Mods, could you just change the title of this thread to “what my reunion experiences have been”?
Ta.
My 10th reunion will be next year, but I always swore I wouldn’t go. Unlike a lot of people, I actually kept in touch with several of my friends from high school over the years, and one of them is my current roommate. Most of us stayed friends and are still pretty close, but I have no desire to catch up with anyone else from high school. I was an academic overachiever and a band member (although I did jazz band instead of marching), but I never did any of the “popular kid” stuff. Of course I hated 99% of the whole high school experience.
What a wicked thing to want to do. Sounds like you haven’t left high school.
That and maybe move it to IMHO? Is it possible for a thread to migrate from the Pit?
I went to my 10 year reunion just because I hated those stupid fucks and wanted to show off. It worked well, too. I had an awesome dress filled with an awesome body, an awesome date, a great kid to brag about, a good job, and I could also tell everyone I escaped from our hometown.
Most of them had married each other and spawned a few kids. Nothing too exciting. They all looked drab and boring and I couldn’t imagine why I had ever wanted to be in with them. None of them even bothered to dress up. Bleh.
The one highlight of the night was this guy who everyone had ignored in high school. He looked HOT, and he is living out in Phoenix doing some fabulous job where he makes tons of money. I was so happy to see him there looking so good and succeeding beyond most of the “popular” assholes.
“Gigi came home”- the follow-up hit song by Shawn Colvin!
I’ll be attending my 20 year in July (should have been last year, but we had hurricane #2 that weekend. I think I’ll enjoy it in ways I never enjoyed high-school.
To answer the OP’s question, yeah, I think its odd to register at two HS reunion sites, then complain when someone contacts you about a reunion.
FTR, I’m not registered at any HS reunion site since I have no desire to ever go to one, what happend in regards to mine is what was told to me from several classmates who found out on their own.
This year will be 13 years since graduation, and we haven’t had a reunion.
Closest we came was a 10 year reunion, that thing was planned in a similar way to the one that Miller mentioned, although our class president planned a picnic and a dinner/dance as the festivities, and she announced the plans only through classmates.com, no hard copy mailings.
Since this is the Pit, I’ll pit her for the following:
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Planning a catered picnic and dinner/dance at the local country club, then having the balls to announce what was going to happen after she decided everything, including the prices one would have to pay to attend each function.
1b. Not giving a discount for couples, even though several people from my class married each other, or are married to people from our high school, so both people would want to attend for obvious (except to her) reasons. -
Not sending out mailed invitations. Yes, this is the modern age and we have email now, but tradition is to send out paper invitations, with a list of people who have disappeared. You thought you were being clever by doing it this way, but we all saw through it, you only wanted certain people to attend.
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A member of my class, who fronts a local band, was willing to have the band play for free at both events, the only payment they wanted was to be fed at both events. All the band members are from the same high school and are in the same age range as my class, so everyone in my class knows or knows of the band members.
The bitch planning the reunion wanted them to pay for their meals both times.
A goof friend of mine was going to take over planning for a reunion, but that hasn’t happened yet, thank og!
D. Pirahna
It’ll be 10 years since I graduated high school next year. If I get invited, I’ll probably go. Unfortunately, the girl we had as class president in grades 9-11 graduated a year early and our senior class president was a real buffoon. My guess is he’ll be too lazy to plan anything.
I’m wondering if it’s an American thing. I went to a reunion of a sort since my HS closed down (only about 4 years after I graduated) but never heard from them again. The only reason why I knew there was a sort of reunion was because of a large banner on the school. I didn’t get notified about it.
Too bad I don’t speak to many high school friends. My fiancee was my classmate but we don’t really see/speak anyone else from our classes. I wouldn’t mind a reunion.
We must be a strangely close-knit school. While we had an average-sized graduating class (130 or so), we’ve had reunions every five years. We weren’t very clique-ish…or rather, everyone belonged to about three cliques, so there was heavy overlap.
Five Year: Rented out a local Italian restaurant. DJ. Good fun. I was in grad school at the time (which surprised nobody), and always got along with everyone. I was only “popular” in that every knew me (band, drama, etc.). Ended up hanging out a lot with two girls who I used to talk with all the time in Pre-Calc/Calculus classes. And a good friend who left the school our sophomore or junior year made an appearance, and we did some heavy catching up.
Ten Year: Rented out the lower level of a local restaurant. In the interim time, I’d worked in advertising in Chicago, but was back in school getting my doctorate, after having been laid off. Fewer people showed up, but still had a good time with the people who did. A couple people started to try to recapture their assholish high school personas (personae?), but they were pretty much ignored. One girl who I knew and was now married came up and said “I am SO glad you came…I was telling my husband, if there is one person I was SO hoping would show up, it was you. Just been wondering where you’ve ended up!” Needless to say, that felt good. And, I ended spending a lot of time with those two girls again at this one, as well…
Looking forward to the 15-year, and hoping I’m not back in school again at that time…
My graduating class was 600-700 people and most of my friends graduated before me, so I’m not sure how many people I’d know/recognize at a reunion. I didn’t go to my 10th because I couldn’t afford it (living in Virginia, school was in Tucson, AZ) but if they have a 15 or 20 I’d like to try to go…