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Social media is rendering high school reunions obsolete. Instead of meeting people, you can now just stalk them online to see if they turned out to be as cringe as you had hoped.
However, I don't think they will disappear completely. Real-life get-togethers with your old classmates can be really... memorable. At first, I wanted to say entertaining, but as this Reddit post by user Respect_The_Box shows, that's not always the case.
Asking graduates to share the worst thing that has happened at their high school reunions, it has received quite a few spicy stories that have enough drama for a 20-season TV show.
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#1
My 10-year reunion was hosted at a nice hotel banquet hall and had a decent turnout — more than 100 people. There was one guy I'd known all throughout high school who was also a well-known stoner. I'll call him Chris. Chris walks into the banquet hall, stops in his tracks, turns around in a very slow circle, and surveys the entire room. He then says, 'Whoa...' and looks visibly alarmed. Once his eyes settle on me, I say, 'Hey, Chris! Long time no see, man!' He slides over to me and whispers in my ear, 'This is really weird...I'm pretty sure I know every single person in this room.' That's when I realize he's wearing the same clothes as the banquet hall workers. OH MY GOD. CHRIS IS WORKING AS A SERVER AT HIS OWN HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, AND HE HAS NO CLUE WHAT IS HAPPENING.
I walk him out to the front lobby and explain it's our 10-year high school reunion. He is mortified and beyond embarrassed. He was never contacted and didn't even realize it had been 10 years since we graduated. He just knew he was working another catering gig in a neverending series of catering gigs.
I make him take me to his manager and explain what's happening. I tell the manager there is NO WAY this guy is working his own high school reunion. Awesomely, the manager agrees. We find a different suit jacket and tie for him, and I take Chris back to the party. He ended up having a good night.
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#2
My buddy took a headbutt to the face from a kid he used to bully... so that was awesome
#3
At my 10-year reunion, the organizers were giving 'awards' for the person who came the farthest to attend, the person with the most kids, etc. The award came up for who had the oldest kid, and people started shouting out their kids' ages. When it quieted down, this shy girl near the front said in a normal voice, 'Eleven.' We all then realized why we'd stopped seeing Heather right before graduation.
#4
It was at a convention center and the college hockey game was next door. Once the game ended some drunk guy came in and started eating scones and went to the bar and pounded about 5 free beers before security kicked him out, he stuffed scones in his pockets while being escorted to the door.
I was never invited to my reunion but hitting that reunion after the hockey game was awesome, I'll never forget the taste of those pocket scones.
#5
My sister, my-now husband, and I were all in the same graduating class. Plus, my husband's best friend, whose name is something like 'John Smith' — very common. He was very popular in high school and a super-nice guy who stood out in a crowd. If you didn't know him, you certainly knew of him. Anyway, the 20-year reunion rolled around, and only my sister went. She called right after and was very upset. Apparently, there was a huge memorial wall for John Smith, who'd just died. None of us knew! It was awful, but then my husband was like, 'Wait, we just saw him?' He called John up and was like, 'Hey, dude, are you dead?' No. Not dead. Surprised, but not dead. It turned out the other, less popular John Smith had died. They made a lovely memorial for the wrong guy.
We still run into people, to this day, who see him and are like, 'Hey...aren't you supposed to be dead?'
#6
We had a teacher in high school that told us "by the time you reach your 10-year reunion, at least one of your classmates will have died" during a discussion about mortality. Ten-year reunion arrives and nobody from our class has died.
Saturday night of the reunion we're partying and having a good old time. One of the organizers gets up to the microphone and is making some announcements, she gets a blank look on her face and drops to the floor.
Brain aneurysm, she was dead before she hit the floor.
#7
When I was in seventh grade, this bully, John, grabbed a wool scarf that my mother had knitted for me off of my head. He then threw the scarf into a pile of muddy leaves and jumped on it. When I went home that day, my mother was furious. The scarf was torn and muddy. She made me tell her who did it and then called the school principal to yell at him. The next day, John got pulled into the principal's office and paddled (back when they still paddled kids). At our 50-year reunion, John came up to me and angrily said, 'You got me into trouble in seventh grade!' I got him in trouble?! Worst, 55 years later, he's still mad about it. I said, 'John, you were a dick in high school, and you're still a dick,' and I walked away.
#8
The class officers did a 5 year reunion on Thanksgiving weekend at a local bar. They only invited who they had liked (30-40 people). One of the people they didn't invite had become a police officer who talked his superviser into running a DUI checkpoint. Almost half the people who went ended up going to jail that night. Two of the organizers ended up with drug charges as well as DWIs. The 10 year started off better, but still ended up being a cluster f**k. They decided to go with a picnic the same place we had our senior picnic. One of the class officers had started a catering company and gave themselves the job. About 1/3 of the people ended up with food poisoning. Thankfully covid caused our 20 year to be canceled.
#9
Someone told me, 'You're not a failure — be yourself!' So when I went, I proudly told them what I was doing these days: Working a $9.25 per hour job and going back to school after having gotten my life together in rehab and back on track. I was proud! Well, they all pitied me. One dude even tried to give me money. It made me feel bad about my current progress. I hate people.
The_Nicest_Misanthrope 2 years ago
F**k them. Good for you! Keep doing that great work and don't worry about what anyone else says. My dad's been in recovery for 15 years now and I couldn't be more proud of him.
#10
This one is just kind of depressing -
My 10 year high school reunion was of course organized by the “popular kids”. They girls that still lived in our small hometown and were past their peak. They are really rotten people - I was actually in their group until they started bullying me in middle school.
