@@alexc2265 If ya ask me, MLMs should be unlawful. Their subhuman business practices put poor and vulnerable people into worse financial ruin for the benefit of those in the top >1% of the company. MLMs should be held responsible for the things their hired-but-not-hired 'employees' say to get their 'down-line'. They're scams, they're despicable, and they're ruining lives.
Honestly, I think the main reason most people don't really care about reunions anymore is that they really aren't needed. Thanks to social media, you can catch up with everyone you actually want to talk to from a distance. That didn't used to be the case.
I stayed in touch with about a dozen friends from HS. I'm also friends with about 200 or so on FB. When I had to go to my hometown 3 years ago for a funeral, about 50 of us ended up getting together at this bar where one friend's son was playing in the band. We didn't get rowdy, but we had a good time, and one of them, who had a classic car, drove me to the funeral (I had a broken ankle and was using a knee scooter) and helped me hobble to the grave site.
I feel like that ruins things, though. People being surprised by who people become or actually are at reunions is just part of the value that you won’t get. The conversations that one would have at a reunion and not as a result of social media are meaningful. It’s also easier to pick up an old flame.
My dad was bullied in HS, one day he snapped and beat the hell out of the biggest bully. When the reunion came around they met again. The dude was calmer, much nicer, but super awkward. He asked my dad about what he does for a job, my dad being the salty southern army man he is said "I kill people" he says the look on the dude's face was priceless. My dad is a good dude, he just has issues with grudges.
@@bax2603 yeah, my dad realises that, but he sees it as no reason to hurt others, i dont exactly agree much with what he did, but im not sure if i put this info in, but when my dad did snap, the kid came up behind him and punched him, he instigated the fight.
@@bax2603 Retired middle school teacher here. Agreed, some bullies are acting out due to crappy home life. Unfortunately some kids are just crappy kids. They become bullies to feel macho, gain status with their cohorts, to feel a sense of one upmanship, and sadly some simply enjoy inflicting cruelty. I grew up (and still live) on a farm. The same thing happens among herd animals, i.e. cattle, goats, hogs, etc. A hierarchy evolves. There always ends up being dominant and subordinate members of the herd. And believe it or not, it's obvious that many of the dominant members of the herd intentionally taunt the subordinate. When it comes to humans, I guess it just shows that primal animal trait is still in the gene pool.
At my husband’s 20 year reunion we decided to F with his old classmates. So, we pretended that I was actually a member of their graduating class and people just didn’t remember me. My husband would point someone out and give me the D L (teachers, subjects, odd things about the person such as what type of car they drove in HS or a sport they played). It was really fun as we went about fooling people/ then letting them off the hook. That person then joined in on the joke and would help us to convince others that I was actually a classmate and backing up my B. S. With others. Example: “Oh Hi XX it’s so good to see you again! Don’t you remember I sat behind you in Mr. CYZ’s class in 3 period.. oh gosh, remember those stupid flash cards he made us do?”....
Haven’t been to a reunion but for family reunions or parties one of my family members turns round and is like ooooh so this is the *insert name* that you don’t like/is a w***** It’s so embarrassing but is also very funny 😂
That...actually sounds like a TON of fun. Though I have to say...I barely remember much and I HATED my HIgh School and life then So playing tricks on people would have been a TON of fun!
I don’t do class reunions. My HS boyfriend committed suicide around 20 years ago. We broke up soon after graduation because the future took us in different directions. He was the class clown and highly respected by his peers. I had absolutely no idea or clue he was depressed or anything. I got married and had kids. He got married and had kids. His 10 year old son came home from school one day and found the body. Never could get over that.
@@danbrodt977 same, my college roommate found her sisters body. She “pretended” to be okay, but every time she drank the truth would come out. Seeing the sadness in her eyes made me wish I had super powers so I could just make her sadness disappear
20th reunion. Classmate brought his wife who wasn’t local but she got a lot of stares as she was a dead ringer (but younger) for another female classmate who didn’t appear. I thought it was the classmate and she’d gotten plastic surgery. Turns out the guy had just carried such a big torch for her that he up and married a lookalike. Imagine going to your husbands high school reunion and finding out he married you because you looked like his high school sweetheart
Creepy or flattered, 4 guys that liked me in high school married a younger version of me. They had to show them off to me. Not only was it awkward for me but also their wives. My husband was completely weirded out. I congratulated all of them(separately)and then my husband said they were all knock offs of the original and the guys knew that! Love my hubby!
Wow. Now I'm sorry I skipped mine. In my defense, I was reading "Lord of the Rings" at the time, and decided it was more important than going to see a bunch of people I never cared for.
@@shinjaokinawa5122 Graduated in ‘65 never attended a reunion. I”m certain I’ll never attend one now, all the hot girls are now old grannies or even great-grannies. I don’t want to talk about medications, health problems, how the children never visit and how their spouse is scum bag.
I had one but it were 18 people. We were a class of 20 though. This was like a year after though. Organized in a Whatsapp group that no one just left. It was like most school events at that school. Everyone brings something. Just in a backyard.
I've only attended one class reunion in my entire life. My wife and I walked in, and saw on the wall 2 large sized posters the one said "Where are they now?" and the other one said "Deceased". My wife and I had our pictures on the Deceased side. I got furious, and walked up to one the people who was helping assist with the reunion then proceeded to chew him out. He was supposedly a good friend. Never attended another one of those crap shows since.
I would've taken advantage of that. Walk in, stare at the photo and say I miss you brother and just walk out. People will either think you're a ghost, or you had a twin brother no one knew about
I don’t drink, but “no alcohol, no dancing, bring your own chairs but no bean bags, plus ones must be Sprouse’s only but not if you’re LGBTQ+, and the entertainment must be a tour of the school you went to” no thanks, think I’ll past on that lol.
"People just don't care" Yet SOME people DID attend. ALSO: The Treasurer GAVE people back money AND gave the Serving Staff & Manage a MASSIVE tip. That's a LOT of caring. Honestly, mad respect for that treasurer.
I didn't know half of the people I went to school with. You could drop me in a room full of random people and tell me it was my high school reunion, and I'd just say "Ok", and go raid the snack table.
Right? My graduation class was over 200 people. I can barely recall 20 people I knew off the top of my head. They could lie to me saying that they remember me and I would just nod
It's probably fake, a lot of people would go on the internet and make up some harem how a lot of the pretty girls from high school always had a crush on them. There's no way to verify these stories.
I was gonna go to my 10 year high school reunion, but then my stepdad managed to get tickets to see Paul McCartney... So yeah. Ate a pot cookie and saw Paul McCartney play, instead of going to a dry reunion at an LDS church with a bunch of little kids running around. I made the right choice ✌
This tall, muscly samoan guy walked up on stage, gave us a speech about accepting who you are and loving yourself, then stripped completely naked and slow danced with the girl of his dreams to his favorite song.
That first story tho! Glad that manager agreed. Its bad enough he wasn't invited. 3:21 umm... the reunion could've still happened, just at the regular banquet hall or what have you.
Yeah honestly I think they really just didn't care in the first place and would have taken any excuse to not go. I actually don't even know people who actually enjoyed their HS class mates.
Not me but my sister. She didn't even know there was a reunion, because her boyfriend never even attended his. Well she heard a few friends asking if she was going to attend the reunion, prompting my sister to ask "Wait, what? we have a reunion?" and it turns out, nope. She didn't get an invitation. She had to go as one of her friend's guest. Sounds like a mistake, right? Well, when she gets there, several people consciously act like she doesn't exist, a few people seem surprised to find her there. Turns out? She wasn't given an invitation by mistake - she wans't given an invitation on purpose. I can tell you why in one sentence. ...she was on the debate team. Yeah, all the clubs had a little reunion, except for the Debate Team. Only one person from the Debate Team attended, and like her he also had to go as a guest. Then she saw pictures from the last few reunions, and hey, what the heck? There was one for her boyfriend's year. He wasn't even told it was a thing! Of course you can guess why he wasn't invited either. Because he was ALSO on the Debate Team. Yeah, nobody liked the Debate Team. They sent an invite to the stoner who was in jail for grand theft auto, and people who were currently on deployment, but not the Debate Team. That's when it all made sense. Why the Debate Team always had one page with a single picture taken from the beginning of the year in the yearbook. (And why even the Chess Club finishing third in a tournament got more fanfare than the Debate Team winning a meet) Why most of her classmates and even some of her teachers blocked her on Facebook, and (part of) why the valedictorian was booed at the Graduation. (I say part of because the running was SUPER competitive that year - there were a lot of accusations of plagiarism and nepotism.) Yeaaaaah.... I admit my sister was toxic as cyanide during high school (not helped by being in Debate!) but that was still very shitty of her classmates to do that. Apparently they hate the Debate Team kids THAT much.
Cait L. Autistic people and psychopaths can be similarly blind (though otherwise wholly different!). Most of even us are socially aware enough to pick up on overt hate, though. Maybe the hate was more covert. Like, say nice stuff to your face covert. And maybe she wasn’t so interested in people who beefed with her. Idk. People can just also have delusions about their earlier life.
