• Question: Did you ask or did someone ask you to prom?

    Asked by followtheyellowbrickroad to Meeks, Pete, Stephen, Steve, Tom on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Steve Roser answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      We never had proms when I was a lad, I consider it a nasty idea nicked from American teen movies. We had school discos and you got to snog behind the bike sheds after a can of weak shandy.

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      Tom Hartley answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I hope I am not getting the wrong end of the stick about this.

      Actually we didn’t have a prom, but we did have a Christmas disco which had a similar function. Like most of the boys I hung round gawping at the girls and thinking about asking them to dance etc. But basically chickened out. If I had my time again I would be more self-confident.

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      Stephen Curry answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Sorry – stupid of me maybe but I don’t understand the question. Can you leave a comment to clarify? Cheers!

      Ah – now that I’ve seen a couple of other answers, I see what you mean. We never really had a ‘prom’ at our school. There was a ‘social’ (i.e. disco) organised in the 6th form but everyone went along to that and there was no pressure to ask a girl out. Thank goodness – ‘cos I was painfully shy.

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      Pete Edwards answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      We never had a prom when I was at school, we had to do with the annual school disco at which I used to stand around looking at the girls all dancing around their handbags and wishing I had the nerve to ask one of them to dance.

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      Marieke Navin answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      We didn’t have proms at my school – I think they are a recent American import

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