Foo - High School Reunions?

What are your opinions? Did you go to any?

I skipped my 10 year. Now the 20 year is coming up next year and I'm starting to get blurbs. Some of the old high schoolers set up a website and are trying to get everybody signed up so they know who they got correct info for and such.

Did you go? Was it the same old cliques or was everybody adults and beyond that? Did you enjoy seeing the old people from high school or did it feel like a waste of time?

I'm a bit perplexed on whether I should be excited or not....I mean for the most part, these are just kids I didn't like as a teenager. I'm a big boy and can look beyond that now....but for those who have gone, does the general consensus look beyond those days?

I say go, and take me and Cypress as your date.

I went to my 20th, it was actually a great time. I did blow off the 30th this year. Those people are now just too old! :rolleyes:

You should go and d***le them with your sense of humor and wit.

And massive quads.

My mom's 30 year renunion was scheduled on Yom Kippur...they're not changing the date so it looks like they don't want any Jews there. :(

I say go, and take me and Cypress as your date.

I'd take you as my date.....Cypress scares me (he might actually try to talk to me or something).

I wanted to go to my 10 year pretty badly, but it was just a few days after I dislocated my shoulders. I didn't have time to buy affordable plane tickets, and I couldn't drive from Charlotte to Atlanta doped up on Vicodin.

You should go and d***le them with your sense of humor and wit.

And massive quads.

My mom's 30 year renunion was scheduled on Yom Kippur...they're not changing the date so it looks like they don't want any Jews there. :(

Well that sucks donkey balls! :eek:

:mad:

KT, we didn't have a 10th. I was out of the country for the 20th. Looks like there won't be a 25th, unless no one's telling me. So, I'll get back to you if I decide to go to the 30th....

One of my high school teachers told me you should never go to any high school reunion past your tenth, because you'd wind up being depressed about how many of your classmates are now dead. I decided to be cautious and avoid all of them.

I'd take you as my date.....Cypress scares me (he might actually try to talk to me or something).

I on the other hand, will drink on your tab and hit on your old girlfriends.

I've wondered the same, I skipped the 5 year reunion they had, but I wondered about going to the 10 year that should be coming up soon.

I wasn't one of those "i hated high school and glad its over" people, but I wasn't the opposite either. I spent 7 hours a day, 5 days a week for 4 years with those people, plus whatever time I spent playing on sports teams. Even if I was nothing more than an acquaintance, I'd like to see how some of them turned out and where they're life brought them.

Our 20th is this weekend. And I decided a long time back that I probably would not go. I did not not go to the small get together they had for the 5th, and I did not get an invitation to the 10th.

I went to school a few towns away. I started hanging out almost exclusively with people from my own town by the time I was a junior. I merely went to school there, and that probably kept me out of trouble. Sure, I had friends there. But I never kept in contact with many of them after graduation. I ran into one of my classmates about seven years ago and I did not even know who the person was. She called me by name, and I managed to carry on a conversation pretty well with her, but to this day I still have no idea who it was. I guess some would think that is reason enough to go.

Nobody can find me so I don't get notifications. :)

Not bothering with any of mine, 30'th was the last and I didn't leave anything in High School, and all my old HS friends have changed so much, that frankly, I don't like'em much any more.

You are all making me feel a bit better. I was kinda feeling like I was "supposed" to "want" to go and like the people I went to school with. In reality, I didn't like them much in school, I don't really care to "catch up" that much (though its kinda morbidly nice seeing popular kids profiles on the website who have done nothing with their lives). I feel better knowing I'm not mean and nasty for feeling this way....it seems to be the general consensus.

I went to my 20th. It's amazing how many people just don't take care of themselvs. I was amazed at how many looked like they could have been in there 50's instead of late 30's. Fat and bald and un-healthy looking.

i maybe only regularly hang out with 4 or 5 people in my graduating class, 10-15 on an on and off basis....... there is a reason why i didnt hang out with anyone else during that time. I dont understand why i would want to "reunite" with any of them 10 or 20 years later.. i had no interest in their friendship back then, and have no interest in the future.

