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    Dizzy High school reunions

    Anyone going/gone to theirs? Any good stories?

    I got an invite on Facebook for my 10 year class reunion. Contemplating whether I should make the effort or not. It's $35...sheesh.
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    Ha an old classmate of mine, one of the only three I keep in touch with, was telling me there is a big one coming up. Part of me would love to go just to fuck with the assholes that made school suck back then. But that really would be pointless, except as a very expensive joke.
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    Were you great friends with any of your classmates? If so aren't you keeping in touch with them. Do you really want to see them again?

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    I was invited,but did not go.Why punish myself by being around the assholes that made my life a living hell for 12 years.

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    I'm probably going to mine because the high school I graduated from was awesome! They let me do whatever the hell I wanted, I had so much fun there I'm mainly going to see my old teachers, they were great

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    Seems like social networks are kinda making reunions less important. Seems like reunions main purpose is to get into touch wtih people you haven't seen for years. But if they are on your facebook you already know what they are doing with there life i.e. job, kids etc..

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    So far my class has had a 10 year, 15 year and 20 and I didn't go to any of them. The reason I didn't go to my 10th is because I didn't find out in time (apparently I ended up on the missing classmates list). I didn't go to my 10th or 15th because I was struggling serious financial problems and couldn't afford the fee, but would have had I been able to afford it. Next year is my 25th and I will go if my finances are fine. I talk to most of my classmates who are on the committee and seems they are the majority of those who attend. There are a lot of classmates I disliked but very few of them attend the reunion. My class has a picnic every single year and a reunion at the Homecoming but have never been interested in attending that.

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    The only reason I'd go to mine is to be like "FUCK ALL OF YOU FOR OSTRACIZING ME...I'M HOT, SUCCESSFUL, AND HAPPY NOW...GO FUCK YOURSELVES." While that'd be fun, it's probably not a good enough reason to go.

    I had zero friends throughout middle school and high school. Those were some nightmarish times. Eating lunch in the bathroom is tres glamorous. If I hadn't been a supersmart and athletic kid, I probably wouldn't have survived.

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    Yeah the only reason I'd want to go is to show everyone up, but that's not a good enough reason to go. I don't know if that many people would remember me anyway. I was awkward in high school and like charlie, I hid in the bathroom a few times during lunch. I had few friends too and the friends that I had were backstabbing bitches. Aw well maybe I'll go to the 20 yr reunion if I'm bored.




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    Quote Originally Posted by Artema View Post
    Anyone going/gone to theirs? Any good stories?

    I got an invite on Facebook for my 10 year class reunion. Contemplating whether I should make the effort or not. It's $35...sheesh.
    ^I'm refusing to go to mine lol-my ten year one is this year as well. It's in another state and I haven't kept in contact with anyone from high school-so I can't see the point of going and watching people I don't even remember the names of peacocking around . If you have friends going, it could be fun.
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    I went to my 10 year last year with a "this will be stupid" attitude, and I'll spare the whole play-by-play, but it was actually a good time and helped put my life in a little better perspective. Like it or not, it was a part of your life and the person you became. I'd say go with a good attitude and if is sucks, then you don't have to go again. I did have a small class though and remembered most everyone's name and face. It would probably a very different experience in a large class with hundreds of people that you didn't know at all. That could have advantages too; if nothing else it's a low risk chance to network face-to-face.

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    Quote Originally Posted by charlie61 View Post
    The only reason I'd go to mine is to be like "FUCK ALL OF YOU FOR OSTRACIZING ME...I'M HOT, SUCCESSFUL, AND HAPPY NOW...GO FUCK YOURSELVES." While that'd be fun, it's probably not a good enough reason to go.

    I had zero friends throughout middle school and high school. Those were some nightmarish times. Eating lunch in the bathroom is tres glamorous. If I hadn't been a supersmart and athletic kid, I probably wouldn't have survived.
    That was me minus the athletic--that came much later. In Maine, being from Detroit already & talking way different, this was a death sentence as far as school being a positive experience.
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    Mine is coming up kinda soon and I'm debating or now whether I should go. I think I may go to the first one, and then not again til wayyyy down the line, because what's the point? I keep in touch with everyone I really want to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Renee89 View Post
    Seems like social networks are kinda making reunions less important. Seems like reunions main purpose is to get into touch wtih people you haven't seen for years. But if they are on your facebook you already know what they are doing with there life i.e. job, kids etc..
    Good point. I'm not on Facebook that much anymore but I realized how many high school people I have on my friend's list. Reunions seem kind of pointless now.




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    I don't see how a reunion could be anything but an excuse for people to get together and brag about their lives. When you are only going to see people for a few hours that you haven't seen in ten years, by definition, all you're going to do is give them the highlights. It sounds like a fucking nightmare to me. People I don't really care about blabbing about what they've been doing and how great things are (but not talking about the really interesting, gritty shit that makes them miserable).

