She Drove All Her Friends To Prom And Didn’t Want To Leave Early, So They Had To Pay For A Ride Home
A 17-year-old girl had her prom a few weeks back, and she organized to go along with Helen and Kara, who are her best friends.
A couple of days prior to prom, Kara wanted to know if she could also bring her friend named Wendy, who is homeschooled.
Even though she had never met Wendy before, she didn’t see a problem with adding another person to their group, and she said that Kara could invite Wendy along too.
Out of all of her friends, she is the only person with a car, so she offered to drive everyone over to a hotel where their prom was being held, and she also offered to give the girls a ride back home too.
“I picked everyone up, we all got ready at my house, I met Wendy for the first time, and it went great,” she explained.
“Our school does dinner and a dance for prom, so our group was at the same table. It was fine for the first half-hour but then Wendy started to seem really tired.”
“Kara asked her if she was okay and Wendy whispered something in her ear. Kara then asked to talk to me privately. I said yes and walked off to the side with her.”
As she spoke to Kara alone, Kara confessed that Wendy has a disorder called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and Wendy frequently gets exhausted.
According to John Hopkins Medicine, “POTS is a form of dysautonomia — a disorder of the autonomic nervous system.”
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“This branch of the nervous system regulates functions we don’t consciously control, such as heart rate, blood pressure, sweating and body temperature. The key characteristics of POTS are the specific symptoms and the exaggerated increase in heart rate when standing.”
So Kara then mentioned that she figured Wendy would have been alright with spending 4 hours at their prom, but she was wrong.
Wendy was feeling so awful that even though they all had only been there for about a half-hour, Wendy was ready to go home.
Kara expected her to leave prom early and drive them all back, and Kara mainly wanted her to do this so that Wendy would not feel left out of the rest of their evening.
“I was upset and asked her why she hadn’t told me this could happen, but she brushed it off and said that she didn’t want to reveal Wendy’s medical history to someone who hardly knew her and that she didn’t think it would be a problem,” she said.
“But now that Wendy wanted to leave, we all needed to leave in order to support her. I said that I felt bad for Wendy (which I do) and that it wasn’t her fault she had POTS, but that I wanted to stay.”
She told Kara she and Wendy were free to go, but she was not going to be leaving prom so early after arriving.
Even if she had offered to give them all a ride home early, it would take around an hour to do that, and prom was only 4 hours long, so she would be missing out on a lot.
If Kara had owned up to Wendy having POTS prior to prom, she also would have been more agreeable perhaps to giving them a ride back, but she was upset Kara kept that information from her.
Kara became furious with her for not giving in and taking them home, and their only option back at that point was to call an Uber.
She walked off as Kara called her a “terrible friend” and Kara and Wendy left not long after that in the Uber.
While her other best friend Helen thinks that she did nothing wrong on prom night, Kara has not said a single word to her since.
Do you think she should have left prom early to give Kara and Wendy a ride home?
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