I don`t know if my HS had a 10th and the 20th should have been last year but I didn`t get any info. At this point my greatest fear would be not recognizing anyone or seeing how old friends have let themselves go. Or maybe seeing and old girlfriend that had a rough life....etc or maybe seeing an old girlfriend that has a great life and wants to remind me what a shmuck I was back in HS.

At this point I just want to remember my classmates as they were and hope everyone is doing ok. I don`t really feel a need to remeniss.

I absolutely hated high school but my disdain was for most of the administration and teachers, not the other kids who were stuck in that hell hole with me. There were about 125 in my class and I was in the same district K-12 so I knew everybody and had grown up with most of them. The last two years of school though, I didn't hang out with people from school. My friends were older than me and high school drop-outs.

The reunions are held the same weekend as the 'Heritage Days' festival and I happened to be in town during the 10 year and ran into several classmates at the beer garden downtown. Two different people asked me when I "got out"? I'd had a bit of legal trouble before I left that town and when people didn't see me around anymore they naturaly assumed I had been sent to prison. For the record, I am not a felon and I've never spent one night in jail, but if you had known me then, you would understand why they assumed this. I got a kick out of it and decided it would be fun to go to the 20th to show everyone that I was indeed a free man, alive and well, & finally enjoying life.

I enjoyed the 20 year reunion; although I did not hang out with most of those people in HS, we had been through alot together and I do care about them. We are a part of eachother's lives whether we like it or not. It was interesting to me to see how people turned out. Most people were pretty cool, I did not worry about cliques and tried to talk to everybody. One or two people gave me the 'stink eye' and were carrying a 20 year grudge over something stupid - I thought that was pathetic. I was both amused and annoyed at some people who had not changed much at all - they just wanted to crank up Ozzy on the stereo and get drunk.

I'm glad I went to mine and I encourage people to go, but it is just getting together with a bunch of people you USED to know, nothing more & nothing less. If attending your reunion requires a lot of travel and expense it is probably not worth it.

I was a Metalhead in high school. I think I was barred from any further academic contact. :rolleyes:

Didn't want to deal with those peple then, why would I want to deal with them now?
I have not and will not be going to any of my HS reunions.

You are all making me feel a bit better. I was kinda feeling like I was "supposed" to "want" to go and like the people I went to school with. In reality, I didn't like them much in school, I don't really care to "catch up" that much (though its kinda morbidly nice seeing popular kids profiles on the website who have done nothing with their lives). I feel better knowing I'm not mean and nasty for feeling this way....it seems to be the general consensus.
Piffle Little Brother. You're not missing a farking think. The people in HS were dicks, now they're just older, more miserable dicks with less hair and bigger bellies. Let them wallow in their misery and enjoy your friends on BF. :D

I went to my 10 year reunion all I can say was LAMEO!!! :) It was like going back to highschool. The same groups still were very clickest. It really turned me off. Don't think I'll be making it to the 20year.

I was one of the few girls that wasn't married with 3 kids, and hey nothing wrong with that but I was kinda shocked.

My 10 year reunion was fine. I hated high school, but it was nice to see that most of the people from school had turned out okay. Gave me some faith in humanity.

I do not feel the need to go to any more reunions, though. One was quite enough.

Piffle Little Brother. You're not missing a farking think. The people in HS were dicks, now they're just older, more miserable dicks with less hair and bigger bellies. Let them wallow in their misery and enjoy your friends on BF. :D

:beer:

My 10 year reunion was great.

If you keep yourself in good shape, haven't lived at your parents' house for the last 5 years, and get some world experience (traveling, cultural, cool hobbies like cycling), you're going to look like a golden god.

It's funny all the 'cool kids' who ended up never leaving the nest and got fat over that same 10 years.

