FUCK !!! High school reunion coming up. We are 80. So probably the last one or two.

[3Hotdogs]

Close enough to attend. I still don't want to because not too friendly with classmates. Still there are two people I hung out with, I would have liked to see or know how they turned out.

Dave died.

Then comes a reunion update and Don posts a picture of himself in a MAGA hat.


So much for the reunion.

[SheilaAnn]

1. Our class just had ours also (1958) and it was announced it would be the last one. It was in NJ and

I'm in Florida so didn't make it. Sort of sorry now I didn't go.

[3Hotdogs]

2. N.J., too. Millburn.

I've missed all the others and felt a little down after one or two. I will feel down after this one but that's ok. They were nice and friendly in school but they weren't' my friends.

The feature is golf. Many of these people are wealthy. Afternoons of golf are the featured attraction. I don't play golf. Couldn't afford it if I wanted to. My reaction to golf is the golf course scene in "Falling Down." But that's another topic.

I just disappointed at Don.

[SheilaAnn]

3. My HS years were in Freehold but I lived in Manasquan in married life. Don't let Don get to

you, go to the evening event(s) and enjoy those folks you will probably see for the last time. I'm sorry I didn't go to mine.

[3Hotdogs]

6. It isn' just Don. Another guy I liked, posted a positive response to Don.

Last one of my classmates I saw, was about 4 years ago. He was one the football team. Now walking around, slumped over with a cane.


Football ---- I was never gonna make the football team. I graduated at 105 pounds and 5'6. I was not popular. Not invited to any parties.... and so forth. Again, I wasn't picked on or abused or such. I just had no friends in the class. Football players were the "kings" of the class.

Then a couple of years after graduation, I was on a field trip to a ski lodge in the Poconos. My roommate in the lodge turned up around 1:30 a.m., drunk. I thought I recognized him, "What school did you graduate from?" Millburn.

Said his name and, "I remember you. You were "end" on the football team in '57 an 58."

With that, he starts pouring out his soul about how that experienced hurt. Physically, pain EVERY day from being tackled, blocked or tackling some other poor soul.

Emotionally, his saddest memory was that his father never came to most of the games and when he did, there would be criticism of his playing that evening after the game.

I left, feeling badly for him and realizing I didn't have it so bad after all.

[Archae]

4. I've never attended any of my class reunions.

Class of 1978.

Most of the people in my class, I couldn't stand anyway.

Haven't seen or heard from most of them in the decades since.

[AZ8theist]

17. I'm with you...

Class of 76 in NJ.

Couldn't stand most of those people. I had a handful of close friends, but only occasionally see Facebook posts from 1 or 2.
Since I don't Fascist Book, it's all academic.

I don't feel for one second I missed anything in the decades since.

[COL Mustard]

19. I'm A Little Older Than You

High school class of 1976. Never been to a reunion. Like a lot of people are saying, I didn’t hate the experience, but I’ve moved away…far, far away from where I was then. I hope my classmates are happy and have had great lives, and maybe I’ll go to our 50th. But then again, maybe not.

My son graduated from high school this year, and it makes me a little melancholy to think that he and his classmates will never again be all together in one place.

[Mysterian]

37. You couldn't pay me enough to go to one

I hated high school and the best thing ever was getting out of that shit town.

[Woodwizard]

46. Exactly

Class of 82 could not wait to get out of there never cared about going to any reunions. Wish I did keep in contact with some I was in the army with after high school.

[tanyev]

5. Bummer. This would have been a reunion year for me, too,

and I think they were hoping to pull one off. Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t mind going, since I haven’t had a reason to go back there since Mom died a few years ago. But it’s a rural area that has a low vaccination rate. Even if they go ahead with it, I wouldn’t risk it right now.

[dweller]

7. I'm preplanning to miss my 50th

2022
There’s maybe 1, 2 at most I would care to see … I could look them up on my own

✌🏻

[Poiuyt]

52. I've got my 50th reunion this Oct, and I really really want to go.

I enjoyed high school and made a lot of good friends who I'd like to see again. I'm vaccinated and live in a low risk area right now. But people will be coming from all over the country and I have no idea about how safe it will be then. I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Damn Delta. Damn unvaccinated people.

[Mike Nelson]

8. Well...

... being far away (CA to NY), I didn't think I'd every go to one... BUT, I was home and there was a reunion scheduled. I went, not expecting much. I had the BEST time! There were people from grade school... people I'd been around for 12 years. I had forgotten... it was so nice being around everyone. Even people I rarely spoke with were friendly we were adults, and they were nice people. Everyone let everything go and enjoyed each other's company. I left thinking "We should have these every year, not every 10 years!" I would GO!

[3Hotdogs]

10. As I posted above. They will be nice.

I wouldn't expect any unpleasantness.