One of my classmates opened a bakery and made it the venue for our 10 year reunion. I'd been a regular customer and knew most of his employees were still in high school. Those employees were also brought in to help cater at the reunion. It was so f-d up seeing 28 year old guys hitting on 15 and 16 year old girls.
“Ten year reunion arrives and nobody from our class has died” damn dude I’m 3 years out of high school and just this year I had 3 classmates die of a car crash, a bike crash, and murder.
At my twenty year reunion two things happened...a guy we all thought was dead, his picture was on the memorial wall showed up and another guy who no one recognized went around talking about all the fun we had in senior year. Several of us checked the yearbook and still he rang no memory bells. We remembered all the events he mentioned but he was a total blank. This was a small school and our graduating class was only 25 people and, yes, he was there in the pictures but none of us remembered him and even his name wasn’t familiar. It was like a Mandela moment🙀
At my 10 year class reunion, I was hanging out with my husband and some friends. A guy that use to be a bully to me gave me the biggest hug as well as gave a lot of others hugs. Something felt off but glad he had changed. Sadly days later I found out he had committed suicide. Very heartbreaking
I'm never been to any one of my reunions. I didn't like most the people that I went to school with, so why would I want to see them now. The ones I do like we're still friends so I see them anyways.
To this day, I've never understood why some people make such a big deal out of their time spent at high school. They act as though it was the best four years of their entire life. Personally, I hated high school and I just wanted to get it over with and move on with my life. Why would I ever waste the time and effort going to a reunion?
If I ever go to a high school reunion, it'd be the high school my middle school classmates went to (I moved away after middle school). I never connected with anyone in high school because I never stuck with one school for more than a year those four years. But middle school? Damn, I actually miss some of 'em... I just wonder what it'd be like if I turned up to their 10-year, y'know? They knew me better than anyone else.
When I finally graduated HS I was so elated I felt as if I was walking on air for an entire year .I didn't feel like I graduated I felt like I had escaped a prison camp.
The one about the guy who didn't know the gig he was working was his ten-year reunion was so heart-wrenching.... I know I've got a lot of emotions swirling around with the state of things right now but when OP said they worked it out with his manager and he got to attend and had a good time, I just burst into tears. And I'm in my 50's and don't really care about class reunions; I'm just so touched at how thoughtfully and respectfully the OP handled the entire thing. Good news/stories are like air right now man, sheeeeesh.
At my 20 year high school reunion I had done well for myself financially which was a surprise to most so I was excited to go...too excited. It was held at a country club a mile from my house. I was snorting cocaine and oxycontin and when I got there I was drinking beer. I made out with a cute classmate like we were back in school, in front of everyone. I'm too embarrassed to ever go to another one.
"Someone in your class will have died by the time you reach your ten year reunion." My class couldn't even graduate before someone died, and we only had 100 students. (Accident. A tree house gave way and fell on him, crushed him instantly. Since then, we've lost two more to a drunken car accident and a drug overdose. We just passed our five year mark last month.) Also, our five year reunion will likely not happen now because COVID. This is fine with me. I'm waiting to go to a reunion until people actually change.
Yea, we've had a few die as well. One overdose, one car crash, I swear there was another overdose but I could be thinking of the class above us. There have been several deaths from the classes above and below us as well...
TWO in my case before graduation. And there was like maybe 50 in our year. Car crash and volunteer fire fighter burned to death in a forest fire. Truck ran out of water. Australia.... but our Scottish sheetmetal teacher said HALF of us would be dead by graduation. And this was the mid 90s. It was Australia not Gaza....
I wouldn't attend my reunion if you paid me. Five years of everyone kicking the shit out of me and doing irreparable damage to my mental health. I'd sooner set the whole reunion on fire.
Yeah, I can't say I have hard feelings at this point, but I'm not exactly thrilled to meet those people either. My high school time was probably the worst part of my life.
When I was in Year 11, one of the girls in my class tried giving me what she called dating tips. It was quite literally "Just meet behind a bush and stick it in." At our 1st year reunion, this same girl arrived with her daughter. I guess her advice worked.
Oh jeez that one, I wonder if he didn't even have the paycheck to afford the "subtle" rich people things. If he did though I wonder what he actually uses it on.
I (55m) went to only one reunion: my 10th year in 1992. so this was before the internet. I have know idea how we all were contacted. Of the class of 600 some 150 classmates showed up with spouses around 200+. I was a nobody in high school, I had a core group of friends, maybe 10 or so, and I'd of guessed maybe 50 of the 600 would even know me. To my surprise, about 30 people remembered me at the reunion, but they remembered me as a nobody. The thing that really was the WTF thing was that they were all surprised I had a kid. That wasn't the thing, though. I then introduced them to my wife that was with me at the reunion. They were all like "OMG!!!!!! YOU GOT MARRIED???? YOU HAVE A WIFE????" WTF? Was I that so much a nobody that I couldn't find a spouse??? I got drunk and never went to another reunion.
I was really wishing to see the poor kid that everyone didn’t really like because he was poor and then they come back 10 years later with 2 kids and pulls up with a family car like a Tesla model X or a Porsche and everyone is confused as hell who it is and then realizes who it is
I graduated HS in 65, my guess is the next reunion will consist of one person being carried in a fancy box by 6 classmates, assuming they can still carry a fancy box.
The reunion was organised through facebook. As I had little to no contact with any of them, I didn't really want to go. I had that weekend off anyway, so decided to visit my best friend instead.
My ten year reunion should have been in 2020, COVID cancelled that lol I wouldn’t have gone anyway. High school wasn’t the worst for me but towards the end, my group of friends started isolating me out of the group. The thing is, I know they didn’t do it on purpose or were aware they were doing it, but it happened nonetheless and i just wanted to leave that situation. You couldn’t pay me to see all my high school classmates
Sounds like me. Got back in touch and found out 3 years ago my old group of friends from HS all lived together. We all hung out like 3-4 times since then. Now they're just people on my instagram. Slowly fading away. Becoming strangers.
Is there really such a thing as a high school reunion? Who would actually want to go to one? High school is to move on and never look back. Why go back to such horrid times again?
@@tylernelson3343 I thought that was just a myth that people enjoyed high school. But there is no way for me to know because I never looked back to see if anybody did enjoy it or not. I do not have not one good memory from high school. It was so repetitive and monotonous. At least I was never bullied nor got into a fight. I just went in, did my time, and left. I never even bothered to learn anybody's name.
I've refused every invite to a reunion that I've received. I can't see spending the money. There's a handful of people I wouldn't mind seeing again. This is the social media age, so it's easy enough done.
These restrictions are legit the restrictions I'd expect at events in my Muslim country. Just need to add segregation of the sexes and recitation of the Quran at the start of events. I am amazed at how closely this crazy woman and religious Muslims' way of thinking match: no alcohol, no music or dancing, no partners except spouses, shameless homophobia, etc. Sad.
But at least your country is predominantly Muslim and is kinda expected. This girl wanted things HER way and that turned people off. She only cared for what she wanted to happen. I dont understand why they didn't get another person to prepare the reunion instead.
@@CrustyUgg no disrespect or anything but you need to know that not all Muslims are the same, Islam is literal religion not a culture or a country nor is it a nation. In my Muslim country the only thing that is not allowed is alcohol, the rest is a big part of our culture as we love dancing and have a wide variety of music, being part of the LGBT+ community is not really something that is big over here however and blatant homo phobia is heavily frowned upon as we believe in the fact that only God can judge us. I just think that being hated on for believing in a religion is a bit unfair, being called a terrorist when I have never even seen a gun in real life and just minding my own business trying to live a happy life is super unfair. You have no idea how many time I hade to deal with racist remarks and I am only 17 years old and it doesn't help that I am black and a women so the oppression does not just stop their.
I like the people making fun of other people for still being caught up in high school drama years later, yo folks you all are the ones still caught up in high school enough that you feel a need to go have a big ass meet up with everyone. Normal people just don't care about high school after it is over. If the friends you had in high school were that good you would still be in touch and friends with them now.
Apparently we had massive suicide issues after graduation. With people buried all over the place couldn’t decide which cemetery to settle for… I don’t expect the situation to have improved on the student side… especially with news of teachers now joining the trend…
I went to my 10yr reunion and it was trippy- all the "popular kids" had all sorta remained in the area and were all literally exactly the same as their parents, living their parents lives, they all seemed happy but it was so WEIRD to me lol, totally surreal...I was one of the few who escaped ASAP and had moved away the furtherest and I'm pretty sure I had the most interesting life at the time....now it's like 20yrs later and now I have kids as well so I kinda get it now- maybe I've just caught up finally lol, maybe I'm STILL just way more immature than my schoolmates- they were all "grownups" and I so wasnt- or maybe it's just that the type of people who would go to reunions are just toal normies and all the interesting kids had better shite to do anyway lol lol....but I'm still so glad I went, it was incredibly therapeutic and empowering and validated a lot of the choices I had made in my life, everything worked out yay me, I may have made (a lot of!!) mistakes in my life but at least I wasn't living my parent's life, my mom's life, I was free, I was happy and I was so so so SO very glad to have escaped that small country town...and lol most of all, damn- I'm so very glad I didn't get impregnated before 20!!!😂😂🤣😉
Class of '13. I'm dying to leave my town. I hate Austin! Barely getting my life together and hitting 30 in 3 years. I'll have my own trucking business by then. Traveling in the meantime. And im still staying away from having kids! Heres to 2022! Cheers!
