When I was in high school I promised myself I’d go to my 10yr reunion.
I had lost touch with everyone and didn’t care one way or another if I went, but I went only because of the promise I made to my 18yr old self.
It was a total snooze fest. Most of the people that I would have liked to see weren’t there.
I was pregnant, so I couldn’t even get a good buzz on. I can say with 100% assurance that I was the hottest pregnant chick there. (I was the only pregnant chick there, or at least the only one showing) It took me an hour to figure out who half the people were. We spent a lot of time playing “Classmate or Spouse?” because we weren’t sure if we even *should * recognize people.
I achieved my highschool goal of attending my 10yr reunion with a good career, a house, a family, and looking good enough to make several heads turn (in the good, is THAT Solfy?! sort of way). I have no desire to attend any others.
No chance. High school sucked. I can count on one hand the number of people I might be interested in seeing again. And two of them would be because they simply stopped talking to me after I left for college, and I wouldn’t mind knowing why they decided to be such childish shitheads.
I ran into a couple of guys I was friends with in HS a few years ago. Judging from the conversation we had they spend all their time going to bars trying to score with women. It was quite depressing actually.
Hmmm…my 10 year actually wasn’t that bad. Like others here, I really didn’t fit in with any one group. I was in groups from the writers guild and thespian society to cross country and track. But didn’t really have any “best friends” at all. But surprisingly just about everyone was pretty laid back and cool. The most popular girl in school took the lead in organizing it, but really was nice and polite to everyone when I got there. Hell, she even remembered me after I had signed in and was able to find me to give me the mug that they had made. She talked and danced with anyone and everyone and was just plain nice. Which was a total 180 from her attitude in school. A lot of other people were like that. I didn’t spend a lot of time talking to anyone, but I did enjoy seeing how they’d changed, or not changed. So I suggest going. It won’t hurt anything and you’re not obligated to actually interact with anyone. Someone starts acting like a dick, leave. You’re an adult now and don’t have to stay there.
Damn, that’s EXACTLY how my 10th was set up. Cheerleaders organizing…check. Me “lost”, even though I still lived in the town, even on the same street, and was listed in the phone book (parents still lived at my old address with the same phone number)…check. Didn’t bother with going…check.
Well, I am going, but I have the suspicion that it’s not going to be all that great. I just got an email that said they are refunding half of everyone’s money because people are, reportedly, pissed off about it being too expensive. I can’t help but wonder what they would have done with the extra money if people hadn’t been complaining.
(Although, to be truthful, it was outrageously expensive. $110 a person for a luncheon and entrance into an upscale club, no open bar!)
I didn’t go to my ten year reunion. I didn’t go to my 20th either.
I did not have any real desire to see anyone from high school. There were a couple of people I was curious about, but for the most part, I didn’t care to see any of them.
A few months after the 10 year reunion, I ran into some people I had gone to school with. They had attended the reunion and wondered why I wasn’t there. They also told me I hadn’t missed much. It was high school all over again, same cliques, etc.
I hear they’re thinking of doing some sort of informal gathering for our 25th this September. I’m not going to that either. You’d think I’d be curious, but, I’m not.
5th – cliques still strongly in force; you mostly talk to who you hung out with in high school; a lot of people trying to impress each other with their new career moves
10th – still a bit cliquey, but people mingle a bit more. The snobby kids no longer on the fast track are nowhere to be seen.
15th – (This is where a picnic and kids starts becoming part of the reunion weekend.) More of those who stayed local and didn’t go to college show up, when they stayed away from earlier ones. The upper class clique seems to have fallen back to earth and talk to the regular folk.
20th – A good time, but college grads are fewer than before. Several survey answers indicate they have no interest in high school reunions, but they don’t miss the college reunions. The hot chicks who don’t look so hot anymore wouldn’t be caught dead here. A great time for those who come.