What to expect at 10 year high school reunion

[tonypeoni]

I didn't go to the 5 year Im debating on whether or not to go to the 10 year. Honestly I wanna see what some of the hot chics I went to school with look like now. Im imagining this thing being really superficial attracting the student council types. People standing around talking about stock portfolio's. If so Ill pass what is the dress going to be casual or suit/tie?

[pwd72s]

My experiece was that you pretty much nailed it. 10 years means most are 28 or so, and still have some maturing to do.

This is coming from an old curmudgeon who doesn't do reunions, tho...

[rsNINESOOPER]

Rent a trashy exotic car (viper) and a couple of super hot escorts to accompany you, wear something Hefner would wear (purple robe) and don't forget the pinky ring and indoor spec sunglasses. Then show up to the reunion in the viper with the escorts (prostitutes) in tow in the stretch hummer which will be parked in front of the venue (private room). You of course have hired fake paparazzi to storm you as you get out of the viper and meet up with the girls who spill out of the strecth hummer looking like they have just been caught in the act and are re dressing. At this point you are ready to make an entrance as a Porn Star looking for talent - at your highschool reunion.

[tonypeoni]

Originally posted by rsNINESOOPER
Rent a trashy exotic car (viper) and a couple of super hot escorts to accompany you, wear something Hefner would wear (purple robe) and don't forget the pinky ring and indoor spec sunglasses. Then show up to the reunion in the viper with the escorts (prostitutes) in tow in the stretch hummer which will be parked in front of the venue (private room). You of course have hired fake paparazzi to storm you as you get out of the viper and meet up with the girls who spill out of the strecth hummer looking like they have just been caught in the act and are re dressing. At this point you are ready to make an entrance as a Porn Star looking for talent - at your highschool reunion.

Damn its gonna be worse than I thought. Im pretty sure some of the preppy chics will group together and show up in a limo though.

[livi]

I missed our 20 years reunion last year. Allegedly the boys were all getting bald and fat - the girls all saggy and fat..

[HelmetHead]

I'd say go.

Most of the "hot chic's" from High school Got married in the last 10 years have dropped a couple of kids and now they aren't so "hot"

The Geek chic's are gonna surprise you.. ..they will be knockouts.

The football guys are Fat and can barely walk...

Unless you moved a distance away from your highschool, you probably run into most of the people you'd see every Thanksgiving and Christmas anyways.

Its fun, best part is there is no Tardy bell....so you can leave when you want too.

HelmetHead

[Dueller]

Up until about your 20th reunion, people seem to gravitate back to their roles in HS...e.g., the high school quarterback still is reliving his glory days even if he did flunk out of college, ruin his knee as a red shirt freshman at some obscure JUCO and is now an assistant supervisor on a soft drink plant loading dock.

At 28 its unlikely anyone has become some huge success...after all, most have only been in the work force for a max of 5 or 6 years if they went to college.

Go. Fashionably underdressed. Be humble about your your post secondary accomplishments. Proudly acknowledge your setbacks. Be gracious. Remember that arrogance is different from confidence: the former contains an element of hubris while the latter involves humility.

Don't tell the hottie you had a crush on in your junior year you had a crush on her in your junior year. She probably knew it even though she'll deny it 10 years later.

Don't over imbibe.

If someone comes up to you you don't recognize/remember, ask them to turn around and exclaim "Oh I remember you...didn't I sit behind you in senior Algebra?"

If someone is being boastful and you feel a need to put them in their place, simply reply with "That's a great story and you tell it so well." And smile.

Be yourself.

[Seahawk]

Originally posted by Noah
I went to my ten-year reunion a year ago. It was...fun, actually. Everyone was just like they were in high school, only more so. The funny guys were still pretty funny; the hot girls were still hot; the smart and ambitious kids are now smart and ambitious professionals; and everyone was pretty cool and mellowed out. Especially this one guy who showed up who I think was just totally baked out of his gourd...

First reunion I attended was my 30th (as always, time is a blink of an eye and I was always somewhere else).

The best part about the whole deal was seeing everybody again...the fat/bald/no longer hot thing is for the ten year gig. I was just happy to see, in the mean, how cool everyone was.

Throw stereotypes to the curb: An old girlfriend (a cheerleader in HS), is the mother of a Downs child...if there is a better example of how to make that work, she and her husband and child are it. She continues to send my wife and me updates on her sons progress.

Frankly, that is what it is all about.

And, yes, the 2 time All CIF player of the year (a fullback I happily handed the ball to until I moved to SC) was as big as a house...but the gleam in his eye remains the same as it was in the day. We should all be so fortunate.

[tonypeoni]

Originally posted by Dueller
Up until about your 20th reunion, people seem to gravitate back to their roles in HS...e.g., the high school quarterback still is reliving his glory days even if he did flunk out of college, ruin his knee as a red shirt freshman at some obscure JUCO and is now an assistant supervisor on a soft drink plant loading dock.

At 28 its unlikely anyone has become some huge success...after all, most have only been in the work force for a max of 5 or 6 years if they went to college.

Go. Fashionably underdressed. Be humble about your your post secondary accomplishments. Proudly acknowledge your setbacks. Be gracious. Remember that arrogance is different from confidence: the former contains an element of hubris while the latter involves humility.