About 5 years after graduation something good happened but I handled it badly on my part. I had recently been married. I and the (Will call her the Ex) were walking around for a while. During this whole time, The Ex kept increasing getting madder and madder at me. I finally had enough and asked why she was mad. LIKE TOU DON'T KNOW! THAT CUTE GIRL OVER THERE HAS KEPT HER EYES GLUED ON YOU THE WHOLE WE'VE BEEN HERE. I looked up and yes a very cute girl was smiling and looking at me but I had no idea who she was. The Ex said that I needed to puy a stop to this right now. I was embarrassed and told The Ex that she was wrong acting like this. I walked over to the very good-looking girl, and before I could say anything she came to me and said "Your J**** L****. Right? You lived on this street, you play football and wrestle and you were in Mrs. B****** for kindergarten. Do you remember G**** N****? I thought back and barely remember a very shy very plain chubby girl. There is no way this sexy girl could ever be the same person. She continued to tell me that the minute she saw me she could remember everything we did and said together. Every detail of school lessons and projects we did. This made her very happy wanted hug and kiss me but could see how The Ex. acting and didn't want to get me in more trouble. She could see that I was really confused and went on to explain. She had been in a very bad car crash was in a coma and lost her memory. She couldn't remember who she was, her parents nor brothers, nothing. There are things she doesn't and maybe never will. But I remember you and everything about you. Thank you, she said. Here comes my regret and should dealt with better. I turned and looked at The Ex. by now she was even madder. Instead of being happy for this girl and proud for myself and find out more about her car crash. All I said was "That's nice." turned got The Ex. and left the reunion. For the next 45 minutes on the drive home, all I heard was "Why was I flirting with her, Is she my girlfriend and every reason I was a bad husband. At one point I had to stop and buy two 24 oz. beers slam them down and now had to listen to her tell me how much of a drunk I am. The Ex. finally ran out of things to say and I drove to her mother's house. She got out of the car slamming the door and her family was outside. I yelled at her "STOP! You are going to listen to me! Once I'm done I'm going home. You will stay here at your mom's. That girl is someone I went to school with that had a bad car accident lost her memory. She didn't know her own family. But she knew who I was and could remember everything we did and said in school. That's why she was happy to see me. Then I was a dumb shit to her just because you thought I was flirting with her. Her name is G**** N**** you can go on-line and check out her story. I'm out of here. Well for the next few days she couldn't find me plus she had no way to get into our house.
My parents were supposed to have one, but then the guy who was supposed to plan it took everybody's money and ran off with it instead of actually planing the event. And a few days later, I think someone they knew committed suicide, which was really sad.
Didn't go to my 10 year reunion because I was severely bullied. But apparently it was dramatic and a former bully/douchebag spiked the already alcoholic punch with a bottle of moonshine. Everyone was trash drunk
I switched schools at the end of junior year, And I graduated this year. A few weeks ago I went to my home town and when I was in Walmart this girl kept following me and like awkwardly going in front of me, and facing me until I just went around her. When I was getting in the car I got a text on Instagram from this one girl who always liked me but only when I had a gf, that it was rude to ignore people. So I have no fucking idea how these guys can recognize people after 50 years
The popular lot of my year group were planning a 5 year reunion last year . I never got an invite because I was very hated as was blamed for getting two popular people expelled. Never did . My brother got a facebook event invite . He declined. No clue if the reunion went ahead.
Hated high school. Went to the 10 year reunion at the urge of my mom. I am not a joiner. But I went. Won the biggest prize that night. Truly, if ya don't care for getting together in big crowds, don't go. I am not good with huge crowds.
For the "John Smith" story. The best friend needs to carry a fake mustache so whenever someone says "didn't you die?" He could put it on and respond "you didn't see me".
I had a class of around 50. 2 died BEFORE graduation. Car crash and volunteer fire fighter in a truck that ran out of water in the middle of a forest fire. There's a memorial in a park for him and the others who died, one who was his father.
For our prom we raised 790$ in excess of the needed funds and the senior fundraisers in our batch kept it all for themselves. Mind you i was a key part in the treasurer group. Cant wait for how well organize our reunion
Wow my 10 year reunion would fit right in with this. The former "popular girls" planned it to be at our old high school in a pavilion with no electricity for fans, during the summer, potluck style food, no alcohol and encouraged people to bring their kids. Country school with 86 kids in our graduating class with most of them related (cousins). I didn't go.
I don't think its a badge of honor in todays times? Depending on where you live, anyways. But um, we're shown movies, PSA's, forced to work on paper after paper of the dangers of young pregnancy and so on. If anything its even more of an embarrassment now because everyone is aware that, "yeah its your fault we were all taught in the same classroom."
@@AdventureHusky When my sons were in HS, it was. They all thought "yeah, we get an apartment in the high-rise, we get the EBT card, and everybody knows we got laid." THANK GOODNESS my own sons (no daughters) were smart enough not to fall for it, and took responsibility for pregnancy prevention.
My health teacher told my class she went to her reunion and this woman who was married with kids was shit talking a girl that during HS ‘stole’ her bf in year eleven, teacher thought it was stupid she was hung up on a small thing from their adolescent years
I started laughing at the one where the guy got poked in the eye by hard-on 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, that's hilarious. Plus never graduated from HS but made sure that my daughter did and my son's do to when it's their turn.
The guy who showed up in KISS-style facepaint only to have everybody decide that it was way too weird to address and proceed to just treat him normally must have been really pissed inside because he didn't get any reaction.
I missed my 10 year reunion. I was not in my home country at the time. (Military) While I've moved back a couple of years ago, I have to admit... Due to the fact that two of my three best friends at the time have already passed away, I would find it extremely painful to even go back to my home town, let alone see other faces from my past. I've only been back to my former home providence a couple of times in the last decade for that reason. While I am tempted to make the 20 yr reunion, if I'm still kicking in seven years.... I don't know if I will have healed enough as a person for it by that time. Does the pain of tragic loss ever really go away? After a decade I can safely say 'no'. At least not thus far. At least at the moment I can say I just don't see myself going through with it. There's nothing left there for me.
Closest thing to a H.S. reunion I've attended was a number of years ago. Came out of work to find my truck had a flat tire. No obvious reason for it to be flat, so took it to the local Sears to get a pro-rated replacement. Figured I was going into battle, so went marching in with the sales receipt. Went up to the counter, and was greeted with "Hey! Don't I know you?" Turned out the cashier was a former classmate, and gave me a rundown on what a good portion of the class had been up to since graduation. Got a free tire out of the deal as well. 👍 Never have gone to a reunion, though.
I was never invited to any of my class reunions, the last one was for 25 years. I went 2 separate times because a friend told me it was happening and asked me to go with her. I regret going and refuse to ever go again, no one wanted to talk to me even though we've known each other our entire lives. They felt I wasn't even worthy of speaking to or acting like they knew me.
I made it a point to attend my 15-year reunion specifically because I was so heavily bullied in Middle School and a lot of the people I went to high school with were the same people that believe me. I turned it around in high school and ended up being pretty popular specifically because I got out of the ugly doubling faze, came into my own confidence and was overall really nice person. I still really wanted to go back to high school and rub it in all of my police faces that I was happy successful and what not. I ended up remembering almost nobody and the few people that went that I did remember we're still living at their parents house, got fat, or had a fuck ton of kids then got divorced, and overall it was just really embarrassing to see them all like that. One dude however was telling anyone that was willing to listen all about how he was this big shot in the army and was really proud that he had served 3 years so far. He was literally bringing it up at every single fucking opportunity and walking around like he was everybody's fucking hero. He nearly spit out his beer when I told him I had been for 7 years active duty and one year in the reserves before letting my contract end and was now working as a contractor on an Air Force Base in Las vegas. I assumed we went to high school together considering he was there but I didn't remember him either.
Wait, I'm confused about the 10 yr reunion one with the girl who has an 11 yr old kid.......so if you're at a 10 yr reunion and have an 11 yr old, so?? That's nothing, having a child junior or senior year isn't out of the ordinary. But that statement didn't make sense being that they mentioned she may have had the child in 8th grade, which would've made the kid like 14-15 yrs old, not 11 unless it's a 10 yr reunion since graduating 8th grade, lol (weird, but to each other own I guess).
graduated year 2000 and there were about 230 people in my graduating class. For our 10 yr reunion (which I did not attend) I think only 20-30 people showed up, lol. We didn't even bother with a 20 yr. I think we all just kinda muttered we'd see about the 25 yr or something. No one cares about it honestly and I'm just fine with it :)
This isn't my story but this is one of my former teachers story. They said that high school reunions can be weird. They've attended their first reunion with their spouse but for the second high school reunion their spouse was busy and was unable to attend so they have decided to attend the reunion alone. Now their alone visiting with everyone and a lot of their former classmates started hitting on them since they assumed they got divorced... to me that was a funny story. He spoke about his own history teacher saying their history teacher enjoy teaching his class was always helpful and loved their students so much that the teacher married one of them after they graduated highschool.
