I keep seeing commercials for a reality show called "High School Reunion". I haven't seen the program, but it did make me consider how people feel about their high school memories.

I've always thought anybody I would care to see from high school, I keep in touch with. I've never attended a reunion, and can't imagine any circumstance under which I would. I do have friends who think reunions are fabulous, though!

Once in awhile when I'm out and about, I will see someone from high school. Generally, I just keep on walking. If they call to me, of course I'll say hello, but I don't stop & chat. On a rare occasion I will stop & talk to someone because I have warm memories of them, but usually it just seems silly since it was 25 years ago!

What are your feelings about reunions? What about bumping into people from high school?

Never been to a reunion, reconnected with a few people at classmates but dont really miss anyone

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Hmm...who do I miss? Nobody. LOL I've never gone to a reunion and have no interest in going. I have run into people from highschool but have never said much more than hi and usually only if they approach me first.
Wow...hadn't thought about it much until now that it's been 18 years. Yikes!

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dont really care to see anyone I went to school with either. dh doesnt usually go to reunions, he says maybe the next one he'll go to apparently he thinks i'd want to go. i dont know why i dont know anyone.

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I would love to know what a few of them are doing now but not bad enough to do anything about it.
Like some of the "snobby" ones! How did they do "in real life".
I am just nosy!
There were a couple of girls that I kept up with for years but they have 'disappeared' now and I would like to see them again.

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I went to my 10 year reunion.. already was in contact with anyone I cared to be in contact with.. I didn't recognize many people lol.. not sure if I'll go to the 20 year. They did go through a slideshow of classmates who died since graduation and it was pretty sad.

I know which one want to speak or not,I really do not care

I keep in touch with the one person that I'd like to see... Other than her, most of my friends were either a grade above me or a grade below me.

My DH's school does it in a neat way. They hold an ALL school (anyone who has ever gone to school at the school) reunion every 4 years. It was a very small school in rural AZ so they can get away with this...

My 20th is next summer, and my friends I have talked about going. I keep in touch with about 6 or 7 friends some school, and have recently found some others due to MySpace. It's a little expensive-- the reunion committee has planned some things that are costly,. We're talking $100 per person plus hotel, etc.

I don't know yet. There are some people I lost touch with that I would like to see.

Holly

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There are some that I am curious about and I hope they are doing ok and yes it would be nice to see them. One person from highschool ended up moving a street over from me and another was a few blocks down but she was in the middle of moving by the time I discovered she even lived in my neighborhood, I still run in to her though. There are some people I see and I run the opposite direction as fast as I can go.

My closest friends I know where they are and I keep in touch with them.

I'm curious about what a lot of people are doing but I probably won't go to a reunion unless it was expenses paid My 10 year would have cost me $300 just to get in not counting airfare or hotel...uh, no thanks! We went to DH's 10 year because it was local and his graduating class was like 30 kids so they could have it in a bar LOL His 20 year is coming up and I doubt we go. The @ss is still the @ss, the pretty girl landed the hot rich guy and the nerd has a good job in softwarel LOL I just imagine that my reunion would be much the same...

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I should add that there were only 30 in my graduating class... Majority were partiers. I did not fit in with that crowd.

I run a small business in the town I graduated in so I see most of the people that I went to school with except some that have moved away.

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I just had my 20 year this past summer. We had a blast! At the ten year reunion, it seemed like everyone just hung out in their high school clique. At the 20 year, it was a different story. Everyone mingled quite nicely. I guess maybe out of about 400 graduates, we had only about 70 students and about as many guests. It was nice seeing everyone, including the guy I dated all through h.s. Also, there were a couple of ppl that maybe I wasn't so nice to, and we actually spoke, and apologized, and decided to let "bygones be bygones." All in all, it was a great experience. I do still live in the area where I went to school, so I do see quite a few ppl I know. I do keep in touch w/ a small handful of them. Another MC'er (Kellyboysmom), and I have been best friends since 10th grade.

I'm sitting here in shock! I have been to every one of my class reunions. We will have our 25 year class reunion in 2009. I live 20 minutes from where I graduated and work in the same town I graduated. I see classmates that still live here in the area all the time. I always say at least "hi" - may stop and chat if it is someone I know well. And my high school "crush"? I'm his brother's secretary now and have contact with the "crush" weekly usually. And yes he is still a hunk and still rocks my boat - he is married with 4 kids. I am married going on 20 years. But we are very friendly - I don't think he even knows I had a crush 24 years ago!

I would want to see everyone who was in marching band with Dh & I back in 1987-88, including our band director Mr. Craig Butler.

