What's said at the post prom party, stays at the post prom party

This morning I spent 5 hours at a "post-prom" party at Flower Mound High School. It was pretty sharp, too: There were some "bounce house" type games, lots of charicature artists, live bands, and-get this-a full-blown casino.

Apparently, there's some company that has authentic blackjack tables and craps tables and poker tables and slot machines and roulette wheels. They had a casino working for about 4 hours in which teens could try to win chips to redeem for raffle tickets that they could enter for drawings for prizes given away every half-hour or so. I dealt blackjack for the whole time, watching fake fortunes be won or lost (I dealt a hand of blackjack with one kid betting 200,000 chips, and he hit a blackjack and you would've thought he won real money by the table's reaction).

Things like dorm refrigerators, electric guitars, televisions, laptops, and things like that.

We never did anything cool like that after prom. We all just went to some party where there was a keg or two, left because we didn't really know anybody, drove around and watched the sun rise over Hoover's Star Lake with our dates.

Which, now that I think about it, is probably why people organize things like this.