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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 86410" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>It really does depend on how you felt during your high school years. My high school - it wasn't the snobbish place, it certainly wasn't classy, it was in fact fairly rough. But we were a fairly close bunch, despite some cliques. Interestingly, the most cliquey people are the ones who don't show up. One female who was absolutely horrible to me at school has been really nice when I've sat with her at two of the three reunions. She is still married to the guy she got engaged to, right out of school. </p><p></p><p>Even at school, despite the cliques, as a class we did things together outside school. Maybe that is why we can make a success of reunions.</p><p></p><p>We lost our first classmate the week after our final exams, right before Christmas (our school years run from January to December). He had a brain tumour and none of us had realised - we just thought he was acting weird to get attention.</p><p>Another two classmates were killed in car accidents. Another died only a few weeks after our last reunion - heart attack.</p><p></p><p>In contrast, husband went to one reunion, took me and the kids too. It was absolutely ghastly. While you would think it would be good to see how some classmates were succeeding, some of them were such (insert appropriate epithet here) than it was hard to be happy for them. One classmate who was a real (insert appropriate epithet here) was telling us how he did a degree in medicine, got bored with it and went back to uni to get a law degree. He's been working in legal defence of doctors but is thinking of getting back to uni - he's bored again.</p><p>husband just looked around and all he could see were the other kids who used to bully him at school. He had been looking forward to the reunion but was very happy to get away. I'm a fairly social creature and found it VERY hard to break into conversation with any people there, even the other wives (it had been an all-male school). It was almost as if the other wives were too conscious of class distinctions, either that or they had nothing between the ears (or had been carefully trained to act that way). I even had trouble talking to the men - something very unusual for me, I only have trouble when the men themselves reject women as a class - so I felt very sorry for the other wives.</p><p></p><p>I went to two high schools and the first one gave me a similar experience to husband's high school. A reunion was held just a couple of months ago. I refused to go. It would have cost money (for the meal and other expenses incurred in setting it up) and I did not want to be reminded of some of the most miserable years of my childhood. </p><p></p><p>I would be happy to attend another reunion of my second high school, the one where I graduated. But there are very few people at the first one, that I ever want to pay to spend time with.</p><p></p><p>It really does depend.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 86410, member: 1991"] It really does depend on how you felt during your high school years. My high school - it wasn't the snobbish place, it certainly wasn't classy, it was in fact fairly rough. But we were a fairly close bunch, despite some cliques. Interestingly, the most cliquey people are the ones who don't show up. One female who was absolutely horrible to me at school has been really nice when I've sat with her at two of the three reunions. She is still married to the guy she got engaged to, right out of school. Even at school, despite the cliques, as a class we did things together outside school. Maybe that is why we can make a success of reunions. We lost our first classmate the week after our final exams, right before Christmas (our school years run from January to December). He had a brain tumour and none of us had realised - we just thought he was acting weird to get attention. Another two classmates were killed in car accidents. Another died only a few weeks after our last reunion - heart attack. In contrast, husband went to one reunion, took me and the kids too. It was absolutely ghastly. While you would think it would be good to see how some classmates were succeeding, some of them were such (insert appropriate epithet here) than it was hard to be happy for them. One classmate who was a real (insert appropriate epithet here) was telling us how he did a degree in medicine, got bored with it and went back to uni to get a law degree. He's been working in legal defence of doctors but is thinking of getting back to uni - he's bored again. husband just looked around and all he could see were the other kids who used to bully him at school. He had been looking forward to the reunion but was very happy to get away. I'm a fairly social creature and found it VERY hard to break into conversation with any people there, even the other wives (it had been an all-male school). It was almost as if the other wives were too conscious of class distinctions, either that or they had nothing between the ears (or had been carefully trained to act that way). I even had trouble talking to the men - something very unusual for me, I only have trouble when the men themselves reject women as a class - so I felt very sorry for the other wives. I went to two high schools and the first one gave me a similar experience to husband's high school. A reunion was held just a couple of months ago. I refused to go. It would have cost money (for the meal and other expenses incurred in setting it up) and I did not want to be reminded of some of the most miserable years of my childhood. I would be happy to attend another reunion of my second high school, the one where I graduated. But there are very few people at the first one, that I ever want to pay to spend time with. It really does depend. Marg [/QUOTE]
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