't think that was her intent
but I think in that moment, like on this night
where I'm wearing like this beautiful ballgown,
I'm like with my friends, like this is kind of
the last night we're gonna be together,
I was like essentially slut shamed.
Like from that moment onwards my prom
just kind of like took a nosedive.
I think it was like this one little incident
that happened at prom that kind of like
tainted my like viewpoint of like
the end of like my senior year.
If you're going to prom and you see a girl and a guy,
or a girl and a girl, and a guy and a guy, whatever.
And you wanna say something mean,
maybe have a little bit of compassion.
I'm telling you in the grand scheme of things
when it comes to life, prom is like
such a minuscule, like part of your life.
Like I don't wanna trivialize it
but like there are bigger and better things
that are gonna happen after prom.
Just go expecting to have a fun time with your friends.
(upbeat music)