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    I don't understand people who just haven't grown up. I am from a small rural town in Idaho- population 3100. I graduated a year and a half early, but did walk with my original class.

    Every year over the 4th of July, some of the girls who remained in the town, will try and do a mini reunion to re unite classmates. This year was the twenty year reunion for the class of 1984 and lots of people were in town, brothers and sisters of these class members- who were in school with me- so it was quite a party- plus those in classes below me and above me and every where in between.

    So, on Saturday, I do my thing with my family and my Dad takes me and my daughter out to dinner and I run into two of my good friends who are in town and they invite me out to one of three bars in the town and I leave my daughter with my Dad and i decide to go.

    First of all, I was not impressed by those I saw, it seemed that all they could talk about was what kind of cars they drove, how big their houses were and how much money they made, who was screwing who's husband, who had who's baby and who's kid had ADD and etc.

    Then came the question. "So (insert my real name here) what do you do?" I just say that I am self employed. "Oh, what kind of business are you in?" Being my obnoxious blunt self, I tell them that I am in the entertainment business and leave it at that. I don' t give any details and I just be polite and bite my tongue thru half the night. I was snubbed more than I have ever been snubbed by anyone in my life by those who I used to call friends. I was asked repeatedly by girls how much "surgery" I have had (none) because no one has babies and looks like you, to "Obviously you've found the fountain of youth" and none of it was in a complimentary way whatsoever. I ended up leaving so disgusted after two guys I went to school with asked me for my phone number (who were both married and living in my area- I'd also like to add, that one actually said he knew where I was working).

    I didn't go to my five year and I didn't go to my ten year- I definately don't want to go to any more and I am only telling a brief part of this story from this weekend.

    Those of you who have gone home to face former class mates, have you also found people to be so shallow and so snobby? Why can't highschool just be left in the past and everyone just enjoy finding out what everyone has been doing- instead of poking fun, pointing fingers and gossiping?


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    Why can't highschool just be left in the past and everyone just enjoy finding out what everyone has been doing- instead of poking fun, pointing fingers and gossiping?
    Some people need to feel that they have a purpose. For many, negativity is the only way to do it.

    I went to a reunion this past year. Just as it was in '88 (my senior year) I found myself at a table with some of the same people...avoiding the snotty masses.

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    Yes I lived in a small town, some of my friends still live there, I haven't really been back and if I did it's just to drive through, thats what it's been like the last 6 years. I just couldn't be bothered with the small minded people who i once called my "friends". "I sleep with guys for money", and "I can't believe she's doing that it's SO degrading to women". Those comments really pissed me off. I thought what was really degrading to women was her whore attitude at school and her belt she used for a skirt. Anyway, I used to love it when I used to run into them working at KFC, with there snobby attitudes and tell them " oh yeah I just came back from japan" "Oh yeah I just came back from U.S.A" it was a funny to literally see there jaws hit the ground. LOL
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    Gynger...I want to add something. Trying to find the positive side - despite the fact that these were "friends" - try to feel proud of the fact that you managed to piss off so many superficial bitches. That is always an excellent accomplishment.

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    Gynger, I sympathize completely, even though my classmates don't seem that catty. I came from a small town too (population 1900), and You know how small towns have ways of being gossip mills. I hate the idea of going to a reunion because everybody there is going to know me, and ask all sorts of questions like the ones you were asked.


    I don't know why some people feel the need to use their high school classmates as some sort of measuring stick to validate themselves, particularly years after graduation. People sort of had high expectations of me when I was in high school, and I haven't exactly met them since graduating. The "why aren't you married yet, why don't you have any kids" part bugs me the most.
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    I'd like to add that one person in particuliar really pissed me off, she kept telling me, "Ever since my husband bought me my (and a list of things would be rattled off) I'm so happy. Aren't you happy when you have something someone else doesn't?" and by this time I was so sick of the bullshit that I just said to her, "Actually, yes, I am, I am happy that I am happy being me and that I don't need all the materialist bullshit to cover up for my unhappiness" I just walked away after that and then proceeded to leave.

    We had a lot of grief as well. My best friend was killed a year after graduation by a drunk driver and we lost two classmates before our five year- one to suicide and one to cancer and then while we were in school, we lost one in a car accident. I found that those who had nothing but bad things to say about others were the ones who used to be the most popular, the most perfect etc... I find it very sad that those who are unhappy must find fault with others to make themselves feel better.

