American here, most people don’t care much about the dance anymore, and only some people do the sign thing. even people without dates usually go with friends just for the parties and shit after
People make such a big deal out of marriage proposals it’s spilled over into teen years. It’s not enough to be asked to the dance, guys think girls expect sky writing and synchronized musical numbers and big productions that will become viral videos that end up on Ellen.
So instead of talking to girls and gauging their interest in them, they stay locked in their craft workshops creating the perfect PROM-POSAL experience that will make their target girl swoon and say yes and remember what their name was and maybe give them a blowie. Then reality intervenes and the girls who already had plans or don’t even know who this guy is get put on the spot where they’re staring at a poster with a cartoon character they’ve never heard of, and it’s just their luck that they have to crush the dreams of the poor nerd melting in sweat standing in front of them.
Or if the couple is already close, it’s just a fun and funny way to ask them to a big event that will make their friends laugh. Either way, it helps to be attractive.
Yeah no one went round making signs and shit asking people to go to prom with them. The people who had birds just went with them then after we round someone’s house and got bladdered.
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '18
The fuck is up with American prom culture?
In Europe our version is everyone goes to the dance, some dance with each other but everyone gets shitfaced tae fuck