Hard to swallow

[Honey123]

The Reunion Pill

I had my Grammar School (or Elementary School) reunion on Saturday night. I was neither excited nor happy about attending. I knew what I looked like back then. I was 13 when I graduated, 5'4", wild, curly hair and about 150 lbs. I was popular, mainly because of my personality and I hung out with "pretty" girls.

I had many friends and treated people equally. The boys were never kind. But I didn't expect them to be, I mean, even then I knew that if you weren't thin and pretty, you had no chance in hell getting together with the popular or "good-looking" guy.

I haven't seen these people in 25 years. In that time, I slimmed down alot (112-115lbs) my hair is straight and I have been told that I range from pretty nice looking to beautiful. My niece, who is in high school, has told me that there are boys in her class that have seen me and think I am pretty "hot"! I laugh and, because I went many years hating the way I looked, tend not to really feel it or believe it.

I can write in this thread all the accomplishments I have achieved. The home in which I reside, the area I bought my home. I can pat myself on the back for the pagaents I have entered and won or placed in, but I am not.

This thread is to hear YOUR stories. I want to know about YOUR reunions. Tell me funny stories ___ tell me stories about how you stood in front of that BITCH and told her off. How you approached that JOCk and told him that you are now a millionaire and he can kiss your ass!

Make me laugh, make me smile. We have all been to reunions, I know there are stories out there and there are some wonderfully funny people who can make me feel good again!

 

[cantdog]

reunions

I avoided them all. I'm always shocked if anyone remembers me, because generally they don't. They avoided me then, and I avoid them now. My "own" class treated me extraordinarily shabbily. Most did not even bother to tolerate me.

The invitation to my high school tenth spelled my name wrong, and they were undoubtedly using the yearbook.

Sorry, but there it is.

cantdog

 

[minsue]

I'd love to be able to give you one of those stories, Honey. My high school reunion is this year and may have happened already. I've no idea. I never had any plans on attending, but it still hurt to learn from friends that they had been contacted about it. My school has an alumni website. I'm registered there. Never heard a word about the reunion. I hate that it bothers me. *sigh* It's high school all over again.

 

[SlickTony]

If I ever get to be rich and famous, I dare say the class of 69 will suddenly remember me and count themselves as my friends. To hell with the lot of them.

 

[cloudy]

The only story I have to offer here isn't really about a reunion....but the same type of thing.

My senior year of high school, one of the guidance counselors told me that I wasn't worth a shit, and would be lucky to graduate from high school - would never graduate from college. Helluva thing for a guidance counselor to say.

I sent him an invitation to my college graduation....the first time, and the second time. Will send him one when I finish my master's as well, just to be a bitch.

 

[ruminator]

The only story I have to offer here isn't really about a reunion....but the same type of thing.

My senior year of high school, one of the guidance counselors told me that I wasn't worth a shit, and would be lucky to graduate from high school - would never graduate from college. Helluva thing for a guidance counselor to say.

I sent him an invitation to my college graduation....the first time, and the second time. Will send him one when I finish my master's as well, just to be a bitch.

What's sweet is when you can send him a job application to fill out.

 

[minsue]

The only story I have to offer here isn't really about a reunion....but the same type of thing.

My senior year of high school, one of the guidance counselors told me that I wasn't worth a shit, and would be lucky to graduate from high school - would never graduate from college. Helluva thing for a guidance counselor to say.

I sent him an invitation to my college graduation....the first time, and the second time. Will send him one when I finish my master's as well, just to be a bitch.

My hero.

 

[Xelebes]

I... I just graduated. Ah well, I'll fill you in on the details come 15 years from now. Ok?

 

[Carl East]

I was quite popular at school, mainly because I was the class clown. Someone who made everyone laugh, and even the bullies left me alone because of it. I couldn't share a reunion with you, simply because we don't really have them over here, at least not in the way you Americans do.

Looking back now, I realize that my humor was a defense against everything that I disliked about school. So even if we did have reunions I wouldn't attend them. I simply didn't like anyone enough to want to see or associate with them after school.

I can't just leave it like that though, after all you wanted us to make you laugh, to help you forget those years. So I'll tell you something that happened in my last year at school, something that to this day brings a smile to my face.

