Did you ask?

I really don't know if there is a way to write significant amounts of anything about people and avoid hitting on the subject of relationships. But I don't know if I really want to go into it too much right now. I think a good place to start is with something that is current at our school: homecoming. It such a different general feeling than during the rest of the year. Everyone is pairing up with the opposite sex and grouping up with other "couples". The hot topic nearly every day is who is going with who, how Joe asked Jill, etc.



One item that a few of my friends have expressed interest in is the fact that their girlfriends still expect them to ask them to the dance. Yes, a man's girlfriend, for some unknown reason, still expects him to ask her to an event that they both know they are going to attend together. It's not like he's going to ask or go with someone else, yet he must put flowers in her car, or surprise her at a cross-country meet with a sign (props to N.N. for that idea, although unused. Also, no I do not have a girlfriend). Is there some romantic gene that is only present in the female gender that possesses them to desire this confirmation of a partnership? I don't know if I'm alone, but I think it would just be a waste of time and money creating a special way to ask the person you already know you're going with. I really don't have much else to say on this point; it's just too odd.