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    I would love to go just to see how fat everyone has gotten. its been 5 yrs, yet all of my peers have aged 15 yrs and gained 40 lbs. im sure by the time the 10 yr comes up tho I probably wont care.

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    My 10 year one isn't for 5 more years lol, maybe I will decide closer to the time of it. I can honestly say though Ive seen alot of then since then in person or via facebook and it makes me feel awesome to know Im doing well off, and the people who laughed at me and didn't like me either are mostly working part-time at gas stations/are ugly fat cows now/in jail etc/or have tried to hit on me since high school and I told them to fuck off...I'm sure some are well off...but it delights me to know that the ones that aren't doing well off, well...aren't doing well off. They put me threw hell
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    damn!!!...

    Seems like a lot of people on here had bad high school experiences....that is a shame, good to see everyone has turned it around....

    I had a great time in HS.....we had 4000 kids at our school, so you didnt know everyone. I went to my 10 yr reunion(before facebook....before alot of shit) I was looking forward to seeing people i had lost contact with. It was just a huge party, a lot of fun. It was great catching up(with the people i wanted to have a conversation with). I met a girl, ended up taking her home...

    All in all, i would have to say it was a pretty damn good night.

    By the way, married the girl a year later, and we have been married for 17 years.

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    If your goal is to prove to people you didnt like in high school that you have changed and show them how great you are, I wouldnt go. You guys are right, it isnt worth it, its petty, and it shows that you havent gotten past it.

    If you want to get all hotted up and go out and have a good time and talk to people with a shared background, that have probably changed just as much as you....i would highly recommend it..

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    Quote Originally Posted by lemiwinks31 View Post
    damn!!!...

    Seems like a lot of people on here had bad high school experiences....that is a shame, good to see everyone has turned it around....

    I had a great time in HS.....we had 4000 kids at our school, so you didnt know everyone. I went to my 10 yr reunion(before facebook....before alot of shit) I was looking forward to seeing people i had lost contact with. It was just a huge party, a lot of fun. It was great catching up(with the people i wanted to have a conversation with). I met a girl, ended up taking her home...

    All in all, i would have to say it was a pretty damn good night.

    By the way, married the girl a year later, and we have been married for 17 years.

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    If your goal is to prove to people you didnt like in high school that you have changed and show them how great you are, I wouldnt go. You guys are right, it isnt worth it, its petty, and it shows that you havent gotten past it.

    If you want to get all hotted up and go out and have a good time and talk to people with a shared background, that have probably changed just as much as you....i would highly recommend it..
    That's nice to hear you had a good experience I wonder, did you go to HS in a small town? I wonder if it's better going to school where everyone knows everyone, rather then a HS in a larger city. I went to a pretty big (HUGENESS) HS and I often felt like I was just a number there. I don't know even half of the people in my graduating class...




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    Quote Originally Posted by Artema View Post
    That's nice to hear you had a good experience I wonder, did you go to HS in a small town? I wonder if it's better going to school where everyone knows everyone, rather then a HS in a larger city. I went to a pretty big (HUGENESS) HS and I often felt like I was just a number there. I don't know even half of the people in my graduating class...
    No...i went to a big school....(4000 kids). I think going to a small reunion would be a little trickier. You have a better chance of getting stuck. We had maybe 200-300 people at our reunion....If someone is a bore, ass, etc......you can just move on.

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    I skipped my 10 but went to my 20. Had a blast and looked better than almost all the dudes there lol. Life kicked quite a few people in the ass. My cliques in high school were pretty much the art crowd... theatre, music, speech / debate. I was good at sports but didn't like most of the jocks and that whole conservative / joiner attitude.

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    I do wonder if it has to do with sizes of schools too. My graduating class was well over 400 (started with close to 600 classmates)and I probably knew half whether it was from grade school or junior high or high school. I knew the honor students and the athletes (and oddly most I knew were both athletes and honor students, like me)but not really the druggies or the kids not involved in activities. I knew a couple of the remedial kids from gym but many of them didn't graduate.

    I mentioned this before but for the 10th year several of my Nation of Islam classmates wanted to have a black reunion and a white reunion. I know, ridiculous for a school in Cook County with city kids. It fell through as both white and black kids thought this was racist and bizarre.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lemiwinks31 View Post
    If your goal is to prove to people you didnt like in high school that you have changed and show them how great you are, I wouldnt go. You guys are right, it isnt worth it, its petty, and it shows that you havent gotten past it.
    Yuuup. I'll own that. I am definitely not over it. I believe it's the main reason why I'm only interested in dating guys who are 35+.

    I'm glad to hear that HS was good for you!!

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    isn't Facebook like a constant high school reunion?! LOL I'm not going to any of mine bc I disliked most of the ppl I went to school with. Besides most of them are all fat, boring married/divorced with 3 kids & I have nothing in common with either so what's the point other for them to see me & envy me bc I didn't end up like them & follow a boring traditional lifestyle.
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    I'm only FB Friends with a couple of my HS people. Not that I would necessarily turn the others down.
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