#21

I am still friends with everyone I want to be friends with from school, so no, no way in hell. One was almost organised for our 10 year reunion but no one responded to the person trying to organise it. As it should be.

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#22

Yes, exactly this. I’m still in touch with the ones I want to be. We meet up every year over Christmas and occasionally at other times too. Not really bothered about the rest.

I did go to a College one, though, which was decent, albeit lots of career boasting going on.

#23

I went to one 17 years ago, met up with an ex-girlfriend and we ended up living together and having a child. It didn’t last long, but my son is ace. This probably isn’t the norm.

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#24

I thought that someone might organise a 20-year one this year, but it hasn’t happened and I think facebook covers everything I’d go to a reunion for these days.

#25

I don’t know if anyone’s tried organising one, but I would absolutely not be attending - not even if my palms were crossed with 1000 pieces of gold. Anyone I really want to know about from school, I’m still in contact with - and I find it awfully difficult to feign interest in people I don’t really care that much about.

There are some people I went to school with that I only ever see at Christmas Eve at a meal, which has become something of a tradition for us. It’s got to the point where I do not and will not feign interest in what those people are up to in the same way that they couldn’t give a shit about what I’m doing. I find the whole thing unbearably awkward.

#26

Anyone seen the school reunion episode of party down? Really captures the bleakness

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#27

Yeah we had one a year after we’d left for university. So when we were all 19 or so.

Bit odd.

#28

When I finished sixth form I’d just broken up with my long term boyfriend who was a popular (I was obviously not). Most of my mates had made friends with his mates and when we broke up he got them in the split, haven’t spoken to any of them since. Not sure how I’d feel about a reunion, I’d secretly quite like to do some bitter and boastful willy-waving about my job and I’m sure all the teenage stuff is water under the bridge, but I imagine the reality would be me standing in the corner talking to the only person I still keep in touch with. In fact, I think it would be just like that episode of 30 Rock where Liz finds out she was actually a massive wanker to everyone at school. One of my ex’s mates added me on Facebook last year and mentioned something about a reunion but I haven’t heard anything else about it.

#29

Also where do they hold these things? My school got closed down and merged with another one so wouldn’t be able to do it there.

#30

Yes, once

#31

I’m the kind of person who would probably wave that dick right there, if I’d been fucked over in such a manner after a breakup.

#32

Fucking christ no!

#33

i have regular dreams about school reunions, probably a bad sign
nobody would actually remember me though

#34

Hmm. Depends. I repeated my final year and went from a year where I had about three friends into a year where I got on with everyone really well and that was a huge formative experience for me. I’m still friends with a lot of guys from that year, including some of my ATDs. Even when I see the others in the pub at Christmas I’m interested in what they’re up to. So yeah, I’d go to one of these.

The first year on the other hand, I’d run a mile from. It was just filled with the worst kind of rugby/GAA players and their hangers on. Was bullied a fair bit by those fuckers. Good few people dead from that year too, or in jail, or stuck in Clonmel. Fuck that noise.

If a college reunion was called I’d scoff. I was the college barman for four years so got to know every fucker there, good and bad. Met my best friend through that bar. I’d be better off calling an Old Bar reunion as I never showed up for lectures, just split my time between the library, the bar and a bag of cans.

#35

I didn’t move 200 miles away to start going to reunions.

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#36

I actively avoid finding out anything about/communicating with people from school (will swerve people if I see them on a train, not even on Facebook, etc), so attending a reunion would be shooting myself in the foot.

It’s not even that I didn’t get on with them, but I just have zero desire to meet up with people from the past. Same reason I’m trying to dodge going for a drink to catch up with someone I worked with about 5 years ago.

#37

Ehh, probably. I went to a pretty weird all boys school so it’d be more out of morbid curiosity than anything. A lot of oddballs in my year, such as the bloke that assaulted John Prescott that time in east London.

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#38

I went to school with this chap. Haven’t seen him in years but good to see he’s doing well for himself.

#39

pretty much the same for me, pretty sure there was one a few years ago but none of my mates who i still know from school could cba, so we all sacked it off

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#40

I’ve three close mates from my old high school. Great mates. No interest in going to this.

More interested in how he tracked me down. Weird.