It was in biology class, and our teacher wanted two volunteers. I didn't know what for, but I put my hand up simply because I had a crush on her. Anyway, it turned out that she was going to get everyone else running around the playground and the two volunteers were to both have a stethoscope each.

Our job was to record their heart beats after a couple of laps around the grounds. There were some very good looking young girls in my class, girls that wouldn't have anything to do with me outside of school. So there I was, able to place my hand inside their blouses on the pretext of measuring their heart beats. That has got to be the cheapest feel up of my life. lol

Oh the fond memories of that day, so if you ever need a gynecologist. I'm not an experienced person, but I'll have a fucking look. lol

Carl

 

[KarenAM]

I've never been to a reunion, but this thread's title did make me think something very very naughty.

Carry on.

 

[destinie21]

lol I've only been out of highschool for four years but I'm different now I mean I look basically the same however I much less of a bitch now. I had friends and I guess I was popular but funnily enough I hated myself

 

[Boxlicker101]

I hated high school and have never been to a reunion. Soon the fiftieth will be held and I won't go to that one either. For one thing, they are held 2,000 miles from where I live but even if they were across the street, I would have no interest in attending. There's nobody that I really want to look up. There are no old girl friends because there were no girl friends then.

I do want to add, Honey, that those boys who say you are "hot", show surprisingly good taste for somebody as young as they are.

 

[snooper]

I've not been to one in the forty-seven years since I left school, and I'm not going to start now. I did go back to the school when my first (non-erotic) book was published and gave them a copy for the library, but there were few of the staff that I remembered, and fewer that remembered me.

 

[Liar]

I would never go to a reuinion with the people from earlier years than High School. The few from those years that have made peace with me, I'll bump into anyway.But the rest of the bastards who made 4th to 9th grade a living hell can very firmly go fuck themselves. Until it bleeds. They know this, as I quite publically announed this with a reply-to-all when I got an email invitation a few years back. I still get the yearly invitations though. I guess they don't quite know how to handle me... well, fuck em, I ain't going to show up and smile to give them peace of mind.

I have gotten several invitations to reunions, and I went to the High School ones. Pretty fun, but hey, it wasn't all that long ago that I graduated, so we're all pretty much the same, and there were no big surprises to report. A few with family and kids, and hte rest of us just plodding about with studies or jobs, but trying to stay teens. So it was just a good party with old friends.

Oh, and one guy, who used to play in an openly satanistic black metal band that made Marilyn Manson look like Buddy Jesus, is now a church cantor.

 

[Guest]

Invisible

i ran with a group of kids that were invisible. dont get me wrong, i had friends but i wasnt a jock, nor was i a scholar or a druggie.

the only year i was noticed was the year i got my dodge dart and hand painted it and was chosen for the teen modeling group for a store called filenes..

like cloudy i had a really bad experience with my guidance counselor. he wore too much cologne. i asked him if we could meet outside cuz i couldnt breathe.. he ignored me.. so i said he smelled like a whorehouse. that didnt go over well... he was eerily silent...when he wouldnt speak to me but kept scribbling on my records i got mad....

"just when do you plan on coming out of the closet? who do you think youre kidding?" (this was the beginning of the knowledge that i just dont know how to keep my mouth shut)

"Miss, you will never be any better than a navy wife." tell me how much i took that to heart when i graduated and married a guy in the navy at 18.

i am on the 'missing' list for the reunions. i live very close to the highschool.. maybe ill go back when ive got one foot dangling... but i dont think so. live in the future.. cuz the past kinda sucked.. LOL

 

[SensualCealy]

I went back to my elementry reunion, that was fun, hardly anyone my age was there. Alot of the girls from my brother's grades were there so I had a nice visit with them.

As for highschool, didn't go. I felt embarassed to go, the typical, I thought that is how she would turn out , thinking. I would think Im one of the longest married ones in my group of friends, but I knew it would be alot of the 'in' crowd that would be there so I didn't bother. Maybe if they have another I'll show up for that one.

Cealy

 

[CharleyH]

lol I've only been out of highschool for four years but I'm different . . . much less of a bitch now.

Um, how much less?

