Former classmates - do you blank them or bother with them?

Firetrap · 09-08-2008 07:20PM #1

A couple of times recently when I've been in the home place, I've gone out shopping. I've seen a couple of former classmates out and about doing their shopping as well. They wouldn't be people I'd ever have been friendly with or anything, just folk who happened to be in my class. Anyway, seeing as it's 15 years since I did the Leaving Cert and I can't be arsed talking to them, I just stuck my nose in the air and kept going. Life's too short to be bothered.

SV · 09-08-2008 07:22PM

Why would I blank former classmates..course I'll say Hi.

KTRIC · 09-08-2008 07:25PM

Most (well nearly all) of my former classmates were complete a*seholes. If I seen any of them crossing the road I'd put my foot down.

truecrippler · 09-08-2008 07:26PM

Firetrap wrote: »

A couple of times recently when I've been in the home place, I've gone out shopping. I've seen a couple of former classmates out and about doing their shopping as well. They wouldn't be people I'd ever have been friendly with or anything, just folk who happened to be in my class. Anyway, seeing as it's 15 years since I did the Leaving Cert and I can't be arsed talking to them, I just stuck my nose in the air and kept going. Life's too short to be bothered.

Are you on the dole?

boneless · 09-08-2008 07:29PM

I don't see many of them here on A Wing...

Actually, I don't see many of them at all but if I do I say hi or on occasion I even go for a pint with them.

Seachmall · 09-08-2008 07:41PM

KTRIC wrote: »

Most (well nearly all) of my former classmates were complete a*seholes. If I seen any of them crossing the road I'd put my foot down.

+1

Creamy Goodness · 09-08-2008 07:48PM

regardless of them being assholes or not, i'd still say hello, nothing earned nothing gained doesn't really hurt that much tbh.

AARRRGH · 09-08-2008 07:49PM

I hardly ever see anyone who I was in class with. Maybe once every few years!

I wonder am I simply not recognising them, and do they now think I'm a rude ****...

Did anyone here go to Oatlands College in Stillorgan?!

BrokenArrows · 09-08-2008 07:52PM

there are only a few that i would meet up for drinks with occasionally but if i passed by any of them on the street i would just say hi. wouldnt start a conversation or anything but completely blanking them and in your words sticking your nose up at them. no.

do you think you are better then them or something.

Phlann · 09-08-2008 08:02PM

There's one or two that I wouldn't speak to under any circumstances, but the rest I'd say hi to, maybe even stop for a chat.

robby^5 · 09-08-2008 08:02PM

I'll say hi unless it's some gob****e I didn't like

MagicMarker · 09-08-2008 08:03PM

Seachmall wrote: »

+1

+2

connundrum · 09-08-2008 08:08PM

I ran into a few former class mates in a short space of time recently, and by the end of it I was sick of stopping for the same fuckin chat..

Him: So what ya up to these days
Me: Ah just workin away you know, and yourself?
Him: Ah sure much the same, when you down again? We should go on the beer.
Me: Sure next time I'm down I'll give you a buzz and we'll sort it!
Him: Sound chat ya later.

Fastforward 6 months, repeat. Fastforward 6 months, repeat. etc

Ruu_Old · 09-08-2008 08:10PM

I come across a few when I do get home. I just be civil, everyone is all grown up now. That said, I wouldn't be inviting them out for a drink or anything.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 09-08-2008 08:12PM

Honestly, I wouldn't remember one of them. Not one.

dr.bollocko · 09-08-2008 08:15PM

Spent Last Christmas with one in Melbourne after not meeting the guy in years and years. Absolutely legend christmas. Great guy too. You'd love him you would.

MooseJam · 09-08-2008 08:22PM

couldn't even remember their names tbh

Loopy · 09-08-2008 08:22PM

A polite nod and hello will suffice for me..

