Went to my tenth, twentieth, and thirtieth. Won’t go to any more.
The tenth was OK - just to see where people were headed in their lives. The twentieth was fun, just to see how things were turning out. The thirtieth was horrible.
Those people are old. All they could talk about were their medical conditions, and complain about the food. It was awful.
Regards,
Shodan
I went to my first and enjoyed it. Then I moved and they lost my address. At any rate, as we came up to 50, I kept checking on the HS alum site for any announcement of a reunion. Nada. Then I discovered accidentally that there was going to be a 50th and they sent me an invitation, somewhat reluctantly. When I discovered they wanted $450 for me and my wife, I said no thanks. There were people I would have liked to see, but not at that price. That was 2 years ago, incidntally.
My class President asked me what I thought of a five-year reunion and I told him I didn’t see the point. We didn’t have one (it would’ve been last June). I probably won’t go to our tenth. Maybe I will if I feel like I’ve achieved enough to spend all night talking about it, but even then, probably not. I’m in touch with most of the few people from high school I’d still like to be in touch with. My feelings on the rest of the class range from mild curiosity to disdain.
Heh. I suppose Ishould also add that my highschool is 3000 miles away from me right now. Also, I’m from a small town. I already know how everyone turned out. I worked with half of them up until a couple years ago. Anyone else who got the hell out of that town won’t be going back either. Anyone worth seeing won’t be going back. Anyone who was my friend has kept in contact. Anytime anything new happens with one of them, my mother tells me. Not much has changed. Anyone who used to be an asshole is now an asshole with a car and a gun. To hell with that. 
I have no interest at all. I only had a few friends in high school. One of them’s dead, one is I’m semi in touch with now(we talked on myspace) and one apparently doesn’t want to talk to me ever again(or at least her husband says so).
I didn’t know anyone else and was glad to get out. There’s really no reason for me ever to return.
If it happened, it would be my 20-year-reunion, and no. For two reasons: my memory is shit, so I know old friends would say “hi” and I’d have no idea what their names were, but the main reason is that I’m 30 lbs heavier than when anyone saw me last. Isn’t that pathetic?
I went to my 5th, and it was kind of pointless – most of the people I liked, having just then finished college, were off to another distant place to join the Peace Corps/Army/Corporate world. I simply had gotten work near to home.
The 15th was different. By coincidence, I had just gotten my private pilot’s license that very day. I had been the youngest AND the skinniest in my class. This is a bad thing at 17. At 30+ it becomes a Very Good Thing. I had plenty of accomplishments for my age, lots to be proud of, had put on enough weight to have a figure but not enough to be overweight. I have heard nothing about any subsequent reunions, but would probably attend another if there were one.
I went to my 10th, and I enjoyed it, it was a pleasant evening. Prior to the reunion, I was expecting it to be either profoundly awful (in a “so awful, you wouldn’t miss it for anything” way), or, less likely but possible, profoundly exciting. Instead, it was pleasant people having a pleasant conversation. My inner Drama Queen was ever so slightly disappointed. I guess I’ve seen too many movies about high school reunions - I kept waiting for a big confrontation, or confession, or denouncement, but nada.
My 20th is coming up, and while it is out of town, I’ll most likely go if the scheduling works out because it is not that difficult to get there. Having to take two planes seems like too much effort to me.
Think that’s how I’m leaning. If I were already there, seeing the 'rents, OK. But a special trip? :dubious:
I might run into the same problem. Kinda scary that more than a few list themselves as “ultra-conservative” (not that there’s anything wrong with that) 
I appreciate everyone’s feedback, BTW …
I came home tonight, and there was a postcard in the mailbox-addressed to Mr.s McDonald-who had lived in the house before we bought it-more than 10 years ago! The Highschool (a local town) wanted to contact her-to update their records on alumni. She had graduated in 1932! Poor woman-I’m sure she is long dead.
It made me sad to reflect that just amybe, her class was planning a 75th reunion! Can it e that many of us willever attend a HS 75th? 
I’d attend. I live not that far from my high school, and I had quite a few friends that I haven’t interacted with in a while.
