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Title: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2008, 11:21:33 AM: I got my 10 year reunion letter. :-\ ON A MONDAY NO LESS

Wish I could afford to get drunk.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2008, 11:27:26 AM: I've actually dont better than most in my town, but its been so long I dont think i'd recognize anyone. The one friend I still have from High School isnt going either.
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Post by: jiji on August 04, 2008, 11:27:44 AM: I got mine as well. I don't think I'll go. It's doubtful anybody would miss me, anyway.
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Post by: Mupepe on August 04, 2008, 11:29:48 AM: yeah, i won't be going to mine in 6 years either
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Post by: Tauntaun on August 04, 2008, 11:32:08 AM: Were you a dork? LOLZ!

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Mine is in 3 years. :maf
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Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Brehvolution on August 04, 2008, 11:33:39 AM: Mine was canceled due to lack of interest. :lol
Personally, it was the $50 a head they wanted that did it for me.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 04, 2008, 11:35:17 AM: didn't go to mine. why bother? it'd just be a depressing affair -- i keep in touch with a few folks, and they have sad hillbilly lives.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2008, 11:36:07 AM: Quote from: Tauntaun on August 04, 2008, 11:32:08 AM
Were you a dork? LOLZ!

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Mine is in 3 years. :maf
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Moved to the town right when High School started so I spent the first two years 'getting in' then the last two years were fun, but I was never into the school spirit activity stuff and Aberdeen WA has the night-life of a senior center.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 04, 2008, 11:38:14 AM: hs reunions=perfect excuse to his an escort. you'll be the talk of the town!
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2008, 11:39:40 AM: Quote from: Professor Prole on August 04, 2008, 11:35:17 AM
didn't go to mine. why bother? it'd just be a depressing affair -- i keep in touch with a few folks, and they have sad hillbilly lives.

Just the letter was depressing; the event must multiply the effect ten fold!
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2008, 11:40:12 AM: We all know what PD is concerned about
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Tauntaun on August 04, 2008, 11:42:26 AM: Quote from: The Iconistrator on August 04, 2008, 11:36:07 AM
Quote from: Tauntaun on August 04, 2008, 11:32:08 AM
Were you a dork? LOLZ!

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Mine is in 3 years. :maf
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Moved to the town right when High School started so I spent the first two years 'getting in' then the last two years were fun, but I was never into the school spirit activity stuff and Aberdeen WA has the night-life of a senior center.

Me neither and I was in the same school system for all my life. I hung out with the gamers. :rock
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: cool breeze on August 04, 2008, 11:42:38 AM: I probably won't go to mine. If I did, I would probably laugh too much at the people who said they were going to be actors or famous in someway.

Quote from: Tauntaun on August 04, 2008, 11:42:26 AM
Me neither and I was in the same school system for all my life. I hung out with the gamers. :rock

Same here. The extent of my school spirit was catching a t-shirt at a pep rally if only to incept it from a friend catching it. I had different groups I would hang out with until 11th/12th grade when I settled down with one main group and one sub group.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 04, 2008, 11:43:21 AM: hs=high school. smh guys
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2008, 11:43:56 AM: In CONCEPT the idea of showing up at a reunion completely over-the-top gay is hilarious
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Tauntaun on August 04, 2008, 11:45:16 AM: Quote from: The Iconistrator on August 04, 2008, 11:43:56 AM
In CONCEPT the idea of showing up at a reunion completely over-the-top gay is hilarious

I'd pay to see that. Especially when some gay dude from your glass grabs your dick. :-*
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: muckhole on August 04, 2008, 11:45:41 AM: I've always felt that the people of quality in my life from school are folks I'm still in touch with, and I have little desire to see any of the other people that I barely knew anyways. It's good for nostalgia, but little else.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2008, 11:46:35 AM: No, you'd be so over-the-top gay normal gays wouldnt know what to do with you. Your giant black gay man escort could wear a feathered vegas showgirl costume with the feather headdress.
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Post by: Tauntaun on August 04, 2008, 11:52:21 AM: Quote from: The Iconistrator on August 04, 2008, 11:46:35 AM
No, you'd be so over-the-top gay normal gays wouldnt know what to do with you. Your giant black gay man escort could wear a feathered vegas showgirl costume with the feather headdress.

