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Psst that was probably it.

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Nah, I ask people what they are doing for something (the weekend, Christmas, whatever) all the time and I'm not trying to ask them on a date for that event.

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Really onul retentive.

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Is Ronnie still making comics?

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Maybe it’s US only? I dunno.

In the US, in high school, and increasingly in lower grades, you can pay for a book that you get at the end of the year that has a headshot of every student and teacher, group photos of all the student organization, summaries of the sports teams’ seasons, nostalgic musings, and various other miscellany. In high school, one of the student organizations is the yearbook staff.

Traditionally, you will all spend some time signing the inside covers of your classmates’ books with inside jokes, inspiring messages, etc. In the long ago, people who kinda liked you might even put their phone number in it.

It used to be a thing in colleges and universities as well, and maybe so it’s at some, but it’s no longer a traditional part of the experience, probably due to being associated so closely with high school.

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See my friend peer pressured me to write, to date, one of the cringiest and worst things I have ever said/written to someone in their yearbook. It's been nearly 20 years and I still can't bear to deal with it. I'm so embarrassed by it I don't even retell the story to my friends (or even my therapist). It keeps me up at night.

So no, please no one ever read your yearbook ever. Burn them all.

And to the person whose yearbook I ruined with my weird fucking comment, I am truly sorry. You didn't deserve that. I didn't deserve that. I hope you are living your best life.

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Eh, maybe if it's a stranger, but if I'm ever going to see this person again, I'm not going to take that chance unless she's waving me in with those airport lightsabers.

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I have one from 1993 in the UK, but I have no idea whether that was a weird exception or if other colleges did it.

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UK here, 'year of 2022'. My school which is bulldozed now to make way for a trendy 'academy', was pushing the America style graduation in year 11 (non UK context - the last year of high school. We usually didn't "graduate' at the end of the final school year, you would just get your certificates and go join the workforce at 16, or attend optional further education)

We had a prom, to which I did not go. It was all very cringey to me. Kids in my school were already throwing house parties and getting drunk. Why would they need a soft-drink fuelled school disco? A lot of my year didn't attend. We also had that school's first ever yearbook. Not sure if it continued.

It's probably more ubiquitous now.

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What if she's just being nice though?

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I've hosted exchange students from Asia and Europe, and it seems to be kinda hit and miss with no real rhyme or reason. Sometimes they're like "oh, yeah, the yearbook, obviously," and other times it's like "the what now? But... Why?"

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Yeah tv lied to me.

I thought I needed to have a bar where all my friends hung out, like in Cheers/Simpsons. Wrong.

I thought I needed a group of friends and we'd all take turns hooking up like Friends/Seinfeld. Wrong.

I thought having a wacky family would be great like Malcolm in the Middle/Family Matters... Okay this kinda worked out.

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Roll tide?

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yeah guys always get the wrong idea, after all /s

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Tbf, asking if someone has plans and then leaving it at that is barely asking someone out since, well, you didn't at that point...