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Post by zibazinski on Jun 19, 2014 8:37:31 GMT -5
Funny enough, my elem, junior high, HS girlfriend and I met up yesterday and we talked about the losers who never left town because they couldn't handle not being BIG FISH anymore. They're the jokes of the class now.
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ZaireinHD
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Post by ZaireinHD on Jun 19, 2014 11:43:16 GMT -5
I would much rather pay for a decent reunion than for the crappy ass one they are planning now. It's in a random bar in a sketchy part of town because some kid from our class bartended there 15 years ago. As I said before someone was shot there last month and just the other day 3 people were stabbed there. So I'm not exactly thrilled.
I asked why we couldn't go somewhere nicer, even if we had to charge $20 a ticket and I was told "that's too expensive for some people and we don't want them to feel they can't attend".
I hate to be a bitch but they've been planning this for nearly a year. If you are closing in on 40, and with a year to save, can't come up with $20 you have some serious problems in your life.
Cash bar, no food, no entertainment. My idea of fun (Not at all).
my goodness that is funny! class reunion in the HOOD!! has to make for some interesting times / events. don't blame you for not wanting to go there - sounds horrible. since don't know anyone, I've never been, never been asked, to attend a reunion of any kind I have no idea other than what I've seen on TV. had no idea or would have thought a High School class reunion would be held other places than the school. The High School I went to was open for other year or two before it closed.
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Post by ZaireinHD on Jun 19, 2014 11:48:01 GMT -5
come to think of it the Catholic grade school I went to for grades 2 through 7 is closed (dad didn't want to keep paying for my average grades anymore - LOL) then I transferred to a public school for grades 7 and 8 which that place is now a kindergarten then I did go to one public High School for the full 4 years - which as said is closed
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Jun 19, 2014 11:50:37 GMT -5
I've not been invited to a reunion, even though I've passed the 10-year mark. My parents moved my senior year and I had to change schools, so I don't keep in touch with anyone from the 400+ class that I graduated with because I never got to know any of them. And the class that I was with up until my senior year didn't invite me because I didn't actually graduate with them, although I keep in touch with several of them now. DH was home schooled all the way through, so I joke that family dinners are his class reunions
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 19, 2014 12:13:40 GMT -5
Oh our high school is still open- I know because my son is a student there.
We have options they are just going super cheap. One plan was to have a family picnic at a local park during the day and then have a get together later that evening for the adults only. But apparently it was asking too much that people bring something to a picnic and then have to go to a bar and drink all night.
The bar is a couple of blocks from my friendly neighborhood game store (those two blocks make a HUGE difference neighborhood wise). My plan is to collect the people that I like and want to hang out with and convince them to come with me to the game store. We can get our nerd on, play some board games, bust out some wine, order some pizza, etc. That sounds way more fun to me than sitting in that dingy bar drinking watered down beer. The game store owners are close friends of our and seriously owe me so they won't care if I ask them to designate that night a Board Game night.
I think the problem is that the girl that volunteer to organize it is lazy and trying to get out of it. She's been begging a friend of mine to take it over and my friend keeps saying "I said I'd help but I can't take on the whole thing". At this point I don't know what other planning there is. They've already told everyone they have contact information for. They've secured the crappy bar. It's a cash bar with no food so there's nothing else to order. We are all just supposed to show up at 7pm on August 9th.
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Post by imawino on Jun 19, 2014 12:15:16 GMT -5
I'm going to my 25 year high school reunion this summer! I went to my 10 year reunion and had an absolute blast. I did not make it to the 20th. I don't keep in touch with anyone from school, but am friends with some on facebook so I sort of know what some of the people are up to, I guess. But it should be interesting to see a few people, chat, have a few drinks.
I guess I don't really understand the people who so violently oppose the idea? Quite honestly, if you abhor the idea of even seeing any of your high school classmates ever again I think that is more indicative of "holding on to high school forever" than someone who doesn't really mind it.
That said, if I didn't go to high school in an awesome little beach town that I love, I may not be as willing to travel for the weekend. But the very idea of it doesn't freak me out the way it seems to do some people.
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Post by formerroomate99 on Jun 20, 2014 0:40:36 GMT -5
I went to my 20th high school reunion. It was fun. I kept running into guys who would say 'I went to high school with YOU!?' High school certainly wasn't my glory days. I wasn't ever that popular. But it was the first time in my life that I didn't wake up nearly every morning wanting to blow my brains out, and I felt such gratitude to my classmates for leaving me alone most of the time and occasionally showing kindness.
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Post by cronewitch on Jun 20, 2014 0:46:04 GMT -5
I didn't know anyone in the high school I graduated from. We were only there my senior year. I didn't get to know them at all or date anyone that year and left the night I graduated never to go back. I don't know if I would remember any of them and only remember about 3 names out of 32.
The school I considered my school I knew a lot of people but they closed and the ones I knew were friends outside school too. We were in a organization where we did things together and had dances, most of us married in the group. We are still friends with a few of them and a couple my brothers married but a reunion would be a thousand kids where I only know a few. It has been almost 50 years. My brothers married girls in our group of friends but they didn't go to our school but were best friends and still are. One brother divorced about 35 years ago but his ex is still our friend and we still see her sometimes.