    But, I had to rant about this because I knew people here would understand.. seems always the case here... doesn't matter what it is, everyone has something to say that always makes one feel better.


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    Or.....we all just have something to say because we can't shut the hell up

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    You read my mind, and you're two time zones away. I was just mentally reminding myself how much I hated high school, and how stripping enabled me to escape my hometown & having to run into a lot of school mates. My sister even tried to dig at me with mentioning my reunion and if I'd go- (she was High-School All Star and I left early, never went to Prom or a game and had two pals.) Hell no, I felt like high school was a pain in the ass in the FIRST place! Why would I go to a reunion?
    Anyway, I think a lot of people are self-conscious about one thing or another at a reunion-type event and want to play the same shitty games of one-upsman-ship/sh*t to feel less bad about their lack of progress, boring lives, screw-ups and failures, etc. Of course, some women are still catty, like they were catty teenagers in high school.
    Treat yourself to a little vacation instead of a hometown hoe-down you DON'T even want to be at. That goes for anyone. You already gave those bastards four or so years of your precious life listening to whack teachers, eating bad food and sweating over peanuts. You couldn't pay me to re-live it....

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    I didn't go to my five year and I didn't go to my ten year- I definately don't want to go to any more and I am only telling a brief part of this story from this weekend.
    Knowing that my life wasn't going to truly begin until I got out of that incestuous hellhole, I never went to any of my proms/games/reunions, considering I've since kept in touch with the only two people I could respect in my entire time there. I hated high school; everyone thought the microcosm of high school was the defining event in the history of the universe. Let them all drown in their self-absorbed misery of perpetual social one-upmanship and insatiable material acquisition.

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    my reunion was recently and i almost got talked into going by a guy that i was friends with. i thought about it and decided that i really hadnt thought of hardly any of those people and i couldnt care less, i didnt go and i 'm glad. i saw pics on the web and i think i look better than most of them did... better then i looked in high school!
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    Well, I'll tell ya...I enjoyed seeing a lot of the girls I went to high school with. I was kinda on the heavy side when I graduated high school. Then I became an aerobic instructor and certified personal trainer...I've kept pretty good care of my body. A few years ago, I ran into a group of girls (the same snotty girls who used to group out together) while visiting my mom and taking in a movie with her. LOL I couldn't have been happier (revenge is a bitch). All 4 of the girls that used to torment me in high school were married with at least 2 kids and FAT AS HELL!! In fact, they put on so much weight, that I hardly recognized them!! They said, "Hi, Venus (not my real name)." And, I had to stare at them for a few to place who they were (course it helped when they pointed out we graduated together). They were like, "You look good.." And, I know this is wrong...I know it shouldn't be done...but I couldn't help it...I busted out laughing at them and said, "Well, damn...I knew you all were ambitious after high school, but if you would have been more ambitious at getting off your ass and working out, you all wouldn't so FUCKING FAT!! And, don't blame having babies on it...you all are just FAT. Thanks for brightening up my day." I walked away laughing...when I walked out of the movie, they had bought a huge container of popcorn, tons of candy and pop. When I walked past them...they tried not to look at me. For some strange reason, I felt oddly vindicated.

    Now, I have seen people that I graduated high school with...they still hang out in the same cliques that they did in high school...they still hit the same bars that they did when they first graduated high school...and they still think that life is about who is better than who and they measure their worth by how much they have. I haven't started my own business, I didn't marry rich, I don't have luxury cars (hell, the vast majority of them didn't/don't either). But, I am happy with where I am and what I have. I won't be going to any reunions...I have more fun being with people who are REAL and SINCERE...and the last desire I have is being with people I couldn't stand in high school.

    Gynger...sorry to hear that you went through that...save yourself the trouble and just shoot yourself in the foot next time.

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    For some strange reason, I felt oddly vindicated.
    Oh, that isn't strange at all It seems that every class has one of you in it, and many of the perpetual snobs who still don't get it.

    Something I said to both of my step-sons as they were entering middle school several years ago - "Be nice to the girls that you are calling "fat". One of these days, they'll be hot as hell....and you don't want to be remembered as an asshole."

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    Just went to a class reunion for my wife, it was so funny observing the people. That re-evaluating of where everyone stands on the success ladder of life is a bitch.

    None of the cheerleaders showed up....

