# High school reunions - Do you go? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2000, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042 "2000-03-20T02:18:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/21 "2000-03-21T03:22:00Z")
Yeah, I screwed up the ones and the its. ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/22 "2000-03-21T03:35:00Z")
I guess I’m really in the minority here. My hubby and I were hi school sweethearts, and we graduated together, so going with my spouse presented no problems there. We had a blast at both our 10th and 20th reunions, they were organized well, and lasted all weekend long\. I’m quite looking forward to our 25th, in a couple of years. I do wish we’d seen Vestal Blue at at least one of those other reunions. \ * * * You sing in my consciousness like a counterpoint to my life. L.L. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/23 "2000-03-21T03:37:00Z")
After much debate, the only person from HS that I still communicate with (we also went to the same college) decided that–regarding our 10th reunion (1999)–he’d go if I’d go and vice versa. My parents still live in the town, his mom still lives in the town. My little sister graduated from the same H.S. in 1996. Yet they didn’t find–or invite, anyway–either or us. Bottom line: Planned on going, woulda gone if they’d only told me about it, obviously didn’t make it. Oh, well! Let’s see how the 15th goes in 2014; that’s the big solar eclipse year, right? ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy\_Greg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Cowboy\_Greg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy_Greg)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/24 "2000-03-21T06:26:00Z")
Don’t think I’ll ever take the trouble to go. Not only did I move between 11th and 12th grades, thereby graduating from a school where I knew very few people, but high school was not a happy fun time for me. It _was_ a learning experience, to be sure, but I don’t especially want to relive those memories. * * * A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/25 "2000-03-21T06:54:00Z")
Well, I am in charge of organizing our 10th. How are these things supposed to go? Where are we supposed to have it? I don’t think locating people will be a problem since there were only 50 in the graduating class and 90% of them have parents who still live here in town. I just need some basic info on what I am supposed to plan! Can anyone help? * * * I always try to do things in chronological order. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/26 "2000-03-21T07:30:00Z")
Didn’t go to my tenth. Didn’t care to. A lot of painful things happened to me between graduation & my ten year reunion, and I didn’t feel like smiling & saying “Oh, things have been lovely!” ## I’ll probably go to my 15th, if they have one, or the 20th. I’m on ClassMates too. ClassMates really is neat–I got back in contact with a very good friend who graduated a year ahead of me. That was great. This space blank, until Wally thinks up something cool to put here. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/27 "2000-03-21T13:25:00Z")
I’m like Cowboy Greg; I only attended the 11th and 12th grade. I wasn’t very good at making friends back then (still haven’t really improved on that), and most of my classmates had known each other since grade school. Plus, my graduating class numbered over 600 students. The people I hung out were misfits like me: SF fans, movie buffs, and transfers. For some reason, most of them were Canadian (this was in Spring, TX). I found that [www.highschoolalumni.com](http://www.highschoolalumni.com) provides me with everything I need from a reunion. I can talk to the people I liked, and not worry about having recognizing total strangers. ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/28 "2000-03-21T13:40:00Z")
No thanks, I’ll pass. I’m still in contact with a few people from my high school days though, so that’ll have to do. I don’t particularly care to know how people from high school are doing. * * * “I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought.” - Seldom Bucket ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/29 "2000-03-21T13:40:00Z")
My graduating class had over 800 people in it, and I rarely had much to do with the people in the same year as me. I didn’t go to my 10 year reunion. I don’t even know if there was one. But, if they were to put together a marching band reunion, I’d be up for that. ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/30 "2000-03-21T14:10:00Z")
My ten year reunion was last summer. I’ve kept in touch with exactly **one** person in my class. My best friend, whom I met when we were both attending the same college, graduated from my hs a couple years after I did, and her husband and brother (two different people!) were in my class, though I didn’t know them at the time. We tossed the idea of going back and forth, but in the end decided to ignore it. Truth be told, neither of us felt especially close to many folks in our graduating classes (400+). I’ve maintained the connections that matter to me; no reason to go back and remind myself that I wasn’t one of the Popular Kids! * * * Gamera is really neat, he is full of turtle meat, we’ve been eating Gam-er-aaaa… ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/31 "2000-03-21T16:06:00Z")
Geez, all you people talking about upcoming 10 year reunions is really make a “Class of '80” person like me feel old! ---
**Author:** ![Born2Read](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@Born2Read](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Born2Read)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/32 "2000-03-21T19:05:00Z")
I skipped my 15th not long ago. Pity I couldn’t have skipped HS too. My dad, on the other hand, had a great time in school and loves the reunions. My Mom thinks they suck, so Pop goes to the reunions with the lady across the street, who graduated with him. She’s a widow, and is happy she doesn’t have to go alone. ---
**Author:** ![WillGolfForFood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/82dd89/32.png) [@WillGolfForFood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillGolfForFood)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/33 "2000-03-21T20:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Guy Propski: > Geez, all you people talking about upcoming 10 year reunions is really make a “Class of '80” person like me feel old! Class of '80? Class of '80! What, are they letting **children** in here now? ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/34 "2000-03-21T20:02:00Z")
Ah, pipe down, ya old codger…😉 * * * It’s my duty; my duty as a complete and utter bastard.–Arnold J. Rimmer. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/35 "2000-03-22T07:35:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Guy Propski: > \*\*Oh, and a postscript to the last post: included with the invite and newsletter was a list of all those students that couldn’t be located. Every single person that I’d want to see again is on that list. > > Man, I really did hang out with the loser crowd!\*\* ## Maybe not. Is it being a loser to move onwards and upwards? “His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard, I wish he was mine, he’s really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.” ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/36 "2000-03-22T14:39:00Z")
Rilchiam–I dunno. Last I heard, all my old friends had dead-end jobs, and had never even come close to achieving their high school dreams. The most painful was a friend who had great potential as a film-maker. He ended up making sandwiches in a Little Rock, Ark. health food store. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042/37 "2000-03-23T01:46:00Z")
Oh. I’m sorry to hear that, Guy. I wasn’t invited to my 10th reunion, but I wouldn’t have gone anyway. My parents haven’t lived there since I graduated, and I don’t want to go back and see the people who mockingly nominated me for three Senior Superlatives just so they could see me stand up and be humiliated. * * * “His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard, I wish he was mine, he’s really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-reunions-do-you-go/15042.md?page=1)