I’m going to prom and all I got was this stupid t-shirt.

Prom weekend! My opinion on the whole event hasn’t really changed, but I did notice an inordinate amount of homemade, prom themed t-shirts by the students. That’s the thing about originality in high school. It’s not cool until everyone is doing it. I guess the originality would lie in the messages on the shirts. I’ll let you be the judge with this little sampling. Let’s see, there was:

“Prom Shirt”
“Prom’s the Shirt.”
“Prom Slut”
“Da Prom Bomb”
“Prom”
“Need a Date?”
“God Bless the Bikini” (“Prom 2007” on back)

Okay, there were probably some winners out there, but I was just overwhelmed by the sea of shirts. It was just like some kind of jack-a-ninny, Where’s Waldo nightmare. The good news is that I can now gauge my retirement. When the trend becomes prom thongs, then I’ll know it’s time to get out.