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[Matterhorn Fan]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

To anyone who skips HS reunions....you are missing out. I went to my 20th in Napa on Sunday, and had a complete blast, but was disappointed at some missing friends. You must go to yours. Not optional. People will miss you if you dont.

I disagree. I did not go (not that I could have), and chances are slim to none that I will go to any future ones.

If people missed me, they could have googled my name and found my work email/telephone number easily enough. They didn't. I conclude, then, that I was not missed.

I have no problem with that.

[CoasterMatt]

I just joined a kickline of people dancing to "New York, New York"

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

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Problems, or are you channeling Charlie Brown?

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

To anyone who skips HS reunions....you are missing out. I went to my 20th in Napa on Sunday, and had a complete blast, but was disappointed at some missing friends. You must go to yours. Not optional. People will miss you if you dont.

I wish I could have gone to mine. It was this past weekend, and just between school/what-not... there's just no way I could afford the time off and the expense of flying out to the middle of nowhere and finding a bed and breakfast (the only kinds of places you can easily find near scenic otherwise emtpy-lands). Interestingly, the reunion wasn't expensive. Our class was smart.... we raised a crapton of money for our junior prom... took the rest, plus any other fundraising efforts, and just invested it smartly. Not to mention, things don't get too expensive, cost-of-living wise out where I was from in Michigan.

I take relief that I've remained in relatively good contact with those of my classmates I was friends with. We don't talk all the time, but it's enough, plus I've been able to see some of them. I will hopefully be able to go back to Michigan over the next couple of years.

[katiesue]

I organized my last reunion. I tried to keep costs to a minimum, I ended up charging $40/person. I just about broke even. It was fun. It really is hard to track people down, especially the women as many have married and have different last names. If you've got a fairly common name websearches come up with all kinds of useless info, although I did find a few people that way.

I also went to a fairly small school, there were only 184 people in my class so you did kind of know everyone, or mostly who everyone was. I think reunions are fun, but I can see how some people don't. I got a lot of positive feedback after. One guy said he wished more of his friends had come, but that he had a great time catching up with a lot of other people that he was maybe better friends with in lower grades and didn't hang out with in high school.

I also found that no one really cared if you were fatter, balder, richer, poorer. They were just happy to see you and catch up, talk about silly stuff that happened in 3rd grade. That was what it was really all about for me.

[Prudence]

I will probably never go to a high school reunion. I couldn't stand most of those people then, and from the looks of the photos posted after the last time, they haven't improved in any appreciable fashion. I'm still in contact with the people that were important to me - two local, one on some research ship off the CA coast, and one in Germany.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Matterhorn Fan

I disagree. I did not go (not that I could have), and chances are slim to none that I will go to any future ones.

If people missed me, they could have googled my name and found my work email/telephone number easily enough. They didn't.

I moved away from where I grew up. So did other people. Life happened - work, marriage, kids, etc. You lose track. I kept in contact with a few. But the difference is emailing or talking to one person at a time vs. being with all the people I used to hang with. And they were all there (save one or two). Reminescing, looking at old photos (one of which I thought all copies had been destroyed of, and will certainly surface should I ever run for political office - I once went to a Halloween party as a flasher in a trenchcoat and g-string - you can imagine what the picture was). The time capsule, in which some friends (unbeknownst to me) had placed some items in with my name on them 20 flippin' years ago. And 100 other examples of great things.

I'm sorry that you feel that way. I would not have missed it for the world.

[wendybeth]

Let me get this straight- there are pictures of you in a trenchcoat with a G-string? I think Lisa and MBC are on it......

We need to start up a bounty fund for this picture.

[Not Afraid]

Leo just LOVES to see how talented we are, doesn't he?

[scaeagles]

I do not think you will ever find it. Like I said, it won't surface publically until I run for office or something.