# Stupid ways to ask your GF to Homecoming. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2002, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-ways-to-ask-your-gf-to-homecoming/124306 "2002-08-17T05:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-ways-to-ask-your-gf-to-homecoming/124306/1 "2002-08-17T05:36:17Z")
So, Homecoming is in a month or so, and I have to come up with one of those stupid-cute-annoying-expensive-thoughtful-thoughtless ways to ask a girl to Homecoming. I need an impersonal mechanism to display my impersonal interest in her affections at a socially mandated, materialistic, annoying cultural formaility. Okay, so I’m going overboard here, and I don’t really hate Homecoming that much, but it’s been a little while since I’ve had an excuse to buy her flowers, so I want to find some annoyingly cute way to ask her to Homecoming. Allow me to lay out a few basic groundrules: 1. Less than $30, total. 2. Shows some obvious effort. 3. ISN"T IN PUBLIC! Allow me to elaborate on number three: It can be in front of some of her close friends, and I don’t mind asking her out in front of her friends in person, I just don’t want it to be one of those things where she walks into her classroom, etc. It’s like a PDA, and runs the gammut from annoying to disgusting. So didpense with the stereotypical, pointless, pedestrian ways to ask my girl friend to Homecoming. Thanks, Elliot ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-ways-to-ask-your-gf-to-homecoming/124306/2 "2002-08-17T06:26:24Z")
I once saw some guy hot-glue a bunch of Altoids to the lid of an Altoids tin, then he wrote “WILL YOU GO TO PROM WITH ME?” with a sharpie, one letter on each Altoid. He produced the Altoids tin at lunch and asked his girlfriend if she wanted one. That was pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@Bad\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_Hat)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-ways-to-ask-your-gf-to-homecoming/124306/3 "2002-08-17T07:37:50Z")
saw a guy convince a parking lot cop to pull over his GF fora fake parking violation, then give her a ticket with the invitation on it. that might be too public for ya though. always liked that one. i usually just asked Chris ---
**Author:** ![EggNogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@EggNogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EggNogg)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-ways-to-ask-your-gf-to-homecoming/124306/4 "2002-08-17T10:42:04Z")
Tranquilizer darts and an elephant gun. No need for words. egg 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-ways-to-ask-your-gf-to-homecoming/124306/5 "2002-08-17T11:42:26Z")
The way I did it… back in High School, I was in the habit of making Top Ten lists. Well, about two weeks before Homecoming, I wrote out a “Top Ten Reasons Why SPOOFE Doesn’t Want To Go To Homecoming”. I read this aloud to some friends, The Girl In Question included. There was much amusement. A few days later, I wrote “Top Ten Reasons Why SPOOFE _Does_ Want To Go To Homecoming”. Reason #1 was me asking her. She thought it was very sweet.