A Blind Date to Prom

            In my high school years I dated a guy who had a great mom and two wonderful sisters. Since I have no sisters I latched on to them and never have let go. It is now twenty-two years later and I still haven’t let go of them. One of them was the maid of honor when I got married the first time (not to her brother) and although we rarely see each other there is still so much love there.

            Back when I was dating their brother there was a situation that arose that really torked us, the sisters, their mother, and me, off. The younger sister, Wendee, was getting ready for her Senior prom when she found out that her date had decided to be a jerk and not escort her. I remember showing up at her mother’s house and her mother was doing her hair and telling her that she could go alone and it would be fine. Wendee did not agree. Her older and very protective sister, Necole, showed up a little after I did and we rallied. This had to have a fix. We began to brain-storm. Wendee was just going to skip her prom but her sister, mom and I were not down with her not going. She looked beautiful and her dress was dazzling, I had gone with her to shop for it and it would be a true disaster if no one saw her in it.

Prom was in a few hours and everyone had a date…except my younger brother who went to a different high school. I called him and asked if he had any plans, he said he did not. I asked if he wanted to go to prom with my boyfriend’s sister, who he had never met, and explained what had happened to her. He did mention to me that he did not have a tuxedo just lying around but Necole, Diane (the mother in this story) and I were way ahead of him. We all jumped in Diane’s car and went to fetch his tux. We knew where the now-replaced prom date had ordered his tux from so we pooled our money and went to pick it up. My brother was just about the same size as the other guy so this was working out beautifully. We got the tux, jumped back in the car, and raced back to the house to wait on my brother to arrive, meet the lovely girl he was taking to prom, and get dressed. They even had enough time to keep their dinner reservations with her friends and their dates before heading off to the dance.

Never underestimate the power of resourceful and really angry women because they truly can find a way to make anything happen, even conjure a (better) prom date within hours of the dance.