    They showed a slide show of the people from the yearbook and as I looked around the room, I said to myself, "this is a strange reunion. The kids stayed away, but all of the parents showed up.."LOL

    My theory is that people are like flowers, you have your early bloomers that look great in H.S. and then fade. Then you have your fall flowers that keep getting better each year. Unfortunately, H.S. was some of the best success that many people ever have. I guess you can't blame them for trying to live back in that time.

    I am glad I was a late blooming nerd... ha.

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    I feel for ya Gynger....

    I've only had the chance to go to my 5 year reunion so far(i'm a youngin)...this was about 2 years ago.

    I got a huge kick out of my reunion. The people hadnt changed at all, they still only cared about going out and drinking and acting like kids. The girls, who i thought were so great, way out of my league, and wouldnt give me the time of day werent anything great at all. One girl in particular who I had a crush on all throughout highschool was there, she knew i liked her and toyed with me but wouldnt give me a chance b/c I guess I wasn't very good looking in highschool(not that I am now, but I'm not as bad). Well this girl was all over me at the reunion, and I had so much fun flirting(more like teasing) with her all night and then telling her I had to leave to pick up my girlfriend at the time who just happened to be a model. You should've seen the look on her face. Priceless.

    I feel bad for thinking like that....but sometimes you cant help it....it just feels good to get back at some people.

    Gynger...just ignore them and know you are a better person than they are. Dont get caught up in their bullshit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VenusGoddess link=board=1;threadid=10786;start=msg133750#msg133 750 date=1089109341
    Well, I'll tell ya...I enjoyed seeing a lot of the girls I went to high school with. I was kinda on the heavy side when I graduated high school. Then I became an aerobic instructor and certified personal trainer...I've kept pretty good care of my body. A few years ago, I ran into a group of girls (the same snotty girls who used to group out together) while visiting my mom and taking in a movie with her. LOL I couldn't have been happier (revenge is a bitch). All 4 of the girls that used to torment me in high school were married with at least 2 kids and FAT AS HELL!! In fact, they put on so much weight, that I hardly recognized them!! They said, "Hi, Venus (not my real name)." And, I had to stare at them for a few to place who they were (course it helped when they pointed out we graduated together). They were like, "You look good.." And, I know this is wrong...I know it shouldn't be done...but I couldn't help it...I busted out laughing at them and said, "Well, damn...I knew you all were ambitious after high school, but if you would have been more ambitious at getting off your ass and working out, you all wouldn't so FUCKING FAT!! And, don't blame having babies on it...you all are just FAT. Thanks for brightening up my day." I walked away laughing...when I walked out of the movie, they had bought a huge container of popcorn, tons of candy and pop. When I walked past them...they tried not to look at me. For some strange reason, I felt oddly vindicated.

    Now, I have seen people that I graduated high school with...they still hang out in the same cliques that they did in high school...they still hit the same bars that they did when they first graduated high school...and they still think that life is about who is better than who and they measure their worth by how much they have. I haven't started my own business, I didn't marry rich, I don't have luxury cars (hell, the vast majority of them didn't/don't either). But, I am happy with where I am and what I have. I won't be going to any reunions...I have more fun being with people who are REAL and SINCERE...and the last desire I have is being with people I couldn't stand in high school.

    Gynger...sorry to hear that you went through that...save yourself the trouble and just shoot yourself in the foot next time.

    You hit it the nail on the head Venus.... all of the girls who were sooooo popular etc in school were unrecognizable- and most of them were also so sloppy drunk that they were making fools of themselves.

    Next time, I will shoot myself in the foot, less agony!

    I had friends in highschool, but I was also very shy and part of the "nerd" crowd- I didn't go to many proms after my sophomore year, and I concentrated on my studies and graduated early to get a head start on everyone- I didn't like highschool much, and I guess now that I look back, madmaxine was right: you give them four years of your life, you put up with bad food and why go back?

    Small towns are hard to break away from- I love my home town, I love visiting, I just hate going home to deal with people who haven't grown up. It doesn't matter when I go home either, there is always someone to see, and someone who has something to say about someone.


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    Gynger, I know how you feel. I am so dreading the invite I know will show up any day in the mail box. I didn't like H.S. then, I didn't like the people then, and I know I won't now. My hometown is a lot smaller than yours. It's only 556 people, so you know everyone knows what I do. LOL, but I don't care anymore. Just hang in there, you'll be fine, and if they pick on you just tell them to piss off.