By the time our reunion rolled around, I believe, four, of our graduating class has passed away.
At one point they had us all sit down and they dimmed the lights for a slide show that was in memorial for ONE of our lost classmates, the one they were of course good friends with.
I was so furious I stormed out- maybe because I was friends with another girl we lost. But how self centered do you have to be to have a class reunion and at least not do some research and have a memorial for everyone gone??
#11
At my 20-year reunion, two guys got arrested for fist fighting on the sidewalk outside the bar. Why were they fighting? One of the guys slept with the other guy's girlfriend in high school and drunkenly brought up the 20-year-old fling. Neither of them married or even dated her after high school, but 20 years later, those idiots got charged over her.
#12
Not really BAD, but a girl who didn't show had her picture on the "in memoriam" table with a candle lit. She didn't really keep up with anybody and everyone couldn't believe she was dead but no one knew what had happened.
That's because she was, in fact, not dead and showed up about half way through, much to the surprise of everyone else. It was like seeing an actual ghost. While she wasn't real happy about it initially, it all ended as a funny story. Then she actually died a year later. Our 20th is next year and she'll be on that table again, but won't be showing up.
#13
Small college reunion with my core group of friends from university. This was about 5 years after graduation. We all partied pretty hard in school, but mellowed out in our late twenties. Decided to all meet up for dinner at a local bar/restaurant. Think Applebees, but nicer.
One guy showed up already wasted, with a duffle bag full of multiple packets of weed and the bottle he started on before meeting us. He decided we were boring, finished his bottle in the restroom, and refused to come out. He ended up passing out there.
Bartender kicked him out. He came alone in an uber, and we had no idea where he lived. None of us wanted to take him to our places (he was angry, puking and belligerent), so we dropped him off at his last known address.
His parents' house.
Both of them answered the door, and we handed him over. It was past midnight and incredibly awkward.
He's not invited to the next reunion.
#14
I had just had my baby a few months before and another girl had just had twins around the same time as me. She was super coked up and drunk and wouldn’t stop crying to me about how she was so jealous of how good of a mom I was to my daughter.
Sat her down and told her about suffering from Depression and anxiety after having my daughter and that it’s okay to not have it all together.
#15
One of my friends got someone pregnant back in the day, and she kept the kid. They've both been great about it — he helps financially, but that was the extent of his contribution. She married soon out of high school and met a great guy who has been the de facto dad. Either way, the reunion was held during the day, and they let you bring your kids. Well, someone let slip that my friend is that kid's 'real' dad, and the kid heard it. It was a f**king s**t show.
Everyone was trying to figure out who said that, how someone could spill that secret, etc. In the end, my friend pretended he was shocked and laughed it off as a joke. Honestly, in front of the kid, it was probably a good move.
MiriPanda 2 years ago
Everyone should have the right to know where they are coming from. Not at a reunion of course, but often the truth comes out, perhaps many moons later, and I can't see the benefit for the kid of having been kept in the dark. And in this case many, many people appear to know who the bio dad is.
#16
The High School I went to had a really big gang problem. A great many people didn't attend due to being in prison.
Some of those who were in gangs in high school had worked their way through the ranks...
One in particular was pretty high up, he decided to show up. It was generally peaceful, until somebody decided to stick him with a knife. Then all hell broke loose.
The dude that got shanked was a colossal ass to me through all of high school, and now he's bleeding profusely from multiple stab wounds. Being an off duty medic, I did what I do, half expecting him to bleed out on the gym floor. He didn't remember me, there wasn't that movie moment between us. I doubt he even recognized me, I just kept plugging holes and thinking I shouldn't have worn my nice shoes.
Cops and EMS arrived, few people got arrested, he survived, I ended up tossing my favorite dress shoes and a really nice pair of pants because they were too bloodsoaked to rescue.
The_Nicest_Misanthrope 2 years ago
Hats off to you for being a better person than I would've been...
#17
This was not my reunion, but my husbands.
In high school my husband was (and still is) a very reserved and quiet person. He tolerates no BS though. I call him my John Wayne. He is also 6 years older than I am.
We arrive at the venue, and everyone is mingling. All of a sudden, a woman calls out my husband's name and runs over. He introduces me and she looses her ever loving mind.
Apparently she had been in love with him since elementary school but hadn't ever said anything and she planned on asking him on a date that night. She has no idea he was married or that his wife (me) was 7 months pregnant.
She bursts into tears and starts yelling at me incoherently. Turns out she is living with bipolar disorder and was also an addict at that time which is why she reacted that way. We still choose to leave less than 20 minutes of arriving though.
#18
Someone confessed to me that I was his 'dream girl' at our reunion. Meanwhile, his date was his fiancé. I barely knew him in high school. Unfortunately for his fiancé, she didn’t know anyone there, and he refused to leave with her. He drunkenly told me, 'I’m not leaving with her; I'm leaving with you.' I told his fiancé to text me when their car was outside. I then whispered, 'Let's go,' to him, walked him out, and put him in her car. I'll never forget the look on his face when he realized who was driving. I said, 'Yeah, that's how tonight is going to end.' They still got married so...
#19
I got invited to my 5yr a few years back. I went to a pretty hick school and my graduating class was like 90 people. I didn’t attend because I hated almost everyone I went to school with but I kept getting added to the group chat every time I’d leave it, eventually blocked them all. Apparently that whole reunion was a s**t show, I foundout from a friend who did decide to go last minute. They had a big ass bonfire out in the middle of nowhere and the “cool” kids from high school decided to smoke everyone out while showing off their big ass diesel trucks. From what Ive was told was that most everyone got incredibly f**ked up and a bunch of them decided to start shooting guns intoxicated. The only other notable thing that happened was one of the “cool” guys who was f**king stupid in high school thought it’d be a great idea to toss a full propane container into the bonfire. As soon as my friend saw him tossing it in he immediately decided to leave. I have no idea if anybody got hurt or not but I bet people did. 5 years is not enough time to change anybody and I will NEVER attend a class reunion.