I went to my 10th. Even helped organize it. I didn't go to my 20th because my first ex wife is in the same class plus I had recently dated and dumped another girl from my class. Couldn't deal with being in the same room with one of them, let alone both. This year should be my 30th but it dosen't look like anyone bothered to put a reunion together.

I went to my 10 year reunion all I can say was LAMEO!!! :) It was like going back to highschool. The same groups still were very clickest. It really turned me off. Don't think I'll be making it to the 20year.

I was one of the few girls that wasn't married with 3 kids, and hey nothing wrong with that but I was kinda shocked.

Exactly. I went to my 15 yr and was amazed how everyone acted just like they did 15 years ago. In fact the object of the whole evening was picking on this one fat kid that everyone picked on in HIgh School. The guy had a huge bulge in his pants probably caused by a hernia of some sort, and EVERYONE has bagging on him.

He finally ended up crying and leaving, just like in High School. I won't be going back to my 20th next year. I am done with that bunch of Hooligans.

The open bar at the 10 year reunion was perfect for getting people talking and reminising (sp). Thank goodness the hotel was across the parking lot.

I talked and laughed with people I hadn't thought about for years and was surprised at the good memories they had of me and vice versa. They took a picture of the group and it is a wonderful memento to go along with the senior group photo from ten years earlier.

Plus, I think my wife had fun getting some old school information about my teenage years.

IMHO, you get out of it what you put into it. If you think it's going to be lame, then you might as well not go. If you go in with a curious nature and open mind to chat and laugh with old acquaintances, then you're going to have a blast. Just because you were the emo/burnout/loser/whatever 10 or 20 years ago doesn't mean you have to be that person at the reunion.

I went to my 20th, it was actually a great time. I did blow off the 30th this year. Those people are now just too old! :rolleyes:

I'm going to my 30th in a couple of weeks. Damn, time flies when your having fun.

I've never been to a high school reunion yet...not because I didn't want to go specifically, but because no one ever provided me with the details about when/where they would be held. And I guess because I didn't care enough to pursue it.

My 30th is coming up next year, and I suppose I have enough perverse curiousity to consider looking into going. There really aren't that many people I'd want to see, but I'd go just to gloat...cuz, in all honesty, I *know* I've aged a lot better than most folks from my class.

I did attend the 15th and 25th reunions of a theater festival that I was a member of while in high school, and those filled me with a mixture of fond nostalgia and piquant regret. But I actually *liked* being in that theater group, whereas I was at best indifferent to high school itself. So if you actually liked high school I suppose attending a reunion could have its rewards...

The reunion I'd actually like to go to would be the one for my eventual PhD Psych Commencement group, for the 30th. Of course, I'll likely be in my 80's or so, but that could be fun!

I moved my senior year and graduated from a school that I loathe. I have nothing to go back to.

Hopefully, I can send a note and have it read over the loudspeakers "Cypress couldn't be here today because he is racing in Europe and making sex with his Euro wives while using melted gold bars as a sort of contraceptive".

I moved my senior year and graduated from a school that I loathe. I have nothing to go back to.
Same here....sort of. I moved summer between 10th and 11th. The class that contacted me was the one I "would" have graduated from if I hadn't moved. They are still the group I most associate with as I went to school with most of them all the way from kindergarten through 10th grade.

I had my 20 year Grade School reunion a couple years ago! Prior to that I never knew those existed. But it was pretty cool. Lot's of people looked the same while some were hard to recognize. It was fun to catch up with old friends.

I also had a 20 year reunion for my original grade school. But since I was there from K - 2nd I decided not to go because I really didn't know these guys anymore. Although I'd just have to tell them that I was the the "other" asian guy at that school. Then they'd probably remember me! haha!

As for my high school reunion... Our 10 year reunion was cancelled due to lack of interest. It was only 10 years. I still saw a lot of people I went to high school with since I saw many of them in college. So it wasn't a big deal. But if there is a 20 year reunion I'd like to go. Mostly because I don't look the same and it's funny to see people's reactions. But I still think there'd be some cliques.

my 10 yr reunion is coming up in a couple of years. I went to an all guys high school... why exactly would I go?

