Other than the practical (no time/no money/too far/etc.) what are good reasons for not wanting to attend your high school reunion? What are reasons you've had in the past? Envy of others' accomplishments, just having hated HS? What else?
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Michie
ANSWERS: 12
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I just don't care. Everyone sits around talking about the good old days and how their lives have changed. Who cares? Honestly, I've kept in touch with two people from high school, and that's it. The past is the past, and sure, I had good times, but it does me no good sitting there talking them over with people I don't give a rat's ass about, while listening to bad music from that era.
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My main reason is that I was such a little cog is such a big school,I never met anyone that I know by name. I graduated in a class with 1,000 other people, and I didn't go to any of the social events or other activities that would be common to a smaller school. I went to school every day, and went home every day, and that was about it. I did make very high grades, but that did not encourage anyone to make friends with me. I was (then)a member of a religion that is not very popular, and what friends I had were at my church, not my school.
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I honestly could care less. We hated each other so I see no reason to spend good money to waste time talking to people I can't stand anyways. I think we even had two of them, but even though my parents still live in town I never got invited. And honestly most of them still live there with mommy and daddy so all I would have to do is take a walk to see most of them.
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I wouldn't want to go alone
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Anyone I wanted to keep in touch with I have.
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I didn't even want to go to High school let alone the reunion. Thats a good enough excuse for me.
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I was never accepted at my high school. It was a small town, clique-ish, school where EVERYONE had grown up together, (we moved there in my sophomore year). I tried my best to get them to accept me, but I just couldn't break down the walls. I graduated probably having 5 friends there, (only 1 GOOD friend), that I kept in touch with for a short time, before I moved away. The only time I have thought about high school since, was at a family Thanksgiving dinner, where I found out one of my wife's cousins had married one of those 5. They have since divorced.
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There has only ever been one for mine - a 20 year reunion. I didn't want to go as I'd been picked on at school and made no friendships that lasted beyond the day I finished. I did though and it turned out to be very positive. Many there had gone virtually nowhere. One girl was working in the same supermarket she'd been working in 20 years ago. I had recently lost a huge amount of weight and was very fit at the time, turned up in my Audi (I'm in IT and doing alright) with my girlfriend at the time who was an elite tri-athlete and cancer research scientist. And blonde. The girls from my year decided I'd become a bit of a spunk and the one who'd been the sexiest, most unreachable girl at school (and still a stunner) kept talking to me until after 3am and gave me her number. It was the best revenge on the pricks that had humiliated, beaten and spat on me I could possibly imagine!
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My twenty year ws this past weekend and I did not attend. I loved HS and when I first got the invite I was going to go, then realized that if I really wanted to be in touch with these people I would have been all along. I called and talked to the two people from my HS class I sstill talk to and neither of them were going either and figured there was no point. I have my few real friends, no need for all the surface level chit chat as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting to old for it I guess.
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I had my ten year one last summer. I almost didn't go. I was very unpopular in highschool and was treated poorly by a guy I had a crush on in my senior year who knew I liked him. I went only because the only girl that I was still in contact with from hs, who was also a nerd came with me. We were both nervous, but after I went I was so glad that I did. Most of the guys that made fun of me back then had gotten either fat or bald. I was all dressed up and look a lot better now than when I was a nerd in highschool. I had guys coming up to me and hitting on me that never spoke a word to me back then! Plus, the guy that I had the crush on he treated me bad stared at me all night long! So for all those people who don't go to the reunions, I really think you should!
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too fat. I lost major weight in HS because I was sick of being the fat kid. Now Im in college and gained it all back plus some. I would be mortified to show up. That and I didnt really have any great friends, the only ones I keep in contact with are the one who go to the same college with me now. I dont think I will graduate at all , being that I keep scoring horrible scores. SO yeah.....
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My high school reunion was held at a time when I was at work. The people who scheduled the reunion might be assuming that we work a traditional schedule. I work nights, including Saturdays.
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