Class reunions

[SnoopDog]

Ok, I just received a letter inviting me to a class reunion of my 5th and 6th grade.

I have lost contact to all of them except one person.
Right now I'm asking myself if I should go.

Chances that I won't remember the names of the people will be high, chances to find people I have actually something in common with and enjoy a conversation are low.

And I also don't have much to talk about and brag since I'm quite a loser and have nothing to share.

Then again maybe there is a hot chick that just quit her boyfriend and is on the look. ..... .... (I'm such a loser)

So should I go?

Anyone wanna tell me about their reunions?

Snoopy

 

[sincerely_helene]

Ok, I just received a letter inviting me to a class reunion of my 5th and 6th grade.

I have lost contact to all of them except one person.
Right now I'm asking myself if I should go.

Chances that I won't remember the names of the people will be high, chances to find people I have actually something in common with and enjoy a conversation are low.

And I also don't have much to talk about and brag since I'm quite a loser and have nothing to share.

Then again maybe there is a hot chick that just quit her boyfriend and is on the look. ..... .... (I'm such a loser)

So should I go?

Anyone wanna tell me about their reunions?

Snoopy

Don't go in expecting much. I have not yet had my own reunion, but I attended my best friend's this past summer (we went to the same high school,) and I quickly concluded that I would never EVER put myself through that brand of torment again.

It was surreal, walking in with the idea implanted that all these once superficial model/jock types would have by now matured into into sophisticated, responsible, open minded individuals, only to watch them quickly gather into their former flocks to fix their hair and gossip about whos ass had gotten the fattest.

At one point, my friend emerged from the bar to tell me she overheard a group of guys across the room actually placing bets on who could convince me to give them a blowjob in the back seat of their car before the end of the night. I never quite had the heart to mention the gaggle of females nearby giggling about how my friend 'waddled' when she walked across the room.

I think the greatest advice I could offer would be:
Unless you were the peak of popularity in those times, or you are now dating a supermodel you can flaunt off, you are better off bypassing the whole affair. They say "you can never go back", but I would tend to disagree with that statement.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I can't imagine why anyone would decide to have a 5th and 6th grade reunion in the first place. If I can think of one time in my life that was possibly more humiliating and awkward than junior high, it has to be 5th and 6th grade.

Since I live in a small community, I went to school with most of the same people all through school. So, if you even go out to a bar on the weekend, it's sort of like a high school reunion at any given time. Lured by promises of free drinks, I did subject myself to attending my five year high school reunion a few years back.

Listening to guys who wouldn't give me the time of day back then marvelling at how I blossomed after graduation was flattering, I admit. But, it wasn't really me who had changed at all, it was because most of them were married or had gained weight or the other girls just looked worse than me. Mostly it seemed like a venue for so called geeks who had become successful after college to flaunt it at all the popular kids who seemed to be working at manual labor jobs. Amused and a little sad, I did come away with the feeling that I was proud of myself for being very much the same girl I had always been.

 

[Monazwx]

5th and 6th reunion, you've got to be kidding!

What a waste of time. Does the school want donations or something? Who's organizing this all-important event?

 

[Edward Teach]

Reunion Tale

Two old classmates meet at their high school reunion:


Maggie: So what have you been up to since high school, Buffy?

Buffy: Well I went to college and got my Phd.

Maggie: FANtastic!

Buffy: Then I got a wonderful job making lots of money and met the most wonderful man. Of course we married and are ecstatically happy.

Maggie: FANtastic!

Buffy: He makes tons of money and we have houses on both coasts and one in Florida. And two great children.

Maggie: FANtastic!

Buffy: So my life is very good. But enough about me. What about you.

Maggie: Well after high school, I went to finishing school. Now instead of saying "bullshit!" I say, "FANtastic!"




Eddie The Eavesdropper

 

[R. Richard]

I did go to a high school reunion. It was an unmitigated disaster.

1) The name cards were printed in elite type and were damn near impossible to read.

2) The persons (actually I think it was evil aliens who took over their bodys) who did the unreadable name cards also used the ladies official married names. Thus, if you knew Ginny Smith, you were confronted with a lady whose name tag read Murgatroid Jones. (I always knew there was a reason why Ginny never used her real first name.)

3) Fifi La Vavavoom, the hottest babe in the high school had morphed into a 250 pound blob who still thought she was the see-through blouse type.

4) Lenny the lush tried to feel up all the ladies (again). The organizers tried and failed to deal with him (again). I took him out behind the building and beat the crap out of him (again).

Aside from Item 4), the entire evening was a waste of my time.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

4) Lenny the lush tried to feel up all the ladies (again). The organizers tried and failed to deal with him (again). I took him out behind the building and beat the crap out of him (again).

Aside from Item 4), the entire evening was a waste of my time.

At least you got to beat someone's ass, all I got was soggy potato chips and watered down draft beer.

 

[SnoopDog]

Sounds like american reunions are nothing like our reunions over here.

Snoopy

 

[Wildcard Ky]

I'm going to my 20 year h.s. reunion tonight. I went to the 10 and 15 year reunions as well.

I wouldn't call it a can't miss social event, but they're usually pretty entertaining. The girls that were the snobby clique back then immediately group up and go into the fake hugging and "I've missed you" routine. The jocks all get together in their clique reliving past perceived glory.

It's amazing how many of these people immediately start acting like they're 18 again instead of 38. I fully expect that some of them have the sudden urge to go egg some cars.

 

[Pornofan420]

Any kind of school reunion is just asking for misery, no matter what grade it is. If you really gave a shit about any of those people you would have kept in touch.