For everyone asking I live in the Pacific Northwest
#20
This guy who was so snooty back in high school had arrived late for the dinner portion of our reunion. All of the seats at his old friends' table were already taken, so he sullenly sat down with the likes of us. I took pity on him because most people at the table ignored him and started asking him questions, like how he's fared since graduation. The DJ was blasting music, so everyone was yelling over the table to be heard. I asked him what he was doing now, and he said that he worked at a law firm. I said, 'That's impressive. Are you a lawyer or studying to be a lawyer?' He said that he was 'working on it,' so I asked what he did now at the firm. I kid you not — it was a movie moment. The DJ cut the music so the MC could make an announcement just as this guy — who'd been getting frustrated with my questions — shouted back, 'I'm a mailroom clerk!' Everyone stared. I hate to say this, but accidental justice was served. He was taken down a peg or two by his own hands.
#21
During our reunion, it came out — over alcohol — that a social group of 'cool people' had all been having orgies together during high school...except for one of them. He had always seemed like a core member of the group from the outside, but for some reason, he was never clued in to the fact that all of his friends were f**king each other en masse for basically as long as they've known each other. There was some very eye-opening, loud screaming.
#22
A guy tried to impress everyone by showing us a magic trick (one where there’s a blade behind numerous cups) he proceeded to guess where the blade was not, rammed his hand down a cup and ended up stabbing himself. After he stabbed himself, he froze and fainted, causing more injury. He’s fine now.
#23
My 10-year reunion killed itself before it happened. Turns out our class president — who is traditionally in charge of organizing — took a hard turn into a Footloose character after high school. No alcohol was allowed, not even BYOB. A few classmates in a reasonably successful band offered to play for free, but she was adamant that there'd be no music or dancing. Plus-ones were for spouses only. Two guys happily told her they'd bring their husbands, and she kicked them out from the Facebook page. The food would be catered from a grocery store whose food is actually OK, but tickets were $60. It was ultimately canceled because, out of our class of 300, less than 10 people bought tickets.
The venue was the high school's soccer field. In Iowa. In August. We were welcome to bring our own chairs. A few people then offered to bring beanbags and bocce and similar games. She said no because it would make the reunion 'too much like tailgating.' Instead, she suggested the entertainment be a guided tour of the school, which had undergone zero changes since we graduated.
#24
Some girl confessed to cheating on her high school sweetheart, thinking enough time had passed that it wouldn’t bother him. She thought wrong. This was our 10-year reunion, and the two of them hadn’t seen each other in years. As far as I know, they broke up shortly after high school ended. After she broke the news — somewhat nonchalantly as well — the guy flipped out and slapped her, then started screaming at her. She ran away, at which point he broke down, said something about wasting his high school years, and left.
We still managed to have a good time even after all that though, which was nice.
#25
Not mine, but my mother went back to her 40 year reunion last summer. In December she left my father (36 years of marriage) for her high school sweetheart and is now living with him.
#26
We'd been there less than an hour. Having a great time reconnecting. Suddenly an old friend approached and said, "Is that your wife over there? She's pretty hammered" And as we watched, she tripped and fell face-first, full body crash onto a 12 top table where many of my old classmates were sitting.
The table broke, food and drinks flew everywhere, I walked over, scooped her up and half-carried/half-walked her out the door. She took xanax before going (unbeknownst to me) and was an alcoholic who started slamming drinks as soon as she got there. So... Good Times...
#27
The people who were supposed to plan our reunion dropped the ball, so this other dude stepped up. He was in grad school and working at a banquet hall, so his boss offered the space for free. It was a really nice gesture, and he seemed really into it. He had been miserable in high school — grumpy, sullen, unpleasant, and mean. He came out in college, so maybe the weight of keeping his sexuality secret was part of why he was unpleasant. Anyway, he created a Facebook event and asked people to Venmo him the $15–$20 cost of admission prior to attending. I sent him a private message asking what that covered. Food? Drinks? The space was free, after all. He then posted publicly that if the cost was too steep, 'Message [him] to work out financial aid.' What? I then publicly posted asking what the cost covered, and others began asking, too. He said it'd go toward a bartender and server dedicated to the event space, as well as food. OK, fair. Folks, HE WAS THE SERVER.
I was working a s**t job and had no savings at the time, so I was neither interested in having my former classmates pity me nor gunning to shell out money to attend. Plus, my s**tty ex might be there, and that didn't feel worth it. My friend showed up having not yet paid him, and he barred her entry.
The people who had paid the admission cost showed up to an empty banquet hall, where he gave them a menu and told them to order their own food and drink from him. He then pocketed the admission ticket money as his fee. After an hour, he brought out one grocery store sheet cake for 75 people to share. That was it.
#28
We learned that the woman who was arranging it all was using the info to fish for new members for the NXIVM cult, saying it was a self improvement group.
#29
At my five-year reunion, one guy (who was always kind of a marginal figure in high school but a nice person) after some sort of discussion, got his paycheck out and started loudly saying, 'Now do you think I'm a loser?' and 'Don't believe how much I make? Check this out!' Of course, that just made things worse, and everyone laughed at him. I mean, he had his paycheck on him? I haven't seen him since.
