Could friends just decide to buy tickets together so it wasn't as expensive? I think our tickets were like $20 a piece, but we didn't get dinner. That was just entrance and then you got a commemorative glass. But $75 isn't too bad for two dinners, and two souvenirs. If you just bought the tickets together, did you have to go as though it was a date? How many people were in your class? How did they serve dinner to everyone at prom? We always went out to dinner before the prom. A lot of kids drove into Gillette for dinner because we only had one restaurant in our town and it wasn't the best. My junior year, my mom made a surf and turf dinner for my brother and I and our dates so we didn't have to spend money on a restaurant. My senior year, I didn't have a date until two days before, so she didn't have time to plan it, so we just went to dinner in town. That was the first place we encountered someone who commented about how he must have been really desperate to go to our prom if he was willing to come with me. But it wasn't anyone going to prom. It was an alumnus who happened to be going in to dinner just as we were leaving. Then when we got to the school and parked, we were walking across the parking lot when someone else shouted to him asking him what he was doing with ME and said he'd rather not go at all. That guy died of cancer a couple of years ago, but I don't know where the one who was at the restaurant is now... He was someone who didn't have a very bright future to look forward to, though, and I doubt he ever left our hometown. I'm sure he didn't get into college, which was why he was there even though he had already graduated. But my parents were divorced, we were poor, my dad didn't work for the mines (he worked AT the mine as a security guard, but they were contracted from a different company and not paid well), and I was a "prude" and a "nerd". I got good grades and didn't party so I didn't fit in. This is why I didn't go back for reunions. I never fit in back then and I don't care if I ever see most of them again. As far as I know, I'm the only one who actually graduated from college. Most of them flunked out or dropped out within a year or two if they even went to college. None of them did much with their lives and most are still back in our hometown working at the coal mines driving truck. Nothing wrong with that, but it's also not what most of them planned and they are only there because they failed at what they wanted to do and the mines require no education or anything, so it does say something about them that that's all they can do. If the mines ever shut down, they have no way to support themselves. So... Karma?