Reunion

[BlondeCurlGirl]

I just got an invite to my 5 year High School reunion in the mail today. Luckily it is not until July, but already I am debating whether to go or not. I've got some time to make up my mind! Most of the people that I care to see I already spend time with anyway since we have been friends for a very long time. :rolleyes:

How have your reunion experiences been? Is it even worth going to the 5 year one, or should I wait until #10? Got any great stories to share?

[skipthisone]

I skipped 5 and went to 10...5 is nothing.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

BCG, a lot of it has to do with how close you were to the people you went to high school with, and how often you keep in touch with them now. If you're wanting to get together with someone who may attend that you don't normally correspond with/see, then maybe you *do* want to consider going. But five years is not a terribly long time to be away from those you graduated with, and you'll see more changes by the time the ten-year one rolls around.

That being said, our class didn't have a five-year, and my first due date was the same date as my ten-year class reunion, half-way across the country. :D

[Lilith]

Been 15 for me and I just don't miss them yet :p

[Scarlett]

LOL@ Lilith. I can't say that I miss them either. If I did, I would have stayed in contact with them. We didn't even have a 10 because there was not enough interest.

[dicksbro]

I went to my 20th class reunion and while we (my wife and I) had a nice time, I'm not sure that it was anything to write home about. Some people I remembered, many I didn't. Living out of town now, we really no longer have much in common. Didn't go back for the 25th or 30th or later.

Like I said, it was a nice evening but haven't felt any compelling need to go back. If I still lived there, even, I might.. I think IAKG said it well ... depends on how close you were (and still want to be).

[gekkogecko]

I missed each of the high school reunions, but only because my aim was off.

[BlueSwede]

I didn't like to hang around with my fellow classmates when I WAS a student there, so I sure had no interest in going back afterward. I usually hung out with kids older than myself who weren't in high school any longer or who went to a school on the other side of town.

When I was a freshman in college, my first roommate in the dorm was black. We had been assigned rooms, we didn't know each other beforehand, and we became lifelong friends (and still are). I found out that rumors were spreading among many of my high school classmates that I was dating black guys (hadn't yet) based solely on the fact that I had a black roommate in college. That just verified for me even further that most of them were idiots, and then I REALLY had no interest in ever going to a reunion to see them.

[Steph]

There was interest in a 10-year reunion for our class apparently but a lot of us felt it was too soon. We're still establishing careers, families, etc. Call me when it's been 25 years!

[Loulabelle]

There's only really one person I'd be interested in seeing from my school days because I've lost touch with her and can't trace her. She lives in America now and I think she's changed her e-mail address.

She called last summer and I was out!! Unfortunately she didn't leave her contact details on my machine and I was devastated.

[cbass1976]

10 year will be next year sign me up it will be a good drunk

[dadaist]

Supposedly my high school class considered a 5 year but didn't do it. There is a 10 year scheduled for this September, but unless I've got the money to pay for the dinner they're planning ($75 a head!), forget it. At least one of my friends, and the only one I'm still regularly in touch with from our graduating year, isn't going....

[RandyGal]

dadaist, I paid 75$ to go to my 10th reunion and we got bowls of peanuts and pretzels as our "dinner".....and they ran OUT of them an hour into the "festivities".

You'll have much more fun if you sit in the parking lot and visit and laugh with the people going IN to the reunion. Yer much safer outside!!! (at least that's MY experience with high school reunions! LOL LOL)

[dadaist]

That's assuming I want to go crash their party at all! :P

[RandyGal]

Wellllllllll ACTUALLY, I edited my first post.............

I WAS gonna say "You'll have much more fun if you sit in the parking lot snickering and giggling *laughing at* the people going IN to the reunion!" LOL LOL


You could also point at them WHILE you laugh, thus making your night that much more enjoyable.

Mocking old PITA classmates can be so much fun. :p




(PITA = pain in the ass)

[dadaist]

Or giggling as they all come out staggering drunk?
Still I can think of better things to do in September than waste a night in Aurora. Even if I haven't ever been to Walter Payton's Roundhouse.

Oops did I just give away too much? ;)

[IAKaraokeGirl]

Originally posted by dadaist

Oops did I just give away too much? ;)


Nah. After the other night, BlondeCurlGirl and I know enough to hunt you down. ;)

[dadaist]

Originally posted by IAKaraokeGirl
Nah. After the other night, BlondeCurlGirl and I know enough to hunt you down. ;)

Maybe I WANT to be hunted!
Er *ahem*.

[krzykrn]

I will never go to a highschool reunion, the people I care about I keep in contact with *shrug* There are a few people I wouldn't mind seeing what they have been up to, but I am not flying back East and paying whatever it is, just to on the offchance meet them if they are there.