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keyofgee wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 11:40 am class of 83 here.
I was an outcast in high school but played in a rock band and I was a class clown too. I tried to fit in with the crowd and didn't. I went to my 5 year class reunion meeting to help plan it. I sat at a table with a group of people that were once "friends" that I no longer knew. In fact, they didn't even speak to me while they discussed plans. I walked out after about 30 minutes and said I never ever would attend one. A friend I have known since high school asked me every time there was a reunion to go to it. I politely declined. The 10 year one came and went. So did the 15, 20 and 25 years too. He always sought me out and personally invited me. I never went. Then when the 30 year came around, a high school friend that had moved away and went on to work on MADTV and produced the movie "Loud" also contacted me along with my friend that always tried to get me to go. He said he couldn't go but to please go in his place and have a beer on him. It was a sincere request and I was surprised that he asked me to do that. I went to it and I was an idiot for never going to any of them. some of my classmates' and I toasted to Bentley Title and sent him a cell phone photo of us. I thanked him for asking me to go to it because I was really on the fence about it and he never gave up. About a year later he died. His family has some kind of gene or something that makes all the males in his family die before 50. He was in the hospital when I went. He was 49. I had no idea. He didn't tell anyone.
As I said, I was an idiot for harboring all those silly feelings. Most of all the hot girls and cheerleader chicks from Highschool that would not give me the time of day in school are now fat and working on their 2nd or 3rd marriages. The jocks look like used car salesmen too. Life has a way of evening the score. If it wasn't for the name tags I wouldn't have known most of them from how they look now from back then. it was enlightening. I went to my 40th last year. I stayed about 30 minutes. Long enough to touch base and get out. They had a table set up with all the classmates that have passed on. It was nice but I kept thinking, the table is going to get larger and our reunions smaller.
Life is too fast. I was 15 yesterday trying to play paranoid. It's crazy.
Go and have fun. Report back.

Sleek wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 11:46 am Could not give one single shit about anything that happened in high school or any of the people I went to school with, so I won't be going to any reunions.

Blotzer's Treehouse wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 2:39 am Class of 2004. We had our 20 year reunion earlier in July

MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 7:16 pm Mind boggling to think it's been 40 years since I graduated...

I will be home visiting the old hood the weekend of Oct. 18th-20th for my official Class Reunion, the class of 1984!

I attended our 20th reunion in 2004, but missed our 30th in 2014... and now, it's time for 40!

What's most crazy, is I can recall so many things from Grade School, Middle School and High School too.

Who here has attended one of their Class Reunions? How was it? What year was it? And will you go again?

I have some friends, who want nothing to do with these, and hold some grudge against class-mates over stupid sh!t from 3-4 decades ago... wtf!

I am stoked to go, and while I do keep in touch with some old friends, I am excited to see others who I have not seen in decades!

$tEvil

Corey's Guitar Solo wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 4:06 am

keyofgee wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 11:40 am class of 83 here.
I was an outcast in high school but played in a rock band and I was a class clown too. I tried to fit in with the crowd and didn't. I went to my 5 year class reunion meeting to help plan it. I sat at a table with a group of people that were once "friends" that I no longer knew. In fact, they didn't even speak to me while they discussed plans. I walked out after about 30 minutes and said I never ever would attend one. A friend I have known since high school asked me every time there was a reunion to go to it. I politely declined. The 10 year one came and went. So did the 15, 20 and 25 years too. He always sought me out and personally invited me. I never went. Then when the 30 year came around, a high school friend that had moved away and went on to work on MADTV and produced the movie "Loud" also contacted me along with my friend that always tried to get me to go. He said he couldn't go but to please go in his place and have a beer on him. It was a sincere request and I was surprised that he asked me to do that. I went to it and I was an idiot for never going to any of them. some of my classmates' and I toasted to Bentley Title and sent him a cell phone photo of us. I thanked him for asking me to go to it because I was really on the fence about it and he never gave up. About a year later he died. His family has some kind of gene or something that makes all the males in his family die before 50. He was in the hospital when I went. He was 49. I had no idea. He didn't tell anyone.
As I said, I was an idiot for harboring all those silly feelings. Most of all the hot girls and cheerleader chicks from Highschool that would not give me the time of day in school are now fat and working on their 2nd or 3rd marriages. The jocks look like used car salesmen too. Life has a way of evening the score. If it wasn't for the name tags I wouldn't have known most of them from how they look now from back then. it was enlightening. I went to my 40th last year. I stayed about 30 minutes. Long enough to touch base and get out. They had a table set up with all the classmates that have passed on. It was nice but I kept thinking, the table is going to get larger and our reunions smaller.
Life is too fast. I was 15 yesterday trying to play paranoid. It's crazy.
Go and have fun. Report back.

Can someone summarize keyofgee's War And Peace post, please? I don't have 300 spare hours.

MattleyCrue wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 3:28 pm

MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 7:16 pm Mind boggling to think it's been 40 years since I graduated...

I will be home visiting the old hood the weekend of Oct. 18th-20th for my official Class Reunion, the class of 1984!

I attended our 20th reunion in 2004, but missed our 30th in 2014... and now, it's time for 40!

What's most crazy, is I can recall so many things from Grade School, Middle School and High School too.

Who here has attended one of their Class Reunions? How was it? What year was it? And will you go again?

I have some friends, who want nothing to do with these, and hold some grudge against class-mates over stupid sh!t from 3-4 decades ago... wtf!

I am stoked to go, and while I do keep in touch with some old friends, I am excited to see others who I have not seen in decades!

$tEvil

Are your classmates Tuff fans? It is so cool that you are a hair metal legend going to reunion. You are probably most successful in your class?

MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2024 6:23 pm I am a week and change out, from the 40th back in Oshkosh.

Gonna spend a long weekend hanging with my Mom, Family and some Friends back in Oshkosh.

I might, might even hit up the Packers vs: Texans game at Lambeau!

$tEvil