[at140]

9. I am planning to make it to age 100

So, probably will attend the class union solo. My mom made it to 103 and I am trying hard to beat her record.

[a kennedy]

11. I haven't been to my reunion for EVER.......went once and did not like it at all.....

Then my “friend” from high school called me from my return form from the 40 year reunion and said, “hey let’s get together”. We did and it was worst get together I ever had. Back in the day she had a Mach 1 Ford Mustang in our school colors, maroon and gold. I loved her, we were best friends for 2 years in school. I met her at the bus station and thought, oh yah, this is not going to be good. Horrible vibes……she just starts in with “why were you late?” (I took the Greyhound bus from La crosse to Milwaukee). I didn’t know we were late I was just riding on the bus. Went downhill from there. She starts complaining about the homeless and different looking people around the terminal. I brought my iPad with me and over the course of the weekend she would let me know how really stupid all this electronic “getting togetherness” was. We drove to Door County, a very touristy area in Wisconsin and met another “friend” from our class. This friend had me and the #1 friend working for damn near 5 - 6 hours picking up sticks and debris from her horse pasture. Which was ok, got some exercise in and did get a pretty good dinner out of it. So…….when the two of them got to talking, I was just out of it. Mostly about all the poor and destitute people from our class and why aren’t they doing better. I just didn’t want to hear it. Both Repubs……nuff said. I cried all the way home on the bus and decided not to talk to either one of them again……ugh, horrible. No reunions for me. I’m 70 and don’t miss high school reunions AT ALL. Never went to college, just a trade school and there are no reunions for dental assistant school….😂

[samnsara]

12. i went to my 10th and that was it..didnt like any of them in 1968 dont like the now

[Initech]

13. I seriously wonder how many of my graduating class are Trumpers.

I went to a school in a large city and had a large graduating class too. So I am sure a lot.

[COL Mustard]

21. I Went To High School In The Deep South

I know good and well that most of the people I went to school with are Trump supporters.

[lark]

30. Bazinga!

Why go somewhere that you are more than likely have something happen that will leave a bad taste in your mouth - at the least. I moved away for a reason - couldn't stand the rednecks. I moved to CA to live with some friends and to go to school. I moved back 20 years later to help my mom when dad got sick so my children were raised here and have jobs and husbands or husbands-to-be here. Unless the nazis steal power and I emphasize the steal part, we're here and here we will stay. If they do and if I can figure out how to make that work with banking, and especially if my daughter has moved elsewhere, I will thoroughly review my options for location.

[wnylib]

43. Large graduating class reminds me

of a conversation my ex had with an old school friend of his. They went to school in a small village where K through 12 were in one building. They were 7 years older than me, born too soon to be boomers. I am a boomer who went to a city high school that had around 1800 students just in grades 10 through 12.

At one point, something I said revealed that there were several people in my graduating class that I did not know. They were incredulous. "How could you not know all the kids in your own class?"

I answered with a question that shocked them even more. "How could I possibly know all 600 of them?"

Rural vs. city life, boomer vs. pre boomer.

[Croney]

14. My 60th is this September!! I'm going with bells on.

(I guess that phrase dates me.)

I first went to the 50th, then the 55th. I love them! The kids who were better than me in every way, turned out to be not better than me and some of them are dead.

Since it's in Louisiana, most of them are deplorables, and I sashay around the room flaunting my gleeful liberalism. I plan to lord it over these people till the day they're all dead and I'm not. 😁

(Tongue only partly in cheek)

[JohnnyRingo]

15. My class of '71 is having a picnic at a swimming pool.

It'll give me a chance to try out my new Speedo.
hahaha

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Reunions were just the worst case of gaslighting before I ever knew about gaslighting

Never.

[jcgoldie]

18. Went to 30th last night

I have never been to one and had no intention of ever going. An old buddy tricked me into it he texted me "hey Josh and Wayne are in town want to meet us out for some beers?" Sucked me right out to the bar where they were having the reunion and I had no idea because I don't have facebook. Oh well it wasn't so bad just some drinks with old friends and I didn't talk to anyone I didn't want to.

[Duppers]

20. Couldn't drag me to one of my reunions

under any circumstances.

90% were snobs....and are now 99% rethugians.
And I've no desire to see the old boyfriend who called my mother for 30yrs.

[lark]

22. My 50th is next week, delayed from last year.

I'm not going and neither are most of my friends because the Delta Variant is strong in this are and over 500 are in the hospital right now with this in just 2 hospitals for which I've seen numbers. You know who are going, the evangelicals and right wingers. I'm kind of surprised that my pharmacist acquaintance and constant opponent all through grade school is going. He's a scientist. Guess he thinks he'll be ok. Since it will be mainly indoors and there will be more than 200 there, that's a big NO for me and most of us Democrats.

[empedocles]

23. My mother-in-law's class, starting when they reached 80, went from 5 year

reunions, to annual reunions. Surviving numbers were surprisingly high. Always enjoyed. Still high at 88 when she passed.

I was surprised at my 10th reunion how many had passed.

[empedocles]

28. Saw mentioned above; Millburn, Freehold, Manasquan. I grew up in Edison.

Hit the beaches a lot in high school; Island Beach, Seaside. Often dates on my motorcycle. Hit Watchung Mts, Princeton, also.

[RockCreek]

53. Highland Park here!

Left over 30 yearsago, but my parents are still there.

[SarcasticSatyr]

24. class of 1981 .. never been to a class reunion, and no desire to go ever.

In all honesty, I barely liked any of them then ....

[Raine]

25. NEVER been to any, NEVER wanted to ... I HATED high school

WORST years of my life. Sometimes I have nightmares where I'm back in high school. When I wake up I remind myself that THANK GOD Im not in high school any longer and NEVER have to go back.

[Hoyt]

26. During trump's reign, the white wingers had a get together. Only one

of my friends made an effort. The rest of us sat it out.

[barbtries]

27. Send a picture of you

in a Biden shirt. I really hope you do.

[IrishEyes]

29. My high school has never had a reunion.

I wish there was one because I'm curious how everyone turned out.

[twodogsbarking]

31. They know not to expect me at reunions.

[keithbvadu2]

32. when your youthful classmates have gotten so old and decrepit that they do not recognize you.

Class reunion - when your youthful classmates have gotten so old and decrepit that they do not recognize you.

-------------

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR OWN AGE AND THINKING, "SURELY I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD?" WELL, YOU'LL LOVE THIS ONE!
MY NAME IS ALICE SMITH AND I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A DENTIST I'D NOT BEEN TO BEFORE. I NOTICED HIS DIPLOMA, WHICH BORE HIS FULL NAME.
SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK HAIRED BOY WITH THE SAME NAME HAD BEEN IN MY SECONDARY SCHOOL CLASS SOME 30-ODD YEARS AGO.
COULD HE BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, WAY BACK THEN?
UPON SEEING HIM, HOWEVER, I QUICKLY DISCARDED ANY SUCH A THOUGHT.
THIS BALDING, GREY HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACE WAS FAR TOO OLD TO HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE.
AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDED MORGAN PARK SECONDARY SCHOOL ..
'YES, YES I DID. I'M A MORGANNER!' HE BEAMED WITH PRIDE.
'WHEN DID YOU LEAVE TO GO TO COLLEGE?' I ASKED
HE ANSWERED, 'IN 1975. WHY DO YOU ASK?'
'YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!' I EXCLAIMED.
HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY...
THEN THE UGLY,
ANCIENT,
BALD,
WRINKLED,
FAT ARSED,
GREY HAIRED,
DECREPIT,
OLD B_STARD
ASKED ME . . .

'WHAT DID YOU TEACH?'

[3Hotdogs]

39. Oh my !

[3Hotdogs]

40. That's the good thing about me. 79 in October.

Still got ALL my hair (family genes) and it is still naturally brown. No wrinkles, overweight but not a sick day in my life since 5th grade mumps.

So I look close at Mr Maga’s photo. His face is covered with a flag bandana - only his eyes are showing.. and he’s got bags under his eyes, big enough to carry the shopping from Costco.


Ok. So I’m superficially vain.

Oh well.

[TNNurse]

33. I went to my 50th in 2017,

Never again will I go to one there.
Now if people will behave, my 50th college reunion is this fall. Unless the unvaccinated shut things down again, we will gather.
That is where my friends and like minded people will be. Sure there will be some conservatives assholes from my liberal arts college but I shall be polite unless they provoke me.

[teenagebambam]

34. Class of '84

Never kept up with anyone on a regular basis, but our class size was under 100, most of us had been in school together since kindergarten. Even though we haven't really kept up (except for Facebook, which doesn't count) when the reunions happen it's really magical, it's like we're back in high school except this time everyone is friends with everyone.

[ShazzieB]

35. I haven't been to any of my reunions.

My 50th would have been 3 years ago, assuming they had one. The only one I ever got a notification about was the 10th, and since then, I seem to have fallen off their radar.

I am mildly curious about became of some of my classmates, but not enough to go the trouble of showing up, even if I had been notified. I'm not interested in hanging out with a bunch of people who weren't interested in hanging out with me back when we were schoolmates, and I'm not the same person I was then, anyway.

The only reunion I've ever been to was my husband's 10th. Talk about boooooring -- and he was just as bored as I was!m The only thing that stopped us from leaving early was that his one high school friend that he'd stayed in touch with was there with his wife, so we at least had somebody to hang out with.

