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Post by Freefallfast on May 16, 2022 13:22:00 GMT
Did the quiet girl show up in a designer dress and wow everyone? Did the popular kid make a fool of themselves? Did anyone meet up, hook up or marry up during or after?
All 3 of the above have happened at my reunions.
Looking for interesting experiences!
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Post by crimsoncat05 on May 16, 2022 13:57:37 GMT
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.
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Post by StephDRebel on May 16, 2022 14:43:51 GMT
Meh. Kind of boring. I didnt remember a lot of people. We snacked, we chatted, we drank and then a group of us went back to a hotel to hang out and eat pizza.
My husband was amused but it was pretty similar to high school, just more wrinkles.
No scandal that i know of, i wish! 😆
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Post by anniebeth24 on May 16, 2022 15:12:06 GMT
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. . .
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Post by katlady on May 16, 2022 15:31:23 GMT
Not too much. Maybe more happened at the after party. I went to that only for about an hour.
-The shy guy I knew since kindergarten was very outgoing at the reunion. -The smart guy who was a gang member and used to come to classes drunk is now a lawyer.
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Post by DEX on May 16, 2022 15:32:10 GMT
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.
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Post by ntsf on May 16, 2022 16:09:32 GMT
at our 40th, one classmate was a member of a Thriller dance group..and they performed. that was fun. I mostly hung out with the grade school friends.. and saw a dear friend from high school..
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Post by smartypants71 on May 16, 2022 16:49:23 GMT
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.
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Post by scrapmaven on May 16, 2022 16:54:20 GMT
Wouldn't touch my reunion w/a 10 foot pole. The way I see it is that if you peaked in high school then your life is very boring.
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Post by brynn on May 16, 2022 16:55:55 GMT
One classmate's first marriage dissolved at our 10-year reunion.
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Post by keithurbanlovinpea on May 16, 2022 17:10:33 GMT
Most of it was garden variety stuff. The popular couples who were together from HS and after were all broken up, amid cheating scandals and such. Some having cheated with best friends/sisters etc.
Probably the most surprising one was the guy who transitioned to a gal, but only because in HS she dressed 100% stereotypically as a redneck, skoal ring on the pocket and all. She was incredibly happy to have transitioned, so I am guessing in HS the pressure to appear as male must have been overwhelming to the point of tipping into the stereotype.
I'll have to come back and post. My 35th is next month and it is a two night affair. LOL
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Post by kelly8875 on May 16, 2022 17:16:39 GMT
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...
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Post by Gennifer on May 16, 2022 17:31:01 GMT
I graduated in ‘95, so 27 years ago. We have had exactly one class reunion… our 6th, which was wildly unsuccessful. (I think 3 showed up out of our class of just under 100.)
I still live in our town, and frankly, I see who I want to see and avoid the ones I don’t. We have social media now… anyone who wants to stay connected can, including with people from other classes (which was half of my friends, anyway!), and I don’t see the need for class reunions anymore.
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Post by bianca42 on May 16, 2022 17:37:08 GMT
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.
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Post by The Great Carpezio on May 16, 2022 17:43:40 GMT
Nothing too scandalous
At the 10th, the guy I always thought was a smarmy Edie Haskell, proved he was still a smarmy Edie Haskell by making some shitty comments about a nice guy (who ended up unaliving himself).
At the 20th, one of the more popular girls in our class showed up with her wife; a lot of us knew by that time, but I think she surprised a few. Also, one of the high school hometown power couples was there all happy and dancing and it was maybe only six months later they were divorced.
I think that is the extent of it. Nothing crazy.
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Post by librarylady on May 16, 2022 18:02:40 GMT
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.
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Post by Jamie on May 16, 2022 18:05:49 GMT
My 25th, how did that happen?!, was just last weekend. I haven't gone to any of them. If there were any that I would want to go to, it would be the class of 98' as that is where I had most of my friends. One of the girls that we graduated with married someone who's family owns a pizza/bar joint. That's where the last 2 have been and by looking at the pictures its the same as it was when we graduated. All the popular people just getting together with a few loners tossed in. It's literally 5 minutes from my house but I have no urge to ever go.