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    Yeah, must be pretty hard for you dancers to conceal your job! Most of us guys have "normal" careers so our SC visits do not need to be brought up at a reunion of this kind. But I&#039;m still wary of anyone other than family members finding out that I do go to these clubs. PR is one of the more densely populated places on earth (and certainly in the Caribbean) and it makes no difference where you go to for T & A &#039;cause the rumor mill is just the same.



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    Quote Originally Posted by StripperTips link=board=1;threadid=10786;start=msg133665#msg133 665 date=1089085908
    Gynger...I want to add something. Trying to find the positive side - despite the fact that these were "friends" - try to feel proud of the fact that you managed to piss off so many superficial bitches. That is always an excellent accomplishment.
    I agree with StripperTips. Look at the bright side. You pissed off a bunch of superficial bitches.

    Last year, I graduated from a stuck up bitch invested all girl private school. (Imagine a bunch of Paris Hiltons and the movie Clueless.) They all went because they were rich with daddy&#039;s money. I went to the school on scholarship because I actually used the muscle between my ears. If I ever would see these girls 5, 10, 20 years from now, or even next week, I would almost most certainly curse them out. Especially if they became fat whales like they did in VenusGoddess&#039;s case who I have to give a lot of credit for because she used a lot more tact then I probably would have in the same situation. I might laugh so hard I would have had to be removed physically from the theater.

    Really though, as the old Latin saying goes (and I hope I get this right.) Non carborundum illegitimatus = Don&#039;t let the bastards drag you down.

    Sorry about the language, I just HATED high school so much and since I graduated just a year ago I still feel the recent sting.

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    Of course if those obnoxious heifers didn&#039;t lay around the couch shoveling Haagen Dazs into their maw, you wouldn&#039;t be as well self-employed as you are, right? So figure they&#039;re at least good for something.

    For me that reaction is more typical because I went to a small, elite college and still see people I went with around town and even when I visit Manhattan I&#039;m stunned at the number of classmates I&#039;ll bump into there.

    It was no secret in college that I danced, just by virtue of the rumor mill and I don&#039;t hide the fact that I still do it. I try to talk about it like it&#039;s no big deal, but I hate to admit that once in a while it makes me feel shitty when I run into a classmate who just graduated from Yale Law, is an investment banker, working for a non-profit organization, etc...

    Gynger, you seem like a cool person who loves life. Those fat beeyotches would kill not only for your fab bod, but your joie de vivre.

    This sounds like a case where small town=small minds.
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    sounds like you need to rent Romy and Michele&#039;s High School Reunion and Gross Pointe Blank. Isn&#039;t John Cusack just dreamy?

    I didn&#039;t go to my 10 year reunion. What the fuck was I supposed to say anyhow? Um, I&#039;m a stripper, my (now ex) husband is a convicted felon, blah blah blah. They can all go fuck themselves anyhow.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Sapphire link=board=1;threadid=10786;start=msg133986#msg133 986 date=1089153027
    sounds like you need to rent Romy and Michele&#039;s High School Reunion and Gross Pointe Blank. Isn&#039;t John Cusack just dreamy?

    I didn&#039;t go to my 10 year reunion. What the fuck was I supposed to say anyhow? Um, I&#039;m a stripper, my (now ex) husband is a convicted felon, blah blah blah. They can all go fuck themselves anyhow.
    LMAO Saph.. yeah, I know.. I was half tempted to say, "I&#039;m in the sex industry and supply many men, like your husband&#039;s quality entertainment.. see my 2003 Subaru WRX.. thanks to men like your husband&#039;s I have a nice car, and a nice home and oh, you know these boobs.. well for now, they&#039;re real but next month they&#039;ll be fake.. oh and ya guessed it.. thanks to men like your husbands... Not bad for a small town girl eh?" Muah!

    I just bit my tongue though... I was a good girl.. Damn it.. I wish I hadn&#039;t been though.


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    Gynger

    I totally understand you. My 10 year comes up next year, and people from my class are trying to make big plans for everyone. However, everyone that wants to see each other are people who LIVE for going back home to meet up with their friends, to booze it up and act like they did in High School. Most of them from when I saw them last month, haven&#039;t grown up a BIT since High School. Most are still doing things at which they are trying to figure out what in the hell to do with their lives!

    They keep asking me "Are you coming back for the reunion next year?" I simply reply, "WHAT. See you morons that I just got AWAY from???"

    My friends are all out here, or ones that I met in College. Not ones from High School.
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    OMG, I have my high school reunion coming up too.

    I&#039;m thinking of interesting cover stories to tell. No way am I telling anyone that I danced. The people were ignorant morons then, I don&#039;t expect many of them will have changed much.

    And I&#039;ve already seen a few of them when I go back home to visit my parents. Some of them have changed so much physically that I had a hard time recognizing them.

    Right now my cover story is going to be this. I&#039;ve done nothing since high school. Absolutely nothing. Nothing but stay home and play video games. I&#039;ll let the other people come up with stupid made up stories about how they&#039;ve accomplished so much after high school. Maybe I&#039;ll mention all the wonderful places I&#039;ve gotten to travel to because I didn&#039;t get knocked up right after graduation.

    I mainly plan on trying to get several platefuls of junk food and sitting my skinny ass next to the now fat unattractive people while I eat it, all the while mentioning how hard it for me to gain weight or get pregnant. And how I have to beat the guys off with a stick whenever I go out in public.

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    Wow, I feel like such a misfit. I went to my five and ten year reunions, (10-year was four years ago) and had a fine time. I went to a private Catholic high school (think West Beverly from "90210" or The Harbor School from "The OC", except with nuns and priests), but my family wasn&#039;t loaded. I wasn&#039;t all that popular - heck I was almost invisible from the middle of my junior year on. (I tell people my senior prom date was Julia Roberts, because I saw "Pretty Woman" instead of going to the prom.)

    I was actually pleasantly surprised at some of the people who came up to me and said "Hi", or hung out either at my table or at the bar before & after. I&#039;m not saying I&#039;m best buddies with anyone I wasn&#039;t friends with in high school, and I stayed way clear of the snobby bitches (who looked and acted virtually the same as ten years prior) but I think for a weekend at least, people were able to forget about what we were like in high school and see each other as the adults we were. Best part was chatting with one of the ex-cheerleaders (who so intimidated me in high school, I rarely spoke to her the two years we sat next to each other - one in French class, one in Psychology). She&#039;d gotten married and had a couple of kids - we talked mostly about her being a mom and how great that was; it was more time that night than we&#039;d ever spoken in high school.

    (Oddly enough, a year prior I&#039;d had a mini reunion of sorts with a couple of classmates, because they recognized me in a Vegas strip club while I was in the middle of a lap dance.)

    Just wanted to throw my experience into the mix. High school for me wasn&#039;t superb by any stretch, but I wasn&#039;t going to let those memories (or lack thereof) spoil a party. It sounds like a lot of you still harbor a lot of resentment for that time of your life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Oceans link=board=1;threadid=10786;start=msg134317#msg134 317 date=1089229905
    It sounds like a lot of you still harbor a lot of resentment for that time of your life.

    I don&#039;t harbor any resentment, but I will admit that I have issues with people who can&#039;t be "REAL" and just get over the things that they need to get over.

    One example was that one of my friends from highschool, married a classmate who had a lot of girlfriends. She told many of us who were standing there that she wouldn&#039;t allow him to go anywhere during a class reunion without her because she knew that he had relationships with members of our class. I spoke up and said"WTF did you marry him for then?"

    Or, another one, a guy who was very obese in highschool showed up and I swear to God the guy is a freaking hunk.. he&#039;s lost a ton of weight, has this awesome body and do you think anyone wanted to talk to him? Oh hell no.. he was just like he was when he was in highschool.. not good enough.

    It just irritates me to all ends to know that deep down, everyone goes back to where they were in highschool (at least this was the case in my situation) when everyone gets together.. hence my statement of "Why can&#039;t everyone just grow the fuck up?"I feel sorry for these people&#039;s children because if they are still like this, imagine the offspring!

    However, I loved this one.. and I laughed so hard


    "Right now my cover story is going to be this. I&#039;ve done nothing since high school. Absolutely nothing. Nothing but stay home and play video games. I&#039;ll let the other people come up with stupid made up stories about how they&#039;ve accomplished so much after high school. Maybe I&#039;ll mention all the wonderful places I&#039;ve gotten to travel to because I didn&#039;t get knocked up right after graduation.

    I mainly plan on trying to get several platefuls of junk food and sitting my skinny ass next to the now fat unattractive people while I eat it, all the while mentioning how hard it for me to gain weight or get pregnant. And how I have to beat the guys off with a stick whenever I go out in public.
    "

    You go nawtygirl... you rawk!



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