I'm only 30 minutes away and would go but they planned it for the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we will be out of town since it's our year to visit the ILs for that holiday
People were PISSED they chose that weekend after a very sketchy "vote" on a random FB page they created. I feel bad as I know they can't please everyone, but I think choosing a random non-holiday weekend or doing it around homecoming would have made more sense.
I am kind of relieved not to go though, I don't mind seeing ex-bf's and their wives but there are a couple of people from HS I really do NOT want to see.
I went to my 10 year. I live 4 hours away now, but a lot of the people I graduate with still live in metro Detroit. I basically reconnected with a couple friends, but it was kind of disappointing because a lot of friends I would have liked to have seen didn't show up. I am sure I'll make an appearance at our 20 year.
Post by EloiseWeenie on Sept 19, 2012 8:14:53 GMT -5
No, but I feel the pressure because my best friend since we were 4 was the Sr. Class Pres. She is in charge of all the reunions. Our 10 year was over Thanksgiving, and we were with my IL's many states away, so I got out of it.
I have no interest in going, because when I visit my parents I see the people I want to see. I did enjoy hearing the stories about the few classmates that came cross-country for the reunion to brag about their "accomplishments."
I went to my 10-year reunion, and it was dumb. Hardly anyone I wanted to see was there, and not that many people went at all, actually. And it was really expensive and at a stupid location. So my (now ex) H and I went, got drunk off cheap keg beer and left early.
I guess I'm glad I went because I'd always wonder if I would've had fun. I was super shy in high school and am not really anymore, so it was nice to see all those dumbasses under different conditions where I wasn't afraid of anyone anymore. Plus I looked cute (and my exH was good-lookin' and charming).
Post by cookiemdough on Sept 19, 2012 8:17:48 GMT -5
I went to our 10 year and it was fun. Our 20 year is in a month but I am not going. Not quite ready to travel with the kids and besides what kind of cute dress can I find to cover up this unfortunate post baby belly???
I went to my 10 year a few years ago. It was okay.
I'm close with some people from high school (consider them some of my best friends), but I would have preferred just to have a night out with them, lol.
That said, it was enjoyable because the same people who used to get out and grind on each other at dances did it again. And I LMAO at them. It was kind of pathetic, IMO. But I'm a judgmental douche, so...
And I admit, it was kind of funny to see some of the girls who thought rather highly of themselves looking old and tired. Like washed up versions of their former selves.
And I admit, it was kind of funny to see some of the girls who thought rather highly of themselves looking old and tired. Like washed up versions of their former selves.
My god, I am a bitch.
Right there with you, sista. I really enjoyed seeing all of those snotty girls (and dudes) who thought they were such hot shit in HS looking like frumpy old Ohioans.
My ten year is coming up and I don't think I'll go. Unless its held someplace awesome. My best friend from HS married H's best friend from HS and they live up north near us now...the 4 of us could go and make a good time out of anything.
But I'd probably only go just to have fun with them, lol. Maybe to point and laugh at the busted ex-cheerleaders. ETA: Although I could probably do same by visiting the Wal Mart near my parents house.
Post by LoveTrains on Sept 19, 2012 8:25:12 GMT -5
I went to my 10 year high school reunion. It was at a casino in Atlantic City (I grew up in South Jersey, but not Atlantic City). It was actually really fun. They picked a random weekend in the fall and I flew down, directly to AC, and shared a hotel room with my best friend. Many of my friends came. It was maybe like $70 or so but there was an open bar and food and we all got completely tanked and stayed up all night.
But it would have sucked if none of my friends went.
I went to my 10-year reunion 2 years ago. It was fun. I enjoyed the fact that the popular girls were still airheads even 10 years later, and that the popular guys still act like they're in HS and still do the same things they did for fun in HS.
And I admit, it was kind of funny to see some of the girls who thought rather highly of themselves looking old and tired. Like washed up versions of their former selves.
My god, I am a bitch.
Right there with you, sista. I really enjoyed seeing all of those snotty girls (and dudes) who thought they were such hot shit in HS looking like frumpy old Ohioans.
Seriously, the best part was watching them all grind up on each other on the dance floor. It was just so pathetic! IDK... dancing, whatever. But the whole 90s grinding to 90s music made me laugh like the asshole I am.
