Class Reunions

[SlowwHand]

Have you gone to any? I'll have number 35 coming up soon.
I remember the last one that I went to; well, I remember the first one, too.
I'm looking around, wondering who these people are. Why did my class mates send their parents? It gets worse. You finally realize, they're thinking the same thing. Evidently, no one from your class showed up at all. Parents, uncles and aunts are there instead.
Have you ever seen "Hook"? You know when that chubby black kid pushes Peter's face back and says, "Oh. There you are Peter". I can relate. I fully expect that to be happening all around me again. I'll have layers upon layers of palm prints on my cheeks.

[Asher]

I'm not sure there's a point to class reunions for my generation -- not with facebook.

[DanS]

I went to my high school 10th. Surprisingly, a lot of fun.

[Winston]

I passed on my 25th public school reunion last year, first one that was being arranged. I thought about it for a while, but in the end I failed to see the purpose of going.

[chequita guevara]

Never been to one. Those kids tortured me in school and I really have no desire to see them except curiosity.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by DanS
I went to my high school 10th. Surprisingly, a lot of fun.

I wanted to but was stuck in Iraq.

[DanS]

I would rate it higher than going out and having fun with friends. But nothing big to miss. It wasn't a transforming experience or anything.

[SlowwHand]

10 years is ok. 20 years, and it's a lot harder to recognize. Athletes that now practice pie eating as a sport. The cheer leader that was so hot and you're thinking, "WTF happened to you?"
The geek is still a geek, but he's pulling down ungodly amounts of money.

[Winston]

The teacher might've died, though.

[asleepathewheel]

my 10 year was 2 years ago.

Time was quite unkind to most of my peers.

It was rather depressing, to see the potential of youth wasted. Children (derailing any hopes of a real career), divorces, marrying guys ten+years older to avoid reality.

Myself, another attorney, and an intel engineer were the three successes out of a class of 300. Very weird to see the top 10 in the class turn out to be stay at home moms or burn-outs.

Thank god I went away to college and thank god I didn't stay involved with a girl from my hometown. yikes.

[Lorizael]

If I showed up to a high school reunion right now, I suspect I'd be one of the disappointments. I was thought of as the very intelligent, nerdy type of kid in high school, and I could be asked questions regarding just about any subject.

Everyone always assumed I had straight As, assumed I was going to college, assumed I'd end up rich in some computer-related profession.

But I've only been out for five years. Maybe by ten I'll be that world-famous novelist I always think I'm going to become.

[Adagio]

Last year was the first time, 10 years has passed since I last saw most of them. Still recognized those from my class (it was four classes that year), but had a hard time recognizing those from the other classes
In a few months we will have an 11th year reunion

None of our teachers joined the party though

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Asher
I'm not sure there's a point to class reunions for my generation -- not with facebook.

WTF is "facebook"?

[Theben]

My 20th is coming up. Don't see any point in going, tho, as thru the very few contacts I still have only a couple of dozen plan to attend.

[Zkribbler]

The ten year was fun. America had move from Eisenhower clean-cut to Jerry-Rubin hippie. So we all got to laugh at each other. It was also cool to see the doctors getting together with their old buddies who now sold auto parts. In real life, they probably would never talk anymore.

The only sad part was the memorial wall. We'd already lost six of our classmates. But most of that was Vietnam.


The twenty year was weird. The men had gotten bald. The women had gotten fat.