Mint Sauce · 09-08-2008 08:23PM

KTRIC wrote: »

Most (well nearly all) of my former classmates were complete a*seholes.

as were most of mine, but since i didn't even go to school in ireland, and have been living here 10 years, its not really an issue

went to college here, and would bump into those class mates ocasionally, only one or two ar$eh0les, not complete ones, but would all get a freindly hi or even a conversation depending how freindly we were

Handsome Bob · 09-08-2008 08:23PM

My class and year were pretty surprisingly tight. So yeah, I stop and chat to them whenever I see them. Except for the stuck up cows, I'm happy to just pretend that I don't see them.:)

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 09-08-2008 08:27PM

Most of the people I went to school with were assholes, there are very few old school chums I'd be bothered acknowledging, let alone making small talk with... unless I could work some veiled insults in there.

Him: So what ya up to these days
Me: Ah just workin away you know, and yourself?
Him: Ah sure much the same, when you down again? We should go on the beer.
Me: Sure next time I'm down I'll give you a buzz and we'll sort it!
Him: Sound chat ya later.

lol yeah, I've had that conversation alright

MooseJam wrote: »

couldn't even remember their names tbh

I remember them all... which I find weird because I'm useless at remembering peoples names in the short term.
I could be introduced to someone and forget their name within 30 seconds... yet I can recall the full names of the 40 odd people I was in 6th class with. (yeah those 80's/early 90's class sizes eh?)

arybvtcw0eolkf · 09-08-2008 08:32PM

Btw, I was bullied all through primary - and here's a little story.

I met one of my former bullies a few years ago when I was working on the door of a bar/club in town (The Bridge, Westmoreland St.)

I threw an absolute wobbler, the fvcker was lucky he'd a hundred damn witnesses or I think I'd have done some really seriously, fcuked up damage on the bollox.

Now, I'm starting to feel angry again.

Captain Darling · 09-08-2008 08:35PM

Mairt wrote: »

Btw, I was bullied all through primary - and here's a little story.

I met one of my former bullies a few years ago when I was working on the door of a bar/club in town (The Bridge, Westmoreland St.)

I threw an absolute wobbler, the fvcker was lucky he'd a hundred damn witnesses or I think I'd have done some really seriously, fcuked up damage on the bollox.

Now, I'm starting to feel angry again.

Go to the happy place.

*sound of waves lapping up on the shore and seagulls chasing trawler in the distance*

And breath out...........Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Jay P · 09-08-2008 08:37PM

Im going into leaving cert. I did ty with 19 others from a year of 240. We were really cut off from the rest of the school so after just a few months I stopped saying hi to a lot of people.

I really regret that now...but I've manys a new friend in my year now

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 09-08-2008 08:37PM

Mairt wrote: »

Now, I'm starting to feel angry again.

School days are the happiest days of our lives :pac:

arybvtcw0eolkf · 09-08-2008 08:37PM

Captain Darling wrote: »

Go to the happy place.

*sound of waves lapping up on the shore and seagulls chasing trawler in the distance*

And breath out...........Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Thats good coming from someone with Micheal Douglas in Falling Down in his sig!...

Now you've made me worse :mad:

Captain Darling · 09-08-2008 08:48PM

Mairt wrote: »

Thats good coming from someone with Micheal Douglas in Falling Down in his sig!...

Now you've made me worse :mad:

People like that arent worth getting your blood pressure up over, alternatively the next time you see him, nut the fcuker!!!

That can help too!:D

SoupyNorman · 09-08-2008 08:56PM

Didnt like most of them then so cant imagine much would have changed.

Although if they really wanted a chat I'd be sure to brag about how ruddy successful
I've been.

'CRASH, BANG, WALLOP....WATTA VIDEO'

tribulus · 09-08-2008 08:56PM

It's only been four years since I left school but I still hang around with a few of them and would still talk to or at least say hello to any others I bumped into.

It was a fairly good atmosphere though in my year which probably helped.

09-08-2008 09:03PM

I don't get blankers, what does a bit of chit chat cost you?

jos28 · 09-08-2008 09:06PM

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

School days are the happiest days of our lives :pac:

Belongs in the thread titled 'Lies our parents told us'.

Former classmates - do you blank them or bother with them?

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