What's your worst formal experience?

[lifesaver]

I am sure there is a thread on this, but I didnt know to look up humilliation or misery, so I figure since both happeend to me, Id start tthe thread again to allow all of you a good laugh at my experience.

My chapters formal was this weekend. The event was nice, but it was really uncomfortable because of the people there.

I couldn’t find a date last minute, so I had to go stag.

First person I see - Lynn. We used to be close. She thinks I owe her $50. I haven’t seen her in a year since she went nuts. Really. Firs tthing she does is himt me up for $50. What is that?

Next person…. Michelle. Yeah, I haven’t talked to her in about a year, and is mortal enemies with EVERY person I am friends with outside of the chapter. Ended up sitting with her and her date.

Oh yeah, and an ex booty call was there.

So then I go in to sit down, and was gonna sit with Joseph and Summer, but I got to the table and it was like a bad game of musical chairs and the music stopped…everyone sat, almost instantly, and there were no chairs…so I had to find another table. Soooooo, I move over to another table, where Michelle insisted I sit next to her. GREAT.

Wade shows up with his date to sit with us. Cool. Will is part Japanese, and his family is always hosting exchange students. So after I was introduced to his date, Sachiko, and understood her English was limited, I ASSUMED she was an exchange student (I should know to never assume.) So I also figure she is like many of the other exchange students Wills family has hosted, pretty shy.

Well, you all can imagine my shock when she looks across the table, 4 people over and asks me, ten minutes after we first met and are all eating our salads is, "So, do you shave your balls?"

WHA?????

I swore there was no way I could have heard what she said.

But I did hear correctly.

She asked me again if my balls were shaved.

After I quit choking on the piece of lettuce I was eating, I think I regained my composure enough to ask her again what she said, then answer her, that well, I have never shaved my testicles, nor have I ever allowed anyone to shave my testicles. I told here that I thin the garden to speak, but no steel blade is coming near my fellas.

Hookah was like a dog with a bone, and wouldn’t let it go. Every ten minutes she'd ask me, "So you might like the shave testicle." Everyone, including her date was obviously uncomfortable with it and it capped the evening perfectly as the single most uncomfortable formal of my life.

Anyone else wanna share a story so I dont feel like a tool?

[honeychile]

My senior year, I decided to wear a feminine dress as opposed to the slinky ones I had worn in the past. The day before the formal, a piece of metal somehow worked under my contact and ripped up my cornea, so... I had to wear an eye patch!

Of course, this was also the formal where I won what is now the Sister of the Year Award. I have no memory of 99% of the evening from the pain medication, with the slight exception of calling my daddy to come get me, and him asking my date if he had been a gentleman with me! Poor guy!

Needless to say, I hunted down and destroyed every picture of me in the half Princess, half Pirate look that night...

[OUlioness01]

at my school we have several huge block parties a year. somehow our formal ended up being scheduled for the same night as one of the bigger ones. the problem was, half our boyfriends/dates belonged to a fraternity that had a couple of brothers living on that street, and they all wanted to go. my date and one of my sister's dates came with us to the formal, but they just sat there refusing to dance of have any fun. they ended up trying to walk home, and our president (who was my sister's big, although she was a phi and hadn't found out yet) sat the boys down and had a little talk with them. meanwhile me and my sister spent 45 minutes in the bathroom, first trying to stop her crying, and then 6 of us sat in there bashing out dates and trying to figure out why they had said they would come in the first place if all they had wanted to do was go to that block party.

[Tom Earp]

ACK ACK Youse the Greatest!

HoneyChile I wold love to see a pix of that, you had to be the sexiest Lady There!

Worst experience: WOW!

Going to Founders Day Banquet and my new ex wife was at the head table with the Key Note Speaker one of my Brothers!

Had a cordon of Brothers around me thinking I was going to get upset!

Hell I was Married to her for 20 years and it was over! I was upset That My Brother was being used by her!

Brothers were closer back then than marriage partners!

