People who hated High School with 10 yr reunions coming up - DON'T GO!!!!!

[devilgrrl]

Seriously! The people are STILL ASSHOLES, even worst in some cases. I swear the only thing that has changed are waste lines and hair lines.

Wait until the 20th - by that time most people are over themself.

[Shell Beau]

1. Mine is coming up in the spring!

I will go b/c I had such a small class (only 40 people in the whole class) that I loved almost everyone and would love to see them again. Plus my hubby graduated with me so we will both want to go!!

On edit I can't believe it has been 10 years!! Gosh, I feel old!

[devilgrrl]

5. That's cool :-)

I always envied kids who had fun back then.

[Fox Mulder]

2. I didn't go to my five-year reunion this summer...

there's no way in hell I'm going to my ten year when that comes around.

[Misunderestimator]

3. My 20th came and went a while ago...

And I won't be at my 30th or 40th either.

[devilgrrl]

10. Well la dee dah!!!!

;-P

:evilgrin:

[Misunderestimator]

14. LMAO!

:P :hi:

(On edit... I didn't even realize who posted this thread... LOL... I loved meeting you, by the way :yourock:)

[devilgrrl]

18. Likewise. :-)

Hopefully there will be another LA gathering in the near future. :-)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. I beg to differ

At the time of my 10th reunion, I was a graduate student at an Ivy League university who had just returned from living in Japan.

All the people who were mean to me in high school were stuck in dead-end jobs and divorced at least once, twice in one case.

[devilgrrl]

8. Wha???

Beg to differ how? Sounds like you feel the same way I do. :shrug:

[grace0418]

23. Sounds like they got some satisfaction at seeing what losers

their classmates had become. Which is valid.

I personaly didn't care enough about any of my classmates to make the effort to confirm what I knew to be true-- that all the most popular people in high school pretty much peaked in high school. Now they're all the most uninteresting, mindless drones stuck in dead-end jobs, living in cookie-cutter Stepford suburbs, reminiscing about high school glory days. No thanks.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Yes, that's exactly what I meant

It was very satisfying to stand up and tell everyone what I was doing ten years out of high school.

For me, it was one of those "living well is the best revenge" moments.

[grace0418]

29. That must've been fun. I will admit having a small desire to do the

same. But the idiots who went to my high school probably wouldn't recognize how lame their existence is. My former classmates would've probably looked at you and said "You mean you're STILL in school?! And you haven't bought a 4 bedroom McMansion that looks exactly like all the other houses around it yet and has no trees or any other distinguising characteristics? And you don't get in your monstrous SUV to drive to the mall and buy exactly what everyone else is wearing? LOSER!"

[dback]

6. I didn't go to my 20th, but I heard folks had changed a lot

I also went to a small school (class of 30 people!), so only 16 of them showed up. Unfortunately, 90% of my closest friends were in the half that didn't.

However, my best friend went, and confirmed that people had really changed a lot--20 years of getting kicked around by life will cause some serious perspective changes. (Several people seemed notably sad that a few kids who were less-than-popular, or people's "ex's," didn't show--there seemed to be a need to atone/bury the hatchet.)The 10th would've been too soon, there still would've been too much weird competition and bullcrap.

On the other hand, my mom died in an accident 2 weeks after my reunion (to which I sent pics and a note), and it was all over the news. My two best friends came to the memorial, but other than that I only heard from exactly one woman from my class. Didn't make me too motivated to go to the 25th.

[eyepaddle]

7. I was living in Louisiana when I had my 10 year, and coincidentally

I was back in my Minnesota hometown the day they had the reunion. Just by chance I had come 1200 miles or so closer and was in the same town as the reunion.

Of course I skipped it!

My 20'll be coming up in a few years, who knows, curiousity might get the best of me this times around.

[HEyHEY]

9. No point in me going

I see my High-school people all the time. They're everywhere.

[Blue-Jay]

11. and half of them are named "Gordon".

[HEyHEY]

17. ? No two of them are, the rest are named Douglas

[newsguyatl]

12. i JUST got an email

yesterday from one of my fellow classmates about the upcoming 10 year reunion.

i'd rather have my eye pulled out of the socket than go.

[pdx_prog]

13. my 30th is coming up this summer

I went to my 10th and had a ball...

I used to see a lot of classmates until I moved out the the west coast....I will probably go to my 30th. I have a lot of friends still that I graduated with.

[WCGreen]

16. I went to a thirtieth this year and it was by far the funest...

People are pretty set in their ways by then, mellowed out....

A lot of laughing about how we were and congrats on how good we turned out....

[Gormy Cuss]

15. I agree

Ten years later too many have exactly the same attitudes as when they were in high school. Unless you really enjoyed those high school years wait until 20 years before attending a reunion. By that age most people have become adults.

[xmas74]

19. I'll back you up there.

I hated my ten year. I had a couple of guys get me drunk just to see what would happen(and I don't mean in a sexual sense).
They got the show they wanted. I proceeded to walk up to the most popular clique and tell them all off. I just went down the line. One girl would try to escape and I'd call her out. I pointed out every lie in their stories about how wonderful their lives were and brought up past events. The guys who kept buying me drinks knew I'd do just that.
The girls did deserve it. They got catty almost immediately upon walking into the room. They accosted a girl who was not popular in high school (and looked absolutely incredible now-good for her!) in the bathroom and tried to make her cry. I hated that crap then and I still hate it. One of the girls had also made fun of a classmate who had Down's Syndrome and had passed away a few years before from pneumonia. That was the straw that broke the camel's back.

