School reunion - have you been to one? was it what you expected?

[Mad Doug Biker]

Unless you actually went to Twatsville High, then what is there to loose, even if it is just for a short while?

People do change, and I'm sure they weren't ALL awful to you.


I agree with the teachers bit though, I'd love to know what has happened to half of them.

 

[brokenflipflop]

My advice is don't bother.

I"ve been to a couple (I'm in my mid 40's).

Invariably the females that are there are either divorcees trying to turn the clock back and/or find a new fella or they are married to an international IT consultant called Jeremy and have 3 lovely children, Tarquin, Tabitha and Francesca and they've just got back after living in LA for the last 10 years.

The blokes who turn up are either smack-heads or Ebayers. I was the only normal person there

Anyway. That's just my experience.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Ebayers.

Nothing wrong with tha.... oh right, yes, I see your point


As I say, unless you went to Twuntsburg Comprehensive, then how bad can it be??

 

[Zoiders]

You can choose your friends - you can't choose the twats you were forced to share a shoot hole sink estate school with.

 

[Mozzy]

My advice is don't bother.

I"ve been to a couple (I'm in my mid 40's).

Invariably the females that are there are either divorcees trying to turn the clock back and/or find a new fella or they are married to an international IT consultant called Jeremy and have 3 lovely children, Tarquin, Tabitha and Francesca and they've just got back after living in LA for the last 10 years.

The blokes who turn up are either smack-heads or Ebayers. I was the only normal person there

Anyway. That's just my experience.

PML

 

[Archie_tect]

Shaun,
You won't know whether you'll enjoy it unless you go... what's to lose?
It might be the best thing you ever did... sad to miss the chance- if it doesn't work out you can leave anytime you like... after all you're all grown-ups now.

 

[funnymummy]

My school had a 10 yr reunion that I didn't attend, due to work commitments.
I lost touch with what i considered my 'best friends' from my school days years ago, One re-found me via FB last year & we talk via that, but we are worlds apart nowdays.
I did get a couple of freind requests from folk that I knew, but wouldn't have called them close friends back then, but there isn't a day goes by now, without us either chatting on FB, texting or a weekly phone call - we all meet up reguarly when i go home to visit my family. We've already planned our Christmas night out & a joint birthday party for next April!
Funny how we've turned into the best of mates while those we thought would be in our lives forever has long disapaered

There is talk of a 25yr reunion coming up soon, not sure where/when yet. But I know us 3 will be stood side by side & smiling nicely at those we once thought our true friends

 

[MontyVeda]

Go for it, you've nothing to lose.

Personally i didn't bother with the one organised via facebook last year. I've managed to block the nightmare that was senior school out of my memory so being reunited with the people i chose not to remember isn't one of my ambitions.

 

[yello]

It's a night out I guess. One you might enjoy if it didn't have the spectre of 'school reunion' hanging over it. You could always leave early.

In truth, I struggle to remember the people I was at school with. I didn't have a bad time at school and my memories of it are generally positive - where they exist. School was just something I did - I remember more my life outside of it. I was a bright and capable student who drifted through unnoticed - so I suspect few people would remember me. So, no, a reunion per se wouldn't interest me. Remove that context, and I'm sure I could enjoy the company of people who I might have once knew!

 

[brokenflipflop]

The school children of today will all have one thing in common that we didn't when they attend their school re-unions in 10 years time - They will all own the same exam certificates with 12 A* grades.

If they got an A* in geography I'd still bet most of them wouldn't be able to find their way to the re-union.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Shaun,
You won't know whether you'll enjoy it unless you go... what's to lose?

EXACTLY! people change, and I bet you have changed since you left school too. I wonder who thought you were a bit of a twat at School too??

if it doesn't work out you can leave anytime you like... after all you're all grown-ups now.

Too true, oh, and if 'they' truly are as they were when they were about 15, and haven't changed (then they must have mental problems), you are surely big enough now to 'have a quite word' with them before you leave.

You are all adults, not kids anymore. Act like it and don't be such a bunch of scaredycats. Honestly!

The twats just ignored me at ours.

It's a night out I guess. One you might enjoy if it didn't have the spectre of 'school reunion' hanging over it.

AS I said, ours was a Charity event after a well known and popular teacher died of Leukaemia, so we were all there for a purpose other than just a reunion.

It was like a big charity social night, and alcobooze helped it pass more smoothly.

In truth, I struggle to remember the people I was at school with.

There were people I didn't even recognise or know I was at School with, but then there were others where you instantly remembered their faces, but not necessarily who they were.

If they got an A* in geography I'd still bet most of them wouldn't be able to find their way to the re-union.

I sometimes wonder how people cope when their Sat Navs break down or similar, and that is NOW, not in 10 years time!

 

[atbman]

Never been to one, but, out of idle curiosity, googled a few names in my old locality. About 40% of them appeared in the obituaries column.

Did go to a wake/memorial booze-up for one of my old mates on the folk scene, several years ago. God, they'd got old in the nearly 40 years since I'd seen them