[honeychile]

Originally posted by Tom Earp
ACK ACK Youse the Greatest!

HoneyChile I wold love to see a pix of that, you had to be the sexiest Lady There!

Oh, it was wonderful! A shimmery pink dress with a black eye patch! I just needed a parrot on my shoulder!

Brothers were closer back then than marriage partners!

Been there, too! Only none of my sorority sisters would be dumb enough to date my ex (& it was for a much shorter time). My sisters were there for me much more than my ex ever was!

honeychile

[KappaTarzan]

worst formal ever, huh?? well here we go..

i tried on a few dresses and bought one- it w asn't the one i thought it was. didn't like it much.

i went witha guy i liked alot. one of my sisters ending up sleeping with him at the end of the night.

all of the active sisters got reprimanded for going back to their rooms before the dancing ended. we literally just went to change adn came back 15 min later. GRR

i drank myself into oblivian and started crying in the middle of the party room because my aforementioned date went home after sleeping around.

i lost my favorite shoes in the hotel

yeaaa bad night

[breathesgelatin]

This was our semi-formal, so I hope that still counts...

It was last spring and I was sober driving. Normally I enjoy sober driving because you get to talk to all the sisters and it's fun. WELL. Everything was going as planned...

Then two of my sisters boyfriends get mad and just LEAVE. The two girls are just sobbing of course and I have to drive them all over town, as they feed off each other and insult their boyfriends. It all worked out in the end but it was very frustrating for a while.. I don't know if this is funny to anyone else... It was crazy at the time though!

[Kevlar281]

Originally posted by honeychile
Needless to say, I hunted down and destroyed every picture of me in the half Princess, half Pirate look that night...

So how many “Arrrrrrr prepare to be boarded matey!” pickup lines did you have to deal with?

[ZTAngel]

I would have to say my boyfriend's formal about two years ago. My now ex-best friend went to the formal with her boyfriend (he's in the same fraternity as my boyfriend). She got all mad at her boyfriend because he was talking with one of his brothers. The problem is that my ex-best friend had hooked up with this guy that her boyfriend was talking to and a bunch of bad things had happened. I don't know who was right in the situation. I mean, it was one of his brothers but, then again, the guy did screw over my friend but she made an absolute SCENE out of it. She locked herself in the woman's bathroom and wailed, "I HATE MY BOYFRIEND! WHAT A JERK!" Then, she walked back in the room where formal was taking place and started wailing in there. She ruined my good time with my boyfriend because every time she had an emotional breakdown, she'd run off to the bathroom and drag me along.

[tiramasu]

havent' been to a formal yet but i'm looking forward to my first one this spring.
TIRAMASU
Delta Phi Mu

[ChiOJenn78]

I'm at my ex's spring formal a couple of years ago, and everyone's running around drunk and doing their own thing. I decide that I'm hungry, and since I can't drive, or find my ex(he was in the pool naked with some of the other people) , I enlist Mr. ChiOJenn-who wasn't my Mr. at the time-to drive me to go find something to eat. He opens my door, I get into the car, and see his Dr. Pepper bottle in his console, and decide I want some. So, I take a big swig, swallow.....and it wasn't Dr. Pepper. Mr. ChiOJenn used to dip back in the day, and appearantly, this bottle was his spit bottle!!! I was about to die-I can't even find the words to explain how disgusting it was-but I am too embarased to tell Mr. what happened when he gets in the car. So, we're driving around and he's asking me what I want to eat, and I'm getting more and more nauseous until I finally make him pull over. I open up the car door, and throw up all over the sidewalk. It was lovely.....

I told him what really happened about 3 years later one day, when we were listening to Robert Earl Keen play "Copenhagen" (all the TX people will understand).

[CarolinaDG]

I have two, one from this year, one from my freshman year...

