School reunions?

McIrish_

Do you attend the yearly school reunion? My old class usually try to organise something around the Christmas, but I never attend, nor do I ever put in the effort.

The reason is simple......

I didn't get along with a lot of people from school, and those that I kept in touch with have emigrated, so contact is minimal. I always hated at least 2 guys from school (the bullies) and one or two girls were just nuts. We never really clicked as a class. More bad memories than happy ones......

6 and a half years out of school, and I only went to one reunion, and it was a terrible night. It was full of people boasting about the colleges that they got into ,and how much better they think are than everyone else.

I can only imagine what it's like now. It's probably full of people boasting that they have the better jobs, trying to make out that they are better than the rest.

I'm almost sure that I'm one of the few that never attends. A night out with all of those people would be a disaster, and I know that I'd lose the plot.


Anyone attend every year?

kneemos

Brag fest if ever there was one.

Annasopra

Is it regular to have annual reunions?

Chareth Cutestory

Annual reunions? Once a decade is usually enough.

gugleguy

OP, my experience would share some similarities. My last class reunion was in 1991. If invited to a class reunion I would now serenely turn down the offer. The same school had a Christmas fair this year, and only put up the notice on the railings the day before, a Friday if not on the day itself.

stefan idiot jones

God no ! Most of them were Welsh !

DEFTLEFTHAND

I haven't had one yet, I'll probably meet a good few former classmates tomorrow night.

My father never liked them, people change over time and often things which attracted you to a person or you held in common at that time no longer exist when you meet again.

shruikan2553

Ive only been out of school for 3 years but dont know if I would bother, didnt go to the debs/grad/prom either. I pretty much dealt with depression by myself during the final 2 years and then college were my favourite years so far. I feel its best just to leave those years in the past and focus on when I was happy. If there was a reunion for college I dont see any reason for me not to go.

Aestivalis

Everybody in my school hated each other.

diograis

it'd be good to have a nose about and see how everyone was doing i'd say though. see how everyone ended up

January

Tried to organise one in June and about 4 people showed up at about 10.30pm. Never again, and I wouldn't mind I was egged on to organise it by about 3/4's of the old class on Facebook.

Irish Guitarist

I despised the majority of my classmates so much that I left school when I was sixteen. That was over twenty years ago but my memory works well enough for me to know that I never want to see any of those bastards that made my life a misery again.

El Horseboxo

Had one recently. It sucked. Couldn't believe I flew in for it. People I got on with and considered school friends were quite distant and stand off-ish to me. Probably cause I'm five-0. Kinda pathetic at 30 years old.

spurious

Girls school, Dublin - 153 in the year. We've always had quite a good turnout each time. Many of us are still friends, not see each other regularly type of friends, but catch up very quickly when we do meet type of friends.

10th one very much people trying to impress each other.
20th life had battered many of us into being quite a bit more likeable.
30th was good fun, though hard to get around everyone due to the venue.
Looking forward to the 40th in 2020.

beertons

I never got the invite to my year party. Did anyone lose out? Fcuk em. A few years ago, it would have been bragging rights to the amount of properties they owned. Today, it would be the amount of negative equity they were in. Would I want to listen to that kind of crap? Eh, no. I wasn't interested in you in school, talk to your cronies.

JohnMearsheimer

I was invited to a college one about 2 weeks ago (finished college in 2007). I thought about it for a bit then I thought if I had any real interest in keeping in touch with these people I would have. I do keep regular enough contact with a few lads from college and I'm happy enough with that.

Gran Hermano

They're great, looking forward to the next one where I'll make all my old school chums envious of how I had to emigrate and was forced to take a job as a miner but earn billions working hundreds of hours per week in a country we used to ship convicts to.

Bepolite

I had great craic at mine, in more ways than one!

At 33 breaking into the school (climbing over the gate) and running around the roof pissed was probably taking it a bit far but feck it.

ToxicPaddy

Only got on with a few lads in my year, I was quiet enough and lived outside the town so never really knew anyone socially outside of the school. I never really enjoyed school and sports was probably the only thing that kept me there.

No idea if they ever had a reunion and if they did, I was never invited. Tbh I don't think I'd bother going if they did I invite me as I've so little in common with most of them I'd be bored.

As for the whole boasting n bragging, oh I have no doubt the same idiots would be at that.

Aidric

Always a good opportunity to see which broads have blossomed in to serious honeys. A few drinks and an attempt to rattle them would be the main focus of the night for me at least.