The whole thing really seemed to be all about the people who had been the "popular" kids at the time. They were all busy back slapping each other and reliving their glory days and completely ignoring the rest of us.

After that experience, he was not interested in attending any subsequent reunions, and that was fine with me!

[George II]

36. Our 55th was this year, but I haven't been to any of them. Being a city-wide (NYC) high school....

....we never really got to know many of our classmates outside of school like neighborhood high schools. I could probably remember the names of three or four of my class.

Now, if they held reunions in 5 or 10 year groupings like some older classes do, and if I could be sure they'd show up, I'd go out of my way to get down there. I graduated within 5 years either way of some fairly famous political people.

But that's not going to happen.

[brooklynite]

38. My mother is 82 and heading for an annual reunion in KC...

[3Hotdogs]

41. Hey.... First time any of my posts

Made “Trending.”

[orleans]

42. mine is this summer

(not going. have never gone)

i'm friends with two people from high school (one of them goes back to elementary school)

the others?

why the FUCK would i want to see/be around/hang out with for the night these people i thought were idiots back then, had NO desire to keep in touch with, at least half are probably trumpers & dickhead republicans, who knows who has been vaxxed, they won't wear masks, and there's a PANDEMIC going on!

can't think of anything worse i could do this summer.

if i'm curious about someone i can check their fb page, or google obituaries

[3Hotdogs]

45. My classmates were not idiots. 1 Nobel prize winner.

Many went to Harvard and other Ivys. It was and still is high achieving.


Now there is a large sub population of Chinese students
With Tiger Moms. It now has one of the highest teen suicide rates in the country.

[orleans]

50. you're lucky you had such classmates

i did not; that's why it wasn't hard for me to decide not to go.

[George II]

55. Hm, that sound like my high school, too. Four Nobel Prize winners. When I attended my HS....

...in the mid-60s, it was about 95% Jewish. Now it's about 80+% Asian.

We had a lot of graduates who wound up being distinguished in a number of fields, including politics. Some of them are Jerold Nadler, Eric Holder, David Axelrod, Grace Meng, and recent mayoral candidates Dianne Morales and Kathryn Garcia.

We also had civil right leaders Roy Innes and Bob Moses, who just passed away today.

PS - James Cagney, Ben Gazzara, Paul Reiser, Tim Robbins, and Robert Alda are also alumnae.

[Deuxcents]

44. Class of '65

Never been to a reunion b/c I just never cared to. With C-19 now.. no way. Besides, I still don’t care. If you do go, I hope you have a safe & good time.

[2Gingersnaps]

47. My sister is a year older than me, but she and her husband graduated in my class.

They keep up with the alumni, so I don't have too. The few people I care about I kept up with through out life. After seeing so many trumpanzees on her site verbally abusing her (she can hold her own) Hell would freeze over before I would walk into a room full of them. It is coming up, (class of '75), but nah.

[Cha]

48. That's too bad about your friends from

high school.

I attended my 20th from California to a high school in a small town on the Plains of Colorado. We had the reunion in Denver, though.

I was notified about my 30th but it was right before we were in a 4 CAT Hurricane on Kauai.

I won't be going to anymore but I still have dreams about my high school people.. there were only 17 in our graduating class!

Congrats on trending!

[alphafemale]

49. My 40 is next year.

Tying to get something started.

I moved away from the area as soon as I could.

Ohio ugh

But there is an undeniable bond. I knew these people before we grew hair in odd places.

[RicROC]

51. Class of '69

I've been to every reunion our class held, including the 50th a couple years ago. The people with whom I didn't really associate in high school didn't come. Some others did, and some I would swear were never in our class turned out to be some of the nicest new 'friends' I've met.

The group of then girls/now women who planned the Junior Prom and Senior Ball are now the ones who plan the reunions. The ones who were the 'salt of the earth' in high school...are still. The 'heisse scheisse's (German: hot shits) of our class (jocks, cheerleaders) never come to any of our gatherings and they are not missed.

Next month a birthday party picnic is being planned for those of us who turn(ed) 70 this year.

And get this....every month there is a luncheon planned for members of our class. Sometimes we get 24, sometimes 12.

If you think they you won't remember anyone, so why go? Remember, ½ the crowd, the spouses, don't know anyone, either. You know more than they do. If you're bored with your former classmates, chat up their guests and learn something new.

[colsohlibgal]

54. Time Flies

Had my 50th a couple of years ago, have been a member of our Reunion Organizinggroup for awhile. Looks like that will be our last big official reunion. The good news is the vast majority of us are still here and we lost two classmates in 8th grade and one our junior year.

I think of how drastically everyday life has changed since my youth and wonder what’s coming.....most urgently at the moment it’s what to do with the Political Party that’s gone largely off the rails due to their blind loyalty to the Fat Orange Dumb con man.

[Demovictory9]

56. !!!!