:bow DO IT!
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Mupepe on August 04, 2008, 11:53:49 AM: I don't want to go for the pure fact that most any decent person really stops caring about high school and the people from there after 10 years. The only people worked up enough to go back are the pathetic ones that feel like they have something to prove. And they all probably lie when they go back.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Bocsius on August 04, 2008, 11:57:03 AM: I graduated HS in 95, but I don't even recall getting a reunion notification at any point.

As for keeping in touch, I went to the homecoming football game the season after my graduation, but that's it. I doubt I've seen more than a dozen or so people from school since then.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 04, 2008, 11:59:40 AM: I'm in touch with 2 people from HS, although there are a few more I still "know" but rarely talk to
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Post by: Brehvolution on August 04, 2008, 12:02:14 PM: It's sad that I've already been to more funerals of old classmates then reunions.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: duckman2000 on August 04, 2008, 12:04:12 PM: When I went back to the homeland for vacation a couple of years ago, I stupidly got in touch with some dude I hadn't seen in like 15 years. After telling him the compressed version of my life's story, involving wacky adventures on foreign soil and really quite a whole lot of things, I ask him what he's been up to for the past decade and a half.

"Oh, not much" :wtf

So yeah, reunions can kiss my ass. I didn't like them then, and I don't think I'll like these shitholes now.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Bocsius on August 04, 2008, 12:04:40 PM: The really depressing thought is that I've now been out of school (well, not counting college) as many years as I was in school.

I'm going to go play in traffic now.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 04, 2008, 12:10:21 PM: my brother said that hardly anyone went to his ten-year reunion (i didn't go to mine)

probably because those bitter memories of awkward social mishaps and perceived wrongdoings are still relatively fresh in the mind

he said a lot of folks showed up for his twentieth reunion

by that time, wistful nostalgia has replaced paranoia and petty grudges, and everyone has come to terms with the fact that they're not special in any way and aren't going to change the world in any fashion
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: cool breeze on August 04, 2008, 12:10:40 PM: Quote from: duckman2000 on August 04, 2008, 12:04:12 PM
When I went back to the homeland for vacation a couple of years ago, I stupidly got in touch with some dude I hadn't seen in like 15 years. After telling him the compressed version of my life's story, involving wacky adventures on foreign soil and really quite a whole lot of things, I ask him what he's been up to for the past decade and a half.

"Oh, not much" :wtf

So yeah, reunions can kiss my ass. I didn't like them then, and I don't think I'll like these shitholes now.

I usually say the same thing when I hang out with old friends. I don't know what I am supposed to be saying there.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Rman on August 04, 2008, 12:11:24 PM: I'm so happy that all that HS stuff is behind me. I absolute hated school from kindergarten to my senior year of HS. College was dope, tho. Mostly because I was a late bloomer socially. My grades were great but formal schooling is just so mindnumbingly boring. I feel bad for the kids these days whose curriculum consist mostly of preparing to take state tests and taking state tests.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: duckman2000 on August 04, 2008, 12:12:42 PM: Quote from: swaggaz on August 04, 2008, 12:10:40 PM
Quote from: duckman2000 on August 04, 2008, 12:04:12 PM
When I went back to the homeland for vacation a couple of years ago, I stupidly got in touch with some dude I hadn't seen in like 15 years. After telling him the compressed version of my life's story, involving wacky adventures on foreign soil and really quite a whole lot of things, I ask him what he's been up to for the past decade and a half.

"Oh, not much" :wtf

So yeah, reunions can kiss my ass. I didn't like them then, and I don't think I'll like these shitholes now.

I usually say the same thing when I hang out with old friends. I don't know what I am supposed to be saying there.

This guy wasn't saying it simply because he didn't feel like sharing, though. He tried to come up with things that had occurred in his life, and it mostly revolved around the odd beer party with some other dude from the past.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 04, 2008, 12:13:17 PM: I went to my reunion, but I've actually kept in touch with some of my HS friends. Hell, my best friend now is my best friend from then, and our families have known each other our entire frickin' lives. So it was fun because we had a group of people that hung out regularly and weren't all awkward. After maybe the first half hour we just kind of ignored people and had fun, drinkin' the booze and eatin' the food.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 04, 2008, 12:14:48 PM: yeah, i've known most of my circle of friends from high school
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Post by: abrader on August 04, 2008, 12:15:58 PM: LOL I went ot my highschool reunion...what a joke that was...