(Oh, someone was bound to ask, Dest . . . lol)

My grade 6 class is the only reunion I will ever attend (when it happens.) The 36 of us, or at least our parents, pitched in and bought stocks in something so that we would have an excuse to get together. I want to know how much we're worth

As for my experiences in primary, middle or high school? I was always my own little rebellious clique: fitting in everywhere and no where with a diverse array of friends. In primary school, the guys liked me and I went on many a MacDonalds date because I was the only girl who could beat them at any sport - lol

In middle school, I was a book nerd with an edge, and well-liked among everyone for my chameleon-like ability to balance sports - (in)genius and rebellion by sticking up for my beliefs . . . see section 11 suspension.

In highschool, I dated anyone who wasn't in high school. Again, I had friends from the nerd set- the pop-set, jock-set, drug-set, but never affiliated with any particular crowd. I was known as odd by my peers, which in my opinion translated into too interesting, and as a conundrum to teachers who told me things like "you shouldn't ask questions that have no answers," when speculating on the word eternity. Ran into the phys. ed teacher years (lol - who I beat at a game of badminton while . . . I'll leave this detail out) later who expressed that "I was the nicest student she ever hated." LOL - I wear that with Pride.

Still a rebellious and apparently conundrumous individual after all these years http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/jumping/jumping03.gif

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Um, how much less?

(Oh, someone was bound to ask, Dest . . . lol)

My grade 6 class is the only reunion I will ever attend (when it happens.) The 36 of us, or at least our parents, pitched in and bought stocks in something so that we would have an excuse to get together. I want to know how much we're worth

As for my experiences in primary, middle or high school? I was always my own little rebellious clique: fitting in everywhere and no where with a diverse array of friends. In primary school, the guys liked me and I went on many a MacDonalds date because I was the only girl who could beat them at any sport - lol

In middle school, I was a book nerd with an edge, and well-liked among everyone for my chameleon-like ability to balance sports - (in)genius and rebellion by sticking up for my beliefs . . . see section 11 suspension.

In highschool, I dated anyone who wasn't in high school. Again, I had friends from the nerd set- the pop-set, jock-set, drug-set, but never affiliated with any particular crowd. I was known as odd by my peers, which in my opinion translated into too interesting, and as a conundrum to teachers who told me things like "you shouldn't ask questions that have no answers," when speculating on the word eternity. Ran into the phys. ed teacher years (lol - who I beat at a game of badminton while . . . I'll leave this detail out) later who expressed that "I was the nicest student she ever hated." LOL - I wear that with Pride.

Still a rebellious and apparently conundrumous individual after all these years http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/jumping/jumping03.gif

No shit?!!!

 

[Guest]

 

[Sshafer]

Hs reunion

I went to my 10yr,15yr,20yr. I was going to my 25 yr reunion but it was called off due to lack of replies for rsvp. Each time I've gone back I cann't belive how most have aged. I was one of four who were the oldest in the class when we got out. I was eighteen the rest were seventeen. Now they look like they're in their eighty's. 73 was the year I got out. Most of them couldn't belive that I still looked the same. I'll be fifty this fall and have a few more gray hairs and I've put on a few pounds around the middle. But the way most of my class mates get around I'm a spring chicken. Out of a class of forty we have lost two to the reaper. If there is a thirty year reunion I expect that there will be a few more that have met the reaper they looked like they were ready at the twenty year reunion. I hope there is a thirty year reunion just to see how many are left. I can say when my time comes I've injoyed life to it fullest thats more than most of my class mates can say. In a way I feel sorry for them.

 

[SummerMorning]

LOL!

I'm supposed to organize reunions...

But usually its just the regular old bunch that had weekly juice-vodka parties (half the class, the garages changed, the ice-cube kissing didn't...) getting together about once a week and getting drunk...

...some things just don't change.



Oh. I've stopped going to the juice-vodka parties. That's changed.

 

[raphy]

Like Carl said, in the UK we don't really have reunions. The 'old boys' network is usually strong enough for the people who would actually go to a reuinion that one isn't needed.

Besides, I used to get stabbed/beaten up/ generally had the shit kicked out of me daily, so I think if I went back to my secondary school reunion, I'd probably get locked away for murder (or at least attempted murder)..

The only 'story' I have that fits along those lines involves me and a girl. For you Americans reading this, I'll explain a little about the UK schooling system.

You do kindergarten, and then you go to primary school until you're 10 or 11 years old. When I was in school, we mark the school years as 'grades 1-12', although I understand that more and more schools are introducing that now.

At 11, you change schools and go to a 'secondary' school. This runs (optionally) until you're 16 (10th grade in the US, 5th form in the UK), at which point you've taken a set of exams known as GCSEs. You can choose to leave school at that point.

Or you can continue in your secondary school until you're 18.

Or (third choice), you can transfer out and go to a 'tertiary' college which deals with only the last 2 grades (11 and 12 in the US, lower 6th and upper 6th in the UK) 16/17/18-yr olds (depending on when your birthday is)

I elected for the 3rd choice. I wanted to get the fuck out of that aryan bullshit right-wing bigoted racist upper-class 'school' as soon as possible. Thing was, that secondary school was a boys' only grammar school (We call 'em public schools, you americans call 'em private schools), and the tertiary college I went to was not (You americans call those public schools, we call 'em state schools)

Anyway, the reason I babbled on so much about this is so that you all understand that when I hit the tertiary college at 16, I had little or no experience with members of the fairer sex. Girls? What the fuck were they? Never came across them too much in a social setting, and I'd *never* sat next to a girl in class. Wow.

So, subsequently, I made a complete and utter fool of myself, following this one poor girl, Joanne her name was, around for 2 years. I must have seemed like a stalker to the girl, looking back on it now. She was the first crush I'd ever had. I was intoxicated by her. Her friends used to ridicule me every single chance they got. And I left that school thinking 'One day, you guys.. One day you'll regret laughing at me. You'll see what I can make of myself'

So, that was 1992. Fast forward to 1998. Six years later, just after the end of my first marriage. I'm working for a major UK internet provider and who should I see walk through the door, applying for a job - One of the aformentioned 'friends'. In fact, the 'ringleader' of the little group of harpies.

Now, I'm not one to hold a grudge. I said hi, she said hi, and we decided to go out for a drink to catch up on old times. She admitted to me that she felt kinda bad for the way she and her friends had treated me back then, I admitted that I was a major-class dork, she admitted that I'd changed a lot since then, and for the better, and before the night was out, we were tickling each other's tonsils.

I took her home and dropped her outside her apartment that night and drove off thinking to myself, "See, I knew I'd come back and show you all."

That was probably the one and only time where I actually treated a woman as a sexual conquest. The ugly duckling came home and wasn't an ugly duckling anymore.

 

[Remec]

I've never heard of trying to hold reunions for classes below the high school level, it actually sounds intriguing. Of course, my dad was in the Navy until my freshman year of college, so the number of schools/classes I was a member of is a larger than average.

(And I'd like to see some of them track me down, to tell the truth.)

But, even at the high school level, I haven't bothered going to any of the reunions that have been held. (I know of two, if there were others, I guess I was on the lost members list.) Mostly for several reasons...

1) Money...always seem to have higher priorities come up right around the time they want deposits made and so on...

2) I transferred into the school in late Jan/early Feb of my junior year. We'd been living in Vallejo, and my dad's detail as an instructor at the computer school came up and he was assigned a berth on a ship out of Norfolk. So back across the country we came. <g>

3) Except for staff on the literary magazine, all the people I hung out with outside of school during that junior spring were a class ahead of me. The following year, my biggest outside activity was the gaming club and those people were almost all sophmores.

4) When they sent out the inevitable "Have you seen these people?" list, I discovered that, like, three people I saw regularly outside of school who had been actually in my class were accounted for. Every other person I spent time with was lost in the void of the passing decades.

So...didn't seem to be a big draw for me to attend....<shrug>

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I crashed my ten year high school reunion got drunk and told everyone I hated what I thought of them back then. I felt better.
For the most part I was one of those people that didn't fall into a particular group, but I was voted most humerous girl. Iwas the weird artsy type.
Still am.

~A~

 

[Carl East]

Iwas the weird artsy type.
Still am.

~A~

You're not weird ABS, at least not in the conventional sense. I do think your av is arty though, it makes me want to stroke it. The picture I mean.

Carl