High School Reunions

[ilovejack02]

My 20th is in Oct. Think it is around 100 to go ish and I will have to book room as it is about 2 hours away. I am on the fence. Because of FB I have reconnected with who I really wanted to , though there are a few who live far away that we haven't been able to see each other yet, though it is just a matter of time. I had lunch with a H.S. friend on Friday in Nola, so great to see her.

Hubby really doesn't want to go, so I think if I do go I will leave him home.
I enjoyed high school, but don't really see the need to reunion . Ehhh, Im sure I will come home with some good stories about other people's behavior though to make my friends here giggle . I saw a video of someone break dancing at last years reunion. Hmmmm should almost 40 yr old overweight men be doing that and can they do it well, from what I saw NO!

 

[Kimberly]

I went to an unofficial one at 5 years, which was at a local pub on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I found that I had little in common with my friends from high school, and the whole evening was awkward. The only girl that I talk to from my high school days is a close family friend who I see often, and do business with. We were both kind of guilted into going, and with our 10th high school anniversary next year, I'd find it difficult to fly out there to attend.

 

[Pigeon]

My BFF was shocked that I said that to him. I didn't understand why. I was just being honest. I then realized it may have come across as rude. Oops. Didn't realize it in the moment. Oh well. If he took it as rude, I don't think he did, he seemed to be a good sport about it, but IF he was offended, I guess I could chock it up as a little payback? idk

Really? You don't think this was rude? How about if some guy came up to you and told you he wouldn't recognize you because of how badly you've aged? But I guess if he was just being honest...

 

[stevenpensacola]

We went to my 30th recently. I was not in the it crowd...and wondered about going. We really had a good time.

Sure...there were folks who acted just they were in high school...some were there trying to get lucky...there were those that were pretentious...we just avoided them.

Had fun talking with old friends.

I say go. It won't hurt....plus most of the cheerleaders and football jocks have aged just as "well" as everyone else...and they have farther to fall.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

Really? You don't think this was rude? How about if some guy came up to you and told you he wouldn't recognize you because of how badly you've aged? But I guess if he was just being honest...

Nope, I guess you'd have to be there to understand how the conversation went. I told him I didn't recognize him, he was the one that mentioned his hair, that's when I told him about the hair comment.

I am not offended easily. Someone can tell me to my face that the didn't recognize me because I gained X amount of weight, and I would agree with them. It's the truth, why get offended.

 

[mommasita]

Well, it was a good time!! I saw many faces I have not seen in YEARS, and some I see often see regularly.

We all chat up a storm!

 

[M5ward]

My class has had a 5th, 10th, 25th, and a 40th reunion. I've been to them all and have enjoyed every one. I was just an average kid in high school; not part of the "in" clique but not a social outcast either. I was raised (and hope I've raised my own kids) to be nice to everyone. I actually had a classmate tell me at the last reunion that they always remembered me as someone who was friendly to all.
We are in the planning stages for our (OMG) 50th in 2014; I have worked on each of the reunions; made new friends and reconnected with old friends.

 

[Katy Belle]

My 25th is this year. I am not going, because I already had plans for that night. I graduated with a small class, only 68 of us. I have gone to a couple of reunions and always enjoyed myself.

Just go and have fun!

 

[luvsJack]

My 30 year was this year and we had a great time! I almost ducked out of going but being friends with so many on facebook made it a little harder to do. I had not been since the 10 year and all the cliques are one of the reasons. Totally different now.

We are lucky in the sense that some of the alumni from our high school have put together a music festival that coincides with the big alumni homecoming event each year. Its easy to plan a big reunion at the music festival. We had so much fun, we are doing a repeat of our 30 year next year!! The event page is already up on facebook.

 

[SAHDad]

We didn't have a 5th. The 10th was something like $40 per person, and DW and I chose not to go - I wasn't friends with really anybody in HS (other than 2-3 people, tops), and, to be honest, I saw no point to driving 90 miles each way, and paying $80 to spend time with people that I didn't like in HS, and probably didn't like 10 years later. I'd rather spend the money buying pizza for my friends in college, and just hanging out. At any rate, the 10th got canned due to lack of interest.

We didn't have a 15th. We were going to have a 20th (apparently) - it was being organized on Facebook, and I only found out about it through a google search. (I'm moderately hard to find, but not impossible*). It got canned, in part because the organizers, who all still live in town, decided that having all the activities on a Friday night, in October, was a fine and decent idea. Even if I had wanted to attend, I would have had to pull DS out of school, DW would have to take a day off work, so we could drive down in order to be there in time for the 6 pm start. And the only activity planned for Saturday morning was a breakfast or something.

* On a related note - my sister encountered something like that for her 10 year ruinion. Six months or so before the event, the people in charge sent out an email, saying "We can't find these people." She spent ten or fifteen minutes searching, and managed to track down about half the list, and then sent the info to the organizers. A couple months later, they sent out the same email, still could not find the same people.

Anyway - I did not like high school (to put it mildly). It is quite possible that they have changed - but reading some of the FB posts on the planning page, it seems unlikely, and, when finding out will cost me a weekend, 10 hours of driving, hotel, and however much they decide to charge for the event itself, it just isn't worth conducting the experiment.

I should note - I have given serious thought to planning the 25th. It's not that hard to book a hall, hire a DJ, get a caterer, etc. I would make the arrangements, pay (anonymously) the down payments as needed, and simply mail the (dis)organized committee with what has been done, as a fait accompli. The fact that my class has the singular honor of going 20 years without a reunion is embarassing, to say the least.