Spinoff HS reunions: Anything interesting happen?

our class was so 'slacker' (Gen-X, graduated 1987, lol!) that we didn't even have a 5-yr reunion. And I think the 10-yr was combined with the class below us. By the 20th one, I had moved out of the area altogether-- and even though they could have gotten my contact info from my mom, I never got an invitation, or anything.

where I grew up (VERY small town northern IL/WI border), high school reunions seem to be more about / for the kids who 'stayed' in town or in the immediate area (town population 1500) than the people who moved away.

At my 5 year reunion, I saw my very all-American, homecoming queen, popular because-she-was-SO-nice friend. She had attended a large university right near our Midwest hometown.

She had developed a British accent and told us all about the time she had spent "on the continent" and how much it had changed her (translation: a semester of study abroad). She said she was not really in touch with her parents any longer because they were "so Midwestern." I just kept thinking - so are you, dear!

Also, some guys had a fistfight on the dance floor over a girl or something. So. . .

Mine was just sad. Someone commented to me that they had nominated me as most changed from HS. I was a nerd in HS and really took the effort for the reunion. The girl who won was a cheerleader who had gained quite a bit of weight.

Also, there was the incident of the dreamy HS basketball star who married his HS cheerleader GF and went on to the AF academy. (He was like a colonel in the AF then). She didn’t attend. He offered to walk me to my car and then grabbed me to kiss me. I pulled away and was totally grossed out.

I have never gone again.

A few of my divorced friends ended up marrying classmates after the 20th reunion.

One of my friends who was a quiet nerd in high school - he was a falconer, so a bit unusual - ended up being the hottest guy at the reunion. Like smokin' hot!

I don't recall anything super scandalous happening though.

One classmate's first marriage dissolved at our 10-year reunion.

I went to a few of the reunions, and haven't been back. I was 'friends' with a lot of my class on Facebook while my kids were in school. Since they've graduated, I have unfriended a great majority of them. I literally have nothing in common with these people, other than the fact that we spent 13 years tolerating each other, and then a lot of our kids went to school together. That's not enough to have them on my FB anymore. The reunions were nothing but drinking parties again, and snobery. I don't have time for that in my life...high school was not where I peaked in life unlike a few of my classmates...

This happened at my dads' class reunion, but I during the family picnic when I was a kid. My father and my step-father were both in the same graduating class. It was the first reunion they had with a family picnic. I was with my mother and step-father and introduced to classmates as their kid. Then I was with my father and step-mother and introduced to the same classmates as their kid. Definitely a few awkward moments.

Went to 10th.

At that event I learned a very intelligent class member who was from a wealthy family had married a very unintelligent goof that she had dated in HS. Later she divorced him and married #2, who more nearly matched her...and then after a few years divorced #2 and remarried #1.
She has continued that cycle at least 3 times. At a much later reunion she was given an award for "person whe married same person most amount of times"
(I thought the award was mean spirited)

I have lost touch with what is going on with most of the class.

We didn't have a 5-year reunion.  I was married and pregnant for the 10-year reunion.   My soon-to-be-ex and I were in the same graduating class and he wanted to go so we did.  

By the time the next reunion rolled around, I was divorced, but we were both on our way to Minnesota to take my son for cancer treatment/surgery. Obviously, neither of us attend that one.  

I wasn't notified about the next reunion.  My ex said he wasn't contacted either.  I haven't moved in 35 years, so I was obviously left off the list because that first invitation came to this address.  I wouldn't have attended anyway, and I don't know whether or not my ex would have gone.  He did ask if I got anything in the mail and I told him no.

The only thing that happened at the 10-year was a couple that had been together all through high school and had broken up right after got back together at the reunion.  The girl had married and had 4 daughters and then her husband was killed.  I don't know what the guy's relationship history was after high school.  People were just talking about them dancing together and reuniting.  And since I never attended another reunion, I have no idea whether or not they remained a couple.  They sure seemed into each other again at the 10-year though.

One guy, in high school, had very thin hair came to the reunion with a full thick plush hair (not sure if it was a wig, plugs or hair piece).

One girl, who in School and at earlier gatherings/reunions, had maybe a "B" cup, showed up with her new DDD's proudly on display (lowcut top with plenty of cleavage).

At the ten year, one guy who'd been popular-adjacent in HS but always wanted to be POPULAR showed up in a tux and a Bentley (both were probably rented). He told everyone who'd listen how successful he was in investment banking in NYC and that he flew in just for the reunion and had to fly back first thing in the morning for a super important meeting. This was 2001 and the internet wasn't really a great place to fact-check social stuff you thought was bullshit.

At the 20 year, social media was in its early days so projecting fake success like that wasn't as easy. No one actually challenged him on his 10 year shenanigans, he was pretty straightforward with people that he'd exaggerated his success at the 10 year because he mistakenly thought it would make him look cool. He regretted it. He'd left banking, gone back to law school, and was working at a firm in Seattle. He'd obviously matured a lot and no one really seemed to hold it against him.

That was the extent of the drama. Our 30 year was postponed due to covid, and there was talk of having it this summer (31 years) instead, but I don't think it's finalized yet.

I enjoyed all my reunions. We had a pretty great class of people and I liked high school fine, so I think it's nice to hang with people who I don't necessarily belong in my day-to-day but with whom I have good memories.

Almost no one's life peaked in high school, and that's what makes reunions interesting - particularly beyond ten years. By then, people have discovered who they really are and what they're really interested in once they're free from the pressure of hometown, family, etc. and have grown up. Many people I knew in HS have super interesting lives now that diverge wildly from who they "seemed" to be back then. I think it's a lot of fun to reconnect and learn about them, even if it's just for a weekend🤷‍♀️

It's fine if reunions aren't your jam but you don't need to shit on the concept in general.

I'm really sorry that was your experience. Totally makes sense why you wouldn't have any interest in revisiting the time and people who treated you that way.