I went to my 10th year reunion and that was enough for me. We missed our 25th reunion and so they are planning a 27th, but I am not likely to go. The people that I want to stay in touch with I do.
I went to my 20th and had a great time. High school was pretty hellish, but at the reunion I looked, umm, considerably different, was thin and gorgeous and successful and had a handsome man as my escort and it was all very Lifetime Movie of the Week (a comedy, probably, with Fran Drescher as me).
That was sufficient, though, I wouldn’t go back to any more. I keep in touch with the few people whom I want to.
My 40th would be next year, if they have one. I might go, now that I’ve lost 150 pounds (we need a smug smilie) - if I can work it in with the annual visit to my family, and if it doesn’t cost too much. Most of my friends were actually in the year ahead of mine, maybe I should see if they’d let me go to that one…
I did.
I have utterly no interest in attending a class reunion.
As harsh as it may sound, I don’t really care what happened to the people I went to school with, even the ones I counted as friends at the time. If I wanted to talk to them, I would have been doing so all of the years since I graduated.
No. Never. Even though my high school is just a 20-minute drive away, even if it were free.
The most repulsive, horrible, disgusting people I’ve known in my life were from that place, and anyone who’s an obnoxious brat at 18 has done all the growing up he/she ever will. (Just a reminder that people change if, and only if, they want to.). The few decent students from that school have all moved on to better things, none of them in Hawaii.
The time I was there was probably the single worst period in the school’s entire history; discipline had been steadily going down the toilet for years, and it wasn’t until it reached the level of criminal activity that the powers in charge finally got of their butts and started clamping down (about a year or two after I graduated).
High school was a nightmare and I don’t like parties. I’m comfortable with that.
well, I am awaiting the arrival of my 5 year (it’s soon) and I must say I’m looking forward to it. I must say, it is honestly because I am selfish (yes, I admit it)
In HS, I was a loser, picked on a lot, and most people expected me to work my life away near my hometown since I never had high grades in school or applied myself to anything, and here I am…
I must say, a little proud of myself…
I’m almost a college graduate, I’ve kept myself at least at a 3.6 all through college, I’ve got a good bit of savings put back for a down payment on a house, I am young and in great shape, also looking forward to finishing up the recording of a 13-song cd of all original music written, played, produced, and recorded by yours truly…
So yes, I cannot wait to go back and rub it in the face of those who thought I would be a bum who couldn’t support himself and the such…
I guess working two/three jobs at a time through college really paid off…
Sure, I would likely go to my impending HS reunions. I attended high school with some wonderful people would love to see them again. Even today, I keep in touch with about 15 of my classmates to some extent despite being 100+ miles away from all of them. I graduated in '01 in a class of 250 people and reside about a 3 hour drive from where I spent my first 18 years of life. Though, I’m not certain where I’ll be living 5 years from now when a 10 year reunion woud take place, but I would attend if it was feasible. I am not aware of a 5 year reunion being planned.
The graduating class of an aunt of mine had a 34 year reunion and no other reunions. How odd is that?
Even though I had only kept up with one person from high school and hadn’t much enjoyed it while I was there, that one friend guilted me into going as her escort. So I went in to my 20th reunion with zero expectations, mostly as a favor. Boy did it turn out well. I found out that I’m a lot more successful than I’d thought, and have apparently enjoyed life to a greater degree. Additionally, many of the people who were assholes in high school had mellowed out. One sport-o guy who’d always grimaced when he looked at me in HS explained that he did that because back then he was trying to change his life from being a jock into being a good student, and the class we shared was the source of many of his feelings of inadequacy. Now he’s a rabbi and an engineer and a really nice guy.
So, if you don’t still live at home, aren’t unemployed, haven’t done hard time, have never been through (or needed to go through) rehab, I’d say go, because I just described about a quarter of the people at my reunion. An extra benefit, there will be one or two who were in the ‘beautiful people’ clique whose post-HS lives were so mundane that they’ll spend the entire evening getting drunk and embarrassing themselves. Quite a hoot.
My 30th is in two years :eek: Not sure if I’ll go; it might remind me too much of my own mortality.