Should I go to my high school reunion?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Ming
Go... I'm sure you will remember some people once you are actually at the event. But leave the wife at the hotel during the actual event. No, I'm not suggesting that you might get lucky... but while you are not sure whether you will be bored or not, she will SURELY be bored... You have a 50/50 chance of having some fun... her chances are not so good That will give you a reason to work hard to meet with people... because if you two are together, you will probably spend the whole time in a corner talking, because you won't want her to be bored.

We went to her tenth and I had a good time. It was interesting, seeing most of the "popular" kids stayed in the small town where they grew up. They were so provincial - there's nothing sadder than seeing an ex-jock with a tubgut leading the old school fight song and getting misty-eyed at seeing old film of his junior year offensive exploits. "This is when I caught that touchdown against Waycross!"

[rah]

Yes, I agree with Ming. Don't bore you wife by bringing her. I must admit it was more fun going with Ming. People seemed to remember twins a bit more. The biggest laugh was girls that wouldn't give you the time of day were now more than happy to talk with you and claimed they had a higher opinion of you when you in high school. What a joke but it kinda showed the level of their desperation. And yes most of the jocks were balding and working for streets and sanitation. It wasn't really about getting satisfaction as much as just having a few laughs. It helped that we aged better than average.
And there were a few women that weren't hot in HS and actually did talk to us back then and had turned into really hot women. Not that anything was going to happen, but it was terribly amusing seeing how things had changed and how things that seemed sooo important back then really weren't.

[Ming]

What rah said

[Bereta_Eder]

I have made contact with some highschool friends after 8 years. They still look the same to me. Some are married but are still little children, like me. I think poeple can change but always based on fixed parameters that they always have had. I think a drastic wholesome change is the exception. You can change but you'll always be within a range of what your possibilities/character traits have always been.

[alva]

[Bereta_Eder]

[Spiffor]

Paik, your new screenname is atrocious :vomit:

But at least, you didn't shorten your name to "paik" or "pai", unlike some

[Bereta_Eder]

Everyone's hating it! It's succesful!

[Spiffor]

Congrats on your amazing success. Though I wonder if you'll ever beat "Dis" and "Deathtongue" on the success scale


(I liked Deathtongue )

[chequita guevara]

As JT and I are the same age, my 20th HS reunion is also coming up. Unfortunately, since I'm still broke, I'm not going. Ah well, maybe the 25th.

I'm in catagory #2, btw.

[Straybow]

HS class reunion? If it is a family event and not adults only, yes. Wife and kid are cuter than everybody else in the room. You can always leave early, citing Sophie's bedtime.

After that: POLYMEET!

[Ecthy]

Did you have no friends? (didn't read the thread)

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Congrats on your amazing success. Though I wonder if you'll ever beat "Dis" and "Deathtongue" on the success scale


(I liked Deathtongue )

That is the very first approval of Deathtongue that I have ever seen.



ACK!

[Mrs. Tuberski]

I went to my ten year reunion in 1997 1/4 the folks I went to school with were now gay, 1/4 were twice divorced unemployed with kids with different father or mothers, and 1/4 were already dead and the last group which i fit in with were sucessfully employed and still married to one spouse with kids by that spouse. Its funny I didnt really talk to anyone while i was in school but at the reunion every knew who I was and talked to me Ididnt understand that but oh well. I have my 20th coming up in 2007 dont know if i will go to that one maybe the friday mixer and the sunday picinic but i wont pay for the sit down dinner