Don't tell the hottie you had a crush on in your junior year you had a crush on her in your junior year. She probably knew it even though she'll deny it 10 years later.

Don't over imbibe.

If someone comes up to you you don't recognize/remember, ask them to turn around and exclaim "Oh I remember you...didn't I sit behind you in senior Algebra?"

If someone is being boastful and you feel a need to put them in their place, simply reply with "That's a great story and you tell it so well." And smile.

Be yourself.

Excellent advise, Thanks much Im sure everyone will remember me. Unfortunately your right even if I was worth 10 million they would still think of me as I was back in high school " Veciti the Greasy haired Italian". I was the guy who could never get a date and even missed my senior prom. For some reason I feel compelled to go I think I need to prove to myself I can.

[Moses]

I spent most of my 20 year reunion talking to someone I barely knew in school. He had a hard life but had turned things around and was happy and optimistic about life.

In high school I was a typical jock, I guess. Drank a lot of beer and had a lot of fun, but no real direction. I think more of my high school friends went to jail than went to college. Certainly more than a few were dead by the 20 year mark.

I only have one friendship from my high school days that has stood the test of time. That's OK. We change so much after those early years.

[Jims5543]

I hated them when I was in high school. The socialites that is, the ones that care about reunions.

If you want to be in a room full of Al Bundy's carrying on about how High School was the best years of their lives, go for it.

I graduated and never looked back. I had a small handfull of friends in HS that were a lot like me, motorheads, working their butt off to get a car, and then fixing it up and making it faster. (I really miss my '68 Stang)

I poked around Classmates.com a couple of years ago looking for the few friends I hung out with. The were smart and never bothered to sign up there. What I found was a continuation of the bullcrap from HS, the popular student council were still the center of attention with their look at me crap.

I say take your SO out to a nice dinner and save the hassle. But thats just me.

[Dueller]

Oh yeah...one last thing. Keep in mind everybody is likely stressing about it as much, if not moreso, as you.

I mean think about it...the beauty queen is worried about whether she can lose those 20 lbs she put on since graduation, and the jock who never made it in college worries that everyone will think he's a loser and the class genius worries he didn't accomplish as much as he should have.

Remember, if someone is acting supremely confident its likely just that....an act.

Case in point: at my 15th a big time jock came to the casual friday nite party strutting his stuff and promptly went to his hotel room and shot himself.

[plain fan]

So that is what I get to look forward to this year...for my 10th.

[Hugh R]

Originally posted by livi
Allegedly the boys were all getting bald and fat - the girls all saggy and fat..

An old boss once told me "Hugh, they're two things that make a man look old, going bold, and getting fat. Hugh, you better watch your weight".

[legion]

Originally posted by Noah
I went to my ten-year reunion a year ago. It was...fun, actually. Everyone was just like they were in high school, only more so. The funny guys were still pretty funny; the hot girls were still hot; the smart and ambitious kids are now smart and ambitious professionals; and everyone was pretty cool and mellowed out. Especially this one guy who showed up who I think was just totally baked out of his gourd...

I had the same experience at mine in the fall. I was a pretty nerdy guy, but I sat at a table with the cheerleaders. No big surprises.

I did have some pretty explosive disputes with some high school friends in college. One was my best friend from high school, the other was a girl who I knew in high school but became good friends with in college. Neither showed and I was fine with that.

[Seahawk]

Originally posted by Moses
I only have one friendship from my high school days that has stood the test of time. That's OK. We change so much after those early years.

I have three...we play golf once a year, every year. The rest of the time we catch as catch can, arch through each others lives as much as practical.

Tony, go and have fun...

[sammyg2]

Odds are you will find mostly loosers at a high school reunion, most of the cool people will have something better to do

Seriously if you had good friends who you lost touch with and would like to see again, it might be worth it. If you are thinking of going to see how your life turned out compared to others, refer to my first paragraph.

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I think you'll find a lot of people just like you.

[M.D. Holloway]

Very few people moved out of my home town in Connecticut. A reunion occurs pretty much every weekend on the beach during the summer, at the local mall during the holidays or anytime at pretty much anywhere.

I go back every several months. Everyone has mellowed. Some did well, others get addicted to hootch or worse. Some divorced, others died. Most of the jocks never went to do anything in sports, some of the smart kids never did much more than what they did in HS. Life just goes on...

[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by livi
I missed our 20 years reunion last year. Allegedly the boys were all getting bald and fat - the girls all saggy and fat..

Thats better than the option... DYING!

Just went to mine and loved it. The "movers and shakers" of the old school have for the most part done absolutely nothing with their lives. What is funny is that the "outcasts" have as well for the most part gone to the four corners of the world and are doing something interesting or have retired and enjoying life.

We had one table full of the old gang. A couple of them were the "in crowd" (who are now fat and bloated and living off of their family's money, having never worked a day in their lives) and the rest regular people. One works for University of Phoenix in Tulsa, one is a retired Submarine driver, one a sales rep in the same hick town we grew up in, and so on. A mix of society.

As well another interesting thing is the ladies. The wallflowers have now bloomed and many of them look a lot better than the ones we all chased years ago.

Go, its worth it!