All one can possibly get out of a school reunion is upset, discomfort, and hit up for cash from the school.

Fuck that noise! Move on with that part of your life is my vote.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I crashed my reunion, got drunk and told everyone that was a snot what I really thought of them in high school.
It was wonderful.

 

[McKenna]

If you really gave a shit about any of those people you would have kept in touch.

My sentiments exactly. Why bother going back? It's not that I couldn't and feel rather proud of myself, (I'm one of those geek-types who's done well for herself,) it's that if any of them truly mattered to me, I'd have kept up contact with them over the years.

That said, if the school I went to in Holland for language classes had a reunion, I'd go. I've lost contact with the ones I kept in contact with after school finished, (lost email, moved, etc.) and I would like to know how they are doing, if they've been granted their visas, (they were immigrants as well) and how much their Dutch has improved/stagnated.


Snoop, you said that reunions in Germany tend to be different. Care to explan? I'm curious.

 

[SnoopDog]

My sentiments exactly. Why bother going back? It's not that I couldn't and feel rather proud of myself, (I'm one of those geek-types who's done well for herself,) it's that if any of them truly mattered to me, I'd have kept up contact with them over the years.

That said, if the school I went to in Holland for language classes had a reunion, I'd go. I've lost contact with the ones I kept in contact with after school finished, (lost email, moved, etc.) and I would like to know how they are doing, if they've been granted their visas, (they were immigrants as well) and how much their Dutch has improved/stagnated.


Snoop, you said that reunions in Germany tend to be different. Care to explan? I'm curious.

We all get naked and have hot steamy group sex.



Actually it seems that in America Reunions seem to be all about showing off, bragging, and being like 18 years old again. And it seems it's organised by the school.

Over here, most of the times, it's not organised by the school itself but by some people from your old class who think it would be fun digging up all the addresses of the former class mates and invite them for a party or anything like that.

In this case it's a brunch on a sunday morning.
And I think it won't be about showing off or anything like that. (By the way, we're in our early twenties and used to know us when we were like 11/12 years old)

So it should be a complete different thing.
I actually want to know how many people will show up. I think I'm gonna go anyways since the only person I kept contact with and who I still see occasionaly today said he'll come as well.

It could be fun.

Snoopy

 

[Guest]

I crashed my reunion, got drunk and told everyone that was a snot what I really thought of them in high school.
It was wonderful.

You're my hero, Goddess!

 

[Remec]

My sentiments exactly. Why bother going back? It's not that I couldn't and feel rather proud of myself, (I'm one of those geek-types who's done well for herself,) it's that if any of them truly mattered to me, I'd have kept up contact with them over the years.

I sort of thought that, except that I just didn't really have a schedule that let me get to know a whole lot of my class....moved into the school middle of junior year, and spent that semester mostly hanging out with seniors...

The next year, the two things I was involved with....Wargamers and Literary Magazine...had some new blood in my class, but mostly they were juniors and sophmores.

So, I'd have not minded going back to reestablish connections and possibly renew or even forge new friendships...but couldn't make the 10th, not sure there was a 15th, and didn't have the time or money to make the 20th...<shrug>

Maybe we'll try harder for 25...<g>

 

[matriarch]

I made contact with a few people from my high school days, through Friends-reunited. 36 years after we had last seen each other.

We had so much fun catching up on e-mail, and finally meeting, that we decided to try and track down the rest of the year.

That's where the internet and being devious came into play. I managed to track down all but 2 of the 66 boys and girls from that year. And even some of the teachers - those that we still alive !!

Even tracked down two that had moved to Australia. I live over 200 miles from where I was brought up and went to school, but I go back regularly - my parents and siblings still live there.

Us 5 gals organised the reunion, set up profile proformas for people, did loads of stuff, we booked a local hotel (which had previously been part of the school - a Victorian house), for the day.

It was an incredible success. Everyone had a blast. And the best part is that even almost 3 years on, many of us have stayed in touch. Albeit spasmodically, but in touch.

What surprised me the most......how much the guys had changed....but the women were instantly recognisable....even those like me who had put on a lot of weight.

Some of those people were part of my life from when I started school until I left at 16. That's a lot of memories. And the more we are together, the more we remember.

OK, maybe its unusual, but I......and the others....wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Mat

 

[impressive]

If you really gave a shit about any of those people you would have kept in touch.

I care nothing at all for the people they WERE (or I was, for that matter). However, I've certainly changed, and it's interesting to discover if/how they have as well.

I hit my 5th and 10th -- and too few had changed. By the 20th, however, there were some folks whose company I really enjoyed (and they weren't those I hung with back then).

There were, of course, still those stuck in their own pasts. Pity, really. I'm all for toasting the good times -- and preserving them in memory -- but not to the exclusion of enjoying TODAY.

 

[oggbashan]

I attended so many schools in three different countries that I find it difficult to remember anyone from any school. They have the same trouble with me because I was with each school for such a short time.

I have met two past school friends. We reverted to the age we were then - not a pretty sight for our wives.

Locally one school had a reunion for those who had left 25 years ago at age 16. Most of them had remained in the near vicinity so related to each other as adults. That was a successful reunion.

I attended a 50th anniversary of one of my old Boy Scout troops. That was good because Scouts from many eras attended with currrent Scouts. The old boys, like me, were asked to give a short talk about what they had gained from the Scout Troop. We had an attentive audience of the current Scouts and were asked many pertinent questions. The networking after the formal events was very useful because we represented so many professions and vocations. The clown of my era had become an Anglican Priest. The 'rogue' had become a Magistrate.

Og