Lived in another country at the 10 year anniversary, but most of our class got together in someone's remote family home, had an awful fight, and no one speaks with each other since then..
My ten year reunion was held at a local legion. It was organized by my sister and a friend, it was nice to see all my old friends again after so long. Apparently one guy who no one really liked messaged them basically saying "how could you host it at such a cheep place? I'm definitely not going message me when it's worth my time." we all had a good laugh about that.
High school years, even though I had friends, were one of the loneliest times of my life. The few friends I had were great but I don’t think I’d be invited. It was hard socializing and I was kind of an easy target (made no better because I was really sensitive and easily scared.) But if I do get invited, assuming they do reunions at my school, I think I’d go. Call it curiosity or masochistic inquiry, but I’d be cool to see how everyone has changed.
We had a girl have a baby in the 7th grade; she was in most of my classes. Cute kid; had to bring him a few times to class, I remember sitting next to her and glancing over to see a sleeping baby. Very well behaved. But yeah, she was like 12 or something. Got R’d by someone, we live in small town in Tennessee with a lot of churches so the abortion was out of the question. Still see her and her son every now & then to this day, 15 years later.
I kid you not my high school reunion was canceled because the majority of women gained weight. I mean massive amounts of weight and gained up attacking any woman in the group chat who didn't. Once they were removed there were not enough people to attend.
Hy-vee is good.. but not 60$ good. Yeah, I agree. You can get all you can eat salad bar from hy-vee itself for like 7.99$ (source- I live in the exact same area)
I still remember my 10 year reunion. Oh, that was a blast! We had karaoke. I actually sang something--Man of Constant Sorrow by the Soggy Bottom Boys (O Brother Where Art Thou is one of my favorite movies) and the room just went nuts. To be fair, it was like one in the morning and I think most of them were either high, drunk, or both, but I still remember it well. At one point, I had acquired backup dancers. I didn't really notice because I was focused on the song, but when it stopped, I looked behind me and there's four girls I don't even recognize. And I'm like, what happened here?
I was excited to go to mine, but the organizers kept changing plans and stopped updating the group. Some of us asked for some decent amount of notice since we're coming from out of state. After a year of this they finally update under 2 weeks before the event, but it was too late for most of us out of state people to come. From the pics it was basically a party for the organizers' cliques and peripheral groups. Seemed like decisions were made privately and the group was notified much later, so a huge amount of us were in essence excluded from our own reunion. 😟
My dad's class started having reunions every year a few years back because their classmates started dying, they made the decision when one of them passed away on her ?45?th birthday, they thought all the RIP's were a joke on her age :/
The teacher who predicted the death before the 10 year reunion would have been absolutely correct about our class. 5 months after graduation one of my Best friends died along with another person from our class. The anniversary of their death is 10/23
Next summer is my 10 year high school reunion. We were a very small class--only 14 of us. Everyone has moved on into life doing things they love, are in long-term relationships, and starting families. Except me. I am 28, chronically single, never graduated college because I got diagnosed with lupus at 22 turned all my focus on trying to deal with and figure life out after that, still live at home in large part due to the lupus as well as some anxiety issues made worse because of it, and have never had anything close to a romantic entanglement. My only "success" is that I've managed to become an author of two children's books and they've only sold marginally well locally. Other than that, I'll have nothing to show for the last 10 years. I will not be able to walk into a reunion and show my loser face to those successful people with their happy families and good careers and lives all tied together with pretty bows. At the very least I won't be able to do it if the one girl that said I should've died in our house fire at 10 years old is there with her family.
Haven't had a reunion yet, because I've only been graduated for 4 years, but one night in November me and five friends went to the bar, where there were about 40 people who we knew from school. Former students and a few teachers randomly showed up in like ten different groups. They ended up keeping the bar open an extra hour for us
When I was a kid I was looking out my window on the highschool reunion party next door horse. Someone drops a package on the door. Party members accept it and suddenly everyone started to freak out. Later on the morning I was informed that the adults were having a HS reunion and invited the bullied girl. She mail them a package of human shit.
The snobby mean girls were actually nice to me and happy to see me. I almost had a heart attack.
So which pyramid scheme- oh, right, sorry, 'MLM' were they pitching to you?
HauntedShadowsLegacy It’s only a pyramid scheme if it has a certain sort of unlawful structure. I totally see your point, though.
@@alexc2265 If ya ask me, MLMs should be unlawful. Their subhuman business practices put poor and vulnerable people into worse financial ruin for the benefit of those in the top >1% of the company. MLMs should be held responsible for the things their hired-but-not-hired 'employees' say to get their 'down-line'. They're scams, they're despicable, and they're ruining lives.
U can wake up from ur dream
By the Emporer!
Honestly, I think the main reason most people don't really care about reunions anymore is that they really aren't needed. Thanks to social media, you can catch up with everyone you actually want to talk to from a distance. That didn't used to be the case.
I stayed in touch with about a dozen friends from HS. I'm also friends with about 200 or so on FB. When I had to go to my hometown 3 years ago for a funeral, about 50 of us ended up getting together at this bar where one friend's son was playing in the band. We didn't get rowdy, but we had a good time, and one of them, who had a classic car, drove me to the funeral (I had a broken ankle and was using a knee scooter) and helped me hobble to the grave site.
I feel like that ruins things, though. People being surprised by who people become or actually are at reunions is just part of the value that you won’t get. The conversations that one would have at a reunion and not as a result of social media are meaningful. It’s also easier to pick up an old flame.
not in my case. literally everyone either refuses contact or blocked me. i had no way of contacting any of them.
Also, people travel more. My hs class is scattered to the wind.
tenorlove This actually sounds nice
My dad was bullied in HS, one day he snapped and beat the hell out of the biggest bully. When the reunion came around they met again. The dude was calmer, much nicer, but super awkward. He asked my dad about what he does for a job, my dad being the salty southern army man he is said "I kill people" he says the look on the dude's face was priceless.
My dad is a good dude, he just has issues with grudges.
Lol @ your dad.
That guy probably was going thru some things in his home as a kid
@@bax2603 yeah, my dad realises that, but he sees it as no reason to hurt others, i dont exactly agree much with what he did, but im not sure if i put this info in, but when my dad did snap, the kid came up behind him and punched him, he instigated the fight.
@@bax2603 Retired middle school teacher here. Agreed, some bullies are acting out due to crappy home life. Unfortunately some kids are just crappy kids. They become bullies to feel macho, gain status with their cohorts, to feel a sense of one upmanship, and sadly some simply enjoy inflicting cruelty. I grew up (and still live) on a farm. The same thing happens among herd animals, i.e. cattle, goats, hogs, etc. A hierarchy evolves. There always ends up being dominant and subordinate members of the herd. And believe it or not, it's obvious that many of the dominant members of the herd intentionally taunt the subordinate. When it comes to humans, I guess it just shows that primal animal trait is still in the gene pool.
That's kinda funny though not gonna lie. Like the implications of the statement "I kill people" are wild lmao.
“Woah I think I know everyone here” *The Statistical probability of that happening going through his head*
Going through his head...very...very....slowly....
@@Kayenne54 slower than the time that i responded to your comment?
@@maui7040 lol
Statistical*
@@maui7040 Much, much, slower....
At my husband’s 20 year reunion we decided to F with his old classmates. So, we pretended that I was actually a member of their graduating class and people just didn’t remember me. My husband would point someone out and give me the D L (teachers, subjects, odd things about the person such as what type of car they drove in HS or a sport they played). It was really fun as we went about fooling people/ then letting them off the hook. That person then joined in on the joke and would help us to convince others that I was actually a classmate and backing up my B. S. With others. Example: “Oh Hi XX it’s so good to see you again! Don’t you remember I sat behind you in Mr. CYZ’s class in 3 period.. oh gosh, remember those stupid flash cards he made us do?”....
Haven’t been to a reunion but for family reunions or parties one of my family members turns round and is like ooooh so this is the *insert name* that you don’t like/is a w*****
It’s so embarrassing but is also very funny 😂
"It's Louisa!!! From home rule!"😆😆😆
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That...actually sounds like a TON of fun.
Though I have to say...I barely remember much and I HATED my HIgh School and life then
So playing tricks on people would have been a TON of fun!
Thats just awesomely fun sounding
I don’t do class reunions. My HS boyfriend committed suicide around 20 years ago. We broke up soon after graduation because the future took us in different directions. He was the class clown and highly respected by his peers. I had absolutely no idea or clue he was depressed or anything. I got married and had kids. He got married and had kids. His 10 year old son came home from school one day and found the body. Never could get over that.
How heartbreaking.
What happened to your ex's kid was horrible
Probroskillz_3213 Look out for the cool kids and philanderers too. And obviously some of the misfits and pariahs.
@@serenitynow85 I went to college with a woman who found her father's body as a child. You literally never get over that.