Also one of the hottest guys in our class is totally balding now. Hilarious.
I think what makes me extra judgmental is that the vast majority of them either moved back home right after college, or never left. And then married people from our high school. Or didn't get married, but still chase the same guys/girls. I have a few good friends who did that, but they aren't caught up in the same old shit from high school like some people from our class are, so they get a pass from me.
IDK...I'm rambling, but I have some very good friends from high school that I love. It's just different somehow, because we all have other friends too, and lives that are separate from high school. There were quite a few people who are exactly like they were in high school, just older looking. It's WEIRD to not change at all! And kind of pathetic.
I've never been to an official reunion, but after our 20th, a bunch of people got on FB and a friend told me to get on too (this really is the reason I got on FB!).
Since our 20th, there have been 3 or 4 "mini-reunions" where someone has it at their home and whoever on FB that can come, comes. It's usually no spouses or kids and everyone contributes food or beer.
I actually hosted the most recent one - I have to say, it's been nice. I wasn't really friends w/ a lot of these people in HS, but it's been over 20 years. We're all older, more mature, and we can actually talk and catch up like "real" adults!
But, sadly, most of my closer hs friends didn't go.
Best part of the night: DH was at the bar ordering drinks (yay for open bar!) and I told him I was going outside for a smoke. I hadn't even fully turned around to leave, the class slut cozies up beside him and put her arm around him.
I did a 180 and said, " oh heeeeey class slut, have you met my husband?"
She was all flustered and shyt. It was a classic moment.
I also moved really far away from home and went to a giant high school. So there were a lot of people I was friendly with in high school but hadn't kept in touch because even with Facebook, you can't really keep in touch with twenty bazillion people.
It was fun to catch up with the friendly acquaintances. AND I got to confirm that some people will always be douchebags.
What's interesting- one of the "cool guys" from HS is a part of this new reunion group. He acutally held 2 of them at his house. For all I knew, he didn't know me from Eve in HS. I was very much NOT in his circle.
But at his house, once, he had pulled out old yearbooks and old class binders. He came up to me to show me one from a computer class we were in together and told me how he and this other guy would always copy off of my PC if I got up and walked away.
It was a very LOL/ surreal moment. I was like "YOU remember we were in that class together? Even *I* don't remember that".
It was just an interesting moment where I realized that where *I* thought he wouldn't really have known who I was, he absolutely did. Again - surreal!
I have no interest. I'm very much a cut-and-run kind of person - I just don't maintain relationships over the long haul with people that I don't see regularly, probably because I spent so much of my life moving around that the concept of deep roots is completely foreign to me. I have no contact whatsoever with anyone from high school, contact with only three people from college, and interact once every few years professionally with someone from law school.
This is actually all part of my plan to eventually become a full-fledged ninja.
And really, I've been around the block enough times now to know that the people I hated in high school will still be assholes now, so why bother.
I went to my 10 year and my 20 year (last year). Until the 20 year I kept in touch with only one person from high school, now I'm in touch with more - at least through FB. Oh, and I used one girl for photography recently.
It was a total hoot to see all the cool, good looking people from high school looking washed up and spent. I don't know why they all look so old. *I* do not look that old.
And there was a fist fight! Complete with the cops and an ambulance getting called to haul away my drunk ass classmate.
I went to my 10 year. About 20 of us showed up (out of a class of 29), so that was cool. We all fell into the same high school patterns, though. All the spouses were really bewildered about the dynamic, I could tell. It's just weird because we all went to school together from pre-school on up, so it was like going to a family reunion of sorts.
I don't know if I'll go to my 20 year in 3 years. Actually, I lie, I probably will mostly because my mom will be guilted into guilting me to go.
Post by setsail1999 on Sept 19, 2012 9:04:18 GMT -5
We've never even gotten around to planning a real reunion lol. But yeah, I would go. DH and I went to school together from K-thru 12 and started dating while in high school together at 15. I know he would like to go and we recently moved back to our hometown (we live about a mile from our old elementary school lol).