#30
10 year reunion invite came up and I thought 'yeah looks like it could be fun'.
I notice the venue is fancy restaurant. Disappointed, expecting some sort of party. Room is very limited.. for a class of over 100 you would think they would have picked a venue with over 25 capacity.
I start reaching out to all the friends I've kept in touch with. Not one of them is even remotely interested in going. My old high school best friend suggests we catch up at his and drink, instead. Havnt seen him in years so I bail on the reunion.
Turns out almost no one went. One of the girls that organised the thing was begging my mate to go, because she was so embarassed how little people had RSVPd. She ended up bailing, herself. Turns out for the 10 people that actually went (half of which organised it), they had to be split up, since they booked a place that was not intended for large groups of people.
Unironically, the same group that organised it took it upon themselves to organise our end of school formal (aussie for prom). They decided for themselves that we didn't want to go with the original plan and completely replanned it without really consulting the general student body. So many people bailed on it that they had to start inviting ex students (dropped out, changed schools, expelled - takes some real s**t to get expelled from a Catholic school in Australia) just to meet the minimum capacity the venue required to move forward with the date.
Honestly, I know they meant wepl, but this group ruined the formal for a lot of people. I don't know why I expected anything good from their reunion.
Apparently the after party was wild, though. Someone almost got thrown off the boat (literally into the water at 2 in the morning), and a guy we know copped a dick in the eye.
What do you think ?
Suzi Q 2 years ago
I only went to one reunion, the 25th. I was a year out from ending a long marriage so my friend talked me into it. Most of the "popular kids" were still living in the past and hadn't aged well. I met up with a guy who I'd been good friends with in high school (Steve,) but we lost touch after high school. He was also going through a divorce. He bought me a drink and we talked about how everyone looked so old and the hot girls then looked pretty tore up. (They were still really cliquish and talked continuously about the past.) So many people peaked in high school. The nerds were mostly rich now. One of the special Ed kids was hitting on me pretty hard. Anyway Steve and I started dating after that. 13 years later, we're happily married. We haven't been to a reunion since.
RaroaRaroa 2 years ago
I can't think of a single reason to go to one. If I cared, or was interested, in how others lives are going, I'd contact them myself. Likewise, if they cared about me, they'd have been in touch. A friend mentioned on fb a year or two back about a trip a group of us took up-country sometime not long after school ended. I wasn't actually on the trip, but they clearly thought I was. It's the little things that make you realise no one really remembers you.
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Poultry Geist 2 years ago
I’ve never been to one but when I was little my mom went to one ! She left with a group of people (one was a police officer) they broke into an apartment pool and skinny dipped! She came home with a black eye from getting into a fight with a girl! She said “ I don’t blame her for hitting me I was biting her finger and wouldn’t let it go! She shouldn’t have stuck it in my face “ 😂momma was wild !
Metallicd3ath 2 years ago
Hang on, so an off-duty officer broke into an apartment pool and went skinny dipping with old college friends?
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Moezzzz 2 years ago
So, my husband has never been to any of his reunions. He says that hs was a s**t show for him and when he graduated, he immediately left, joined the army and traveled the world for 10-15 yrs. When he came back, he was invited to one, but he didn't want to go, Bc a bunch of "popular" girls contacted him through social media telling him how good looking he was and how they'd LOVE to see him. He got pretty pissed off at that, Bc these were the same girls who looked down on him in school. He's 50 now (and still HOT), but won't go to one of these reunions. I kind of want him to, just so I can go and see these people lol. We've been married 8 yrs now and he still treats me like a queen, so they definitely missed out! But he's my king now!
Nicoll Curtis 2 years ago
My 10 year reunion, I volunteered my dj equipment, so it would save them money (and I was a DJ, so throwing on a pre-mixed 3 hour set was easy once I had everything hooked up). I also work in IT, so I offered to build a website for us, so people could easily purchase tickets and get updates on the planning. Everything went fine, most of the people were interested in catching up with people that weren't in their friends' group. (Small, rural town, small graduating class) All except for this one guy. The guy that decided to pretend he's a big shot Hollywood star because he's had less than a minute screen time across several movies and TV shows as an uncredited, silent background extra.he decided to become an author, &faked a Hollywood book release party. (He stole photos of a French model & claimed that was his publicist, & Page Six outted him as a fake.)
Nicoll Curtis 2 years ago
Him/his BF/his mom/another guest of his all showed up wearing high end clothing that still had the security tags on them. Including shoes! He spent the entire reunion scanning around trying to get people to talk s**t about each other, because he thrives on drama. Everyone kept telling him to stop, & to quit trying to stir up s**t, so he'd get pissed & flounce off. He kept leaving his phone at different tables & then "remembering" he left it there, because he would leave his phone recording the table, then listen to it to see if anyone said anything about him. When we finally took a class photo, he planted himself dead in the center, wearing an ugly, sparkly dinner jacket. He tried cutting several of the "unpopular" kids out of the photos when he posted them. He apparently made gift baskets, but only the cool kids got to take one. Somehow he had the funds to do that, but he didn't have the funds to actually pay the full amount for the restaurant tab!
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Hedgeh og 2 years ago
This is like the 10th time that I've seen a list on Buzzfeed, pulled from Reddit comments, and then a few days later seen that same list on Bored Panda, using mostly the same Reddit comments. So far it's correlation and I can't prove causation but I don't remember a SINGLE example going the other way - ie BP having the list first and then I see it on buzzfeed - so it's suspicious. I know lots of people use Reddit for source material but the overlap between what's used in each list is ...extensive.