All the friends I wanted to keep in contact with I have. I'm not interested in seeing what guy got fat and what guy did well for himself. Come to think of it, a friend of mine informed me that one such graduate, who was a kind of a prick in HS is now a successful business man... That news burns like a thousand blue suns. Why would I want to sit through that for x hours? Besides I'm not one for chit-chat really. "Oh, so you invented some sort of gold bar contraceptive? Interesting... :rolleyes:"

The bitterness in this thread is surprising.

Toughen up, bittercups.

I had nothing against High School. But it was just a stepping stone. I sort of did not fit in. One of the very few geek/jocks. A bit strange as a Jock also. I went out fot football to dodge regular P.E. From what others have said I'd also bet anyone I might want to see would be unlikely to attend. I'm not all that eager to go back to see Al Bundy still living of his 4 touchdowns.

(Actually there is one football star I would have been happy to see again, but he was a couple of classes ahead of me and died in Nam).

The only reason I would go to a reunion is to lord my awesomeness over all the losers that didn't go anywhere in life.

I have done so much and moved so so so far on in my life since then that high school, and even university, feel like a lifetime ago.

I guess some people stay in the same area or with the same buds, but from my perspective if you're still hanging around with enough HS friends that going to a reunion is worth it, you haven't gone very far.

I still wouldn't mind going, but it really would be for the amusement of seeing what losers people became (or stayed being), and making them all bask in my arrogant, worldly awesomeness.


Exactly. I went to my 15 yr and was amazed how everyone acted just like they did 15 years ago. In fact the object of the whole evening was picking on this one fat kid that everyone picked on in HIgh School. The guy had a huge bulge in his pants probably caused by a hernia of some sort, and EVERYONE has bagging on him.

He finally ended up crying and leaving, just like in High School. I won't be going back to my 20th next year. I am done with that bunch of Hooligans.
WOW. That I find surprising. I can't believe so many people could still be such total dicks. What a world.

Geez, if that's what it's like now I want to go to a reunion just to laugh at the dickheads. Too bad none of my schools have the slightest idea where I am now.

my 10 yr reunion is coming up in a couple of years. I went to an all guys high school... why exactly would I go?

All the friends I wanted to keep in contact with I have. I'm not interested in seeing what guy got fat and what guy did well for himself. Come to think of it, a friend of mine informed me that one such graduate, who was a kind of a prick in HS is now a successful business man... That news burns like a thousand blue suns. Why would I want to sit through that for x hours? Besides I'm not one for chit-chat really. "Oh, so you invented some sort of gold bar contraceptive? Interesting... :rolleyes:"

Reminds me of one of my nemeses from university. Apparently he got himself all stinking rich riding the wave of the internet boom. Still, if I were to go to a uni reunion and he was there it wouldn't bother me. Because I know what the guy is like, and I don't worship the almighty dollar. I know I'm a success. I'd just enjoy showing all those innocent young impressionable kids the coolness of the Nicodemus, just to remind them that success doesn't just mean being the spoiled limo dick who made it big on the BS economy. :)

i had no interest in my own reunion...nothing back there for me. But i escorted my ex to his 20th. From what i could see, the people there hadn't evolved. The guy who organized it had it at the same place they'd had the tenth, some gawdawful hotel in the boonies.. Why?Because he never leaves the suburbs or goes downtown. That's the type they were...a lot like the people i grew up with.All the guys talked about their investments, and all the women did was talk about their kids. A lot of them still lived like a block from where they grew up. Most of them looked a lot older than they were. I was pretty sure my reunion would have been pretty much the same and i was glad i didn't go.

There was also a summer camp reunion a couple of years ago...i didn't go to that either. For one thing, it was out of town, i only went for 2 summers, and as it turns out, most of the people who went were at least ten years older than I.