Over the summer we had a high school get together while a friend was in town from FL. It was actually a lot of fun
Post by lyssbobiss, Command, B613 on Sept 19, 2012 9:10:01 GMT -5
I was 5 months pregnant when they had our 10-year reunion and I was all fuck this shit. I can't drink, at least half of these people went to the same college as me...what's the point? Seriously, when everyone is on FB, I feel like I have nothing to catch up about. Hi, that thing you pinned on Pinterest was cool. What's it like having so much free time?
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
I went to a boarding school so circumstances are a little different. Some people got together for an unofficial 5 year reunion that I did not attend, and it sounds like it ended up being a bit of sh*t show. They all rented a cabin in Park City (near our boarding school) and stayed there together - I think people flaked out on paying and left one guy to foot the bill and other such nonsense. Someone else is trying to put together a reunion for next year and I won't be attending that either. There are a few people that I still have things in common with, but a lot of the people are the same spoiled and conceited assholes that they were 8 years ago, so I have little desire to interact with them.
I actually would have loved to go to my 20 year reunion, but tickets were $150/person. I wouldn't have gone without DH and I wasn't down with spending $300 for it, so we skipped it.
I went to my 10-year one. I live 3 hours or so from where I went to high school. My parents don't live in the area anymore so I don't go back there very often.
It was combined with the Homecoming game and they had a get together at a bar that evening. It was a lot of fun. I wish more people had come. But most of the people that came I liked.
I experienced a really weird dynamic in HS. The school I attended was K-12, so once you were pigeonholed into a group, you stayed there. There was no changing your "status" though heaven knows people tried.
Somehow, my best friend from high school did manage to become queen bee and since I was her best friend, I got to reap some of those rewards. Unless she and I would have an issue or a problem. Then suddenly, I was frozen out completely. So while she evolved into queen bee (and queen bitch, it turns out), I developed my own coping mechanism: Never challenge her, never question her, never put up a stink (Not even when she noticed my longtime crush was finally paying attention to me, so SHE started paying attention to him).
It proved for a pretty miserable four years. I was a complete doormat, if only so I wouldn't have to sit alone at lunch or be left out of everything. For me, graduating was like a "get out of jail free" card and I ran with it. I keep in touch with some of my friends from HS on FB, but I'm not close to any of them anymore. When our 10-year reunion came around, I had absolutely no interest in going. None whatsoever. I took a lot of grief from the one or two people from HS that I'm still close with, but it wasn't enough to make me want to go spend an evening with people (including Queen Bee) that I wanted nothing to do with.
I think all of that is part of the reason I loved college so much. After 12 years of being around the same people, I finally got to start fresh. Coincidentally, it's the friends I made there that I still have as a pretty big part of my life.
I had no desire to go to my 5 or 10 year reunions-I live in the next suburb over from where I went to HS but stayed in touch with very few people from HS. The ones I did stay in touch with weren't going to the reunion either so I didn't bother.
Now on the other hand, J is still good friends with most of his friends from HS and we see them regularly since many of us live in the same neighborhood (in the district they all went to school in) and J was one of those guys that was friendly to everyone in HS (even though some of his friends were little jerks sometimes) and remembers everyone's names so it's pretty much unheard of for us to NOT attend one of his reunions. Which is fine-since so many of his friends are my friends too, we can both go off and do our own things and be perfectly happy. I think I spent a good chunk of his 10 year reunion catching up with his HS GF and talking about our weddings (she got married a month before we did, the year before the reunion).
Post by passthewine on Sept 19, 2012 10:10:35 GMT -5
I had no desire to go to my 10th. The organizers waited so long to put it together that they actually decided to combine it with the class after ours, who I didn't know at all, plus it was ridiculously expensive. A few years ago we had an unofficial reunion (ie. a big group met up at a bar) for the JROTC that I was in, and that I wouldn't have missed for the world.
A co-worker/friend and I were at a fellow colleague's wedding reception and at the neighboring banquet hall in the hotel, a 20 yr class reunion was going on. Again, we're outside smoking and having a drink and we see them all come stumbling out to take a group picture and we get caught in the middle of the crowd. (All my best stories seem to focus on going outside to smoke)
So, we decided to go with it and photo bombed their reunion pic so to speak. She and I are somewhere in the middle of the class of 1988's 20 year reunion's group photo