High School Reunions

My 30th is coming up soon. I am just curious what you all think about HS Reunions- so I created this poll


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Definitely not! I hated High school, couldn't wait to get out. I will NEVER go back. I think there are 2 people total that I would even mildly care about seeing. YUCK!

Originally Posted by hissy

My 20th is coming up soon. I am just curious what you all think about HS Reunions- so I created this poll

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20th? I graduated, in 1975 therefore, my 30th is coming up. Haven't been to any of the others and don't plan to attend the next one. I didn't particularly like those people, 29 years ago and I probably won't like them, now.

Woohoo! I'm going back to Minnesota in less than two weeks to attend my 45th high school reunion! First one I will have attended. I haven't seen my best friend from high school nor most of my other friends since we graduated in 1959. Since that is half way across the country from where I now live, it just was never convenient to go to any of the previous ones. My late husband was not interested either, as he wasn't from there, but now that I'm alone so have only myself to think about.

I've been back in touch with my high school best friend, now living in Arizona, in the past week and just last night she sent me a copy of our sixth grade class picture.

Now realize that I came from a small town, small school. Graduating class of - get this - 22 students! Which is quite a different picture from those of you who came from classes of hundreds. Also, I'm not really just going back for the class reunion. I'm going to see my brothers and sisters, none of whom I've seen in 12-14 years! But I would never have timed a trip to Minnesota in July were it not for the centennial celebration in my little home town and the all-school reunion.

Thanks Cindy- I had the wrong number there- it is the 30th

Originally Posted by hissy

Thanks Cindy- I had the wrong number there- it is the 30th

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I THOUGHT that you and I were around the same age. I've heard of being "left back" but, 10 years IS a bit much!

My 10 years is this year - I have absolutely no interest in attending, I hated my high school - a bunch of snobby rich girls who gave me a hard time whenever they could. No thanks!

Hey! I am withdrawing from coffee- give me a break!

About my high school experience I was a teacher's aid for three years, and a nurd. I spent more time in the library or involved with Campus Crusade for Christ than I did anywhere else. I was even secretary/treasurer of B.R.A.I.N.S. Biological Research and Investigation into Natural Sciences.........

It's my 30 yr too
I loved my teachers/classes in HS but hated everything else. I have 2 friends from HS that I am close to, one my goddaughter's mom in NJ, who I see all the time. The second, my first boyfriend, who also turned out to be gay...Ha ha! He lives in NYC and I'll see him this weekend for Gay Pride Friday night. Too many bad memories surround my HS years, I would rather:

Walk on a hot bed of coals.
Sleep on a bed of nails.
Dance naked on the A Train.
Eat chitterlings, everyday for the rest of my life.
Have a yeast infection and athletes foot at the same time.

TOO BAD I DON'T HAVE A STRONG OPINION ABOUT THIS, HUH?

I would stick my head in a public toilet and flush it 3 times rather than go to a high school reunion.

I would handle a rattlesnake, before I'd go to a high school reunion!

Your move.

I attended my 25th in 2001. It wasn't particularly well attended, but I did enjoy one aspect of it. I lived in a really small town. We actually only had a school that went through grade 8, so we went to high school in the next town. Out of the 86 of us in my town's part of the graduating class, a good number attended the 25th high school reunion. Even if we weren't friends back then, we all had a kind of a common bond that evening. The 10 year reunion was a lot about impressing everyone with your job or spouse or kids. At 25 years, the ones who were there trying to recapture some lost high school glory stuck out like sore thumbs. The rest of us 40-somethings were just chilling and looking back with a neat degree of nostalgia.

I wouldn't have been interested at 10 years or even at 20, even if it had been realistic to consider the trip (3,000 miles). At 30 years I might have done it, all other things being equal. And this year is 40 for me -- where do the years go??? If I were going east, and knew of a reunion happening, I'd try to work it in, though I still wouldn't make a special trip.

I'm out of touch with all but one of my HS friends, with whom I reconnected about 12 years ago. She's still in contact with some of the others and a couple of favourite teachers. I think at this point in my life I could go with a proper sense of nostalgia.

High school was miserable. I was the biggest girl in my class (at a size 12 pants mind you ), so I was the horridly obese girl as far as they were concerned and they let me know it too. Highschool kids must have been alot nicer and more pleasant years ago. I've been out 3 years and the idea of that place and those people still makes me nauseaus.

Never! I hated highschool, it was definetly the worst days of my life.

Peace,
Brandon

I could care less what everyone is doing. I never went to one and prolly never will. Had my 20th 3 yrs ago.

It's been 14 years since I graduated high school. Yes, I'm still a young'n. I didn't want to attend my 5 year because it was just too soon. I planned on the 10 year reunion but I completely forgot about it. I do wonder who became successful and who didn't...especially the ones who thought they were "something" back then.

I doubt that I would ever attend a HS reunion, I simply have no reason to.

I had maybe 5 friends, none of which lasted more than a year afterwards.

Out of a graduating class of 800....5 'friends' is probably indicator enough of how much I enjoyed High School.

Maybe at 50...I'll go, just to prove I'm still alive. LOL!!

Spotz

My 10 year is coming up next year. Most of the people in my class (77 of us) vanished & I haven't seen any of them since the day we graduated. I really don't have any friends still from high school & come to think of it, I didn't have many friends in my own class. I'll probably go just to see how much everyone has changed. Hopefully I'll have someone to go with or it could be a very long evening!

There have been three reunions that I know about. I haven't attended any of them. I was not treated very nice by the rich kids, and have no desire to see them.