Old Speckled Hen Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Out of the blue I got an email through Friends Reunited about a class reunion. Now I never really bother with these and have avoided Uni ones like the plague. My year seemed to find any excuse for a PU BUT I am tempted with this one. 40 years since leaving school. I'm retired now and don't really care how well or badly I've done or how fat or thin I am or how my kids have turned out in comparison with my ex classmates. WHAT DO THINK Shall I go or shall I stay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scramble Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Go go go go go go But that's just one opinion It could be fun after all that time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlo Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Personally, I would say go. I went to one about eight years ago and had a whale of a time. I know what you mean about having too many though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Go! I met up with some old school friends about 5 years ago and it was wonderful. We yakked for 7 hours solid. Take loads of old photos with you....they are a useful icebreaker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I wouldn't fancy it,myself There was a great line about a class reunion in 'Gross Pointe Blank'...................'It just looked as if everyone had swelled' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I don't have fond memories of my school days so I'd be heading for the hills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I also wouldn't go. Too many people out to impress - I've done this, I've got that. Oooo no thanks! Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy chickens! Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I didn't go to mine a few years ago - didn't like most of the people I was at school with and had no desire to compare life stories or suffer the oneupmanship I imagined they would come out with. If you liked your school mates, it could be interesting to catch up, trouble is only one way to find out!! Is it far to go, if not much easier to just go for a bit and you can always leave if trapped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrensWorld Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. 'The times are changing and we with them'. I'd say no, don't go. I don't think you can go back, it always comes as diappointment. Your upset if they've grown and you haven't. Then you're sorry that you've grown and they haven't. Best let sleeping dogs lie, onward and upward...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I wouldn't fancy it,myself Neither would I. I would imagine mine would be full up with people trying to "out do" each other with what they have achieved since they left school. I don't have any close friends from my school days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. 'The times are changing and we with them'. I'd say no, don't go. I don't think you can go back, it always comes as diappointment. Your upset if they've grown and you haven't. Then you're sorry that you've grown and they haven't. Best let sleeping dogs lie, onward and upward...... Well said WW, well said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I went to one about 3 1/2 years ago - I had a 2 minute chance conversation with an old friend in the loo and I went home and threw my husband out the next day. Last year there was a big school re-union - by then I had shed 10 stone! I was being told by everyone that had been at the previous reunion how fabulous I looked and the woman from the loo just looked at me and said "You went home and threw him out didn't you"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrensWorld Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I went to one about 3 1/2 years ago - I had a 2 minute chance conversation with an old friend in the loo and I went home and threw my husband out the next day. Last year there was a big school re-union - by then I had shed 10 stone! I was being told by everyone that had been at the previous reunion how fabulous I looked and the woman from the loo just looked at me and said "You went home and threw him out didn't you"! Ripper!, excellent piece of work.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorbloodnock Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 It might well be a disappointment as WW said. My take, though, is that if you go, you'll find out but if you don't go you'll always wonder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrensWorld Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 It might well be a disappointment as WW said. My take, though, is that if you go, you'll find out but if you don't go you'll always wonder. Very true, then again you may always regret it. Half full, or half empty..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorbloodnock Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 It might well be a disappointment as WW said. My take, though, is that if you go, you'll find out but if you don't go you'll always wonder. Very true, then again you may always regret it. Half full, or half empty..... Indeed. That probably gives a bit of an insight into my character; I'd far rather be damned for action than inaction, although ironically I'm very risk averse. Oh, and I'm definitely a "half full" sort of bloke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missuscluck Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Go, go, go. I went to one a few months back and we are planning our next get together very soon. It was really good fun and strangley it didnt feel odd in any way whatsoever, although mostly we hadnt seen each other for 25 years. We all got on great and there was no oneupmanship going on at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Oh yeah - no one upmanship at ours either. I went with someone who I have got back in touch with via Facebook and we came away with the idea that EVERY bloke we went to school with was a builder - most of them worked "with Tone". As she said to me, when I said I was a teacher at least they understood that - when she said she was a systems analyst their eyes just glazed over! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 We all got on great and there was no oneupmanship going on at all. Ditto for my reunion. We were all delighted to meet up again and genuinely interested in hearing what people had been up to, and about their families. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I wonder if it's an age thing - I'd go now just to say hello again, but if you'd asked me a few years ago I would have been wondering who had achieved more than me and who less, and what sort of cars they drove etc etc Now I couldn't care less. And if they want one upmanship, well I'd be happy to let them be one up Go for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrensWorld Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 It might well be a disappointment as WW said. My take, though, is that if you go, you'll find out but if you don't go you'll always wonder. Very true, then again you may always regret it. Half full, or half empty..... Indeed. That probably gives a bit of an insight into my character; I'd far rather be damned for action than inaction, although ironically I'm very risk averse. Oh, and I'm definitely a "half full" sort of bloke. Hi Major, a pessimist wakes up each morrning, If good things happen it's a bonus. If the day is rubbish, no worries. He knew it would be. He's learnt the lesson of life. An optimist wakes up each morning. If good things happen, he knew it would. If the day is carp, He can't understand why. He hasn't learned the lesson of life.....ie, A, pessimist is never disappionted...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Have any of you ever read 'Friends like these' by Danny Wallace? Great book about a chap who decides to look up all his old school mates, with some very suprising outcomes! I loved it - it was real laugh out loud stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted August 6, 2009 Author Share Posted August 6, 2009 Have any of you ever read 'Friends like these' by Danny Wallace? Great book about a chap who decides to look up all his old school mates, with some very suprising outcomes! I loved it - it was real laugh out loud stuff And so begins a journey from A-Z, tracking down and meeting his old gang. He travels from Berlin to Tokyo, from Sydney to LA. He even goes to Loughborough. He meets Fijian chiefs. German rappers. Some ninjas. And a carvery manager who's managed to solve time travel. Now I could do with a reunion like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Its a super read - I can see it being made into a Movie, like his previous book 'The Yes man' Only £3.99 in Amazon too,now LINKY THINGY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleTree Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 I'd go, but only if at least one of my friends I'd stayed in touch with went too. We were always the oddball group at school, so we wouldn't be that bothered what everyone thought of us, at least I wouldn't be anyway. It's 10 years ago this year that I left school, so it hasn't been all that long. My Gran is in her 80's and she still goes to school reunions, after the last one earlier this year, she said 'it's really sad each year there's less and less of us' It wasn't long after my grampy died either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
