For the older folks: did you attend your highschool 10 year reunion?

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So it's my highschool 10 year reunion coming up next month and through the miracle which is facebook, everyone has been hunted down and notified. The thing is, I don't really want to go. Why on earth would I want to hang out with people who I tried for 5 long years to get away from in the first place?

I thought it was just me being funny, but my wife and I went to highschool together and she feels the same way. She doesn't want to see the other "people" again either. The fact is, you stay friends with those that you want to stay friends with. Going to a highschool reunion is kind of like breaking back into prison??
 
Reunions are now obsolete, through facebook I know exactly what 80% of my matrix class do for a living, what they now look like, what they studied and where, who they married and how many kids they each have.
 
Necuno said:
i skipped no need to see those "morons" again :rolleyes::D
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Same. Mine was a month back or so. I didn't bother pitching.

Thing is this, we weren't REALLY mates, we were conditional buddies due to being stuck in each other's faces for 5 years. Of those, I stayed in contact with only 3 (Yes Gradius, I'm looking at you! :D). I have no desire to see the rest or sit through their ego's boasting about who drives the best car or whatnot. Most of them are married and have kids or at least engaged by now anyway.

Perhaps I just lack the sense of nostalgia, but everyone thinks it'll be so grand to see the teachers again and all that, when truth be told, the teachers go through this routine EVERY year so it's nothing special for them.

Not interested.
 
I was in Melbourne when mine was on, but I doubt I would've given it the time of day even if I was in the country.
 
I got a Facebook invite where I was informed that I actually had to pay to go to the reunion because they needed extra funds to build some new sports pavilion. As if five years of exorbitant school fees wasn't enough.

Voetsek!

And besides, I can just as easily laugh at who got fat and who ended up in dead-end jobs over Facebook.
 
I flew down to CT for mine. Was interesting to see who became what. Not every day of high school was kak, and not every one whom I no longer in contact with was necessarily an ass, some of us just went our seperate ways. But yeah, I probably won't go to the next one. I think they can also become somewhat depressing after the 20 years one though, Seeing or hearing about old friends pegging etc. Not lekker.
 
Mine is still 3 years away and I have already decided not to attened. I have one person from school on facebook who just happened to be the best man at my wedding (one of them) and that is as much contact with "that" world as I care to have. Also its really depressing reading "married with 3 children" or "Devorced with 2 kids" or "Single mother of 2".
 
Well mine was a few years ago, but I missed it due to my plane landing that day and I wasnt going to go pretend to wanna be there when all I wanted was my bed! (26h flight from Adelaide to Cape Town - your exhausted after that) I was bombarded with invites and so forth, but really, I had no inclination to see those people again, I knew what most of them was up to, who they married and how many kids they have. I wasnt in the mood to play nice with a bunch of people who didnt really have the time of day for a geeky girl :P
 
I actually think there are two groups of people who look forward to this type of thing:

1) The jocks and car guards (poppies) who were popular at school and spent the following 10 years of their lives in the same social circle and mentality of being the cool crowd. You know the ones I'm talking about.

2) The geeks who made it big and wanted to shove his success in the face of his former oppressors.
 
I went to mine, and it was actually fun! You forget about some of the people you "befriended" at school and we actually had a great time together... let's be honest, it's really just another reason to get drunk...

More fun things to see:
- The headboy is now a waiter with missing teeth
- The hot chick had 3 kids before the age of 23 and is now a bus
- The naughty guy who was 21 in Matric invented something and is now a multi-millionaire

We had our reunion in our school hall, so we decided to TP the teachers' bathroom and drink papsak and smoke 'entjies' like we did during school hours.... hahaha.... Was great fun actually......
 
Voicy said:
I actually think there are two groups of people who look forward to this type of thing:

1) The jocks and car guards (poppies) who were popular at school and spent the following 10 years of their lives in the same social circle and mentality of being the cool crowd. You know the ones I'm talking about.

2) The geeks who made it big and wanted to shove his success in the face of his former oppressors.
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...and I am neither of these :D
 
Voicy said:
I actually think there are two groups of people who look forward to this type of thing:

1) The jocks and car guards (poppies) who were popular at school and spent the following 10 years of their lives in the same social circle and mentality of being the cool crowd. You know the ones I'm talking about.

2) The geeks who made it big and wanted to shove his success in the face of his former oppressors.
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Im with you there voiceman. I always said all the "cool" kids where going to catch a huge wake-up call when they took their first tentative steps into the big bad world and realised that all the popularity in the multiverse would mean jack-didely-squat out there. I started my first job the day after my last matric exam and was on a plane to the UK 3 months later. I am the better man for it.

EDIT: I am the geek who married the hot chick... who just happened to have been at school with me. :p
 
TBlaar said:
- The hot chick had 3 kids before the age of 23 and is now a bus
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Ja we had one of these. Coleen.

She used to be the top female athlete at our school, Specially hurdles. Super super body for a teen, awesome legs, hot face the works, really jailbait to the max. Saw her a couple of days ago and I was like OMGWTFBBQ when my mate pointed out it was indeed her. She's easily close to 150KG and she was indeed pushing a pram.
 
My problem is that my attitude and physical build somewhat changed since high school. I'm no longer quiet about anything (you guys clearly know this by now lol) and I'm also no longer afraid of anyone or anything - so I'll have no hesitance to klap someone if the need arises like it did soooo many times during high school.

There are 2 very crappy things about our reunion:

1. There will be some of the teachers there. My personal opinion of 90% of those people are that they are indeed, morons. I wish I had the insight to see that during high school - I would have paid way less attention to them and would have probably done a lot better at my subjects.

2. They are charging us to attend the reunion as well. R150 per person and it only includes the food. Apparently it's to pay for the food and "venue" even though it's being held at the school. So I also agree - we paid them a CRAPLOAD of money for 5 years and they still want to charge us for one day's use of their grounds? You also have to provide you own drinks - so at least a couple of people will be used to that - seeing as they brought their own booze back then anyways.

No thanks. I'm over high school. I'm above and beyond it. I'm going to RAGE :)
 
Maplassie said:
Ja we had one of these. Coleen.

She used to be the top female athlete at our school, Specially hurdles. Super super body for a teen, awesome legs, hot face the works, really jailbait to the max. Saw her a couple of days ago and I was like OMGWTFBBQ when my mate pointed out it was indeed her. She's easily close to 150KG and she was indeed pushing a pram.
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We had a similar one, was in Gr8 when I was in matric, real jailbait. Athlete all round hottie and as it turns out slut. Saw a pic of her not 3 weeks ago and she got freaking HUGE.

Funny thing is people dont recognise me, I am slightly bigger than i was in highschool and wear glasses. When I bumped into a girl from highschool 2 years ago, who is now my wife, she didn't even recognise me. Took her a good min to go "OMG!!!!"
Its so much fun being so forgetable.
 
I actually look forward to my reunion in 2 years' time. I don't really do the Facebook thing so I don't really know what anyone from my school does these days, except one friend I still see all the time. - oh and Morne Steyn, he plays for the Springboks now. Not that I was really friends with about 95% of those people, would just be interesting to see what paths their lives have taken.
 
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