@@danbrodt977 same, my college roommate found her sisters body. She “pretended” to be okay, but every time she drank the truth would come out. Seeing the sadness in her eyes made me wish I had super powers so I could just make her sadness disappear
20th reunion. Classmate brought his wife who wasn’t local but she got a lot of stares as she was a dead ringer (but younger) for another female classmate who didn’t appear. I thought it was the classmate and she’d gotten plastic surgery. Turns out the guy had just carried such a big torch for her that he up and married a lookalike. Imagine going to your husbands high school reunion and finding out he married you because you looked like his high school sweetheart
Ryan Coulter -- I hope he was savy enought to tell her how many other "dead ringers" he passed up until he found one with a great personality.
Creepy or flattered, 4 guys that liked me in high school married a younger version of me. They had to show them off to me. Not only was it awkward for me but also their wives. My husband was completely weirded out. I congratulated all of them(separately)and then my husband said they were all knock offs of the original and the guys knew that! Love my hubby!
Wow. Now I'm sorry I skipped mine. In my defense, I was reading "Lord of the Rings" at the time, and decided it was more important than going to see a bunch of people I never cared for.
Yes, lord of the rings is more important, legolas, Gandalf, gimli, they will guide me
No Problems there I graduated in 1973 and have never been back.
I'm too busy enjoying paradise.
I like your way of thinking
Fictional orcs > Real life Orcs
@@shinjaokinawa5122 Graduated in ‘65 never attended a reunion. I”m certain I’ll never attend one now, all the hot girls are now old grannies or even great-grannies. I don’t want to talk about medications, health problems, how the children never visit and how their spouse is scum bag.
Regarding the last one: Why be confused about ten bouncy castles? Enjoy the goddamn bouncy castles!
The answer is simple bouncy castles are fun
Exactly
Imagine the bouncy castle obstacle course. That would be amazing.
Adults never get to go in bouncy castles. Take every chance you get.
Agreed
So has anyone actually had a reunion with over 20 people and it turned out great?
I had one but it were 18 people. We were a class of 20 though.
This was like a year after though. Organized in a Whatsapp group that no one just left.
It was like most school events at that school. Everyone brings something. Just in a backyard.
yeah it was pretty chill at mine about half my class showed up was about 20+ of us
I’m still in high school lol.
@@844SteamFan I haven't started high school yet😂
I'll be going next year though if corona dies down
My family... it usually turns out good. On that side, there are about 60-70 people.
I've only attended one class reunion in my entire life. My wife and I walked in, and saw on the wall 2 large sized posters the one said "Where are they now?" and the other one said "Deceased". My wife and I had our pictures on the Deceased side. I got furious, and walked up to one the people who was helping assist with the reunion then proceeded to chew him out. He was supposedly a good friend. Never attended another one of those crap shows since.
DoctorRobertNeville pfft you can’t trick me ghost!
I would've taken advantage of that. Walk in, stare at the photo and say I miss you brother and just walk out. People will either think you're a ghost, or you had a twin brother no one knew about
should have trahsed the place and then when they ask you what the heck is your problem, point at your photos and ask "well, who you gonna call?"
BlackIce86 This is fucking hilarious
Hmmm, luckily the guy didn't decide that killing you would be quicker than changing the pics around 😎
I don’t drink, but “no alcohol, no dancing, bring your own chairs but no bean bags, plus ones must be Sprouse’s only but not if you’re LGBTQ+, and the entertainment must be a tour of the school you went to” no thanks, think I’ll past on that lol.
Its LGBTQQA2+ you bigot
@@G1ennbeckismyher0 lol
they changed it
i dont even know what half of the words even mean lol
not being offensive
@@huzaifakhambhati8767
I think it’s
Lesbian
Gay
Bisexual
Trans
I don’t know what the Q means
And Asexual
@@beastmaster0934 the first Q means questioning
@@huzaifakhambhati8767i thought it meant queer or did they change it
"People just don't care"
Yet SOME people DID attend.
ALSO: The Treasurer GAVE people back money AND gave the Serving Staff & Manage a MASSIVE tip. That's a LOT of caring. Honestly, mad respect for that treasurer.
Are you that treasurer
Yea but that’s a person who cares and not the majority of their class
I didn't know half of the people I went to school with.
You could drop me in a room full of random people and tell me it was my high school reunion, and I'd just say "Ok", and go raid the snack table.
Right? My graduation class was over 200 people. I can barely recall 20 people I knew off the top of my head. They could lie to me saying that they remember me and I would just nod
I get this thing where people remember me REALLY well, and I have ZERO clue who they are. But remember people who don't remember me.
The amount of girls who came out and told me “ oh yeah I had such a crush on you in HS.” I was like, why did no one tell me !?!?
Breakfast Club said it best. What would their friends think!
Whether they were being honest or not,, they likelly wanted to hook up at the reunion.
It's tragic what happens
It's probably fake, a lot of people would go on the internet and make up some harem how a lot of the pretty girls from high school always had a crush on them. There's no way to verify these stories.
They saw your success, now they want you
I was gonna go to my 10 year high school reunion, but then my stepdad managed to get tickets to see Paul McCartney... So yeah. Ate a pot cookie and saw Paul McCartney play, instead of going to a dry reunion at an LDS church with a bunch of little kids running around. I made the right choice ✌
im NOT JEALOUS WTF I SWEAR
thats onky my dying wish u lucky bastard
Seen him 7 times. Always a great show
Yea fuck that. Take the pot cookie/concert combo..
This tall, muscly samoan guy walked up on stage, gave us a speech about accepting who you are and loving yourself, then stripped completely naked and slow danced with the girl of his dreams to his favorite song.
😂😂😂 that 'rocks'
( im sorry i had to)
What a legend
*Golden jet Golden Jet*
What a fucking boss
@@Quesadla Golden Jet, Golden Jet
That first story tho! Glad that manager agreed. Its bad enough he wasn't invited.
3:21 umm... the reunion could've still happened, just at the regular banquet hall or what have you.
Yeah honestly I think they really just didn't care in the first place and would have taken any excuse to not go. I actually don't even know people who actually enjoyed their HS class mates.
Not me but my sister.
She didn't even know there was a reunion, because her boyfriend never even attended his.
Well she heard a few friends asking if she was going to attend the reunion, prompting my sister to ask "Wait, what? we have a reunion?" and it turns out, nope. She didn't get an invitation. She had to go as one of her friend's guest.
Sounds like a mistake, right? Well, when she gets there, several people consciously act like she doesn't exist, a few people seem surprised to find her there. Turns out? She wasn't given an invitation by mistake - she wans't given an invitation on purpose. I can tell you why in one sentence.
...she was on the debate team.
Yeah, all the clubs had a little reunion, except for the Debate Team. Only one person from the Debate Team attended, and like her he also had to go as a guest.
Then she saw pictures from the last few reunions, and hey, what the heck? There was one for her boyfriend's year. He wasn't even told it was a thing! Of course you can guess why he wasn't invited either. Because he was ALSO on the Debate Team.
Yeah, nobody liked the Debate Team. They sent an invite to the stoner who was in jail for grand theft auto, and people who were currently on deployment, but not the Debate Team.
That's when it all made sense. Why the Debate Team always had one page with a single picture taken from the beginning of the year in the yearbook. (And why even the Chess Club finishing third in a tournament got more fanfare than the Debate Team winning a meet) Why most of her classmates and even some of her teachers blocked her on Facebook, and (part of) why the valedictorian was booed at the Graduation. (I say part of because the running was SUPER competitive that year - there were a lot of accusations of plagiarism and nepotism.)
Yeaaaaah.... I admit my sister was toxic as cyanide during high school (not helped by being in Debate!) but that was still very shitty of her classmates to do that. Apparently they hate the Debate Team kids THAT much.
Wow. Took a whole lot of reality check after all that, I can bet...
Cait L. Autistic people and psychopaths can be similarly blind (though otherwise wholly different!). Most of even us are socially aware enough to pick up on overt hate, though. Maybe the hate was more covert. Like, say nice stuff to your face covert. And maybe she wasn’t so interested in people who beefed with her. Idk. People can just also have delusions about their earlier life.
WOW. Really makes me wonder what happened with the team.
Wtf that's so weird. Who cares after so long anyway? They did apparently .
@@JennsCorner777 The Debate Team kids were.... super duper toxic admittedly.
One of my classmates opened a bakery and made it the venue for our 10 year reunion.
I'd been a regular customer and knew most of his employees were still in high school.
Those employees were also brought in to help cater at the reunion.
It was so f-d up seeing 28 year old guys hitting on 15 and 16 year old girls.
They def peaked in high school
“Hey dude are you dead?”
-The most normal and un-outrageous chat-starter in the history of ever
"Yes." 😐
☠
Why yes, as a matter of fact I am! Thank you for noticing! 😇
Who knows? I wouldn't be caught dead at one of my school's.
German?... Der eisendrache, ja ich spreche deutsch... I dont even know if i wrote that properly😂
@Jobje Rabbeljee "Allready [sic]" what?
yo same after that pedo trial I'm not allowed within a mile of a school
I've never gotten an invitation to class reunions. Which is fine because I hated every single person there especially the teachers.
