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HS reunion around the corner: part deux


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So that thing is around the corner again and uh... I made the mistake of signing into FB last night and getting updated on all that.

Aside from what seemed like at least 100 posts about people dying, it looks like the people who are supposed to organize it gave up after the last one. To catch you all up on the 10 year fiasco

They wanted to charge something like $300 a person and basically a large group of people said "we don't want to see each other that bad."  Then another person we graduated with was like "I own an upscale bar, I'll host a party for free!" and I think everyone ended up going to that one instead

Anyway, aside from the unfortunately high number of posts about people passing; the only other post is this lady who never lost that "stay at home mom" facebook energy from back in the early 2010's (you know the ones that spammed farmville and shit?)

It is all just like "20 year reunion is coming up and I look like I should still be in detention, lol!" 

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It's been almost 20 years since I have seen a large chunk of the people I graduated with, and I think I want to keep it that way

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My classmates have this group they post in and I have notifications turned off but I check in on it sometimes...like when I'm trying to block someone and see it in the off category. 

It seems a lot of them still get in touch with each other and I sometimes see picture with me in them from the before times but no amount of nostalgia makes actually taking initiative to see these people appealing.

Even when I do pop up at home, it seems people get wind of it and they show up in my inbox "we should get together for lunch" and I'm just like "yeah, we should" and it dies there. This is just the right amount of interaction for me.

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It's been almost 20 years since I have seen a large chunk of the people I graduated with, and I think I want to keep it that way

 

my 30th is this weekend.

i'm not driving 6 hours round trip to hang out with a bunch of people i didn't hang with 30 years ago. 

 

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The only 'fun' thing about HS reunions is playing everyone's favorite game - who got fat.

I haven't been invited to the last few. Since a large chunk of a very small graduating class still live in the same small area, they likely see each other more than they want anyway. 

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11 minutes ago, katt_goddess said:

The only 'fun' thing about HS reunions is playing everyone's favorite game - who got fat.

I haven't been invited to the last few. Since a large chunk of a very small graduating class still live in the same small area, they likely see each other more than they want anyway. 

It's kind of amazing that just about every cheerleader is huge now.

A few of the girls aged well but ever dude is just the blob now except for Duke who is a competitive body builder and our resident fat neck beard who is apparently a world travelling programmer now. 

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1 hour ago, cyberbully said:

It's kind of amazing that just about every cheerleader is huge now.

A few of the girls aged well but ever dude is just the blob now except for Duke who is a competitive body builder and our resident fat neck beard who is apparently a world travelling programmer now. 

Oh yeah, the more 'popular' the chick then, the wider the ass now. 

No one ages super well but there's just something special about gravity getting revenge on people who deserve it. 

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On 10/25/2024 at 11:54 PM, cyberbully said:

My classmates have this group they post in and I have notifications turned off but I check in on it sometimes...like when I'm trying to block someone and see it in the off category. 

It seems a lot of them still get in touch with each other and I sometimes see picture with me in them from the before times but no amount of nostalgia makes actually taking initiative to see these people appealing.

Even when I do pop up at home, it seems people get wind of it and they show up in my inbox "we should get together for lunch" and I'm just like "yeah, we should" and it dies there. This is just the right amount of interaction for me.

 

16 hours ago, nameraka said:

It's been almost 20 years since I have seen a large chunk of the people I graduated with, and I think I want to keep it that way

 

my 30th is this weekend.

i'm not driving 6 hours round trip to hang out with a bunch of people i didn't hang with 30 years ago. 

 

 

14 hours ago, Mix said:

I just had Vietnam flashbacks.

They would have to pay me a hell of a lot more than $300 to go.

 

 

12 hours ago, Vamped said:

I didn't want to hang out with them then, I definitely don't want to do it now 

 

7 hours ago, UwPp said:

I never even had a 10 year reunion.

My graduating class is either on their 3rd kid, dead, or locked up.

We all hated each other then. I don't really need to see them now.

 

7 hours ago, katt_goddess said:

The only 'fun' thing about HS reunions is playing everyone's favorite game - who got fat.

I haven't been invited to the last few. Since a large chunk of a very small graduating class still live in the same small area, they likely see each other more than they want anyway. 

We should all have a digital reunion with ourselves

Except everyone just sends photos of their animals and a short story of how they saved the galaxy

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This is the void

She's not mine, but she frequently hangs out on the porch and likes to nap on things

One day a race of beings from a completely different galaxy with weapons that make ours look like stone age tools appeared. Unfortunately for them, their intelligence dept sucked and they misjudged everything on our planets size; Discovering shortly after entering our atmosphere that they were beings the size rhino beetles, and their ships had the misfortune of being sphere shaped and about the same size as tennis balls. She batted their leader's ship and everything inside turned into goo. Upon seeing this havoc, the beings quickly ran back into the wormhole they had come from.

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6 hours ago, cyberbully said:

It's kind of amazing that just about every cheerleader is huge now.

A few of the girls aged well but ever dude is just the blob now except for Duke who is a competitive body builder and our resident fat neck beard who is apparently a world travelling programmer now. 

Do most the old athletes sell used cars and have beer guts now?

The popular girls ended up married to them at my school. Then in some bizarre, massive love triangle, they've all gotten divorced and remarried within the group. Some multiple times.

It's almost like a little cult. It's starting to make sense why Sedric bolted for Colorado as soon as we graduated, and Cody went to some unheard of college in California. They were always the smarter ones.

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My 10 year reunion was a few years ago. I was considering going but decided to ask the few people I would have cared to see if any of them were going. None of them were. Incidentally, anyone I cared to be in contact with at all, I had kept up with. 
When the reunion itself happened I was curious and checked the FB page, which has long since been deleted, and saw it was maybe a couple dozen people out of the hundreds I graduated with. Nothing against anyone that went but they all appeared just be people that had never left the city, much less the state, since graduation. Kinda wonder if an impromptu Waffle House meeting wouldn't have accomplished the same. 

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