Okay, Enough With The "Promposals" Already

YouTube is full of really cool ways that men have proposed marriage to women.  But this is outrageous.  It's the video posting of elaborate "promposals."   Yep. It's boys asking girls to the prom in incredibly elaborate ways, including flash mobs.

Dear teenagers of today:  no.  Sincerely, Jeff.

My own prom history is not a good one.   I asked a gorgeous girl who had a boyfriend in the Navy at the time and I thought she'd at least appreciate a date to the prom.  Nope.

I did go to the prom in my junior year with a pretty girl who agreed to go with me after the guy she REALLY  wanted to escort decided to go stag.   She spent most of the night mooning over him.  I should have known better (but I was 17).

My senior year I took a girl who broke out in fits of uncontrollable laughter when I tried to kiss her.  She told me I was a horrible kisser.  Flash forward thirty years, sister--my wife now begs to differ.

To be fair to these pretty girls, I was very nerdy looking in high school--don't look for a link to a picture, it ain't gonna happen.  So I was lucky to have a date.

But let me tell you the most gut-wrenching experience of the prom season: working up the courage to ask the girl.   If you had a steady girl, sure, it was easy, but I didn't (see above "nerd" reference), so I had to nervously scope out the unattached girls and evaluate who just might say "yes" when I finally mumbled my invitation to the dance.

Today's teenagers definitely don't need the added pressure of trying to think up a "promposal" that will be regarded as the "BESTEVER!" on YouTube.  And...can you imagine the pressure on the girl who wants to say, no?

There is a wonderful aspect to the new social media in regard to prom.  I am Facebook friends with all three ladies mentioned in this post.  They all say nice things about me, and the one who turned me down now says she wishes she had said, "yes."

Maybe she now feels sorry for the adult nerd I've become.