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Post by Lexica on May 16, 2022 18:10:11 GMT
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.
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Post by femalebusiness on May 16, 2022 18:14:25 GMT
At my 20th the goodie-two shoes straight A student wore a dress with short puffy sleeves and a big bow tie in the back. Looked like something you'd wear to a ten year olds birthday party. For contrast everyone else was in mini skirts and sexy dresses.
The big blonde good looking football player that every girl wanted to boink weighed about 400 lbs.
The Class President for several years, who everyone liked because he was funny as hell, handsome and a nice guy, was so trashed on drugs he couldn’t hardly stand up. A lot of people including me were stoned but this guy was completely and utterly trashed. He truly did have so much potential and just blew it.
Gold jewelry was a big fad at that time and almost everyone wore gold bracelets, earrings, necklaces etc. Someone worked the crowd and stole all of the gold jewelry that they could. I lost a bracelet.
I went to one more uneventful reunion and was bored so never did it again.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on May 16, 2022 20:24:21 GMT
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).
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Post by peabay on May 16, 2022 20:28:38 GMT
At my husband’s 20th, nerdy boy showed up super successful and one of the popular girls (quite drunk at the time) said to him: “if I’d know you’d be this rich and handsome I’d have paid more attention to you in high school!”
Big man on campus ended the night drunk, trashing the hotel lobby and being arrested.
Homecoming queen who was also a beauty pageant winner at the state level and the girl of every boy’s dream showed up with her wife. Not really a big deal, but this was a Catholic school and the guys were all pretty shocked (and probably titillated.)
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Post by busy on May 16, 2022 20:33:17 GMT
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.
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Post by ellen on May 16, 2022 21:07:36 GMT
This happened to a former coworker of mine. Her husband slept with his high school girlfriend the night of his high school reunion. They are still married 20+ years later.
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Post by librarylady on May 16, 2022 21:12:54 GMT
This happened to a former coworker of mine. Her husband slept with his high school girlfriend the night of his high school reunion. They are still married 20+ years later. I'm confused on this. Was your friend his HS girlfriend? or did your friend's DH cheat on her at the reunion?--and she is still married to him, or did he then marry the HS GF?
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Post by ellen on May 16, 2022 21:22:02 GMT
This happened to a former coworker of mine. Her husband slept with his high school girlfriend the night of his high school reunion. They are still married 20+ years later. I'm confused on this. Was your friend his HS girlfriend? or did your friend's DH cheat on her at the reunion?--and she is still married to him, or did he then marry the HS GF?
My coworker's husband cheated on her at his high school reunion. The coworker and her husband are still married.
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Post by busy on May 16, 2022 21:23:38 GMT
Wouldn't touch my reunion w/a 10 foot pole. The way I see it is that if you peaked in high school then your life is very boring. 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.
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Post by scrapmaven on May 16, 2022 22:44:20 GMT
Wouldn't touch my reunion w/a 10 foot pole. The way I see it is that if you peaked in high school then your life is very boring. 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. Actually, I wasn't shitting on the concept. I apologize that my post came off the wrong way. I had a very different and horrible experience in school and should not carry that here. I think it's great that people go to their reunions. In my case, I was severely bullied for 13 years and it was horrible. I should have prefaced my post w/those words.
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Post by busy on May 16, 2022 22:57:26 GMT
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. Actually, I wasn't shitting on the concept. I apologize that my post came off the wrong way. I had a very different and horrible experience in school and should not carry that here. I think it's great that people go to their reunions. In my case, I was severely bullied for 13 years and it was horrible. I should have prefaced my post w/those words. 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.
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Post by scrapmaven on May 16, 2022 23:00:40 GMT
Thank you busy. I could have written my post differently. Thank you for understanding.
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Post by busy on May 16, 2022 23:03:54 GMT
Thank you busy . I could have written my post differently. Thank you for understanding. Hey, we all have those subjects that evoke visceral reactions for one reason or another. We can't always phrase things in just the right way at those times. No worries at all.💖
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