How do you casually ask a guy friend to a school dance?

Tell them you really want to go, then ask them if they thought about going, and suggest that you can go together.

I would advice you to tell them that you think they would be someone fun to go dancing with, and that you think you two should go together, and perhaps lookout for ‘potentials’ for each other while you are both there. (you can skip the last part, though it would probably be something i would mention if I were in this situation, just to make sure they understood it was JUST AS FRIENDS).

good luck and gave fun!

Sorry for the off topic-ness of this but,
Did anyone else have to look up ‘Sadie Hawkins dance’? I got the jist from the question, but I have never heard that before. There’s a new wrinkle on my brain.

I have never been to a Sadie Hawkins dance, nor have there ever been any in my middle school or high school days, I think I heard the term on Saved by the Bell, or another similar show. Otherwise, I probably would have been googling.

I would be like, hey have you ever heard of a sadie hawkins dance? and then maybe explain it, and maybe before you explain all that say something like, hey first I don’t want you to get the wrong idea about this. Now you know how awkward it is for us to have to ask you guys out all the time! woot

@milla: We called them ‘turnabout’. But seeing as I went to an all-girls high school, pretty much every dance we had was a ‘Sadie Hawkins’/‘Turnabout’. Go figure.

As for the question, I assume you an he are fairly good friends. So the next time you’re hanging out, just say something like “You know, Vladimir, I would love to go to that dance, but I don’t really think I would have fun without you. You want to go together?”
I think anyway you say it, some people may think you have higher intentions than “just as friends”, but don’t sweat it. If he asks you something like, “What? As a date?” , then you can clarify.

I once asked my guy friend to go star gazing on Valentine’s Day. It was absolutely as friends (we both had significant others), but he was the only person who would appreciate it as much as I. It was a blast, and there was no missed communication.

Sadie Hawkins was a character in Al Capp’s cartoon strip “Li’l Abner.” It started out as a foot race for “the homeliest girls in the hills” to catch a husband and then evolved into the dance. It’s designed to make asking a guy easy.

(Al Capp had only one leg and was a serious womanizer.)

Les was right but to make it even easier enlist a couple in your group. Bill and Jane are going to the SH dance. They said if we came along it would be a lot of fun. Want to?

Do you still dress up like hillbillies for Sadie Hawkins, or is that not politically correct?

haha thanks everyone, but no, @alfreda, I don’t think we’re meant to dress up as anything! Haha

You haven’t lived until you’ve worn this

@Alfreda: Have you been peeking in my high school year book?

I just remember the Daisy Duke short-shorts, and a midriff shirt in red gingham. I would never let my daughter walk out of the house like that! lol