I can't explain, Rydell, this pain, Rydell....

[noflyingfan]

I found out this morning that my 10 year high school reunion is on July 15. My mom said the invitation came in yesterday's mail.

First of all, who sends out invitations to something like that two weeks before the event? Especially when they don't know where everybody is and have to send them to the places we lived when we were actually in high school? Are they bad planners, or do they think we really all still live with our parents?

I'm bummed, because I really want to go; I am thin and cute and have a good career and a hot boyfriend, and I want to throw that in the faces of the popular girls who, if there is any justice in this world, are now fat. Not that I was fat and ugly in high school, but I was in the band, so come on. But with two weeks' notice, there's no way. Plus I have a show that night. It is kind of funny though, that I am missing my class reunion to do a show in which I am attending a class reunion. It's like life imitating art imitating life.

[noflyingfan]

You can probably impress them with your modesty as well. :lol: I wouldn't scorn them too bad lest they point out your troll-like feet.:D

Oh yeah, I have to insert my "This thread is useless without pictures" line here. ;)

If I wasn't being modest, I would have said "devastatingly gorgeous with tons of cash and a hot, rich boyfriend."

You're dead on about my feet though.

[Agne]

I don't like high school reunions very much. My school mates are all geniuses: one is a Ferrari engineer, one works in Milan in the fashion, another one is a photographer and travels the world (last year was in Palestine), another one is a promising doctor, and so on. So they often put on airs and look me up and down. When they ask me what I am doing now I feel always a bit of emabrassment.

But speaking of unusual school reunions, I found out yeasterday that my PRIMARY SCHOOL reunion is on July 11.

Yesterday the phone rang and there was a familiar voice speaking:

voice: "Hi, it's me: Sara!"
me: *silence*
voice: "Your school friend!"
me: *Sara my highschool friend, or Sara my primary school friend?*
voice: "We went in primary school together!"

she was my best friend in primary school. she met our teacher, who said we were her best students and missed us very much after we finished primary school. She asked about all of us, how we were and what we were doing and suggested to go out for dinner all together on July 11. Sara called our old numbers and found most of us (see? this is one of the advantages of Italians living with parents until their 30s) except for one of us who's living in Bejing. (!)
I'm very excited because we were a very close group of kids. I haven't seen many of them for 10-15 years. I'm so curious!

[WillFlyToDisney]

Agne that sounds like fun!

My 20th high school reunion is next year. I have ZERO desire to go. I didn't like most of those kids in high school so why would I want to see them now? :rolleyes: There are 4 or 5 of us that stay in touch and honestly those are the only ones I give a rats behind about seeing anyway.

I missed my 10th high school reunion because we had season hockey tickets that year and there was a huge rival game that nite. I did go to the hockey game with my best friend from high school though - does that count? :lol:

On another note I went to a wedding 2 weeks ago as the date of my 4th grade boyfriend (we have been friends since 1st grade) and tonite I will take my daughter to Vacation Bible School where another friend since 1st grade will be her teacher.

[noflyingfan]

You really live at home into your 30s, Agne? That's interesting.

[Passenger Mark]

You really live at home into your 30s, Agne? That's interesting.

What's so odd about that? Hoss, Little Joe, and Adam lived at home way into their 30s! :D

Seriously, I have found that to be common in a lot of European countries. It is also kind-of common in Southern California. What drives it in Cali may be what drives it in Europe... Money!

Kids just can't afford to find a place of their own. Has nothing to do with working... just housing is too expensive.

Here in Tennessee they just put a mobile home in the parents backyard! :eek:
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[noflyingfan]

In all honesty, Ken, that's why I want to go to my reunion. I'm happy about who I am and would be whether my high school classmates knew it or not. But I haven't seen many of these folks since high school and would like to know who and what they became. There were some kids who, if you paid attention, you could just tell that they were biding their time and that someday, their day would come. I'd like to know if it did yet. There is, of course, a little bit of that, "remember me? No? Well, that's alright, because look at me now." But that's not the driving force.

And, living far away as I do now, I don't get many opportunities to talk about my childhood memories and the experiences that shaped them. Many experiences are universal, but there are certain things that only people I grew up with will share with me.

[noflyingfan]

On a serious note, Erica, I think it is pretty common for them to try to contact you through your parents house. It's true that most everyone in your class has moved out but most of the parents are still living in the same house so it makes it easier to get in contact with you.

Oh, and Ken, I understand the parents' house is the best place to start, but knowing most people won't live there anymore, don't you think they'd give more than two weeks for mail to get forwarded and such?

[Jeff California]

I didn't go to school enough to get high school reunions. I graduated on time from the bad kids school. You know, the one that has a smoking section.

However, Andrea went to school in the same town and we went to her 10th in 1999. I saw some people I knew in the small town and it was somewhat fun. They were really impressed that I work for NASA and spent 6 months in the space station.

Sir Jeff

[noflyingfan]

I'll definitely go to the next one. I'm going to make sure the organizers of this one have my contact info and I have theirs.

I think all rocket scientists know each other, don't they?

[Passenger Mark]

Well... You might miss your reunion... but you have 4 months notice for the Nashville Flight Fest!!!! :D


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[noflyingfan]

Well... You might miss your reunion... but you have 4 months notice for the Nashville Flight Fest!!!! :D


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I'll go if you guys promise to pretend to be pathetic losers who are impressed by my good looks and sparkling personality. You know, to give it that "class reunion" feel. :tongue:

[scaredy_cat]

I had very few friends in school, and there is only one that I still keep in touch with (but not often). I have no desire to go to a reunion and see the people that made my teenage years a misery. I'm sure they're all lame and boring anyways :D

[EyesSkyward]

I'll go if you guys promise to pretend to be pathetic losers who are impressed by my good looks and sparkling personality.

Pretend?

- Jeff

[kari]

Even the thought of a school reunion fills me with dread. There's no way I'd ever go to one of those things, ever. Friends Reunited (I call it Enemies Reunited) is bad enough, everyone trying to make themselves sound brilliant. I go through the names on there and think "you're no friend of mine!" "You used to pick on me!" or "you're an obnoxious tw***!" There must have been 100 people in my year, the vast majority of whom I'd happily never see again. I keep in touch with one person and the people who I would be happy to see again you can probably count on one hand.

It's the hypocrisy that I can't stand. It's like when we had the last day and everyone was suddenly gushing that they'll miss me so much I am their best friend in the whole world ever when over five years we've probably said about as many words to each other. Even those who used to be friends and fell out years ago suddenly became best friends again on the last day. Our yearbook proudly proclaimed that "as a class we always stuck together!!!" Yeah, I really remember you sticking together when some manic girl stormed into the room to beat my best friend up. You all really stuck up for her then.

[Agne]

Seriously, I have found that to be common in a lot of European countries. It is also kind-of common in Southern California. What drives it in Cali may be what drives it in Europe... Money!


Exactly! and also a bit of laziness (especially for people still living with their parents into their 40s and more). When a student finishes college, and the average age is 25, can not afford a flat unless he shares it with friends. Rents are very expensive! And living alone is not so urgent when you can find a job in your hometown and can live with your parents until the moment comes and you can afford to live alone. But then this is what happens in most cases: people who've been working for years and could now live alone are still living with their parents, and leave only when they get married, or when they find a job in another town, or when they move together with boy/girlfriend. :coffee: