Class Reunions
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Class Reunions
What does everyone think about class reunions?
My class had there 10th. year reunion last night. I was there & for some reason wasn't invited either, but that doesn't matter much.
My cousin was their though (we both were in the same class) & begged me to go with her. I just didn't feel comfortable going & told her that all that it was going to be is to find out who was better then who. Who succeeded, who failed, who has more money, etc.
Well, she called me last night for a ride home (to much to drink) & she said I was right (like I normally am
) about the reunion & what it was going to be!
My class had there 10th. year reunion last night. I was there & for some reason wasn't invited either, but that doesn't matter much.
My cousin was their though (we both were in the same class) & begged me to go with her. I just didn't feel comfortable going & told her that all that it was going to be is to find out who was better then who. Who succeeded, who failed, who has more money, etc.
Well, she called me last night for a ride home (to much to drink) & she said I was right (like I normally am
) about the reunion & what it was going to be!
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10 was like you say, everyone still comparing and hung up.
20 was great, had near terminal nostalgia as I noticed most of my classmates had lives....
30 was real nice and people were aghast that I had a life, a wife and two kids....
Looking forward to the next one, maybe a 35er, as it's a nice bunch of folks.
20 was great, had near terminal nostalgia as I noticed most of my classmates had lives....
30 was real nice and people were aghast that I had a life, a wife and two kids....
Looking forward to the next one, maybe a 35er, as it's a nice bunch of folks.
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Most of th epeople who i hung out with in high school I still have contact with them often. Many of them I see or talk to just about everyday. There are a few that I will want to see at my 10th and I will probably go being I still live in my hometown. What i wish I could do is go to the reunion for the class that is a year older than me and both under me, then I would really see some folks who i haven't seen in a few years. But I still have 4 years before my 10th so I guess I'll see, in fact I think I was put on the committee to plan the darn thing. Back in the day we built a small barn on the back of the farm for drinking purposes and we all agreed at the 10th all of those who were still single would go out tot he barn and have a huge singles party sometime over the weekend. So far we've only lost 5 to the married life.
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just had my 20th but i didn,t go you had to pay to get in and pay for your food, lodging,ect. would have cost around 500.00 for the whole family wasn't worth Imo.
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I've skipped every one of mine...2 more years to the 20th. I don't care about them. I only talk to 2 or 3 of my old classmates and the rest don't really matter so I say why spend the money to eat bad catered food and listen to cheesy music?
Just my .02
Tim
Just my .02
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Originally Posted by Tim Lamkin
They suck until the 30th....then all the hang ups are gone....well most of them...
By the 40th your just happy to be at one....
By the 50th.....
By the 40th your just happy to be at one....
By the 50th.....
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My brother had his 20th last year and he is one of the only people that still live in the same town-- they accidently forgot to invite him. Mine is this weekend I am not wasting my time. I look back at all the clicky people - why would I wnat to be aorund them. I was even popular and I don't care. Some of those people never grew up and still want to live like anything we did in highschool matters. I guess at are last one they all claimed to be presidents of companies etc., although when someone checked on it it wasn't true. A couple even went as far as to rent cars so they looked rich-- what a bunch of 24 karat fakes.. Maybe and I hope your school was different- mine was a joke-little town little minds they say. I 've been all over the worlld-- my high school town is the jokiest littel minded area I have ever seen- let them have it.
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My 20th is coming up next month. I am still trying to decide whether to go or not. I went to my fifth year reunion and it was the same cliques as there was in high school. I didn't go to my tenth. What do you think? should I go to my 20th?
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Originally Posted by dono
My 50th was several years ago. When you get to that number they usually combine several classes. I have never attended one, but I have plans to be a walking class reunion ..... when I'm the last one standing.
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You know during High School I fostered a real dislike of many of the folks that we were supposed to look up to. I mean the nimrod athletes, bimbos, mimbos, and power-crazed office holders! I tended to hang out with the other lazy gifted kids who knew we could do the work but chose not to! We spent many a lunch drinking beer (ah the days of open-campus lunch) and pondering philosophical notions. Many of these folks did go on to be important people in the real world. Those the teachers thought would make something of themselves, well, what can I say, revenge is such a BITTER word, but one does chuckle when the mighty are seen to fall! I do have to say that if I voiced today some of the thoughts I had back then, I would find myself in the pokey explaining why I wanted to "Columbine" the school! Lets face it these people made my life hell. Why would I want to see them now? I have not and do not have any intentions of attending any reunions EVER. I graduated High School with my wife and best friends and we basically feel the same. Good riddance to old trash!
Last edited by Michael Littman; Sep 27, 2004 at 08:24 PM.