By Sophie Johnson, Staff Writer
From card tricks to pigs, these promposals will make you chuckle or say “awwww…”
“Illway ouyay ogay otay romray ithway emay?” This means will you go to prom with me in Pig Latin. Junior Leslie Jennings asked junior Braxton Hughes to prom with some pigs and a little creativity.
“Braxton speaks Pig Latin and he is very fluent in it, so I was thinking, ‘I wanna ask him to prom in Pig Latin, but I wanna add more to that,” Jennings said. “So I DM’d Ethan Smith to ask if I could come to his house to use his pigs.”
This is only the beginning of the great promposal story. Hughes was in for something quite nerve racking.
“She came to my house and blindfolded me, then she put me in the car and drove,” Hughes said. “When we hit the bridge I started to get scared because it was April Fools the day she asked me. We finally got there and I could hear goats and I was really confused. When I took the blindfold off, I didn’t know what the sign said at first. I finally figured it out and said yes.”
Sophomore Stanton Dodson had a very different approach to his promposal. He used a card trick to ask junior Emma Bancroft. “Intriguing” is how Bancroft described the card trick.
“It was like a magic trick where I said ‘pick a card’ and then eventually she had a couple cards in her hand and I knocked them all out except for one: It was the queen of hearts and it said ‘Prom?’ on it,” Dodson explained.
Covering someone’s car with 400 feet of foil sounds like a cruel prank, but it’s also a punny way to prompose. Junior Kira Foster asked junior Mast Lige in a very creative way.
“I saw it on Pinterest under car pranks and then I came up with the slogan myself,” Foster said. “Savannah Wallace, Hannah Montgomery, Casey Bouker and I went to Mast’s house while he wasn’t there and tin-foiled his big passenger van. I had a sign that said, ‘I ain’t foilin’ around, Prom?’ ”
Freshmen Gray Tillett is an avid tennis player, which senior Ethan Smith used to his advantage.
“At the end of gym class, Mr. (Billy) Folkes told me to go outside and get the tennis rackets,” Tillett explained. “So I went outside and (Smith) was out there holding a poster that said, ‘Gray, will you make a racket with me at prom?’ There were also tennis balls in the fence that spelled out prom. I was not expecting it.”
Just like her sister, Courtney Tillett got asked at the tennis courts as well.
“Hunter Snyder came to the tennis court with a poster that had different clues on it. In the end, the answers said ‘Will you got to prom with me?’ I was really surprised,” Courtney said.
These are only a few of the promposal stories from First Flight, which celebrates Prom from 8 to 11:30 Saturday night (April 22).
Sophomore Sophie Johnson can be reached at [email protected].