Do teachers go to class reunions??
Kushan Saputantri I think teachers only come if the school organized the reunion themself.
“Ten year reunion arrives and nobody from our class has died” damn dude I’m 3 years out of high school and just this year I had 3 classmates die of a car crash, a bike crash, and murder.
1 car crash. Cute girl from Chicago. Damn shame. I hope that's all.
At my twenty year reunion two things happened...a guy we all thought was dead, his picture was on the memorial wall showed up and another guy who no one recognized went around talking about all the fun we had in senior year. Several of us checked the yearbook and still he rang no memory bells. We remembered all the events he mentioned but he was a total blank. This was a small school and our graduating class was only 25 people and, yes, he was there in the pictures but none of us remembered him and even his name wasn’t familiar. It was like a Mandela moment🙀
Really are an old woman then
Wow.
That's incredibly sad
At my 10 year class reunion, I was hanging out with my husband and some friends. A guy that use to be a bully to me gave me the biggest hug as well as gave a lot of others hugs. Something felt off but glad he had changed. Sadly days later I found out he had committed suicide. Very heartbreaking
I'm never been to any one of my reunions. I didn't like most the people that I went to school with, so why would I want to see them now. The ones I do like we're still friends so I see them anyways.
To this day, I've never understood why some people make such a big deal out of their time spent at high school. They act as though it was the best four years of their entire life. Personally, I hated high school and I just wanted to get it over with and move on with my life. Why would I ever waste the time and effort going to a reunion?
Andrew same here, senor year was my personal HELL! Every thing was so repetitive
If I ever go to a high school reunion, it'd be the high school my middle school classmates went to (I moved away after middle school). I never connected with anyone in high school because I never stuck with one school for more than a year those four years. But middle school? Damn, I actually miss some of 'em... I just wonder what it'd be like if I turned up to their 10-year, y'know? They knew me better than anyone else.
When I finally graduated HS I was so elated I felt as if I was walking on air for an entire year .I didn't feel like I graduated I felt like I had escaped a prison camp.
I can't imagine going to a reunion, it's really weird hearing about it. I forget the some people might actually have had a positive experience at HS.
The one about the guy who didn't know the gig he was working was his ten-year reunion was so heart-wrenching.... I know I've got a lot of emotions swirling around with the state of things right now but when OP said they worked it out with his manager and he got to attend and had a good time, I just burst into tears. And I'm in my 50's and don't really care about class reunions; I'm just so touched at how thoughtfully and respectfully the OP handled the entire thing. Good news/stories are like air right now man, sheeeeesh.
At my 20 year high school reunion I had done well for myself financially which was a surprise to most so I was excited to go...too excited. It was held at a country club a mile from my house. I was snorting cocaine and oxycontin and when I got there I was drinking beer. I made out with a cute classmate like we were back in school, in front of everyone. I'm too embarrassed to ever go to another one.
Okay boomer. What ever you say.
Obvious flex
...and that's how you came out in front of your old classmates? At least he was cute
This the Tru MVP
The first story got me in the feels. I'm glad Chris ended up having a great night, and I hope he's out there now living his best life.
"Someone in your class will have died by the time you reach your ten year reunion."
My class couldn't even graduate before someone died, and we only had 100 students.
(Accident. A tree house gave way and fell on him, crushed him instantly. Since then, we've lost two more to a drunken car accident and a drug overdose. We just passed our five year mark last month.)
Also, our five year reunion will likely not happen now because COVID. This is fine with me. I'm waiting to go to a reunion until people actually change.
Yea, we've had a few die as well. One overdose, one car crash, I swear there was another overdose but I could be thinking of the class above us. There have been several deaths from the classes above and below us as well...
TWO in my case before graduation. And there was like maybe 50 in our year. Car crash and volunteer fire fighter burned to death in a forest fire. Truck ran out of water. Australia.... but our Scottish sheetmetal teacher said HALF of us would be dead by graduation. And this was the mid 90s. It was Australia not Gaza....
At my 20th only 9 people showed up and of those 9, three dropped out in 9th grade lol
I wouldn't attend my reunion if you paid me. Five years of everyone kicking the shit out of me and doing irreparable damage to my mental health. I'd sooner set the whole reunion on fire.
Awww sorry, DinkyDreads. I've had my mental health take a lot of damage from many bad people, myself.
I hear you... Graduated in 1995. Did not go to my grad. Never been to a reunion. Dealing with the psychological issues is enough.
Yeah, I can't say I have hard feelings at this point, but I'm not exactly thrilled to meet those people either. My high school time was probably the worst part of my life.
That's the spirit 😅
When I was in Year 11, one of the girls in my class tried giving me what she called dating tips. It was quite literally "Just meet behind a bush and stick it in." At our 1st year reunion, this same girl arrived with her daughter. I guess her advice worked.
2:05 "...like wear a giant luxury watch or show up in an exotic car"
I thought that was a requirement for high school reunions?
Oh jeez that one, I wonder if he didn't even have the paycheck to afford the "subtle" rich people things. If he did though I wonder what he actually uses it on.
And a condom. Better to have it on early....
I (55m) went to only one reunion: my 10th year in 1992. so this was before the internet. I have know idea how we all were contacted. Of the class of 600 some 150 classmates showed up with spouses around 200+. I was a nobody in high school, I had a core group of friends, maybe 10 or so, and I'd of guessed maybe 50 of the 600 would even know me. To my surprise, about 30 people remembered me at the reunion, but they remembered me as a nobody. The thing that really was the WTF thing was that they were all surprised I had a kid. That wasn't the thing, though. I then introduced them to my wife that was with me at the reunion. They were all like "OMG!!!!!! YOU GOT MARRIED???? YOU HAVE A WIFE????" WTF? Was I that so much a nobody that I couldn't find a spouse??? I got drunk and never went to another reunion.
Fuck those guys. And cheers friend.
What???
That is insane
I thought so too. They thought I could have a kid, but not a wife.
I was really wishing to see the poor kid that everyone didn’t really like because he was poor and then they come back 10 years later with 2 kids and pulls up with a family car like a Tesla model X or a Porsche and everyone is confused as hell who it is and then realizes who it is
I graduated HS in 65, my guess is the next reunion will consist of one person being carried in a fancy box by 6 classmates, assuming they can still carry a fancy box.
The reunion was organised through facebook. As I had little to no contact with any of them, I didn't really want to go. I had that weekend off anyway, so decided to visit my best friend instead.
My ten year reunion should have been in 2020, COVID cancelled that lol I wouldn’t have gone anyway. High school wasn’t the worst for me but towards the end, my group of friends started isolating me out of the group. The thing is, I know they didn’t do it on purpose or were aware they were doing it, but it happened nonetheless and i just wanted to leave that situation. You couldn’t pay me to see all my high school classmates
Sounds like me. Got back in touch and found out 3 years ago my old group of friends from HS all lived together. We all hung out like 3-4 times since then. Now they're just people on my instagram. Slowly fading away. Becoming strangers.
Mine too, it means both of us graduated in 2010. Anyway, I wouldn't go to a high school reunion. I don't get why it's a thing.
Is there really such a thing as a high school reunion? Who would actually want to go to one? High school is to move on and never look back. Why go back to such horrid times again?
I prefer not to look back on almost every aspect of my life so far
I assuming that there are people who think that high school was greatest time of their lives. Usually they already peaked in high school
@@tylernelson3343 I thought that was just a myth that people enjoyed high school. But there is no way for me to know because I never looked back to see if anybody did enjoy it or not. I do not have not one good memory from high school. It was so repetitive and monotonous. At least I was never bullied nor got into a fight. I just went in, did my time, and left. I never even bothered to learn anybody's name.
I've refused every invite to a reunion that I've received. I can't see spending the money. There's a handful of people I wouldn't mind seeing again. This is the social media age, so it's easy enough done.
These restrictions are legit the restrictions I'd expect at events in my Muslim country.
Just need to add segregation of the sexes and recitation of the Quran at the start of events.
I am amazed at how closely this crazy woman and religious Muslims' way of thinking match: no alcohol, no music or dancing, no partners except spouses, shameless homophobia, etc. Sad.
Spiral dynamics and many other frameworks tell how religious conservatives are mostly the same despite all their quarrels with each other
It’s funny how protective of Muslims liberals are in the us even tho they claim to despise everything you just rattled off. Hypocrisy at its finest.
But at least your country is predominantly Muslim and is kinda expected.
This girl wanted things HER way and that turned people off.
She only cared for what she wanted to happen.
I dont understand why they didn't get another person to prepare the reunion instead.
@@CrustyUgg no disrespect or anything but you need to know that not all Muslims are the same, Islam is literal religion not a culture or a country nor is it a nation. In my Muslim country the only thing that is not allowed is alcohol, the rest is a big part of our culture as we love dancing and have a wide variety of music, being part of the LGBT+ community is not really something that is big over here however and blatant homo phobia is heavily frowned upon as we believe in the fact that only God can judge us.
