Have you, or would you

[TGTheodore]

I had a blast in high school, and I've been on the committee for the last six reunions (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30).

I finally started an annual (informal) reunion for all the classes of the 1970's from my high school and it's always great seeing "new" faces each year. It's gotten really big over the last six years.

--Ted

 

[Daneel]

I've only been out of high school for seven years, so I don't really know how I'll feel once fifteen or twenty years rolls around, but I doubt my outlook will have changed too much. Right now, I have no desire to go to any sort of high school reunion. I wouldn't say high school was particularly painful or unpleasant (in fact, it was much better than elementary school, where more people were assholes towards me), but outside of perhaps the time I spent performing in the Spring musicals, there aren't a lot of fond memories of that time either.

As for the people, I can count on one hand the number of folks I knew in high school that I have any kind of contact with today, and most are just people who for some reason added me as a "friend" on Facebook. There really aren't many individuals I have any wish to see again, as I was never all that close to anyone in high school. In a few years, I'll probably be saying something similar about a lot of the people I knew in university -- that's just the way I am.

Now, if I became rich and massively successful, and found some smokin' hot babe I could bring along, sure, I'd go to a reunion... if only to show off.

 

[Holdfast]

In these days of incessant fundraising, I keep getting invites to various school reunions and university alumni meet-ups for all sorts of do's. I hardly ever go, but I bumped into an old school friend a couple of months ago and we sort of agreed to both go to the next big one. We'll see.

I enjoyed both school & university quite a lot, but somehow don't feel particularly interested in meeting up again. Would be fun, though, I guess.

 

[auntiehill]

No. I went to an all-girl's Catholic high school, with 42 girls in my graduating class. I don't care if I ever see any of them again, EVER.

 

[An Officer]

I went to an informal high school one (it was actually a wake for a well-loved guy who used to be in our year, not as bad as it sounds, it was a very happy occasion to celebrate his life). This was after we'd been away from school about 6 years I think. There were 50 or so people there, and I enjoyed myself. Everybody made an effort and attended very well turned out. We hung out at a bar near our old school and then moved on to a club. Most people stayed till the early hours, and lots of surprising pairs went home together.

I haven't gone to another like that again though, as most had changed very little from being obnoxious teenagers. Give it another 10 years and I might.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

High school wasn't exactly a great time for me(even in comparison to the rest of my life). I went to one high school in my freshman year and had some emotional problems which resulted in me being kicked out. I went to another one for my Sophomore year and had a miserable year. Then I took my equivalency and that was the end of highs school. Funny thing was I was home last year during what would have been my 20th high school reunion. I didn't go, but i got a little wistful looking at pictures on classmates.com. recently.

 

[LitmusDragon]

If I were ever to win the lottery or somehow fall ass-backwards into a mountain of money, then yes.

Otherwise, no.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I wouldn't be comfortable with my wife shaking hands with the women who used the same hand to shake my doodle back then.

Why? I'm sure your wife hold the same thing in her hands, too. They would be doodle-buddies!

 

[Lookingglassman]

Nope! I couldnt stand any of them back then so I sure dont want to waste hours of my life pretending I like them now.

 

[trekkiedane]

"Doodle-buddies"



Now this is a new expression that belongs in the dictionary!

 

[RandyS]

Not a chance in hell. This August, my high school will have it's 20 year reunion, to which I was invited, but I just can't justify spending $80. to reconnect with people who barely knew I existed then, and probably could care less now.

I was only friends with one of them anyway, and that is still the case.

 

[Chekov's Phaser]

I just recently missed my 10 year reunion. Not really sad I missed either. I didn't hate High School (I did hate middle school) but I liked college a whole lot more. The vast majority of my good friends in High School are still my good friends today, so other than a few random people, there is not many people I would want to see. Coupled that with the fact that there were some 800 people in my graduating class, the chances of seeing a select few is rather slim.

Of course what's funny is that being a High School teacher, it doesn't seem that I've really ever left it...

 

[Cayla]

I went to my husband's 20 year last weekend. We went to the same school, so I knew most of the people there.

 

[Mr Light]

My HS 10 year reunion is this fall and I couldn't care less about going. There's probably about 5 people from HS I would interested in seeing again, and several people I wouldn't.

 

[SeerSGB]

I think on my part it's partly I just never really liked 99% of my highschool class (especially my 2nd highschool). And partly the fact that I run into these folks randomly everyone couple months or so, or their siblings who have to tell me how their big bro/sis is doing. I'd have to say most of them have a very rosy picture about that time in our lives or they downplay the shit they did to people with a laugh and "Ha, ha, can you believe we were just kids."

Last one I ran into that did the whole "wasn't it such a good time, to be that age again" I reminded that she and her friends badgered one of our younger classmates about her looks till she [the classmate] attempted suicide and was put away for a couple of years cause they were "just having a little fun", or hey, let's talk about Lisa, you know the girl whose mouth you held opened sprayed full of mace and damaged her lungs cause "Bitch needed to learn her place". Suffice to say, she told me to stop dwelling on the past and that I can't hold what we did as kids against her.

Of course there was the girl who tried to trick me into our class's one reunion. She called up and tried the sexy voice "I'm really looking forward to seeing you again" angle. I recognized the name, knew she was the bitch that ruined one of my friends by claiming he knocked her up (he hadn't, she was screwing another guy) and asked her if she'd do a three way with the wife [we're not into that, but hey shock value]. She hangs up, two days later her mother calls (recognized her mom's voice, she's got one of those annoying voices that you never forget). She started into the usual bullshit about "good times" and her daughter really would like to see me, blah, blah. I just said, "hey how is old doorknob doing?...You know our nickname for your daughter, everyone with $20 gotta turn." Never got called again.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I went to my 5th year reunion and was bored. I guess I made the best of High School, but I put it behind me within about five seconds of graduation. So I never went to the 10th or 15th. I don't think I've gotten an invitation for anything beyond that for some reason. Knowing the people I went to school with, they're probably all dead now.

 

[TGTheodore]

The five and ten year usually aren't as great as later ones. People aren't comfortable with their lives yet and are still needing to impress other alumni. The reunions get better and better the older you get.

--Ted

 

[SicOne]

I wouldn't mind going just out of curiosity, but my high school time wasn't necessarily a fond one. The few people I was friends with, I have still kept in touch with, and I might just be content with letting them go to it and filling me in on the details afterwards. It's two states away, and if I'm going to take a few days off work and travel, I'd rather go do something far more interesting than seeing near-complete strangers.

That being said, I do recognize that since I'm not the same person I was when I graduated 25 years ago, neither are they, and if I did go, I'd probably actually have a pretty good time.

We shall see.

 

[SicOne]

You know, I've been reading your stories, and I decided, yeah, I am gonna go...that is, if they hold a 25th year reunion this year. Guess I better get on the stick and check in with some of the people back home (knowing my shit luck, I've probably already missed it).

As a fat kid, I didn't have a whole lotta fun back in high school, and during dodgeball the guys used to hide behind me. I'm still built like a city bus, but I'm fine with it and comfortable in my own skin, so it will be interesting to see how everyone turned out. Hope they have a good buffet.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

I never graduated.

Mean Joe, Good Enough Diploma guy.