Overpriced dresses, fancy nails and unhappy guys only means one thing: prom season. Every year young girls waste their time, effort and money on insignificant proms. Girls get way too excited and spend way too much money for just one night. Prom night is full of overpriced dresses, boring pictures and corny DJ’s. Girls get so excited over nothing.

They will buy a dress for $200 and wear it for only one night. Half the reason for buying the dress is probably just so they can describe how it looks to all of their friends.

Have you ever heard girls talk about their dresses? They explain every detail with each other like they are a witness giving the police a description on a suspect they’ve seen.

After all of the time girls spend building up the prom, they make it seem like their wedding day. By the time pictures come around, girls have glued a permanent smile to their face. I wouldn’t be surprised if they practiced at home for their precious pictures before the dance.

God forbid it rains on prom night. They would work day and night to figure out where to hold their coveted photo session. Hell would freeze over before they would go to the prom without taking pictures.

If you still don’t understand what girls endure to prepare for the prom think of it like this; the prom to girls is the Superbowl to us guys. So that would make pictures the pre game show. It’s the one thing they have that comes around once a year that they can get all worked up for.

“It gives us high school memories and gives us something to look forward to because we don’t always get to dress up like that,” explained junior Carolyn McCarty. I have to admit, McCarty has some good points, but prom still does not deserve all of the commotion it brings. With finding a date, getting a dress/tuxedo, and transportation, it just does not seem worth all of the effort, time and money in the end.

Junior Eric Bogas tried to understand the hysteria surrounding the prom and why girls go crazy over one night of dinner and dancing. “I’m as enthused as the next guy regarding proms, but it's nice for girls to have their cake and eat it too for once.”

When the smoke clears after the dance, the only thing girls have to show for it is a useless overpriced prom dress, and 10 stacks of pictures that all tend to look the same. They will complain about how fat they looked in their dress and how flat their hair got by the end of the night. Will they ever be pleased?

I hope that one day, I will be blessed with the ability to understand women.

Maybe then I will discover the young female's manic obsession with the prom.