School Re-union?

The Fear

The Fear

A Wise Man (once sat next to him)
Saw this question on 8 out of 10 cats.

Would you go (or have you been) to a school re-union?
 
Nope, not for me. I am not a big fan of looking back too much. Also don't really like the thoughts of such a big group and so much polite conversation/small talk!
 
I probably would I still see one or two anyway .

Our year had a top football team there , one of the best in the Midlands so it would be great to catch up with some of the other players to talk about the matches etc.
 
It's a no from me. They strike me as a very American thing, not my cup of tea at all.

I haven't seen anyone from my school(s) for a good few years now, although I am 'friends' with many of them on Facebook. Keeping up to date this way removes the need for a reunion in my book.
 
I'm not really sure, our class had one a few years ago but as the school was in the process of beiong closed (it's a houseing estate now) it was a pretty small group to start with. I couldn't go because I don't live in the UK and the same was said of a couple of otthers at the time. One girl couldn't go because she'd been murdered (yes, things like this happen to people from Solihull too) and the guy who organised it has now passed on too, cancer. Given that the entire school year was made up of only 76 people to begin with, the several that have moved overseas and theose that have passed, I'm not sure there would be too many that could go let alone whould go so the idea might be a bit of a lame duck now.

 
No way thank you very much! School time and childhood weren't exactly a happy time for me I do not want to go back there


I have done my pilgrimage back home to the Midlands after my mom passed. I had placesent to go and memories to put to rest, graveyards to visit etc. Done dusted.

I go back only for we go to see Villa play and that's it

Where I was bought up holds no interest for me.

As for what school peers are doing etc Is not interested. Past and gone

When Friends Reunited opened I did become a guest member and had a nose then at various lives on it.

That was it.
 
I would add if I knew there were no team mates going I wouldn't bother myself. I only went to school for the sport.
 
Think the 8 out of 10 cats survey had 60% odd saying no. Interesting isn't it? I'd have thought a lot would. I'm glad I'm not the only miserable bugger anyway!
 
JuanPabloAngel - 1/12/2016 11:34

It's a no from me. They strike me as a very American thing, not my cup of tea at all.

I haven't seen anyone from my school(s) for a good few years now, although I am 'friends' with many of them on Facebook. Keeping up to date this way removes the need for a reunion in my book.
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What he said
 
I probably would go but I've blocked half of them on Facebook for posting stupid stuff so not sure what the point would be.

The only ones worth seeing I am still good friends with anyway its only 2 or 3 others who I dont talk to so much.
 
I'm really pleased by this. I thought I was just a miserable git!

I am happily in contact with a few on facebook and would meet one on one. And I meet every now and then with just one person from school, a Villa fan so the common interest makes it still relevant.

When I did that speech at the rally we organised (VFC) he drove up from London on the day when he read I was involved. We'd not seen each other for 20 odd years but he said he knew if I was involved it would be something worthwhile. One of the biggest compliments I've ever been paid, especially important at the time as I'd had such a rough time with brain op, the brain tap (doc s had told me not to go to this rally but I was one of the main organisers!)

 
All my best friends now are all the guys I went to school with, so every time there's been a wedding or a stag recently it's like a school reunion, as some of them live overseas and travel back, but I'm in constant contact with them on Facebook and the likes anyway.

I wouldn't mind really, especially if they let our band play a few songs! We played a school concert in our last year, and our last song was going to be Killing in The Name by Rage Against The Machine, but the principal shut the whole thing down just before we were about to launch into it because it was over time!

Looking back it was a blessing in disguise because we would have been in all sorts of trouble!

 
Stephen Jay Hawkings - 1/12/2016 19:24

All my best friends now are all the guys I went to school with, so every time there's been a wedding or a stag recently it's like a school reunion, as some of them live overseas and travel back, but I'm in constant contact with them on Facebook and the likes anyway.

I wouldn't mind really, especially if they let our band play a few songs! We played a school concert in our last year, and our last song was going to be Killing in The Name by Rage Against The Machine, but the principal shut the whole thing down just before we were about to launch into it because it was over time!

Looking back it was a blessing in disguise because we would have been in all sorts of trouble!
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So you did what they told ya!

 
I live in the same area where i went to school having returned after a few years away working and uni. So many of the people i went to school with are local so see them around and quite alot. Some i dodge , some not.

Junior Melon 1 goes to my old secondary school ( as will junior melon 2 next year) as do some of the kids of people i went to school with. Some i dodge, some not. I would go to a school reunion but because of the above and that i am at the school for parents evenings and events anyway not really much point.
 
I hated school and why would I want to catch up with people who I haven't kept touch with for 30 years? It's the same reason I don't do Facebook, to me it is pointless.
 
I wouldn't go either. If the reunion was in my house, I'd go out. I'm still in touch with the guys I used to hang out with. I never had much to do with the other guys in school when I was in school so I can't see the point in meeting them now. If I cared, I could look them up on FB.
 
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