Wattle

I didn't go to mine for 20 years until the 25th came up. I was really surprised how much I enjoyed it. Everybody had mellowed out. Nobody was bigging themselves up. There was a few spliffs going round. I even talked to the guy who stole my girlfriend. He got absolutely elephants drunk and fell on his arse in the Radisson Bar. I'm so glad I was there to witness that moment

Boombastic

6 years out of school and there has already been more than 1 reunion?? It should be called a continuous

rainbow kirby

11 years since I left and I wouldn't bother my arse turning up to a reunion considering how glad I was to leave.

up for anything

We don't have regular class reunions but had one earlier this year - 35 years since we left boarding school. It was brilliant. No bragging or oneupmanship. I've kept in contact with some of them over the years but it was 35 years since I'd seen a lot of them but it felt like yesterday. Lovely and comfortable. We were boarders together so maybe the 5 years of squabbling, rows and shifting friendships was balanced by the remembrance of us against the nuns.

lufties

i left school 14 years ago, there was a clique of GAA lads, who used to think it was funny to pick on some of their fellow classmates, arrogant and ignorant. I have heard they haven't changed a bit in that time, and some even more nasty. So no way would I go near a school reunion, I hated the cnuts then, why would it be any different now, let sleeping dogs ly I say;)

lufties

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Had one recently. It sucked. Couldn't believe I flew in for it. People I got on with and considered school friends were quite distant and stand off-ish to me. Probably cause I'm five-0. Kinda pathetic at 30 years old.

What?

tempnam

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Had one recently. It sucked. Couldn't believe I flew in for it. People I got on with and considered school friends were quite distant and stand off-ish to me. Probably cause I'm five-0. Kinda pathetic at 30 years old.

So you're 50 and they're 30??? Were you kept back a while?

lufties

ToxicPaddy wrote: »

Only got on with a few lads in my year, I was quiet enough and lived outside the town so never really knew anyone socially outside of the school. I never really enjoyed school and sports was probably the only thing that kept me there.

No idea if they ever had a reunion and if they did, I was never invited. Tbh I don't think I'd bother going if they did I invite me as I've so little in common with most of them I'd be bored.

As for the whole boasting n bragging, oh I have no doubt the same idiots would be at that.

Same as that,I'd steer clear anyway, I'd prob get angry seeing all those fcukers I hated, focus on the good years, forget the bad.

Wattle

tempnam wrote: »

So you're 50 and they're 30??? Were you kept back a while?

5-0 = Cop

siblers

Had one earlier this year, of the 80 odd in my class, 9 turned up. 6 of which I see pretty much weekly, the other 3 I never talked to in school. Good craic though, was just like a normal night out really

liliq

Was considering going to my 10 year reunion this year but didn't bother. I didn't particularly bother with any of the girls I haven't kept in touch with, and I reckon it would have been a definite night of one up man ship. Ain't nobody got time for that!
Maybe the next one

Mint Aero

I went to mine a while back and there she was. That girl I had a crush on, Katie. Heck, I was a shy guy back then and twice as shy now she'd never go for me I thought. The jocks were there too. The pack being led by Corey Wilson. He used to beat me up and shove me in the lockers for fun.

I went up to my crush and asked her to dance but before she could answer Corey nudged in and had her out on the floor. Man there she was and she was with Corey, my heart sank as I saw them leave the gymnasium together. I spent the next hour by the punch bowl talking to my old chess buddy.

I went outside for a smoke, it was then I heard a girl screaming from the parking lot. It was Katies voice for sure. She was in Coreys car and boy was he coming on heavy to her. I just went up to that car, swung open the door and slugged Corey one right in the kisser.

Me and Katie went back to the reunion, she said I was her hero and the last dance of the night was our first.

Meangadh

I'm friends with about ten girls from school and see our talk to them regularly- I always got on with everyone at school but I wouldn't really feel the need to meet up with anyone outside of the ten I'm still friends with. I think they're a little pointless really.

swimming in a sea

never did a reunion, can't remember a lot of the names after 15 years. Most of them were ass holes anyway so i'm well happy:)

looking_around

who needs reunions with facebook? :pac:

I wouldn't bother. I never went to the grad/prom either.
I prefer to avoid feeling awkward and don't see the point of spending time with people you're only common 'subject' was going to school.

the_syco

Went to one, about 9 or 10 years after I had did the LC. Was cool. A few people that I knew, some who I had forgotten about. Most of the usual c**ts just weren't invited. Bit of a chat, bit of a laugh. More chilled meeting them now than I was back then.

lufties

Mint Aero wrote: »

I went to mine a while back and there she was. That girl I had a crush on, Katie. Heck, I was a shy guy back then and twice as shy now she'd never go for me I thought. The jocks were there too. The pack being led by Corey Wilson. He used to beat me up and shove me in the lockers for fun.

I went up to my crush and asked her to dance but before she could answer Corey nudged in and had her out on the floor. Man there she was and she was with Corey, my heart sank as I saw them leave the gymnasium together. I spent the next hour by the punch bowl talking to my old chess buddy.

I went outside for a smoke, it was then I heard a girl screaming from the parking lot. It was Katies voice for sure. She was in Coreys car and boy was he coming on heavy to her. I just went up to that car, swung open the door and slugged Corey one right in the kisser.

Me and Katie went back to the reunion, she said I was her hero and the last dance of the night was our first.

Sounds like an american high school movie :pac: