Just got word that my 60th high-school reunion is ON!

[Croney]

It will be in September, so surely all the old people will be fully vaccinated. It's in Louisiana, though, so there might be some anti-vaxxers; I'm not going to hug anybody if I can help it.

Funny how time is the great equalizer. I was never a popular girl, but I'm still here. In a class of hundreds, I am the youngest, at 76.

[mobeau69]

1. You're serious?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. My (now deceased) mother went to her 60th reunion too.

It was the first time that she attended a high school reunion! She was so happy about seeing them (the survivors) again!

I doubt that she would've done it during a pandemic, but possibly... if there were safety measures in place.

[Croney]

5. The 50th was the first I attended, and then the 55th.

It provided a sense of closure for me, and I saw my classmates as just other humans living their lives.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. There's probably a lot less "posturing" and other...

... nonsense during the later reunions too. That's my suspicion anyway.

Mom said that everybody was happy to just see the survivors again!

[elleng]

3. GOOD!

WE had a 'mini-'Zoom Thursday, and had a genuine 50-something' back in the day.

AND had a 70th birthday(s) party @ my house 5 years ago!!!

[Croney]

6. Milestones to be celebrated!

[mia]

4. Have a wonderful time!

Highschool reunions are one of life's highlights.

[Croney]

8. Thank you! I'm not like most of my classmates, but

there are a few liberals like me and we seek each other out, although nobody actually talks politics. At the 55th, somebody beat me out in the number-of-great-grandchildren contest, but my minions have been reproducing lately so maybe...

[rsdsharp]

9. I went to my tenth, and haven't been back.

Same assholes, same shit, different decade.

My fiftieth is next year. We’ll see.

[Croney]

10. Ah, but now some of the assholes won't be there, or

they will be in wheelchairs or using canes or...and this actually happened at my 55th...being wheeled into the hall in a hospital bed! I lost a lot of resentment and bitterness when I saw that aging had leveled the playing field, and I realized how lucky I've been. I hope you go.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. Yep! Age can often level the playing field.

My mother said that pretty much everybody had various health problems, aches and pains, and other similar problems to discuss at her 60th reunion. The empathy among each other was probably higher than past reunions.

[doc03]

13. Never went to one from what I hear they brag about

their f---g money and grandchildren. It's sort of like Faux News you only hear the alternative facts. I was sort of a loner never hung out with any click.

[Croney]

14. Yes, but as the numbers dwindle, the tide turns,

and I want to help turn it by being an example of a life lived differently from theirs.

[Paladin]

12. Hope my class has a 60th get-together. The 50th was a blast. (nt)

[Mickju]

15. Next year will be 60 for me.

I went to my 50th reunion, but I doubt very much I will attend the next one. There were just not that many whom I actually wanted to see. There were too many trying to show off how rich and successful they were and many who obviously had had plastic surgery.

[Croney]

16. You must have gone to a richer school than I did.

The only blatantly vain person at my 55th was an old geezer rocking a crooked toupee.

If you go, you'll have a big thing to brag about: you're alive and able to attend. Some of those braggarts won't be.

[Mickju]

17. We were not rich

but many in the district were. George W. Bush lives in that district now. One of my friend's father was president of an oil company. We had a nice house but barely scraped by. I guess you can figure out it was Dallas. lol I have already outlived many of them.

[onethatcares]

18. class of 1969

I moved out of my parents house with 22 days to go in 12th grade. The administration would not allow me to take my finals or graduate with the class.

Never really felt like I should go to any "reunions"