I tore them all a few new *ssholes and actually made three of them cry. I have no plans to go to a 20th reunion. I've been informed that I will not be invited back(wasn't invited to the 10 year but went anyway). I wouldn't go even if I were invited.

[Shell Beau]

20. Good for you! I am glad you went and got drunk!!

:applause:

There were no cliques in my school. Everyone was popular, really!! It was a small school. Only 450 students from kindergarten to 12th grade.

[xmas74]

22. I had a graduating class of 300.

Not too big, not too little.
I couldn't stand those girls then and I still can't stand them.

[Blue_Tires]

21. my 10th is in 6 weeks

and i've been losing sleep over whether or not to go

[devilgrrl]

25. Blow it off.

You'll feel like you're right back in the cafeteria - I swear!

[Lisa0825]

26. I had fun at my 10 year.

At mine, it seemed like all the snobby kids had pretty much grown out of it. Girls I couldn't stand were downright nice to me.

My 20-year is coming up in 2006. I am looking forward to it! :party:

[Zomby Woof]

27. Who needs high school reunions?

When we have the DU Lounge? (Which is more like thr 6th grade for some, but you get the idea)

[RedSpartan]

28. I'm actaully helping put my 10th together.

It's around Thanksgiving. I really hope a lot of people show up (class of around 180 people). Our 5 year was fun, our class has cliques but for the most part people seemed to get along well. I hope the ten year is the same. No doubt there will be some people who show up just to try and show off what they are like now, but seeing (and laughing) at that kind of self-centered behaviour -- from both the so-called popular crowd and the not-so-popular crowd -- is half the fun, I think.

[Jokerman]

30. I loved high school but our reunions are BORING!

Went to the 5 year and the 20. Doubt that I'll go to another.

I had a great time in high school but I don't consider it "the best time of my life" and I'm not particularly nostalgic.

Too many people from my class seem to want to re-live the senior prom every five years.

[Rob H.]

31. My 20th is next year

I blew off my 10th, but this one I might actually go to. (Notice I said, "might." :P )

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. I haven't gone to any, but I might go to the 25th

I so want to see all the loser fucks and laugh at them. All the assholes who are selling insurance to middle-class people in their town and think they're "big businessmen", and the dumbshits who "have" their own brokerage. They might be making more than me, but they will never be anything other than third-rate businesspeople who can't even manage to fumble themselves into middle management.

I bet those assholes have never even spoken with any of the executives of their companies. I bet I have; AND, I worked with one of them. :-)

All the loser dipshits who went to third- or second-tier or worse colleges, or didn't go at all, who live live's of consumerist debt-laden misery, who are overweight, overfed, over worked, and over ignorant.

I really need to go laugh at them some day, and say, "Ha! Another geek who's fucked you over. Whatever happened to that football/basketball career, you fat drug-addled fuck? Whatever happened to your plans for being a big businessman, you stupid chain-store manager fuck? So, you're a big insurance guy, busting your ass trying to make your mortgage payments by selling $1000 a year policies to the local swill?"

Vindictive of me, yes.

But they earned it, and they deserve it.

:-)

[Divameow77]

33. I skipped my 10th

just this year.
I was living in Georgia and finished my last year up here in Minnesota so I really didn't know anybody that well.

[AlCzervik]

34. My 20th is November 26th, i'm not going.

the airfare is too much and it's the Saturday of thanksgiving weekend---and---it's being held at the same place we had our Jr. and Sr. proms---blech.

[Redstone]

35. I do so enjoy going to those, especially since it's 35 years now,

and I'm just about the only guy who still has all his hair, never cut it short, and it's still (naturally, of course) black. (At the 25th, I must have had seven women ask me if I dye my hair.)

Petty, I know, but we gotta get our ego boosts where we can, yes?

Redstone

[ucmike]

36. i haven't gone to any of them

i still see my two best friends from hs, and i wasn't close to anyone else.

besides, i was never notified about my 10th, but my friends were. i heard 2nd hand. no big deal, until i saw a notice in the local paper announcing the event and looking for "lost" class members. my name was on the list, despite the fact that i still lived in the same town, a mile from the highschool and i had a brother and a sister enrolled in the highschool at the time. considering that the highschool was involved in assembling the list, i felt somewhat unwanted.

i figured that since they looked so hard for me, i was really missed.

my friend forwarded me some of the emails. it started as a catered event at a hotel...then on someones farm...then it was a homecooked barbecue and casual bar....then it was byob...then it was no alcohol...

then there was a gap in the emails.

the next said "sorry, the invitation for everyones kids is rescinded, leave them home"...the last email i saw said "John's insurance agent said that his policy doesn't cover this type of gathering. we'll have a casual get together at his house 7-10pm. We won't be serving food. Classmates and married partners only, per the insurance. thanks, see you there".

[Nikia]

37. My 10th is next year

I skipped my college 5th at the last minute.
Because my high school reunion is a long trip away and would involve a day's driving both ways and staying over night, I would obviously need to make definite plans either way. If it were this year, I would not have gone.
As far as next year, it depends. Even though my high school classmates are less likely to be as successful as my college classmates, I do not feel comfortable going as I am now. I will have had to have improved significantly mentally, emotionally, and physically.

[jane_pippin]

38. I'm convinced they had a 5 year one and nobody told me and/or

they didn't, nor will they have a 10 year or any other year.

Mine was a pretty apathetic class. You know those homecoming wars they make everyone do? They had to let our senior class win one of the battles because we didn't give a fuck and didn't even try to win. That's about the only thing I can say I respect about the class as a whole.

I wouldn't go if they did have one. Anyone I'd want to see wouldn't go anyway.