Suzi Q 2 years ago
I don't mind BP taking stuff from Reddit. On Reddit there's way too many comments and a lot of trolls. BP fine tunes the comments and picks out the best responses.
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Tami 2 years ago (edited)
My 40th had a pre-event at a local bar. It was fun, but during the event we found out that the bar owner had been arrested hours earlier for drugging peoples' drinks (men and women both) and sexually assulting them in the back room. But still, the pre-event was more fun than the actual reunion, which was mostly about the people who were popular in high school still being the center of attention.
Memere 2 years ago
I went to our 20 year high school reunion, and the "brainy" guy from our class didn't attend, but he sent a 6 page "resume" listing all his accomplishments, degrees, etc. Granted, the guy was/is extremely smart, but we all did get a good laugh out of it!
Metallicd3ath 2 years ago
Imagine trying to flex on people at an event you're not even attending.
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Lsai Aeon 2 years ago
My 25-year reunion should be coming up this May. I've not heard anything from anyone from high school since graduation. They bullied the hell out of me not just those 4 years but all 12 years of my school career. Glad I've not heard from any of them
Daniel Teel 2 years ago
I don't know if my 10 year reunion happened or not. My graduating class was over a thousand people so the odds of someone both remembering me and being able to find me to invite me were slim. 10 years came and went and I have no idea what happened
Mari 2 years ago
I never went to a reunion. In highschool I was the b*tch in class. It was a way to protect myself. I was no bully, I was more mature than the others due to my difficult situation at home. A lot of other girls were jealous, they said I was the beautiful girl with the bad caracter. I was just hiding all my problems and "beauty" was giving me only more problems. (assaults) Highschool was terrible.
Jerry Conaway 2 years ago
People don't change - they just put on a different mask. Went to a school with 44 people in the class, 98% of whom I won't piss on if they catch fire. I was one of the "fat kids" in school, which was intolerable back in the 80's, so my school life went the way you would expect. Saw the Valedictorian a couple of years after graduation, still pretty, but towing crotch goblins that one of the football jocks had gifted her. So much for that bright college future. Another mate got bush-hogged, and one died of cancer. Otherwise, I lost touch and gave these jerks I had wasted 12 years with no more thought. Twenty years later, my parents give me an invitation to my own class reunion. It didn't get mailed because the organizer couldn't take the time to google my address on the county zoning map. Add insult, when I looked up the event website, they didn't have my name spelled correctly. Happily I told my wife I couldn't go because that invitation had been sent to the wrong person.
Jerry Conaway 2 years ago (edited)
I saw pics online later. These were the same people that, while we were in school, did not want to do a school or community project, didn't want to put on a class play, generally didn't want to put themselves out for anything besides themselves. The reunion was totally the s**t-show I expected it to be - eight people sitting on bales of hay near an old barn, drinking beer around a fire. Classy to the finish.
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Lonely Tentacle 2 years ago
Interesting stories! Now I'd love to see another post about reunion stories where badass wins happened!
Jerry Conaway 2 years ago (edited)
I didnt go to mine, which you can read about in my post, but my Dad had a pretty good story from his. He was in a family of 12, grew up dirt poor, moved around a lot, got bullied a good bit because of it, and eventually dropped out of school. He made a good living for himself, later got his equivilency diploma and went on to have a long career and retirement as pretty much a jack of all trades. His classmates at the last school he went to - the one he dropped out of - contacted him and invited him to their 40 year reunion. He went, they surprised him with a diploma from the school since he had finished later, and he generally had a good time.
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Darcy Marie 2 years ago
My 10 year is coming up and I'm dreading even the thought of one of those @$$holes from highschool CONTACTING me. Seeing them in person? Nah. Nope. Not for me.
Jody Whitmarsh 2 years ago
GROSS POINT BLANK "Did you go to your 10 year? " "yeah, it's just as if everyone just swelled"
Viv Hart 2 years ago
Am I the only one who had a super 50th anniv. HS Reunion? Our graduation class of '62 were a great crowd, and most of us hadn't been in contact in 50 yrs. A few of we locals got together to network, and try to contact as many of our old classmates as possible. Now, I'd had a huge secret crush on one guy, but was very bashful with boys. We all knew of his dream of becoming an Air Force pilot, and he did. Anyway, I knew his best buddy, and got the organisers to contact him, to tell his friend about the reunion. So we all meet at this pleasant restaurant, I took along our class photo, but other than the girls who organised it, didn't recognise anybody, and on purpose nobody wore a name tag. Then I hear somebody say, 'Oh, here's Joe', and I turn round to see a guy with white hair & specs - where did that black-haired boy go? I say his name, and whaddayaknow, he remembers me, and I get the most incredible hug from him! We are now the best of email friends, and his wife is OK with it.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 2 years ago
From SW US, no longer live there. Have never been to a high school reunion, never intend to go to one, missed the 50th and just as well. Have never been to a uni reunion, never intend to go to one. But then, the uni I went to was huge with over 37,000 undergrads when I attended, not counting grad students, faculty and staff. Heck I didn't know half the people in my major which wasn't a popular one.
KimB 2 years ago
I wasn't going to go to mine until I saw two women (both were cheerleaders and popular back in school) talking sh*t about me on Facebook (hubby is on it I'm not so he showed me) saying how I was probably fat and ugly because I don't have a Facebook...had to go and show them I wasn't fat lol they both were twice my size! The look on their faces was priceless!
Nolgoth 2 years ago
Last year was 20 years since graduating hs. But my class has never had a reunion. The high school has some committee of old people that graduated in like the 70s that does the reunions but they dont do specific years. The latest year i have seen was like 95 but they do groups so like 90-95 or they would have an announcent that all graduated classes can come. Honestly i dont even understand who does these things or their purpose. Like i see them on tv and in movies and think that it is just another milestone thing people do but no one i know outside of boomers have ever gone 2 a reunion. My school had 2500 students total with about 200 in my class, town had 19k people (still about the same pop even now) so maybe thats why? Maybe this is more a larger town or suburb thing? I dunno. I would never want 2 go unless i knew for sure who would be there, i was bullied from k -12, wouldn't want 2 see any other the guys from high school that did that. Not even 2 gloat about the cool s**t i have d
Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
Why do people have reunions every 5 years? Every 10 years is already more than enough for me, thanks
phil blanque 2 years ago
Going back is a choice. What do you get? Going forward is so much better. The past is the past...leave it alone..you cannot change it...
Barbara Skolly 2 years ago
Where I live in Canada reunions are not common. My high school had a party to celebrate its 50 year anniversary and so all 50 graduating classes were invited over a few days. Its a large city but still a small world. My coworker was actually dating a guy from my class (this is over a decade after grad) so she went with him (I was working) so she wore my nametag for fun. She is way taller than me and a different ethnicity but a few people noticed and had a good laugh, it was a good ice breaker for her.
Kathleen Ahern Lang 2 years ago
I've been to two reunions. One was held in 2007 for the school's 50th anniversary and the second was in 2017 for the 60th. Both were great. I have a pic of a group of girls that I started kindergarten with and shared a class with every year until we graduated from high school.
LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago
I never planned to go to my reunion so I wasn't upset when I never got an invite. What I'm pissed about is the excuse. I wasn't the popular one, I had no desire for attention but I still had a core group of friends and people knew me at least. I recently moved back to my small town and connected with a few people I went to school with and they claimed I wasn't invited because nobody could find me. My younger sister was the popular girl, in our town most people know her name, she married the younger brother of someone from our grade. And you couldn't find me?! The 20 year reunion is in a few years. Should be fun.
Jessica Bertram 2 years ago
moved away in my mid-20s. came back to the 10 year reunion because my bestie told me she'd never visit me unless i did this thing with her. brought my then- boyfriend (now husband) for moral support, since high school was miserable for me. during the dinner, there was a stranger at a table that everyone assumed was someone's plus-one. but when the music started after...this dude hit the dance floor. Alone. With the WORST moves. And then he started taking his clothes off. My husband got up and put a dollar in his waistband about 18 seconds before security marched his half-dressed drunk ass out the door. But Jeremy was the real legend.
Tamara Horyza 2 years ago
I dont get reunions who wants to look back reliving their"glory days"
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
My 10 year reunion was a few years ago. The school captain set up a facebook page at the start of the year with time and location TBD. By September the page was closed with no explanation why. No reunion. I was really disappointed and when the school itself had it's 60th celebration the next month I went along. No one from my year level went apart from me and I complained on facebook. Turned out the principal really only invited the older ex-students, hoping for donations, and I had only heard about it because I still had links with current students, so I sounded like a whinger. I'm hoping that if it looks like no one is doing anything in a couple of year for our 15th I can organise something myself, but I'm not very good at that sort of thing.
Jill Pulcifer 2 years ago
I missed my 20th because it was in 2020 at the height of COVID and we figured traveling two stars away was prolly a bad idea.
Suzi Q 2 years ago
I only went to one reunion, the 25th. I was a year out from ending a long marriage so my friend talked me into it. Most of the "popular kids" were still living in the past and hadn't aged well. I met up with a guy who I'd been good friends with in high school (Steve,) but we lost touch after high school. He was also going through a divorce. He bought me a drink and we talked about how everyone looked so old and the hot girls then looked pretty tore up. (They were still really cliquish and talked continuously about the past.) So many people peaked in high school. The nerds were mostly rich now. One of the special Ed kids was hitting on me pretty hard. Anyway Steve and I started dating after that. 13 years later, we're happily married. We haven't been to a reunion since.
RaroaRaroa 2 years ago
I can't think of a single reason to go to one. If I cared, or was interested, in how others lives are going, I'd contact them myself. Likewise, if they cared about me, they'd have been in touch. A friend mentioned on fb a year or two back about a trip a group of us took up-country sometime not long after school ended. I wasn't actually on the trip, but they clearly thought I was. It's the little things that make you realise no one really remembers you.
Load More Replies... Poultry Geist 2 years ago
I’ve never been to one but when I was little my mom went to one ! She left with a group of people (one was a police officer) they broke into an apartment pool and skinny dipped! She came home with a black eye from getting into a fight with a girl! She said “ I don’t blame her for hitting me I was biting her finger and wouldn’t let it go! She shouldn’t have stuck it in my face “ 😂momma was wild !
Metallicd3ath 2 years ago
Hang on, so an off-duty officer broke into an apartment pool and went skinny dipping with old college friends?
Load More Replies... Moezzzz 2 years ago
So, my husband has never been to any of his reunions. He says that hs was a s**t show for him and when he graduated, he immediately left, joined the army and traveled the world for 10-15 yrs. When he came back, he was invited to one, but he didn't want to go, Bc a bunch of "popular" girls contacted him through social media telling him how good looking he was and how they'd LOVE to see him. He got pretty pissed off at that, Bc these were the same girls who looked down on him in school. He's 50 now (and still HOT), but won't go to one of these reunions. I kind of want him to, just so I can go and see these people lol. We've been married 8 yrs now and he still treats me like a queen, so they definitely missed out! But he's my king now!
