I’ve been to a couple of high school reunions, no college reunions.
Sure are a lot of old people at those high school reunions, and fewer of them each time.
Nope. Everyone I liked from high school I still know.
Never bothered. Don’t like crowds, and have no fondness for any school I’ve ever attended, nor the people in them. It’s not even that I actively hate them - they just are utterly unimportant to me.
I went to my 10 year. It was a blast getting to see what people were up to since most of the people living boring lives decided to skip. I find it interesting to see where people ended up. I don’t have any negative memories from high school and I’m still friends with most of the people I was friends with back then so I’m mostly interested in hearing the stories from people I don’t keep up with. It probably helps I went to a small private school so most of the people in my class made something of themselves. I’ve got my 20th coming up and I’ll definitely be there.
I went to my wife’s 10 year and it was just a bunch of people who never left town staring at each other in a park plus my wife and one other girl who became a doc in the big city but didn’t want to talk to people since she was mainly there to show off how awesome she was. God that was terrible. I don’t think we’re going back for her 20th.
I’ve gone to my 10th and 20th year high school reunions. They were fun. I would have gone to others except they came at inconvenient times.
I went to our 9 1/2 year reunion (yeah, I know, weird choice) then a few years ago, there was a combined reunion for class of 71, 72, 73, and 74 (I was '72.) Both were awful. There were live bands that were so loud, it was impossible to have a conversation. And the couple of people I was with were friends I’ve stayed in touch with since graduation. From what I could tell, the people who I was interested in seeing again weren’t interested in going to the reunions.
No huge loss, but I won’t bother ever again.
As far as i know, my class had a 10 year reunion and never had another one. I didn’t make it to the 10 year because I was working in Ontario at the time and it was too far to get back.
My wife and I hit our 20th, 37th, and 40th. That’s 3 out of the 4 reunions that they held; our class also held a 10th reunion but we missed that one. I don’t know why they had a 37th.
We already keep in touch with everyone from our class that we really want to stay in touch with; each other. But we’ve always had fun at them.
OH GOD NO!!!
I moved to a new state for high school, I didn’t grow up with any of the people I went to school with, I was just forced to deal with them for a few years.
I thought one or two were real friends.:dubious: but time proved they were just killing time till they could become lifeless drones in tan cargo shorts.:smack:
I think Facebook is killing most of the curiosity that used to drive people to go to these things. It’s easy now to see who got fat, bald, drug addicted, or died of cancer.
As to the question, I went to my 1st one, the 35th, 2 years ago, early in 2016. That would be class of 1981 if you care to do the math. I tried my damnest to make the best of it, but the evening was a really a drag.
And all I really got out of it was a bunch of people who pressured me into accepting their friend requests on Facebook, which I promptly regretted once the election heated up. It brought about a purging of my Facebook page, and now I never go there. To Reunions or Facebook, I mean.
I’m already in touch with most of the people I’d want to see, or weren’t in my graduating class, so probably not. (Plus I haven’t heard about one – my class seems to be lazy)
Now, a Catholic school reunion might be fun, so I’d be tempted to go to that.
No
I can not think of any classmate I would want to see or care how they turned out. Some of my teachers OTOH I would love to chat with; but they are probable all dead.
I had some really great inspirational teachers.
I went to the first. Then I moved and lost contact. When the 50th was coming up in 2004, I would have liked to have gone, but there was only a more-or-less private affair (other classes had their reunions listed on the alumni site) and it turned out that it would have cost nearly $500 for me and my wife and I just let it drop.
I *would *go to my High School reunions if they weren’t expensive, overblown affairs. Just to see what happened to the people I wasn’t all that close with. But they are always over-orchestrated and very high priced so screw 'em. A kegger in the gym would be all I’d be willing to invest in.
However, I do attend reunions with my close college buddies. We had a very tight-knit dorm floor, and about 25 of us have kept pretty much in touch for thirty years. We get together back on campus every five years. Nothing formal, just rent a bunch of cheap hotel rooms and roam the bars looking like old farts.
We’ve had them at ten year intervals, so there have been four for me. I wasn’t in the in crowd but I enjoy learning how things turned out.
The biggest surprise was at the firs one. my tenth. There was this one guy, very popular. He was not tall, blond hair, bright blue eyes. He’d been in all the plays, musicals, and choral groups, and was dead set on being an actor.
At the ten year reunion was learned, to our great surprise, that he experienced a call to the priesthood and was currently in seminary. He was a mission priest in Africa for a while, then served in other places. Last I heard he was in D.C. Lord knows they need guidance, the government I mean.
I graduated in 1993 and haven’t gone to any. Maybe I’ll hit the 25th this year. (My class had like 700 people in it, and there are only maybe a dozen I’d want to say hi to, so maybe I won’t.)
I went to my 20th and 25th. My 20th was a catered affair and a hall and I had a blast. Loved it. The 25th was less organized and basically a meet up at a bar and was fun but not as good as the first one.
My 50th is coming up this summer. I would completely blow it off except that I really want a summer trip to New Mexico this year. Craving it, as the man says. I went to my 20th and it was stupid in the extreme. I had a small group of friends in a graduating class of 900 fucking assholes. :eek: Nobody I would have wanted to see was there. Move along, nothing to see here. On the other hand, we went to the missus’s 20th the year before in Cleveland, and I decided I was going to have a real good time. I went around glad handing everyone I met…God it’s good to see you…how you been…can’t believe it’s been so long. I was so good I got my picture on the back cover of their memorial program, mailed out after they processed everything. Photo guy caught me in the hall, and I turned around with a big Heyyyyyyyy pose. They’re still saying, who the fuck was that guy? The missus loved it.
Dad was in the Air Force, and due to the goings on in Vietnam Nam, we moved a lot. I went to 4 high schools all together.
However, the one I graduated from is in a town they could use to test the effects of nukes and napalm for all I care.
So, no.
No and kinda. From either the high school or university from which I graduated; no interest at all. But I do go to some informal get-togethers for the high school I would have attended had it not closed when I was in junior high. My early class-mates and I think of ourselves as the “should have been class of 76”.