I just think that being hated on for believing in a religion is a bit unfair, being called a terrorist when I have never even seen a gun in real life and just minding my own business trying to live a happy life is super unfair. You have no idea how many time I hade to deal with racist remarks and I am only 17 years old and it doesn't help that I am black and a women so the oppression does not just stop their.
I like the people making fun of other people for still being caught up in high school drama years later, yo folks you all are the ones still caught up in high school enough that you feel a need to go have a big ass meet up with everyone. Normal people just don't care about high school after it is over. If the friends you had in high school were that good you would still be in touch and friends with them now.
Never went to any of my class reunions . My mom is still going to them in her eightes .
Apparently we had massive suicide issues after graduation.
With people buried all over the place couldn’t decide which cemetery to settle for…
I don’t expect the situation to have improved on the student side… especially with news of teachers now joining the trend…
I'm hoping I get my life together by the 10 year reunion
My 25 year reunion is this year and I still don't have my life together, but I'm rich, so fuck it.
Part of my motivation for staying and getting increasingly fit. Would be awesome if I lay someone I had my eyes on down
@@TheMattc999 congrats bro I wanna b like u
@@TheMattc999 Amen to that!! LOL nice to know I'm not alone in that boat :) I never want my life to be all together, it's never fun that way! ;)
Chase excellent! I'm 27 and still working on it. Gonna my CDL then save up to start my own trucking business. 2022 for the win!
I went to my 10yr reunion and it was trippy- all the "popular kids" had all sorta remained in the area and were all literally exactly the same as their parents, living their parents lives, they all seemed happy but it was so WEIRD to me lol, totally surreal...I was one of the few who escaped ASAP and had moved away the furtherest and I'm pretty sure I had the most interesting life at the time....now it's like 20yrs later and now I have kids as well so I kinda get it now- maybe I've just caught up finally lol, maybe I'm STILL just way more immature than my schoolmates- they were all "grownups" and I so wasnt- or maybe it's just that the type of people who would go to reunions are just toal normies and all the interesting kids had better shite to do anyway lol lol....but I'm still so glad I went, it was incredibly therapeutic and empowering and validated a lot of the choices I had made in my life, everything worked out yay me, I may have made (a lot of!!) mistakes in my life but at least I wasn't living my parent's life, my mom's life, I was free, I was happy and I was so so so SO very glad to have escaped that small country town...and lol most of all, damn- I'm so very glad I didn't get impregnated before 20!!!😂😂🤣😉
Class of '13. I'm dying to leave my town. I hate Austin! Barely getting my life together and hitting 30 in 3 years. I'll have my own trucking business by then. Traveling in the meantime. And im still staying away from having kids! Heres to 2022! Cheers!
About 5 years after graduation something good happened but I handled it badly on my part. I had recently been married. I and the (Will call her the Ex) were walking around for a while. During this whole time, The Ex kept increasing getting madder and madder at me. I finally had enough and asked why she was mad. LIKE TOU DON'T KNOW! THAT CUTE GIRL OVER THERE HAS KEPT HER EYES GLUED ON YOU THE WHOLE WE'VE BEEN HERE. I looked up and yes a very cute girl was smiling and looking at me but I had no idea who she was. The Ex said that I needed to puy a stop to this right now. I was embarrassed and told The Ex that she was wrong acting like this. I walked over to the very good-looking girl, and before I could say anything she came to me and said "Your J**** L****. Right? You lived on this street, you play football and wrestle and you were in Mrs. B****** for kindergarten. Do you remember G**** N****? I thought back and barely remember a very shy very plain chubby girl. There is no way this sexy girl could ever be the same person. She continued to tell me that the minute she saw me she could remember everything we did and said together. Every detail of school lessons and projects we did. This made her very happy wanted hug and kiss me but could see how The Ex. acting and didn't want to get me in more trouble. She could see that I was really confused and went on to explain. She had been in a very bad car crash was in a coma and lost her memory. She couldn't remember who she was, her parents nor brothers, nothing. There are things she doesn't and maybe never will. But I remember you and everything about you. Thank you, she said. Here comes my regret and should dealt with better. I turned and looked at The Ex. by now she was even madder. Instead of being happy for this girl and proud for myself and find out more about her car crash. All I said was "That's nice." turned got The Ex. and left the reunion. For the next 45 minutes on the drive home, all I heard was "Why was I flirting with her, Is she my girlfriend and every reason I was a bad husband. At one point I had to stop and buy two 24 oz. beers slam them down and now had to listen to her tell me how much of a drunk I am. The Ex. finally ran out of things to say and I drove to her mother's house. She got out of the car slamming the door and her family was outside. I yelled at her "STOP! You are going to listen to me! Once I'm done I'm going home. You will stay here at your mom's. That girl is someone I went to school with that had a bad car accident lost her memory. She didn't know her own family. But she knew who I was and could remember everything we did and said in school. That's why she was happy to see me. Then I was a dumb shit to her just because you thought I was flirting with her. Her name is G**** N**** you can go on-line and check out her story. I'm out of here. Well for the next few days she couldn't find me plus she had no way to get into our house.
My 10yr high school reunion was down the road from my parents' house, which I don't live far from. I didn't go. I hated school. All of it.
We were supposed to have our 5-year in May. Guess why that didn't happen.
Guessing it's because it's only five years.
@@JayneTenn yeah good point
Was supposed to have my b day in April. Guess how enjoyable it was.
My parents were supposed to have one, but then the guy who was supposed to plan it took everybody's money and ran off with it instead of actually planing the event.
And a few days later, I think someone they knew committed suicide, which was really sad.
Didn't go to my 10 year reunion because I was severely bullied. But apparently it was dramatic and a former bully/douchebag spiked the already alcoholic punch with a bottle of moonshine. Everyone was trash drunk
Sounds like a party. I'm down
I switched schools at the end of junior year, And I graduated this year. A few weeks ago I went to my home town and when I was in Walmart this girl kept following me and like awkwardly going in front of me, and facing me until I just went around her. When I was getting in the car I got a text on Instagram from this one girl who always liked me but only when I had a gf, that it was rude to ignore people. So I have no fucking idea how these guys can recognize people after 50 years
The popular lot of my year group were planning a 5 year reunion last year . I never got an invite because I was very hated as was blamed for getting two popular people expelled. Never did . My brother got a facebook event invite . He declined. No clue if the reunion went ahead.
And this is why I haven't went to any reunions.🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪🤪🤪
"This is horrible for the guy who actually died. Still hysterical though."
No. No it isn't hysterical at all, it is just sad.
Hated high school. Went to the 10 year reunion at the urge of my mom. I am not a joiner. But I went. Won the biggest prize that night. Truly, if ya don't care for getting together in big crowds, don't go. I am not good with huge crowds.
What was the prize?
For the "John Smith" story. The best friend needs to carry a fake mustache so whenever someone says "didn't you die?" He could put it on and respond "you didn't see me".
The one about someone dying by 10 years, we had a guy die literally 6 months after graduation.
2 years after grad. Car crash. Cute girl from Chicago. Damn shame.
I had a class of around 50. 2 died BEFORE graduation. Car crash and volunteer fire fighter in a truck that ran out of water in the middle of a forest fire. There's a memorial in a park for him and the others who died, one who was his father.
If my high school class ever has a 10 year reunion I know for a fact I won’t be invited 😂
For our prom we raised 790$ in excess of the needed funds and the senior fundraisers in our batch kept it all for themselves. Mind you i was a key part in the treasurer group. Cant wait for how well organize our reunion
Why didn’t you do something?
It be my 20 year reunion this year but you know coronavirus LOL
Wow my 10 year reunion would fit right in with this. The former "popular girls" planned it to be at our old high school in a pavilion with no electricity for fans, during the summer, potluck style food, no alcohol and encouraged people to bring their kids. Country school with 86 kids in our graduating class with most of them related (cousins). I didn't go.
My 65th reunion will be rolling around soon. Hope there is a lot of room for walkers and wheel chairs. 😊
My high school didn't do oldest kid awards, because back then, getting pregnant in school was an embarassment, not a badge of honor like it is now.
I don't think its a badge of honor in todays times? Depending on where you live, anyways. But um, we're shown movies, PSA's, forced to work on paper after paper of the dangers of young pregnancy and so on. If anything its even more of an embarrassment now because everyone is aware that, "yeah its your fault we were all taught in the same classroom."
@@AdventureHusky When my sons were in HS, it was. They all thought "yeah, we get an apartment in the high-rise, we get the EBT card, and everybody knows we got laid." THANK GOODNESS my own sons (no daughters) were smart enough not to fall for it, and took responsibility for pregnancy prevention.
Pfff, I went to a wealthy prep kids High School. We didn't even hit six months out before someone from our class died. I think we are up to four, now.
11:26 "kiss-style" he was a juggalo, man
Bill Cipher or a mime
My health teacher told my class she went to her reunion and this woman who was married with kids was shit talking a girl that during HS ‘stole’ her bf in year eleven, teacher thought it was stupid she was hung up on a small thing from their adolescent years
I started laughing at the one where the guy got poked in the eye by hard-on 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, that's hilarious. Plus never graduated from HS but made sure that my daughter did and my son's do to when it's their turn.