Nicoll Curtis 2 years ago
My 10 year reunion, I volunteered my dj equipment, so it would save them money (and I was a DJ, so throwing on a pre-mixed 3 hour set was easy once I had everything hooked up). I also work in IT, so I offered to build a website for us, so people could easily purchase tickets and get updates on the planning. Everything went fine, most of the people were interested in catching up with people that weren't in their friends' group. (Small, rural town, small graduating class) All except for this one guy. The guy that decided to pretend he's a big shot Hollywood star because he's had less than a minute screen time across several movies and TV shows as an uncredited, silent background extra.he decided to become an author, &faked a Hollywood book release party. (He stole photos of a French model & claimed that was his publicist, & Page Six outted him as a fake.)
Nicoll Curtis 2 years ago
Him/his BF/his mom/another guest of his all showed up wearing high end clothing that still had the security tags on them. Including shoes! He spent the entire reunion scanning around trying to get people to talk s**t about each other, because he thrives on drama. Everyone kept telling him to stop, & to quit trying to stir up s**t, so he'd get pissed & flounce off. He kept leaving his phone at different tables & then "remembering" he left it there, because he would leave his phone recording the table, then listen to it to see if anyone said anything about him. When we finally took a class photo, he planted himself dead in the center, wearing an ugly, sparkly dinner jacket. He tried cutting several of the "unpopular" kids out of the photos when he posted them. He apparently made gift baskets, but only the cool kids got to take one. Somehow he had the funds to do that, but he didn't have the funds to actually pay the full amount for the restaurant tab!
Load More Replies... Hedgeh og 2 years ago
This is like the 10th time that I've seen a list on Buzzfeed, pulled from Reddit comments, and then a few days later seen that same list on Bored Panda, using mostly the same Reddit comments. So far it's correlation and I can't prove causation but I don't remember a SINGLE example going the other way - ie BP having the list first and then I see it on buzzfeed - so it's suspicious. I know lots of people use Reddit for source material but the overlap between what's used in each list is ...extensive.
Suzi Q 2 years ago
I don't mind BP taking stuff from Reddit. On Reddit there's way too many comments and a lot of trolls. BP fine tunes the comments and picks out the best responses.
Load More Replies... Tami 2 years ago (edited)
My 40th had a pre-event at a local bar. It was fun, but during the event we found out that the bar owner had been arrested hours earlier for drugging peoples' drinks (men and women both) and sexually assulting them in the back room. But still, the pre-event was more fun than the actual reunion, which was mostly about the people who were popular in high school still being the center of attention.
Memere 2 years ago
I went to our 20 year high school reunion, and the "brainy" guy from our class didn't attend, but he sent a 6 page "resume" listing all his accomplishments, degrees, etc. Granted, the guy was/is extremely smart, but we all did get a good laugh out of it!
Metallicd3ath 2 years ago
Imagine trying to flex on people at an event you're not even attending.
Load More Replies... Lsai Aeon 2 years ago
My 25-year reunion should be coming up this May. I've not heard anything from anyone from high school since graduation. They bullied the hell out of me not just those 4 years but all 12 years of my school career. Glad I've not heard from any of them
Daniel Teel 2 years ago
I don't know if my 10 year reunion happened or not. My graduating class was over a thousand people so the odds of someone both remembering me and being able to find me to invite me were slim. 10 years came and went and I have no idea what happened
Mari 2 years ago
I never went to a reunion. In highschool I was the b*tch in class. It was a way to protect myself. I was no bully, I was more mature than the others due to my difficult situation at home. A lot of other girls were jealous, they said I was the beautiful girl with the bad caracter. I was just hiding all my problems and "beauty" was giving me only more problems. (assaults) Highschool was terrible.
Jerry Conaway 2 years ago
People don't change - they just put on a different mask. Went to a school with 44 people in the class, 98% of whom I won't piss on if they catch fire. I was one of the "fat kids" in school, which was intolerable back in the 80's, so my school life went the way you would expect. Saw the Valedictorian a couple of years after graduation, still pretty, but towing crotch goblins that one of the football jocks had gifted her. So much for that bright college future. Another mate got bush-hogged, and one died of cancer. Otherwise, I lost touch and gave these jerks I had wasted 12 years with no more thought. Twenty years later, my parents give me an invitation to my own class reunion. It didn't get mailed because the organizer couldn't take the time to google my address on the county zoning map. Add insult, when I looked up the event website, they didn't have my name spelled correctly. Happily I told my wife I couldn't go because that invitation had been sent to the wrong person.
Jerry Conaway 2 years ago (edited)
I saw pics online later. These were the same people that, while we were in school, did not want to do a school or community project, didn't want to put on a class play, generally didn't want to put themselves out for anything besides themselves. The reunion was totally the s**t-show I expected it to be - eight people sitting on bales of hay near an old barn, drinking beer around a fire. Classy to the finish.
Load More Replies... Lonely Tentacle 2 years ago
Interesting stories! Now I'd love to see another post about reunion stories where badass wins happened!
Jerry Conaway 2 years ago (edited)
I didnt go to mine, which you can read about in my post, but my Dad had a pretty good story from his. He was in a family of 12, grew up dirt poor, moved around a lot, got bullied a good bit because of it, and eventually dropped out of school. He made a good living for himself, later got his equivilency diploma and went on to have a long career and retirement as pretty much a jack of all trades. His classmates at the last school he went to - the one he dropped out of - contacted him and invited him to their 40 year reunion. He went, they surprised him with a diploma from the school since he had finished later, and he generally had a good time.
