Would you go to/been to a school reunion?

Oldnbold · 29/09/14 - 23:48

I would love to go a reunion and see how people have turned out. A couple of friends from pre-school I see now and again. But I would love to see how the "popular" people turned out in later life.

Si_Crewe · 29/09/14 - 23:49

I like the idea.

I'd never even consider going to one of my own though.

Unless it was with a giant can of petrol and a box of matches....

Miss XYZ · 29/09/14 - 23:51

No and no. A few years ago I might have done but I see enough of them on Facebook now to know what everyone's up to. I don't really have much interest in seeing them all in person though.

80sfan · 29/09/14 - 23:59

No.

Those times and people belong in the past, which can sometimes appear with hindsight better than it actually was.

[Deleted User] · 30/09/14 - 00:08

No I wouldn't. I left my hometown when I was 16 and never lived there again.

NX-74205 · 30/09/14 - 00:11

I refer you to my answer in a previous thread on this subject.

NX-74205 wrote: »

After having the pleasure of watching the police storm into the last one (the 20 year reunion) due to a severe outbreak of fisticuffs I'd have to say yes.

muggins14 · 30/09/14 - 00:16

No, not at all.

My former secondary does have a group on Facebook, which I did join, but I realised how few people I knew when I was at school, it was quite depressing

exlordlucan · 30/09/14 - 01:07

NX-74205 wrote: »

I refer you to my answer in a previous thread on this subject.

Ah now a post reunion sounds a good idea

Dannielle_Howel · 30/09/14 - 01:19

Nope. Hated my school, teachers and around 85% of the people in my year.

Lyricalis · 30/09/14 - 01:30

My school was demolished about 8 years ago so we'd have problems if we wanted to meet on the actual site. I'm not even sure what's on the site now as I moved away from my home city 20 years ago. I might pop onto Google Earth later and have a snoop...

As for a reunion, well frankly I can't even remember the names of more than one of two of them, and I'm not really interested in all this reunion stuff anyway. Just seems like pointless nostalgia.

planets · 30/09/14 - 01:31

to quote Marcella in Grosse Pointe Blank "Yes, I did. It was just as if everyone had swelled."

oncemore · 30/09/14 - 02:50

nope. I hated almost everyone I went to school with. I wasn't friends with them then, I decline their friend invites on facebook now and I have no interest in ever seeing them or their poorly-bred offspring.

I'd much rather take the time and go with my actual friends to a weekend in Cabo or Vegas.

jra · 30/09/14 - 03:28

Oldnbold wrote: »

I would love to go a reunion and see how people have turned out. A couple of friends from pre-school I see now and again. But I would love to see how the "popular" people turned out in later life.

I don't want to go and too much time has elapsed.

I'm a very different person from what I was 32 or so years ago, so I probably wouldn't relate very well to most people that I knew in school, and I expect the feeling is mutual.

Anyway, two of my favourite people that were at school are actually the daughters of my dad's partner, so I can be in contact with them anyway, if I want to.

Time passes, people move on in life. I've made new friends in the meantime.

Radiomaniac · 30/09/14 - 03:31

NO! Never.

I wouldn't want to see almost any of those a-holes ever again.......and I'd have to kill at least one of them.

Jason · 30/09/14 - 07:30

Radiomaniac wrote: »

NO! Never.

I wouldn't want to see almost any of those a-holes ever again.......and I'd have to kill at least one of them.

I'm on board with that sentiment

annette kurten · 30/09/14 - 07:40

i went to one a few years ago, i wouldn`t bother now. i`ve got a handful of old school people on facebook and every so often i get a friend request from another, they mostly get deleted after a few weeks because there`s no interaction at all and no response when i communicate so they`re pretty pointless and it`s clearly just nosiness.

jra · 30/09/14 - 07:42

Radiomaniac wrote: »

NO! Never.

I wouldn't want to see almost any of those a-holes ever again.......and I'd have to kill at least one of them.

I would have liked to have given some of my teachers a slap. However, most of them that taught me have passed away now.

Radiomaniac · 30/09/14 - 07:51

jra wrote: »

I would have liked to have given some of my teachers a slap. However, most of them that taught me have passed away now.

In my case, I was lucky that the teachers were mostly great - it was the other pupils that were the problem and who I would avoid seeing at all costs!

Blondie X · 30/09/14 - 08:02

No. I'm in touch with a few old schoolmates via FB and have met a couple of times but bothered about seeing the rest of them. None of us has given each other a second thought in 20 odd years so not sure why we'd consider spending an evening socialising together.

idlewilde · 30/09/14 - 08:11

I went to one, it was pretty rubbish. We had somebody in our year who went onto become a TV household name, so obviously most of it revolved around him.

cessna · 30/09/14 - 08:14

Missed out on the last one about 2003 as never knew a reunion had been arranged. but apparently was a great success. The old school has been demolished but can still remember most names. Due to age there are probably too few of us around today for another reunion.

zx50 · 30/09/14 - 08:28

I wouldn't go to a school reunion because half of the people I was around were idiots. Some were okay though. I wouldn't mind seeing some, but not others.

Vulpes · 30/09/14 - 08:45

woodbush wrote: »

No I wouldn't. I left my hometown when I was 16 and never lived there again.

Exactly this.

Arcana · 30/09/14 - 08:49

The last time there was one that I knew about I was all set to go BUT then I got tickets for Placebo / My Vitriol the same evening and couldn't turn down that opportunity.

dd68 · 30/09/14 - 11:03

No, it would be way too naff, I didn't like half the people at the time!

UKMikey · 30/09/14 - 11:07

Heck no, it took me eleven years to get out of that place, why would I want to go back?

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