Y'know what sucks about old friends finding you on the internets?

[Oeditpus Rex]

You have to explain, or work around, the reasons your life turned out the way it did.

Back then, we were about to conquer the world. That didn't quite happen.

[MilesColtrane]

1. That's why I have a restraining order against my entire graduating high school class. n/t

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. i have to come out everyday on orkut. its quite something.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Orkut?

And why do you have to do it every day? :shrug:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. because everyone i havent spoken since 5th grade is on orkut

and they keep asking me this stuff..so it feels like i have to come out everyday

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Wow, that's gotta suck

Too bad you can't just post a bulletin, like on MySpace. :hug:

[NewWaveChick1981]

3. It's OK, though. Those old friends usually have the same issues.

:rofl: :P Does ANYONE'S life ever turn out exactly as they thought it would??? :shrug: Mine certainly hasn't.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Yeah, I know

But no one really wants to admit that, either — much less explain it.

[skygazer]

4. Besides the fact that they've found you?

I can't think of any old friends who I'd want to find me - I kept in touch with the ones I wanted to. :scared:

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. This is my first real girlfriend

First LTR, that is. So it's kinda cool.

But there's still all that catching up to do, and bits of that can suck.

[skygazer]

9. Ah, the virginity-taker

THE ONE WHO SHOUTS.

Yeah, I'm still friends with that guy. But then, no one but me has ever left my hometown so the trick is NOT staying in touch.

[Zomby Woof]

7. Dodgers fans have nothing to explain

:patriot:

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Ha!

She already knew that part. Matter o' fact, the day they won the NLCS in '74, we were at the mall. She was shopping for something and I was watching the game at Harry Wardwell's Magnavox at the other end. Right after the final out, I ran down to where she was, found her, yelled "THE DODGERS WON THE PENNANT!" and carried her piggyback down the mall. :D

She was from LA, so she understood. Matter o' fact, she was at a Dodgers game once, against Pittsburgh, and Bruce Kison tried to pick her up.

[Zomby Woof]

18. Great story!

I can just picture that. :rofl:

'74 was the first year I learned World Series heartbreak, lol. 2nd grade! :cry:

Next to the Kirk Gibson HR in the '88 Series (which avenged '74 mightily), beating the Yankees in '81 was oh so sweet. I sat in front of a smug Yankees fan in 9th grade English class, and he was very quiet the morning after the Series. :D

It's yellowed and worn, but I love my '81 Dodgers pennant. I am going to frame it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. I've got a pennant from '74

Bought it at Candlestick. :D

Kirk's homer was, and will always be, my greatest baseball moment. I cried. I swear to you, I cried.

[Call Me Wesley]

12. Didn't we all were about to conquer the world?

Well, I did. I can't speak for you, though.

Just don't let the past shadow over your present. There's a good reason I politely turn the offers on class reunions and stuff like this down. Last invitation call I got the guy remembered that I got a better grade in band and he was still angry about it. Uh, I don't even have the papers anymore. The past is what it is: A long time ago. :shrug:

[unpossibles]

13. see that's the beauty of being a slacker with no plans

the fact that I am alive and not in a gutter somewhere is a step up.

sadly, I am being somewhat serious. I've gotten the very surprised, "wow, you look great!" which is a nice compliment in its own way. Especially for the folks who may have run into me in what I call the "heady days of youth" and I was on my stress, drugs, and poverty diet.

[skygazer]

15. Yeah, that's kind of how it is for me as well

People are so surprised to find that I'm alive, not in jail and have a job that it feels like a victory of sorts.

Keep expectations low - after that, everything's a positive. :thumbsup:

[u4ic]

16. A high school friend who contacted me through that site

wrote that her husband (she married an American and settled there) worked for the FBI and was in 'dangerous places' such as Syria, Iraq, etc. She seemed rather proud of him, and supportive of the war.


I thought, my life isn't incredible, but at least I didn't turn into a freeper!

[catmandu57]

17. I think I've found a guy I used to run with

but, we haven't talked in thirty years. I've had a phone number for a month but I haven't called because I don't know what in the hell we'de talk about. I'm just thinking the gap is so big that i'll just leave it alone.