My five year reunion sucked...everyone was still in their clicks I was totally turned off by the whole experience.
My ten year reunion rocked! I was involved in the planning, the food, the location, contacting everyone, etc...
I made a few good friends but one REALLY good friend that I didn't talk to at all in high school. We were even pregnant with our new babies together! She had hers ten days after I had mine. We bounce our deals off eachother and even make playdates for our kids together.
So, my dad was the one that told me that people lose their snobbiness after 10 years...give other people a chance! I graduated with 500 and talked to about 40 people in hs. I grew up in a small town so going back to visit is now enjoyable rather than a big dread.

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I married the one person that i would want to see if I were going to go to a reunion.

My 20 year reunion is coming up but we live out of state and I dont really see me traveling to go to the reunion.

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Avoid no one, see everybody. I liked everyone in my class. We ONLY had 18 kids in our class. I have to fly to MN for the reunions. I do email about 3 of the girls.

Since I was the one everybody chose to pick on in highschool I have no desire to see any of them ever,lol. I have seen pictures of my class online of how they look now and was shocked at how all the most beautifulest popular ,perfect figured girls are now HUUUUUGE! LMAO.I would want to go to my class reunion for only one reason.To stick out my tounge at them and say "Na,na, na NA, na! (I'm a only one size bigger than what I was in highschool.I'm a size 8,and don't have any wrinkles yet.)

Nope and no desire to.

I moved away just a couple years after high school. I kept in touch with my best friend for about 10 years, but we sort of moved on with our lives.

I've been stopped a few times by people that know me when I visit, but I don't recognize them. I figure it would pretty much be like that with everyone else. I don't think I remember much because it didn't mean all that much. I had fun times, but high school was high school, not a big deal to me. Living in such a different areas (for most of my life now!) I don't think I'd have anything in common with anyone anymore.

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I loved high school and I am still close to several of my friends. I missed my last reunion because of psycho ex husbands jealousy, but won't miss it again! I think it's fun, catching back up with everyone.

I missed my 10 year. I was pregnant, lived 5 hours away and my best friend wasn't going. I went to my 20 year and had a great time! The memories were great. Since I graduated in '84, they played Ozzy's Crazy Train. As my DH was laughing (he is 4 years older) I leaned over to him and said "I had this album". He was shocked. I was into country when we met and now Christian music! The next song was one by Quit Roit. I leaned over again and said "I had this one too and went to the concert!" We still laugh about that.
Of course people hung out with old friends to catch up, but I had a great time with people I didn't hang out with in school too. I didn't feel the room was clicky at all. I ran into a girl I was in school with since 1st grade! That was cool.

One wild thing that happened. A girl came up to me am apologized for stealing my yearbook in junior high and scribbling all over it. I had completely forgotten about that! She said it had always bothered her and she wanted to apologize. I had never given it a second thought over the years and she never forgot! I wonder if I would have went to the 10 year reunion, if I would have saved her 10 years of guilt.

I have never thought of people agologizing for things thay had done, that is really great!

I have never gone to any on mine, just not interested really. We had about 100 kids in our class and I rad the reunion list and actually didn't even recognize some fo the names that were on it.

DH's cousin married one of my classmates and I still run into a few of them now and then, most of the time it's nice to see them and it's amazing how we all still look 18?!

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I haven't been to any since I was the fat bad girl who got pg and had to drop out of school, but now I would love to go just to gloat that the man I had to marry at 16 I'm still married to 40 years later and more in love every day plus I'm a size 6 now!

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I am really interested in how everyone feels on this topic.

If it was NOT an expense to travel, and if the reunion cost itself was reasonable, I'd urge ANYONE to go to ANY reunion that is a ten year, or longer!

It is the most surreal experience. I was NOT a part of the "in" crowd, but after being out of high school I realized that the "in" crowd was a lot smaller than it felt while I was there. There were probably only 20 "cool" kids back then, but our class was more than 200.

I have been to every reunion (5, 10, 20 and I'll go to my 25th), and every one of them was interesting! You end up talking to the least likely people, and being glad that you did! There was one girl who was incredibly obese in high school. Now she was less than half her original size, and she was so proud of herself. I was feeling so proud of her, myself! She wore a red dress to the reunion, and got all this attention. It seemed to be exactly what she wanted, and I am sure it was something she had visualized for herself for years leading up to it.

The one kid who had been "most handsome" in our class was now a creepy looking guy. That was sort of enjoyable (he had been such a jerk).

But mostly, many people who had been druggies had now turned their lives around, and everyone was happy for them. The people who had been sort of awkward in HS were now much more confident, and had such happier lives now, and that was neat to hear about. And as someone earlier posted, the nerds had great jobs, and were quite successful now! You just had to be thrilled for these people.

Everyone seemed so much more sincere and (obviously) mature now, so it was nice to get to see what they are like now. The five year reunion was fun, but there were still too many pretenses. Every reunion since then has been so pleasant. And EVERYONE who I spoke with at each reunion was so glad they had gone. Everyone was talking non-stop about what a great decision it was to show up!

I am a big fan of reunions! If you have the chance to go, and like I said, if it isn't a major expense, I don't think you'd be disappointed!