Anyone have any thoughts on attending a High School reunion

Locoweed · Apr 27, 2013

You can add me to that list also.

wedge40 · Apr 27, 2013

Funny story. We had a 5 year, 10 year and then 25 year. I've had some medical issues since I was 10 years old. Managed to go to college get a degree and a job. But I live about 400 miles from home now. Well lost touch with most of the people I knew in high school. For the 25th someone got a hold Mom and she contacted me and I decided to show up. It was a held at a bowling hall and restaurant. I figured it'd be at the restaurant so I entered there. It was already closed for the evening, so I'm standing there looking lost and someone comes and asks if they could help. Well come to find out it was an old classmate and once I told her who I was she turn white as a ghost. Seems the rumors around town was that I had died years ago. Pretty funny cause all evening long any of the locals would come up and say I heard you had died.

Wedge

BigMike50 · Apr 27, 2013

never cared for my classmates 20 years ago. not sure I would care for them today. So im gonna pass on any reunion

farmgirl19 · Apr 27, 2013

I have never attended a class reunion, and don't believe I'd begin now!

Besides, most of them will be OLD, and since I am not, why make them feel badly? :laughing:

Welshman · Apr 27, 2013

wedge40 said:
Funny story. We had a 5 year, 10 year and then 25 year. I've had some medical issues since I was 10 years old. Managed to go to college get a degree and a job. But I live about 400 miles from home now. Well lost touch with most of the people I knew in high school. For the 25th someone got a hold Mom and she contacted me and I decided to show up. It was a held at a bowling hall and restaurant. I figured it'd be at the restaurant so I entered there. It was already closed for the evening, so I'm standing there looking lost and someone comes and asks if they could help. Well come to find out it was an old classmate and once I told her who I was she turn white as a ghost. Seems the rumors around town was that I had died years ago. Pretty funny cause all evening long any of the locals would come up and say I heard you had died.

Wedge

I may be able to match that. I wasn't really close to many people in high school, and kept in touch with only a few. About four years after graduation, a guy with the same first and last name as mine shot and killed his wife, (whose first name was the same as my wife's) in a night club I had gone to a few times. It happened on a week-end, and made the front page of the morning paper (Cleveland). No picture. When I walked into work on Monday morning, you could have heard a pin drop (I hadn't seen the paper).
I've never been invited to a reunion.

JBourquin · Apr 27, 2013

Haven't gone to any yet, I'd rather just hang out at a bon-fire in the back yard drinkin' beer and talking about the old days with the few friends I still talk to anyway.

Gary Fowler · Apr 27, 2013

Been 45 years and haven't been to one yet and likely most of the folks are old and ugly now or dead, so I guess I will never know what happened to any of them. When I do go back to childhood home it is just to visit my 2 sisters, one of whom lives only 1/2 mile from the old home place. I don't know where anyone lives from my class anyway as most everyone left town as soon as they could after graduation.

IXLR8 · Apr 27, 2013

I went to my 20th, not very interesting or fun. My 40th is coming up, don't think I will go. Any of my friends from HS... I am still friends with and see on a regular basis. I can't think of anybody from HS that I care to see so I don't really see any reason for going.

sam5570 · Apr 27, 2013

well i have a very good reason not to go to the reunions i didn't finnish school, but the wife did and she has never had any desire to go to a class reunion. the people that get it together are the people who thought they were better than everyone elce in school so she say's i didn't like them people then and i still don't like them.and all this was over 30 some years ago.