All of the guys were fat married losers living miserable lives with 3 kids, and most of the girls were strippers....

I did get a good BJ there ;)
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Eric P on August 04, 2008, 12:18:57 PM: my 10 year?

yeah, fuck that school, fuck those people.

i had a small cadre of friends and they're really all I need to keep in mind.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: cool breeze on August 04, 2008, 12:19:12 PM: Quote from: duckman2000 on August 04, 2008, 12:12:42 PM
This guy wasn't saying it simply because he didn't feel like sharing, though. He tried to come up with things that had occurred in his life, and it mostly revolved around the odd beer party with some other dude from the past.

Oh, well that is a whole different story then. I just don't share because I have a terrible memory at times.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 04, 2008, 12:21:27 PM: the simple fact of the matter is that everyone was probably just as much of an asshole back then as the folks they remember being assholes back then actually were

sometimes it takes decades for that to sink in, sometimes it never does

people don't like facing their own little failures, and going to a reunion is like watching an ecosystem of failure captured in a convention center or hotel lobby, and you see your own reflected in every set of baggy eyes
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: duckman2000 on August 04, 2008, 12:27:10 PM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on August 04, 2008, 12:21:27 PM
the simple fact of the matter is that everyone was probably just as much of an asshole back then as the folks they remember being assholes back then actually were

sometimes it takes decades for that to sink in, sometimes it never does

people don't like facing their own little failures, and going to a reunion is like watching an ecosystem of failure captured in a convention center or hotel lobby, and you see your own reflected in every set of baggy eyes

Not really
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Fragamemnon on August 04, 2008, 01:11:49 PM: I had a few old friends ask if I was going to mine, but when I said that I wasn't they also said that they werne't planning on going either. Of course, they are (like me) the proud few that were able to escape gravity's pull of hillbilly north Florida (one is a mathmetician out in the Bay Area, another a poet in Minneapolis, two others are clawing their way through academia in Texas and Illinois and one works on Broadway).

The only people who go to reunions like that seem to be the people who were not able to escape the gravity well of their upbringing. I don't want to hang out with them, for the most part. I want to hang out with the successful folk like me that realized their options eslewhere were much brighter.
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Post by: Mr. Gundam on August 04, 2008, 01:19:00 PM: My ten-year reunion is next summer, but with the advent of sites like Myspace and Facebook which let me see how people have done, I really have no interest in going. The people that I care about are still friends of mine.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2008, 01:28:38 PM: Only reason I would go is to show off probably, and thats pretty petty (but awesome).
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 04, 2008, 01:55:29 PM: I went to mine, but only because most of the people I hung out with were going. It was kinda weird, though. Everybody was married and most people have kids. Also everyone is in commercial real estate. At least I had an interesting life.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Mr. Gundam on August 04, 2008, 02:00:13 PM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on August 04, 2008, 01:55:29 PM
I went to mine, but only because most of the people I hung out with were going. It was kinda weird, though. Everybody was married and most people have kids. Also everyone is in commercial real estate. At least I had an interesting life.

I've also noticed a lot of people that I went to high school with are now in real estate. I wonder if their original plans fell through and they needed something to fall back on?

Even though I've been married for two years now, the whole "having kids thing" is an extremely foreign concept to me. I don't think I could hang around a bunch of 27-28 year olds who do nothing but talk about their kids and living in the suburbs.

I have no problem admitting that I'm a snobby city dweller.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Eric P on August 04, 2008, 02:10:16 PM: Quote from: distantmantra on August 04, 2008, 02:00:13 PM
Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on August 04, 2008, 01:55:29 PM
I went to mine, but only because most of the people I hung out with were going. It was kinda weird, though. Everybody was married and most people have kids. Also everyone is in commercial real estate. At least I had an interesting life.

I've also noticed a lot of people that I went to high school with are now in real estate. I wonder if their original plans fell through and they needed something to fall back on?

ha ha

whoops
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: muckhole on August 04, 2008, 02:12:51 PM: Quote from: distantmantra on August 04, 2008, 02:00:13 PM
I don't think I could hang around a bunch of 27-28 year olds who do nothing but talk about their kids and living in the suburbs.