The guy who showed up in KISS-style facepaint only to have everybody decide that it was way too weird to address and proceed to just treat him normally must have been really pissed inside because he didn't get any reaction.
Or it could just be the way he dresses normally and doesn’t see an issue with it????
I missed my 10 year reunion. I was not in my home country at the time. (Military) While I've moved back a couple of years ago, I have to admit... Due to the fact that two of my three best friends at the time have already passed away, I would find it extremely painful to even go back to my home town, let alone see other faces from my past. I've only been back to my former home providence a couple of times in the last decade for that reason. While I am tempted to make the 20 yr reunion, if I'm still kicking in seven years.... I don't know if I will have healed enough as a person for it by that time. Does the pain of tragic loss ever really go away? After a decade I can safely say 'no'. At least not thus far. At least at the moment I can say I just don't see myself going through with it. There's nothing left there for me.
Closest thing to a H.S. reunion I've attended was a number of years ago. Came out of work to find my truck had a flat tire. No obvious reason for it to be flat, so took it to the local Sears to get a pro-rated replacement. Figured I was going into battle, so went marching in with the sales receipt. Went up to the counter, and was greeted with "Hey! Don't I know you?" Turned out the cashier was a former classmate, and gave me a rundown on what a good portion of the class had been up to since graduation. Got a free tire out of the deal as well. 👍
Never have gone to a reunion, though.
I was never invited to any of my class reunions, the last one was for 25 years. I went 2 separate times because a friend told me it was happening and asked me to go with her. I regret going and refuse to ever go again, no one wanted to talk to me even though we've known each other our entire lives. They felt I wasn't even worthy of speaking to or acting like they knew me.
I made it a point to attend my 15-year reunion specifically because I was so heavily bullied in Middle School and a lot of the people I went to high school with were the same people that believe me. I turned it around in high school and ended up being pretty popular specifically because I got out of the ugly doubling faze, came into my own confidence and was overall really nice person. I still really wanted to go back to high school and rub it in all of my police faces that I was happy successful and what not. I ended up remembering almost nobody and the few people that went that I did remember we're still living at their parents house, got fat, or had a fuck ton of kids then got divorced, and overall it was just really embarrassing to see them all like that. One dude however was telling anyone that was willing to listen all about how he was this big shot in the army and was really proud that he had served 3 years so far. He was literally bringing it up at every single fucking opportunity and walking around like he was everybody's fucking hero. He nearly spit out his beer when I told him I had been for 7 years active duty and one year in the reserves before letting my contract end and was now working as a contractor on an Air Force Base in Las vegas. I assumed we went to high school together considering he was there but I didn't remember him either.
That's sad but it's not sad that you went to flex on your ex classmates? Still not grown up 15 years post school ot would seem.
Wait, I'm confused about the 10 yr reunion one with the girl who has an 11 yr old kid.......so if you're at a 10 yr reunion and have an 11 yr old, so?? That's nothing, having a child junior or senior year isn't out of the ordinary. But that statement didn't make sense being that they mentioned she may have had the child in 8th grade, which would've made the kid like 14-15 yrs old, not 11 unless it's a 10 yr reunion since graduating 8th grade, lol (weird, but to each other own I guess).
graduated year 2000 and there were about 230 people in my graduating class. For our 10 yr reunion (which I did not attend) I think only 20-30 people showed up, lol. We didn't even bother with a 20 yr. I think we all just kinda muttered we'd see about the 25 yr or something. No one cares about it honestly and I'm just fine with it :)
This isn't my story but this is one of my former teachers story. They said that high school reunions can be weird. They've attended their first reunion with their spouse but for the second high school reunion their spouse was busy and was unable to attend so they have decided to attend the reunion alone. Now their alone visiting with everyone and a lot of their former classmates started hitting on them since they assumed they got divorced... to me that was a funny story. He spoke about his own history teacher saying their history teacher enjoy teaching his class was always helpful and loved their students so much that the teacher married one of them after they graduated highschool.
Love the first situation... major win❤️
The reunion at the bar with the schools money sounded great tbh. Party eat drink and get paid too? Awesome!
Lived in another country at the 10 year anniversary, but most of our class got together in someone's remote family home, had an awful fight, and no one speaks with each other since then..
My ten year reunion was held at a local legion. It was organized by my sister and a friend, it was nice to see all my old friends again after so long. Apparently one guy who no one really liked messaged them basically saying "how could you host it at such a cheep place? I'm definitely not going message me when it's worth my time." we all had a good laugh about that.
Wild Horses from Hell could never drag me tae my High School Reunion.
High school years, even though I had friends, were one of the loneliest times of my life. The few friends I had were great but I don’t think I’d be invited. It was hard socializing and I was kind of an easy target (made no better because I was really sensitive and easily scared.) But if I do get invited, assuming they do reunions at my school, I think I’d go. Call it curiosity or masochistic inquiry, but I’d be cool to see how everyone has changed.
My high school graduating class was +5,000 kids.....I'd be surprised if the school pulled off a reunion of any kind
We had a girl have a baby in the 7th grade; she was in most of my classes. Cute kid; had to bring him a few times to class, I remember sitting next to her and glancing over to see a sleeping baby. Very well behaved. But yeah, she was like 12 or something. Got R’d by someone, we live in small town in Tennessee with a lot of churches so the abortion was out of the question. Still see her and her son every now & then to this day, 15 years later.
That is so sad...getting raped as a 12 year old. Who raped her though?
@@IvanScriptsEverything - Some dude that was in high school. I don’t remember much detail about it other than she bringing her baby into class often.
@@sieje That is horrible. Did he at least face charges? Anything?
@@IvanScriptsEverything - I am pretty sure he got into serious trouble. I didn’t know him at all or her much prior to then…
@@sieje Ah, well I hope she's at least happy with her child.
I kid you not my high school reunion was canceled because the majority of women gained weight. I mean massive amounts of weight and gained up attacking any woman in the group chat who didn't. Once they were removed there were not enough people to attend.
Hy-vee is good.. but not 60$ good. Yeah, I agree. You can get all you can eat salad bar from hy-vee itself for like 7.99$ (source- I live in the exact same area)
4:16 if you think about it you're 12 in 7th grade and 55 plus 12 is 67, that just blows my mind lol
4:23 Sounds like my uncle and his second wife
I still remember my 10 year reunion. Oh, that was a blast! We had karaoke. I actually sang something--Man of Constant Sorrow by the Soggy Bottom Boys (O Brother Where Art Thou is one of my favorite movies) and the room just went nuts. To be fair, it was like one in the morning and I think most of them were either high, drunk, or both, but I still remember it well. At one point, I had acquired backup dancers. I didn't really notice because I was focused on the song, but when it stopped, I looked behind me and there's four girls I don't even recognize. And I'm like, what happened here?
I was excited to go to mine, but the organizers kept changing plans and stopped updating the group. Some of us asked for some decent amount of notice since we're coming from out of state. After a year of this they finally update under 2 weeks before the event, but it was too late for most of us out of state people to come. From the pics it was basically a party for the organizers' cliques and peripheral groups. Seemed like decisions were made privately and the group was notified much later, so a huge amount of us were in essence excluded from our own reunion. 😟
My dad's class started having reunions every year a few years back because their classmates started dying, they made the decision when one of them passed away on her ?45?th birthday, they thought all the RIP's were a joke on her age :/
The teacher who predicted the death before the 10 year reunion would have been absolutely correct about our class. 5 months after graduation one of my Best friends died along with another person from our class. The anniversary of their death is 10/23
Next summer is my 10 year high school reunion. We were a very small class--only 14 of us. Everyone has moved on into life doing things they love, are in long-term relationships, and starting families. Except me. I am 28, chronically single, never graduated college because I got diagnosed with lupus at 22 turned all my focus on trying to deal with and figure life out after that, still live at home in large part due to the lupus as well as some anxiety issues made worse because of it, and have never had anything close to a romantic entanglement. My only "success" is that I've managed to become an author of two children's books and they've only sold marginally well locally. Other than that, I'll have nothing to show for the last 10 years. I will not be able to walk into a reunion and show my loser face to those successful people with their happy families and good careers and lives all tied together with pretty bows. At the very least I won't be able to do it if the one girl that said I should've died in our house fire at 10 years old is there with her family.
My school didn’t have one, I wouldn’t have gone anyways. Wasn’t gonna travel 900 miles for it.
Haven't had a reunion yet, because I've only been graduated for 4 years, but one night in November me and five friends went to the bar, where there were about 40 people who we knew from school. Former students and a few teachers randomly showed up in like ten different groups. They ended up keeping the bar open an extra hour for us
When I was a kid I was looking out my window on the highschool reunion party next door horse. Someone drops a package on the door. Party members accept it and suddenly everyone started to freak out. Later on the morning I was informed that the adults were having a HS reunion and invited the bullied girl. She mail them a package of human shit.
Wouldn’t be too surprised if someone did that at mine. Big enough graduating class to have a lot of malcontents and pariahs
Lmfao
Was her name Amber Heard?
@@junior523that's wiiild