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Post by jeffreymo on Jun 20, 2014 3:16:05 GMT -5
My 20th is this summer and I'm not sure if I will attend. I skipped the 5 and 10 year. I graduated with a very small class (less than 100) and I'm still close enough wih a group of them that I still see 15-20 people at least once a year, and there are a few that I'm still close friends with and see every month. I'm sure if I'd go that I'd mainly socialize with that goup of 15-20 which I can do any time.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 20, 2014 10:53:39 GMT -5
I'm going to my 25 year high school reunion this summer! I went to my 10 year reunion and had an absolute blast. I did not make it to the 20th. I don't keep in touch with anyone from school, but am friends with some on facebook so I sort of know what some of the people are up to, I guess. But it should be interesting to see a few people, chat, have a few drinks.
I guess I don't really understand the people who so violently oppose the idea? Quite honestly, if you abhor the idea of even seeing any of your high school classmates ever again I think that is more indicative of "holding on to high school forever" than someone who doesn't really mind it.
That said, if I didn't go to high school in an awesome little beach town that I love, I may not be as willing to travel for the weekend. But the very idea of it doesn't freak me out the way it seems to do some people. Honestly, it's more that I abhor the idea of socializing with people I never liked in the first place. I don't always like large gatherings of people I actually DO like, so why would I subject myself to a large group of people I never did like?
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Post by sesfw on Jun 20, 2014 12:03:12 GMT -5
My 20th is this summer and I'm not sure if I will attend.
IMHO you should go. I was very pleasantly surprised at how very nice a lot of the people that were not in my crowd was. I did a lot of table hopping just saying hi for a few minutes. If others wanted to chat a few minutes I was willing ........ or just a courteous hi, how are you.
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Post by Ryan on Jun 20, 2014 12:23:56 GMT -5
HS wasn't horrible for me, but I definitely don't have very many fond memories or really care to go back and hangout with guys from HS. I was at a public gradeschool and went to a catholic HS, so I didn't know that many people when I got there. I didn't know people before there, went there for 4 years, and then graduated and moved on.
Interestingly, 4 of my really close friends are guys from HS and I'm close with another 3 from HS. But really beyond that, I didn't have a lot of acquaintances that I really care anything about.
For someone that is more even-keeled, people act really idiotic in HS and it leaves a lasting impression of who they are in your mind. I've hung out with some guys that I didn't care for in HS that, if I met them for the first time today, I'd probably think they were cool. Other guys were just such douchebags that you know there is no way they could change into normal human beings.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 20, 2014 12:30:45 GMT -5
I'm going to my 25 year high school reunion this summer! I went to my 10 year reunion and had an absolute blast. I did not make it to the 20th. I don't keep in touch with anyone from school, but am friends with some on facebook so I sort of know what some of the people are up to, I guess. But it should be interesting to see a few people, chat, have a few drinks.
I guess I don't really understand the people who so violently oppose the idea? Quite honestly, if you abhor the idea of even seeing any of your high school classmates ever again I think that is more indicative of "holding on to high school forever" than someone who doesn't really mind it.
That said, if I didn't go to high school in an awesome little beach town that I love, I may not be as willing to travel for the weekend. But the very idea of it doesn't freak me out the way it seems to do some people. Honestly, it's more that I abhor the idea of socializing with people I never liked in the first place. I don't always like large gatherings of people I actually DO like, so why would I subject myself to a large group of people I never did like?
I didn't know probably 95% of the people in my high school graduating class. Those I did either moved as far away as they could get or I still see them around town. Why am I going to go sit in a bar/gym/hall with dozens of people I can barely remember?
I find large group events to be exhausting, especially when I barely know any of the people in attendance. I suck it up for the work Christmas party because it's good PR, I work with these people every single day. I don't have any desire to spend time with a large group of people I don't know and won't see for another 5-10 years.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Jun 20, 2014 12:40:40 GMT -5
It was the worst 4 years of my life....why oh why would I ever want to go anywhere to see and talk to people who thought I was invisible. I was in good company though as most of us were in the invisible group. We didn't have bullies, how can you bully someone you don't know is there?
8th grade however is a different story. One of the guys I graduated with evidently was bored, so he started getting in touch with other classmates of 1959. So far they have had 2 or maybe 3 reunions. I haven't gone mainly because I was only in that school for 2 years, and we no longer live in Omaha and haven't for many years. It has been fun seeing current pictures and finding out where many have moved to and made their lives.
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Post by 8 Bit WWBG on Jun 20, 2014 17:29:42 GMT -5
I am very sad that I missed my 10 year. I probably could have made it happen, but made stupid choices and felt like I didn't deserve to go.
I will NOT miss my 20th.
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Post by ZaireinHD on Jul 4, 2014 19:39:33 GMT -5
had a bad 4 years in high school? mistreated in high school? what a bunch of jerks from high school?
sure go to the reunion - people change - right? I think some might be surprised that they are remembered and might even get apologies for the mistreatment.
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Post by violagirl on Jul 5, 2014 10:58:48 GMT -5
While i sometimes wonder where people I went to school with are now, i dont' wonder enough to want to go meet them. I was never popular at school nor an outcast. I just did waht I had to do. Same as college. I didn't go to my college graduation or my university graduation. Figured one was enough. Now they have kindergarten graduations for pete's sake! Like getting through kindergarten is a huge achievement. It might be because I am an introvert, but I do not form attachments with lots of people. So there are about 2 people in school and only a couple in college that I wouldn't mind seeing. I had an awkward moment with a girl who apparently sat behind me in college for a year. A year later I didn't recognize her name or her face at all. That was an awkward conversation. I guess we'd all like to think we are memorable. I'm sure she only remembered me because once I came back from a bathroom trip in the middle of an exam, tripped over a book bag and fell headlong onto the floor with a BOOM in the middle of a silent exam room.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2014 11:22:57 GMT -5
My high school class has a Facebook page that's pretty active so I know what a lot of them are up to without actually having to socialize with them.
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