The wedding I was at this past weekend was exactly this. :-\ I don't think there's enough booze in the world to make that interesting.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: border on August 04, 2008, 02:32:10 PM: I haven't escaped North Florida, and I'm not going to my reunion (I believe it's in October). I don't think that any of the people I liked in high school would attend such an event. The lead singer from Yellowcard was in my graduating class, and if the band was still hot I might go just to see if his presence made a big event out of it (nowadays I doubt anyone would care much).

I have looked at the upcoming reunion website and Facebook pages, and the people participating are the same collection of bland normals that took an interest in high-school bullshit when we were actually in high school. It's the people that ran for class officer positions and organized boring fundraisers and stupid social events. I recognize the names and vaguely remember the faces -- I didn't have anything to say the them then, and I don't suspect I'll have anything to say to them now.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Mr. Gundam on August 04, 2008, 03:17:28 PM: Quote from: Eric P on August 04, 2008, 02:10:16 PM
Quote from: distantmantra on August 04, 2008, 02:00:13 PM
Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on August 04, 2008, 01:55:29 PM
I went to mine, but only because most of the people I hung out with were going. It was kinda weird, though. Everybody was married and most people have kids. Also everyone is in commercial real estate. At least I had an interesting life.

I've also noticed a lot of people that I went to high school with are now in real estate. I wonder if their original plans fell through and they needed something to fall back on?

ha ha

whoops

There's nothing wrong with being a realtor, some of our very best friends are damn good at it, but I'm guessing it says something when an inordinate amount of people are all in real estate.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Eric P on August 04, 2008, 03:19:17 PM: Quote from: distantmantra on August 04, 2008, 03:17:28 PM
There's nothing wrong with being a realtor, some of our very best friends are damn good at it, but I'm guessing it says something when an inordinate amount of people are all in real estate.

i'm just commenting on the current economic trends in that sector
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: Mr. Gundam on August 04, 2008, 03:20:36 PM: Quote from: Eric P on August 04, 2008, 03:19:17 PM
Quote from: distantmantra on August 04, 2008, 03:17:28 PM
There's nothing wrong with being a realtor, some of our very best friends are damn good at it, but I'm guessing it says something when an inordinate amount of people are all in real estate.

i'm just commenting on the current economic trends in that sector

There's this one guy who I was really good friends with in elementary school who's now in residential real estate in my hometown. Since I work down there, I've seen a lot of houses that he is listing around, and none of them have sold in like five months. He's got two kids, and I don't think his wife works, hopefully they're getting by.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: laesperanzapaz on August 04, 2008, 04:38:31 PM: this thread is rather depressing :-\

of course id' never go to a reunion myself. i'd fear ending up looking like the 'sorry' guys
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2008, 04:48:16 PM: Getting the '10 year' in the mail is a big ol kick in the face lol.
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Post by: Enl on August 04, 2008, 06:17:54 PM: I'm coming up on mine very soon too. :-\
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Post by: Akala on August 04, 2008, 06:27:39 PM: The person who organized mine did so by putting an ad in the paper. Who the fuck reads all of the paper anymore?

I did find out about it, the week before. I still skipped it though. An old friend of mine went and said maybe 1/10th of the class ended up going. Apparently everyone got slam drunk. I kind of regret not going. :-\
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Post by: Mupepe on August 04, 2008, 06:35:12 PM: Quote from: laesperanzapaz on August 04, 2008, 04:38:31 PM
this thread is rather depressing :-\

of course id' never go to a reunion myself. i'd fear ending up looking like the 'sorry' guys
i was a burnout in the making with a child on the way when i was in high school so i think no matter what people will be generally surprised at how i turned out.
Title: Re: The dreaded day has arrived
Post by: tiesto on August 04, 2008, 11:13:22 PM: Mine's coming up next year... didn't get a letter or anything like that. I'm probably not gonna go, I still hang out with many of my HS friends on a regular basis, and I have no real desire to see anybody outside that group, apart from maybe one or two people. Besides, with a Facebook, it seems like a lot of HS people have been trying to get in touch with me. Including some girls who were rather decent looking... but the problem with that is, many of those girls are engaged or married now!!!