I don’t mean that the friend is old, but someone who was a friend of yours years and years ago? I was moving some boxes around and came across some old stuff from my elementary school days. On a lark, I googled the name of a friend with an unusual name and I got a hit. The profile listed for this person has him being from the right city and he’s the right age, so I emailed him asking if he attended a specific school during the same time I attended. Haven’t heard back, but I thought it’d be fun to do.
Yep - I’ve done this a couple times. Found my old next-door neighbor (we moved away when I was 6, but his name is sufficiently unusual to find pretty easily); found another old friend whose surname I never could remember how to spell, but suddenly remembered his unusual nickname, did a search on that and got a hit immediately; located a friend who’d moved far away (and has since died, so I’m very glad I found him before he did); and just last week I think I found my elementary school best friend - the name, again, is pretty unusual and the location fits, but I learned some time ago from another acquaintance that this friend had some major life changes - I sent her a note, but she hasn’t responded, and I have a feeling she’s not going to. I won’t pester her; if she prefers not to be found, I can understand that.
I’m still trying to find my HS English teacher, though.
In February I met up with my college roommate from 1962-63. The last time we saw each other was probably 1966. Another college friend and I travelled to her house and then all three of us went to a cabin on a horse farm for three days. We haven’t calmed down yet! It was absolutely fantastic! We are still the crazy girls that we were then only we are able to laugh at ourselves better. If anything, we are closer friends now than we were then.
There was absolutely no awkwardness. We just picked up as if we had left off yesterday. I couldn’t believe it!
Hey! I was a high school English teacher! You might try contacting the teacher through the retirement office of the school system for which she or he worked. Send a letter within a letter explaining the details. If your feelings were positive, I would think your teacher would be delighted. Another possibility would be to ask another teacher for assistance.
How about the reverse?
How about an old friend contacting you?
Anyone ever have this happen to them?
How you been, remember, back in high school, etc … ?
Then out of the blue, your old “friend” says “hey have you seriously considered all the options that the life insurance industry has to offer?”
I used to be heavily in to BBSing (like the Internet before it was “The Internet”) and that was my first foray into “dating.”
I met this boy from one town over when we were 14. We went to an amusement park together. I didn’t quite like him and he didn’t quite like me. We didn’t speak much after that.
Thirteen years later I looked him up on BBSMates.com (where you could go to find all your long-lost BBS buddies) and emailed him.
Turned out we had a lot in common. We’ve been dating eachother for over a year now
I also find with MySpace, it’s a lot easier to find and keep up with people you knew from school. I’ve had a couple people contact me there. I think it’s neat.
I haven’t looked up anyone, but I was contacted last fall by a guy I knew 30 years ago. I started a thead about it, asking how to gently remove myself from his contact, because it turned out to be a total drag. We had nothing in common anymore. Thankfully, he didn’t try to sell me any insurance or recruit me to sell it!
Just did a quick google of an old bf from grad school (20+ years ago); turns out he’s no longer in Jordan – in fact, is at a college about two hours away. Hmmmm…
I contacted an old friend from college once. I knew both her and her husband’s name and they were easy to track down with google. We e-mailed a couple of times, but because she didn’t have internet at home and everything had to go through her husband (who was my friend but not as good as the wife) it kind of dropped off. I’d love to see them again, but they live too far from me to make that possible.
Thanks to Myspace, yup – a coupla times. In fact, just playing around, I found an old friend with whom I shared a very decidedly ugly un-friendshipping. I don’t hold grudges very long, and actually have been in contact with his mother since then and she has kept me updated about him. When I found him on myspace, he was shocked that I had contacted him, but well 18 years is a long time ago, ya know? It was nice talking to him and hearing that his life has turned out well. There have been a few other friends I have re-connected with through myspace that were less dramatic, and still a nice sitch.
I had a friend I knew in kindergarten track down my hotmail account and email me when I was in high school. It was a bit weird – somehow she had heard that my family had moved back into the area, even though we now lived on the opposite side of town and in a different province. I didn’t even remember her(not that I really remembered any of my friends from that time – I was 5 years old, after all). We talked a couple times online, but we had absolutely nothing in common and I’ve never been much of a conversationalist to begin with.
Emailed him, and he emailed back right away, which was nice – mentioning that he heard from another person from that era today, bizarrely enough. I’m tempted to write back and tell him to ask the other person if the phrase “hi Opal” means anything to her…
Just did this in fact. My 30 year high school reunion is coming up this summer and I found online two old friends that I hung out with in high school. I have talked to them on the telephone since I contacted them. Obviously our lives have gone very different ways, but we still had some things in common. I am looking forward to seeing them at the reunion.
I remember reading the fishbicycle thread and was very worried about contacting them. But in my case it turned out fine–at least so far! I don’t see us being the friends we were in high school, too much has happened in our lives. But I do think it will be very fun to talk to them and see how life has treated them since last time I saw them.
My very first boyfriend tracked me down via Classmates about 5 or 6 years ago. We’ve chatted on line and exchanged emails, but I doubt that we’ll ever reconnect in person, what with me in MD and him in AZ. But it was nice to get caught up.
I got in touch with 2 of my best friends from high school - I hadn’t seen them in over 25 years. We all met for lunch, and it was funny to see the same mannerisms all these years later. We’ve all lost one or both parents and had our share of crises over the years, but it was fun, and we’re hoping to stay in touch now that I’m living in the same state, although I am 2 hours south of them.
Well, no life insurance involved, but I did get a message out of the blue from a girl that I dated back in high school. We only dated for about a month, so I was really surprised to hear from her. She found me on classmates.com.
Wow- I was part of a BBS in the early 90’s, and I was in my early 20’s. We used to get together a LOT, and it was like a little soap opera with all kinds of drama and carrying on. Now I’m looking at 40 and going to that site and seeing those names and posts brought back a lot of memories.
A friend I hadn’t heard from in almost 30 years called out of the blue a few months ago. He’d moved out of state years ago and if he hadn’t called, we probably never would have been able to find him if we’d tried. He tracked me and Mr. Legend down by simply looking in the phone book (we haven’t gone far), and since he was one of the few friends we’d had in common before we ever met, it was a special treat for us to catch up with him.
