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As many of you who've spoken with me know, I'm about as socially aware as /Pol/io and find other people's feelings difficult to register unless I'm beat over the head with them. I mean, it's a helluva lot easier when you can see the other person's face and hear their voice as they say a thing, but in this case, I can't.

If literally no one you know of is going to Homecoming except this one person and mostly strangers, so you'd have no excuse for showing up other than this person, and her friend asks if you'd like to go to Homecoming with them, and you ask "Why?" and they say "Answer my damn question!" and you say "Okay?" and then the other person says you don't actually have to come to homecoming, ("We're good.") WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN AND AM I SUPPOSED TO GO OR NOT!?

#TotallyNotHumbleBragging

"We're good." afterwards implies that there was some sort of "I understand what you mean." (that you don't want to go)

I'd say don't go. High school dances are shit anyways. Prom of senior year is the only one you should go to just for the xp. If you've been to prom in earlier years don't bother unless you really loved it.

Tell your friend "hey, instead of going to prom - want to see a movie or hit the arcade?" which is easily 10x more fun and 100x less expensive. I was asked to homecoming my senior year and I told her all the reasons why it was stupid to go to a dance and instead we should go on a date because all the other teenagers will be at homecoming so we'll have the theater and arcades to ourselves. She agreed and it was several orders of magnitude better than dancing around with friends for a couple hours.

Really boils down to preference and compromise. Some people really want to go to homecoming and shit like their life depends on it.

that was a humble brag if I've ever seen one

This isn't prom, though. This is Homecoming. I could legit show up in my usual hoodie but wear a necktie and pay $5 for free-roam of the schoolgrounds. It's less expensive than movies or arcades, unless you count some of the Comic Book Shops which have video games in sometimes and are free to walk in if you bring your own MTG deck(s)... But she struck me as more of an anime and manga nerd than a gamer/MTG nerd.

IT ISNAE A HUMBLE BRAG!

Is it the homecoming dance in specific, or just the event in general?

That was never clarified, but her friend said I had to wear a silver tie and a tuxedo. I said I'd wear what I usually wear at all times, but wear a shiny tie to make up for it.

That sounds unnecessarily formal. My homecoming is never that formal...

Last dance I went to was formal, but that might've been Sadie's. I'll wear a tie with a hoodie, though, just in case.

Oh, uh, I've never been to a Sadie Hawkins dance...

My school only allows female students to ask male students to that dance, and I don't really want to dance with a friend, so...

It's honestly kind of weird. Not old enough for prom, so I don't know about that, but students of either gender can ask each other out for homecoming. There are no rules in place. And yet, anytime there's a Sadie Hawkins the school actively enforces their stupid rules.

In my professional opinion:

Yes.

I am Tim.

I have never went to homecoming :P

You lucky person you

I've no idea what the fuck homecoming is, but yeah clearly you go to the dance, get drunk and possibly high, and then presumably get with the girl. If you have drink, drugs, mates and a girl, or realistically even two of those things, you're going to have a good time.

Steve, go learn American stuff.

Go teach abstinence, buy a gun and shoot up a school, invade the Middle Easter, jerk off over your flag and then elect Trump or Clinton.

Not necessarily in that order.

Actually, I'll have you know that the Easter Bunny is on good terms.

You god damned leprechaun you.

Nnaaah... She's really too innocent for that shit, I mean, she's flusteredly asked me to a football-holiday dance. I'm pretty sure none of my friends are going other than her, and from the tone I'm not exactly sure if she honestly wanted to go to the dance with me or if her friends were just teasing her because we talk a lot.

Well then, if you think it'd be cool to hang out with her, do that, or abuse substances and go mental. If neither of those sound good, probably best to stay home, or do something else.

I just don't want it to be all weird by showing up if it really was just a joke her friends were pressuring her onto.

Well, unless this girl's a bitch, which she probably isn't from the way you're talking about her, it's not a joke. Sure, she might've been pressured by her friends to invite a guy, but if so that would probably only be because otherwise she'd end up with no one to talk to when all the other girls have guys.

Well, that's mildly adorable. I'll go, then.

Plus, always the chance of a shift and more.

The Irish section of Urban Dictionary was nonspecific and not exactly grammatical, but from what I could glean it still doesn't sound like something she'd end up doing. I mean, yeah, there's a chance, but... Probably not her, and probably not at homecoming.

Apparently it means an open-mouthed kiss in Ireland. In the UK it means... something different.

"Open-mouthed kiss"? I haven't heard something sexual described so boringly since sex ed.

Blame Google, ya dingus. 

Damn it, Steve.

You and your Irish words.

Alright sham, why don't you stop acting the maggot like some fucking cuid counter who has a gaffer without beours or savage feens that are pure fucking decent, and ends up gatting on a bai's Thieves, stealing tinnies, nagans and shoulders? You're just fucking rising like a knacker with a shill the size of a clitty, when I'll be having a rollie on the corner while you're crying in your gammy, manky as fuck ma's box wishing you had the fucking socker to go out and meet some one who's cheaper than fucking Tayto's. Come blough.

Bursting with craic as usual.

I do not understand what you have just said, but I do not like it.

>:(

She sounds nice from what you've described her as. If it really was a joke that her friends were pressuring her into, she could've said no. But she invited you! So hey, it must be not entirely a joke right?

Because you sound like you don't want to, but they don't want to make you feel bad about it?

The sound is probably nerves. Never exactly been in a possibly-moving relationship where the answers weren't definitive.

Back then, it was "I want no part in this because my testosterone doesn't really work and being your boyfriend will not heal the sads for you." Now it's all, "I might like to develop this at some point, but I have no idea what anyone's intentions even are. What the fuck."

Welcome to adulthood kek

My homecoming was free bc immigrant neighborhood kek

Homecoming is a grind fest toppled with electro music and strobe lights that could give a veteran flashbacks of Nam.

I would totally go to "Get Sum, Dem Sum" If they weren't charging 25$ a pop.

I know at least 3 girls who would prefer going to a IMAX movie with loads of candy instead.

That sounds much more interesting than my Homecoming.

Why do people go to dances/homecoming/prom?

And what is homecoming?

You could literally enter these questions into google and recive a better answer than most of us could give.

I assume it's a social thing, and it's the traditional way for shy people like us to start something possibly.

Homecoming is the start of the school football season, I think.