This year, I was seeing a Sigma Chi when semi-formal came around. I was so excited, because not only was it the first time that I actually had a good date, but one of his other brothers was invited and I ended up inviting another one of his brothers as a blind date for someone else. We had this great night planned, dinner at the Melting Pot, etc... Well, we get to dinner, and knowing we had to catch the bus, we didn't eat dessert, that we had already pre-paid for (dinner was $100/couple!) so that we could get back in time for the bus. Well, we ran back to the Sig hall to grab some of our stuff, and as we're leaving I get this call... the bus hit a tree and is stuck in mud, WITH our sisters on it! (We took the same bus, two trips) Well, they say that it's going to be another 30 minutes at least until they can send another bus, so since it was raining and cold and we all had sleeveless dresses, we went back to the Sigma Chi hall to wait for the bus, and told people to call us when the bus came. Well, they did, and as soon as they called, we ran the 100 feet to where the bus was waiting... just in time to see it drive off! Needless to say, we didn't make it to semi-formal (which was on a boat). We ended up having a pretty good time, but I still hated that we spent all that money for nothing.

The second experience is at a fraternity's formal. Down here formal's are weekend-long with fraternities, and one of my friends was dating a guy from this one fraternity (I won't tell which one to protect the innocent ) and set me up with this guy. Well, I had just broken up with my other fraternity boyfriend, so wasn't really up for dating, but I went anyway as long as the guy was cool. Well, I was told this about a year later, but this guy happened to be the one guy that noone can figure out how he got a bid (including the brothers) and the president actually said, "He doesn't fit in with us." I had a miserable weekend, couldn't stand the guy, and even though I had a fun time with the rest of the people there, some of the guys were mad that I didn't end up dating this guy... which doesn't make sense factoring in the "he doesn't fit in with us" comment. Anyway... my advice to all SC GC'ers... don't go on beach/mountain weekend with a blind date!!!! ALWAYS meet the guy first... because you're stuck with them for three days whether you like them or not!

[honeychile]

Originally posted by Kevlar281

So how many “Arrrrrrr prepare to be boarded matey!” pickup lines did you have to deal with?

Must have been several (remember, pain meds!) - there were pictures of me *ahem* totally enjoying myself AND crying! That's why the search & destroy mission...

honeychile

[Harmony]

Wow! Some of you have had TERRIBLE experiences (funny as some of them might be). My worst wasn't quite so bad. It was my semi-formal while I was pledging so I definitely wanted someone I was confertable with and someone who would impress my new sisters . I didn't really know who to take, so I called my best friend from home to come and go with me (it was a guy). I told him to leave around 1 PM to travel up. I figured he'd leave late, so I assumed he's get there by 6/6:30. It would give us time to get dinner, get dressed and then start hitting the pre-parties. Well......he left even later that I had assumed and THEN got stuck in major road construction. He ended up getting to me 20 minutes after the bus had left so we had to get dressed and drive over. It ended up being a great time, probably because we were sober, but everyone else was sloshed. It was kinda like the sweet 16 of you Irish friend with tons of relatives drunk out of their minds singing old pub songs and trying to dance the jig. As the time I was furious, but now, hey, whatev!

[Blaire]

Okay, this is not only my worst formal story, but my worst life experience to date as well.

When I first got to college, I started dating this awesome guy who also happened to be in a fraternity. We had been dating for about 5 months when my very first sorority formal EVER came around. I got an awesome dress, my hair done, the works. He picked me up with a dozen pink roses with the thorns cut off (our flower is the Pink Kilarny Rose that grows without thorns...so it was a pretty nice gesture.) We get to the formal...it was beautiful. We eat and then proceed to the dance hall. We are slow dancing to the first slow song when I look up...he has a really weird look on his face. When I ask what is wrong, he replies, "we need to talk". I say "If this conversation ends in let's just be friends, I'm gonna kick your ass." He says, "We need to leave then." That's right, I got dumped. But hey I'm not bitter or anything! However, that is the night I became really close with some of my sisters b/c they helped me out so much. So alls well that ends well, I suppose.

Blaire