re: High School Reunion Stories

Attended my 10 year. Was not excited about it beforehand but it turned out to be a really good experience. I moved away after high school and hadn't seen a lot of those people since graduation day. It was really nice catching up. We ate dinner and hung out at one of the classmates houses afterwards with a band just drinking and shooting the shite. Everyone was excited to see old faces and overall very enjoyable. I doubt I make my 20 year tho because life happens.

I went to a 1A school with 30 in my graduating class. After being around everyone for 4+ years, you couldn’t pay me to attend a reunion. FB is all I need if I’m curious.

My 10th was a blast!

Red neck yacht club on the lake all day and open bar with catered bbq and band later.

SO was really mad the rest of the week. And still to this day, when it comes up.

Its not my fault she took the car and stranded me.

Then when some great girls I grew up with dropped me off late that night, she was up, already fit to be tied. I can’t remember being bad … or being good for that matter.

Anyways, I guess I was banned from my 20th. Never got the invitation. frickers.

It’s funny looking at 40th reunion photos. Some people at it will look 40 and some will look 80. I always want to ask what happened to make them look that way.

My class had a five year reunion which I thought was stupid. But I happened to be in town so I figured why not. It was dumber than I could have imagined.

CSB

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Yeah you get to see how the hot girls have gotten fat, the douches have gotten douchier and the weird kids have gotten weirder without leaving the comfort of your home.

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Which group do your classmates put you in?

Just attended my 50th last week.
Scary to think all those years have passed. 51 out of a class of 212 were there-not a bad turnout. A good time was had by all.

By the time of my 20th reunion, I had a pretty wide and varied group of friends who were business owners and I made sure that my dad's business owner friends made that association with me, as well. I was pretty good at asking for their business and favors. So, when my 20th reunion came around, I volunteered to arrange for a raffle and pitched the idea to many of my contacts that the other students and myself of our class were now the age and income levels of the type of consumers they wanted to reach.

I got all kinds of gift certificates, artwork, golf equipment, airline passes, etc.. Plenty of really nice items to raffle off. But the best item I got donated cost me $650 to get. I went to go see Louisiana duck and wildlife artist, Don Edwards. I had been wanting to purchase one of his paintings, anyway. He was friends with my parents, and my mom and dad had purchased several of his paintings, so I wanted one for my office. His paintings are really good.

So I drove to his studio to buy one that I'd had my eye on buying, so I pitched, "if you will donate two paintings to this event, I'll pay you for the most expensive of the two paintings. " He said it was a deal. So I picked out one at $500 for myself and $475 for the second one. Both original acrylic paintings. It cost me another $150 to get it professionally framed and mounted.

We had a lot of fun raffling off the items, I don't even remember who won that painting. It was fun because we included a bunch of white elephant gifts, some were naughty, but we played where the winner could choose to keep the gift for his/her raffle ticket, or choose someone else's gift who'd already won a gift and they'd make a swap. That created a lot of fun moments and the band we'd hired played right into it, like it was part of a comedy show. Yeah, I know, "Okay, Boomer". Whatever.

But whoever it was that got that painting, it's got a lot more value now. My painting is now valued at $14,000 per my insurance appraisal recommendation, and that was about three years ago, so that painting we gave away at the reunion would now be valued in that $15k price range, plus or minus $1k-$2k. But knowing how people, in general, are kind of clueless sometimes, I'm thinking that person probably unwittingly sold it for $10 at an estate or garage sale, not realizing what they owned. Some of Edward's original paintings now sell for upwards of $30,000 or more. My parent's Edwards' paintings are valued at over $100k on their home owner's insurance.

Went to 10, 20, & 30. Inching ever closer to 40 (Class of 1985). Had a great time at all three. Our class was small -23 people. Almost 40 years in, & we haven't lost a single soul. Pretty remarkable. Love my classmates and look forward to seeing them every time

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Serious answer. I was nerdy and had a touch of what would now be called the aspergers. Definitely a weird kid but I was a decent athlete and my parents were well off. So I ended up on the fringe of the jock/cool group by default but I didn't fit in with them.

My wife (no pics) went to Ben Franklin where eccentric was the norm. She remembers it fondly but from what she says about it I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have fit in there either.