10-year HS Reunion

[grady26]

MAC said it best about tenth year reunions. At that one, there was an aura of pretense: how many kids, who makes the most money, etc.

But I understand that later reunions are better. No need for pretense; just glad they are still around to remember good times.

And I guess, I was lucky at my tenth. I have no kids, and as a school teacher, very little wealth. But I have great memories of my high school years. No, I was not the most popular or in the major cliques, but I had some friends, and it was good to see them after ten years.

 

[Yooper]

Never went to one of mine. Never. Ever. High School was OK but 3 weeks after I graduated I changed my name and never looked back on that hellhole.

My partner has never been to one either. And he's significantly older than me. However, he lives in his hometown, and about 80% of his classmates never left. Being a small town, it is easy to follow who is fooling around on their wives/husbands, who died, who went Gay, who is Gay but Married and has seven count 'em seven kids, etc. So every trip to the grocery store, gas station, bar, flophouse, etc. he inevitably runs into several folks he knows. So the reunions, in his opinion, are merely a waste of valuable TV viewing time.

Ever heard why folks in small towns never use their turn signals? Because everyone knows where everyone else is going.

 

[hotatlboi]

well I didn't come out in HS, so maybe my experience was not the same as some other people here, but I went to my 5 year reunion last year and had a GREAT time. A wasn't much of a partier in HS but for the reunion I brought a keg and was like the life of the party, lol. College was a much better time for me and I had changed a lot since HS, so it was cool seeing some old friends in a better state of mind, and I had a great time.

Of course I made the mistake of driving drunk later that night and wrecking my car, but that wasn't anyone else's fault there but mine, lol.

 

[treanir]

Mine will be in 2012, I believe, and I'll only be attending if I feel like getting an ego boost. Between the college drop-outs and 25yo moms with three kids I reckon I'll feel pretty damn good 'bout myself.

It's just never going to happen, 'cause I can remember something about me being charged with the duty of organising the whole gathering/shindig/hootenanny. And that, my good friends, will never come to pass. No way.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

i would go

but only if i had a rocket launcher

fuck them

 

[thermodynamics]

I'll never go. That's all it ever is...the popular kids getting together and reliving their glory years.

I remember for my 10th I ran into someone I went to school with in the store and he asks me all excited, "Are you going to the class reunion??"

I let out a derisive snort and said, "I didn't like any of you people when I was in school...what the fuck makes you think I'd like you now?"

I had my 5 year reunion this summer. I was astonished at how much most people had grown up even after only five years. It was actually a very enjoyable experience. Many of my friends were there.

 

[Lawnmowerman]

I haven't gone to any of mine, either. I wasn't the most popular, wasn't great at sports, didn't get bullied, and had a few friends I hung around with. I didn't DESPISE everyone OR school itself, but really, what reason would I need to see all those people I didn't give two shits about 20 years ago?

 

[looseliam]

i would go

but only if i had a rocket launcher

fuck them

You know, IEDs are all the rage these days!

 

[Centexfarmer]

You know, IEDs are all the rage these days!

The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

You know, IEDs are all the rage these days!

okay......... thanks

whatever gets the job done better

some fucks should not be still running around this world
and they're lucky i'm not an insane fuck because i really believe this.

 

[teadrinker]

I enjoyed my HS, did well academically (even won a prize) but have no inclination whatsoever to go back there. I've kept no friends from that time, and it was a long time ago. I believe I might have been the only person in my class to miss the 25 year reunion a while back.

-T.

 

[kevbo]

I'll definitely be going to mine. My best friend and I couldn't wait to graduate high school, just so that we'd be able to go to the reunion.

Totally gonna pull a Romy and Michelle...

 

[drhladnjak]

First, I'd just like to point out that most in the 'No' camp didn't even go to their reunions and therefore can only speculate about what their reunions were like...

I enjoyed my 10 year reunion last year. Bear in mind that high school was definitely not the best years of my life and I was not popular. Also, I flew to LA from Seattle for it, so it wasn't something I casually entered into. I figured, a couple days in LA visiting extended family would still be worth it even if the reunion sucked.

I would say the crowd was roughly half popular people, half not. The popular crowd mostly kept to themselves but an interesting thing happened with everybody else. All the non-popular people ended up hanging out together, getting drunk on the patio and swapping stories. Groups that would normally never have interacted in high school-- smart kids, stoners, drama dorks, band geeks, etc.--were all having a really fun time together. I got to know people who I'd sworn I'd never even seen before!

Sure, the popular kids were still there but it didn't matter. They did their thing. We did ours. Nobody was mean or disrespectful on either side. We were all far enough out of high school and had moved on with our lives to not really care about all that petty shit anymore.

While I didn't care about seeing most of the people there, being able to reconnect with the couple of people I'd lost touch with was well worth it too.

 

[drhladnjak]

Open Bar eh?

Well that's reason enough to go.

An open bar is a great idea for a reunion. When I walked into mine, I'd never felt such a strong urge to have a drink! Every direction I looked was the face of somebody I hadn't seen in 10 years. It was insanely overwhelming.

 

[frankfrank]

My reaction (and high school background) is very similar to what drhladnjak observed. I did NOT enjoy high school, I did not have friends there (except for ONE friend, who has NEVER gone to the reunions!), I was definitely a scared and withdrawn kitty in those days.

Any of the reunions I've gone to - and I've been to MOST, though not all, of them - I've had a lot of fun, and the time spent there was over with and done far too quickly. The most interesting aspect of the last reunion I went to (in 2005 - my 40 year reunion) is that the best conversation I had there by far, this time, was with the guy who I completely despised when I was in school, and he was a bully, etc.

Heck...the conversation with him was the best conversation I've ever had at a reunion, other than a certain conversation I had with a classmate 30 years earlier...

 

[sixthson]

We went to my partner's reunion. I found out all the girls were crazy about him in high school and how everyone thought he was so mysterious (he came from Greece when he was 15 and had this cute accent). We had a really good time, danced together and have kept in contact with two other couples. One of his classmates was a seminarian/priest who made my gaydar go ding, ding, ding.