School Reunions

I received a message this morning:

"Anyone interested in a reunion?"

Well I'm not. I can't imaging anything more painfully unappealing than wasting my evening with a bunch of people who had little time for me at school and taunted me about various things. I'd rather pull my toenails out than go back to a scene of such abject misery.

I usually write this as a reply:

"Many thanks but no, it's not really my thing. Feel free to pass on the following thoughts to those who attend.

To all the boys who own a Hackett polo shirt, I salute you; your herding instinct is unsurpassable. Similar praise should be heaped on all the girls who go out with/are married to these ovine spice-boys.

Over the years I have had numerous emails and messages via the various means and my message remains the same - if my comments offend you then you are clearly the type of person it is aimed at. If you've found my comments amusing then feel free to contact me with any views on the following:

1. Portman, Imbruglia or both.
   
2. Sports cars from the late 1980's.
   
3. Food of any description other than dubious chicken shop and kebab gaffs.
   
4. Interesting holiday destinations - not just the package hell you choose to go to because there's an English pub that does a cracking gut-buster breakfast.
   
5. Bicycles."
   
   

Unsurprisingly, I get very few replies...

What does everyone else think?

I think you are bang on.

Anyone who reckons that school was the best days of their lives doesn't deserve to be alive.

An institution that grinds kids into a shape that will fit society, and you fucking enjoyed it? Hormones raging, spots everywhere, a voice like Scooby fucking Doo until it broke properly, merciless kids and sadistic teachers?

And you want to have a get together to celebrate this shit?

I bemused why there aren't more massacres at these morbid events.

You don't stay in touch with some people in life for a reason. You don't want to. Simple.

just rock up in your M3, have a scantily clad lady scatter bundles of cash in front of you to walk on ( like jesus entering mecca on palm sunday )
and proceed to tell them all how important and successful you are
leave early before they google you

I still see four or five of my old schoolmates every now and then, we were the school misfits so we were pretty tight... The rest of them were a bunch of boring cunts... >>>>>>>>>>>>>

everyone at my school was ace. except clintsmoker, who was a right cunt

What subject did you teach him?

^Pow!

It must be the time of year.

Another message from a doris at school who I rather liked.

She still got my standard generated reply.

When will people learn? I've avoided you all since I left, so why would I be interested in dick-dangling now?

1. Portman, Imbruglia or both.
   
2. Sports cars from the late 1980's.
   
3. Food of any description other than dubious chicken shop and kebab gaffs.
   
4. Interesting holiday destinations - not just the package hell you choose to go to because there's an English pub that does a cracking gut-buster breakfast.
   
5. Bicycles.
   
   

1. Would
   
2. Want
   
3. Limited
   
4. Experience lacking
   
5. Yes. Lots.
   

Actually quite liked school. Still hang out with lots of school friends and enjoy bumping into random old school friends with whom I had lost contact. Just because we'd lost contact doesn't mean I didn't like them.
#rosetinted

I'm in touch with the people I want to be in touch with.
Was perfectly happy to dark the rest out.

The only ones at my school who want a reunion are the jocks. Nae ta.

I recently met up with my old best friend Becky, the only person I went to school with who I really have any time for. She's awesome and doing great.
There's a couple of others who'd I like to meet up with (including an ex who I saw out of the blue last year in a tt skinsuit with her club hooning it along in the opposite direction) but other than that I couldn't give a monkeys.
She keeps in touch with the rest of our friends from those times, from the sound of the gossip they all moved back home to the 'shire, shacked up with people they've known since they were 5 and are doing really depressing jobs.
I really don't see the need to celebrate those days.
I think not being on Facebook etc helps avoid this type of crap.

i liked school so much i still hang round the gates of primary schools at kicking out time hoping to make some new chums
why do i keep getting maced by the parents ?

there's a handful of mates from school i see 3-4 times a year. i really like them all, but in honesty they're not a big part of my life.

the rest of my school year i'm not that interested in. i've no problem with them, noone was mean to me, i just feel i have nothing to do with them. apart from my group of mates i'd rather bump into a couple of the teachers than anyone else, would probably have a better chat

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this +1
Would love to bump into my old tech and french teachers actually. They were gems in a school of tired, soulless staff who despised us all.

i liked school so much i still hang round the gates of primary schools at kicking out time hoping to make some new chums
why do i keep getting maced by the parents ?

Because you keep selling underweight wraps of cheap base to them at inflated prices?

I think if you enjoy school for the whole time you are there, then you are extremely lucky and should feel privileged. However, it's probably not the best preparation for real life where not everything is so brilliant.

For me it was the other way round, secondary school was a place of utter misery and hopelessness (most expected to go on the dole as soon as they left) and it took me a while to learn that not everything about life was complete shit. Sure I did do some fun things in school, but that would have all been outside of the curriculum IYKWIM

Would love to meet up with the guys I used to skate with during school though, old man curb session ftw.

I dunno, I like meeting people and finding out what's happened to them.

i liked school and my best mates from there are still my best mates now even after university and lfgss.com ( sorry guys i do love you but not as much as my real friends ! )

I did a high school reunion a couple of years ago - 20 years after the equivalent of A-levels.
Most people meet up every year on the last Saturday of June, although I suspect sex isn't the same anymore.
Initially almost everyone left for the uni, but after getting their postgraduate diplomas came back to their little town, got respected jobs, turned into their parents and live their mundane lives. Still, they're probably more happy than me, having their detached houses, cars, careers and families.

School reunions are fun if you actually get on with the people you went to school. If not, it's a waste of time. We were all in a science class, so no thickos or bullies.
I like to keep in touch, because they are all lawyers, judges, doctors, dentists and some sorta engineers (I was the only one doing artsy fartsy stuff at uni). Saved my back few times already when on holidays.

i liked school and my best mates from there are still my best mates now even after university and lfgss.com ( sorry guys i do love you but not as much as my real friends ! )

Dead to me...

XH told me he went to a school reunion a few months ago, I can't imagine what has changed for them in the 6 months since he finished 6th form...