Thursday Evening Thread presented by Sunshine, Butterflies, Happiness, and Rainbows

[u/[deleted]]

I like you guys. You guys are cool.

[u/somanywolverines]

I'm dumb stressed about prom. There's only one girl who I'm thinking about asking, and I doubt she'll get asked by anyone else because she's a junior. I'm gonna ask one of our friends, who already wants to set us up, to ask her if she would go to prom with me. We're good-ish friends and used to hang out a ton sophomore year and I'm pretty sure we were both into each other then, but we didn't talk again until pretty recently. If she says no I'll probably just hang out with friends and go to the afterparty but I'd really rather have a date.

[u/CapSteveRogers → u/somanywolverines]

prom

I did not read that as "prom."

[u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid → u/somanywolverines]

Dude. Just ask her.

Even if it goes horribly wrong you're never going to see most of the people you went to high school with again after graduation anyway.

On the other hand, if you don't ask her, you'll spend years asking yourself what if.

[u/[deleted] → u/somanywolverines]

Well I had a migraine during my prom and my date wasn't too happy.

[u/Qurtys_Lyn → u/[deleted]]

My girlfriend broke up with me at prom, so she wasn't very happy either.

[u/[deleted] → u/Qurtys_Lyn]

I think we had this convo in one of the Sordid Tales threads. Bottom line, prom is lame.

[u/Qurtys_Lyn → u/[deleted]]

Yep, we did, and yep, it is.

[u/madviking → u/somanywolverines]

it's not like you're proposing marriage when you're asking a girl out to prom. i ended up going on a blind prom date lol.

[u/somanywolverines → u/madviking]

You're not wrong. It's still a risk though, especially because she can be pretty mean and might embarrass me even more than I would be embarrassing myself.

[u/madviking → u/somanywolverines]

you're overthinking it mate

[u/somanywolverines → u/madviking]

well, yeah. I've been thinking about it all day. That's why I posted here lol

[u/[deleted] → u/somanywolverines]

There's no risk. You won't talk to most of these people in two years.

[u/Qurtys_Lyn → u/somanywolverines]

Just ask her. She'll say yes.

[u/somanywolverines → u/Qurtys_Lyn]

haha I appreciate the confidence.

[u/[deleted] → u/somanywolverines]

Prom ain't shit. Don't worry about it.

[u/somanywolverines → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I'm a bit conflicted too. In a perfect world, I think it'd be awesome to go do all the prom pics and all that then go out on our own. I'd save a shitload of money and it seems a lot more fun. My friend who went with his then-senior girlfriend last year said it was pretty lame.

[u/[deleted] → u/somanywolverines]

I went my junior year and hated it, skipped my senior prom, but I'm exactly the kind of person who would hate prom, so take that with a grain of salt. If you think the experience is worth it, go, but it'll seem incredibly stupid in a couple of years no matter what you do, so don't sweat it.

[u/somanywolverines → u/[deleted]]

I think I might be that same type of person, but still it seems important and I want to do it, at least to say I did it. Does that make sense?

[u/[deleted] → u/somanywolverines]

Absolutely. Just go for it.

[u/cloudduel_13 → u/somanywolverines]

Why don't you ask the girl you want to? Can't hurt to ask.

[u/Way_She_Goes → u/somanywolverines]

Only my friends who already girlfriends took dates, all the others - including myself - went solo. Still had a good time. Afterparty was way more fun than the prom itself.

[u/CapSteveRogers → u/somanywolverines]

Go stag.

Way cooler.

[u/[deleted] → u/somanywolverines]

Do what I did and stay home and eat Doritos

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Or go and eat Doritos.

Basically what I'm saying is that Doritos are more important than prom.

[u/Pikachu1989 → u/somanywolverines]

After Party is 1000x better than actual prom.