Load More Replies... Darcy Marie 2 years ago
My 10 year is coming up and I'm dreading even the thought of one of those @$$holes from highschool CONTACTING me. Seeing them in person? Nah. Nope. Not for me.
Jody Whitmarsh 2 years ago
GROSS POINT BLANK "Did you go to your 10 year? " "yeah, it's just as if everyone just swelled"
Viv Hart 2 years ago
Am I the only one who had a super 50th anniv. HS Reunion? Our graduation class of '62 were a great crowd, and most of us hadn't been in contact in 50 yrs. A few of we locals got together to network, and try to contact as many of our old classmates as possible. Now, I'd had a huge secret crush on one guy, but was very bashful with boys. We all knew of his dream of becoming an Air Force pilot, and he did. Anyway, I knew his best buddy, and got the organisers to contact him, to tell his friend about the reunion. So we all meet at this pleasant restaurant, I took along our class photo, but other than the girls who organised it, didn't recognise anybody, and on purpose nobody wore a name tag. Then I hear somebody say, 'Oh, here's Joe', and I turn round to see a guy with white hair & specs - where did that black-haired boy go? I say his name, and whaddayaknow, he remembers me, and I get the most incredible hug from him! We are now the best of email friends, and his wife is OK with it.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 2 years ago
From SW US, no longer live there. Have never been to a high school reunion, never intend to go to one, missed the 50th and just as well. Have never been to a uni reunion, never intend to go to one. But then, the uni I went to was huge with over 37,000 undergrads when I attended, not counting grad students, faculty and staff. Heck I didn't know half the people in my major which wasn't a popular one.
KimB 2 years ago
I wasn't going to go to mine until I saw two women (both were cheerleaders and popular back in school) talking sh*t about me on Facebook (hubby is on it I'm not so he showed me) saying how I was probably fat and ugly because I don't have a Facebook...had to go and show them I wasn't fat lol they both were twice my size! The look on their faces was priceless!
Nolgoth 2 years ago
Last year was 20 years since graduating hs. But my class has never had a reunion. The high school has some committee of old people that graduated in like the 70s that does the reunions but they dont do specific years. The latest year i have seen was like 95 but they do groups so like 90-95 or they would have an announcent that all graduated classes can come. Honestly i dont even understand who does these things or their purpose. Like i see them on tv and in movies and think that it is just another milestone thing people do but no one i know outside of boomers have ever gone 2 a reunion. My school had 2500 students total with about 200 in my class, town had 19k people (still about the same pop even now) so maybe thats why? Maybe this is more a larger town or suburb thing? I dunno. I would never want 2 go unless i knew for sure who would be there, i was bullied from k -12, wouldn't want 2 see any other the guys from high school that did that. Not even 2 gloat about the cool s**t i have d
Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
Why do people have reunions every 5 years? Every 10 years is already more than enough for me, thanks
phil blanque 2 years ago
Going back is a choice. What do you get? Going forward is so much better. The past is the past...leave it alone..you cannot change it...
Barbara Skolly 2 years ago
Where I live in Canada reunions are not common. My high school had a party to celebrate its 50 year anniversary and so all 50 graduating classes were invited over a few days. Its a large city but still a small world. My coworker was actually dating a guy from my class (this is over a decade after grad) so she went with him (I was working) so she wore my nametag for fun. She is way taller than me and a different ethnicity but a few people noticed and had a good laugh, it was a good ice breaker for her.
Kathleen Ahern Lang 2 years ago
I've been to two reunions. One was held in 2007 for the school's 50th anniversary and the second was in 2017 for the 60th. Both were great. I have a pic of a group of girls that I started kindergarten with and shared a class with every year until we graduated from high school.
LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago
I never planned to go to my reunion so I wasn't upset when I never got an invite. What I'm pissed about is the excuse. I wasn't the popular one, I had no desire for attention but I still had a core group of friends and people knew me at least. I recently moved back to my small town and connected with a few people I went to school with and they claimed I wasn't invited because nobody could find me. My younger sister was the popular girl, in our town most people know her name, she married the younger brother of someone from our grade. And you couldn't find me?! The 20 year reunion is in a few years. Should be fun.
Jessica Bertram 2 years ago
moved away in my mid-20s. came back to the 10 year reunion because my bestie told me she'd never visit me unless i did this thing with her. brought my then- boyfriend (now husband) for moral support, since high school was miserable for me. during the dinner, there was a stranger at a table that everyone assumed was someone's plus-one. but when the music started after...this dude hit the dance floor. Alone. With the WORST moves. And then he started taking his clothes off. My husband got up and put a dollar in his waistband about 18 seconds before security marched his half-dressed drunk ass out the door. But Jeremy was the real legend.
Tamara Horyza 2 years ago
I dont get reunions who wants to look back reliving their"glory days"
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
My 10 year reunion was a few years ago. The school captain set up a facebook page at the start of the year with time and location TBD. By September the page was closed with no explanation why. No reunion. I was really disappointed and when the school itself had it's 60th celebration the next month I went along. No one from my year level went apart from me and I complained on facebook. Turned out the principal really only invited the older ex-students, hoping for donations, and I had only heard about it because I still had links with current students, so I sounded like a whinger. I'm hoping that if it looks like no one is doing anything in a couple of year for our 15th I can organise something myself, but I'm not very good at that sort of thing.
Jill Pulcifer 2 years ago
I missed my 20th because it was in 2020 at the height of COVID and we figured traveling two stars away was prolly a bad idea.
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