Christmas Banquet is in one month, which means that this week is traditionally when boys begin to ask girls to be their dates to banquet. Boys as BFA ask in such elaborate ways that “asking” has become a noun!
Yesterday one of my cellists walked in beaming. The first words out of his mouth: “I asked a girl!” He was successful in securing his date to banquet.
Today, one of my girls walked in to orchestra with a teddy bear, a bouquet of pink roses, a bar of chocolate, and a paper crane folded out of a piece of staff paper upon which the boy had written music notes AND some Korean phrases. The boy, who happens to be another violinist, is not Korean, but he decided to impress her with a few words he has learned.
These “askings” may set girls up to expect a lot out of guys. What will they do if a marriage proposal later in life is not as creative as a banquet asking? Will they hand back the ring and say, “try again”? And what about these guys? Some of them seem to use their creativity to the extreme now; will they be able to think of anything better for a proposal? Why not save the “best idea ever” for someone even more special than a banquet date?
