20 year HS Reunion this weekend

[MA_PE]

A friend of my wife's cousin had a kid when she was 13. It was weird to be in our early thirties and having a few beers with her 18 yo daughter.

 

[Wolverine]

<<< Has 36 year old female friend with 20 year old son. Cool chick - tough story. One night stand with a dB, but she raised the kid and worked her way up to be on the executive board at her (smallish) company.

 

[Mike in Gastonia]

Missed the 30th, but looking forward to the 35th.......

I'm looking forward to being 35 in 3 and a half years, y'old codger.

My 10 year college will be next year. My old department does an alumni dinner every year, including a roast of some distinguised graduate. I'm much more interested in attending that than a general class of 02 confab.

Everyday this old codger is on the right side of the ground is a good day! Fortunately, I have no feelings left that you can hurt. :laugh:

 

[csb]

And that's why I like Mike in Gastonia!

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Missed the 30th, but looking forward to the 35th.......

I'm looking forward to being 35 in 3 and a half years, y'old codger.

My 10 year college will be next year. My old department does an alumni dinner every year, including a roast of some distinguised graduate. I'm much more interested in attending that than a general class of 02 confab.

Everyday this old codger is on the right side of the ground is a good day! Fortunately, I have no feelings left that you can hurt. :laugh:

My uncle told me any birthday where you are looking down at the ground is a good one. I hear ya.

 

[Master slacker]

Any birthday where you are looking up from the floor is a good one. :thumbs:

 

[Road Guy]

well that was interesting...

Out of a class around 250 only about 50 showed up, including spouses I think, luckily most of the people I wanted to see showed up so it was cool to hang out with the few friends that you actually remembered without having to have them describe themselves to you

Although it wasnt a scientific sample for polling purposes I would have to say that of those that showed up, the "hot chicks" were still hot at almost 40, the nerds still were kind of nerds, and us normal people like myself, were just.. normal.. so the nerds lose again

I dont really look back at HS as "the best of times" but I have about 4 or 5 friends from that age that you just dont normally find in your adult life, 3 of us were in the Army together so that makes the connection a little different..

all in all I am glad we went, they used a reunion planner, and they pretty much sucked, $7 beers, older sheraton hotel, DJ's were 70 years old....

I think next time we decided we could just host that size party at someone house and avoid the excessive booze charges...

 

[MA_PE]

I helped plan our last reunion. Some people wanted to go "fancy" kind of like a prom or a wedding reception...nice place, suit coats and ties, nice dinner, etc. Which would have a commensurate ticket price (on the order of $75+ per person).

I voted against that and just got a local hall (like a Moose lodge), catered food from a local deli, we had a cheap DJ but really could've made do with someones home stereo and a well-loaded ipod. Beers were Moose lodge prices and we kept the ticket price to $35/head which included a gift to the HS from the class.

I, for one, wouldn't pay $150 for my wife and I to attend a reunion. IMHO, low key os the way to go. the whole intent ot reminisce with people you haven't seen in a long time not to go out for dinner and dancing.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

We had a DJ at our tenth and it was just waaaay too loud. Had to leave the room to have any kind of conversation. The fith had no DJ and was infinitely better.

 

[csb]

I'm pretty sure a fifth year anniversary would have been an even bigger train-wreck than our 10th.

 

[MA_PE]

We had a DJ at our tenth and it was just waaaay too loud. Had to leave the room to have any kind of conversation. The fith had no DJ and was infinitely better.

WTF with these DJ's? I just went to a surprise 50th birthday party for a family friend that was held at a hall wiht a DJ. They had a buffet dinner followed by dancing. The DJ was blaring the music from the time the door opened and we said "Surprise". Don't these guys know that especially during the inital cocktail hour and dinner the music is BACKGROUND music not the main show.

Also the same DJ played a HS graduation party for the same people a few weeks before. HE played all the pop/dance tunes that the kids like and they had a good time. I thought it odd that he took out his cell phones and took some pictures of the HS girls dancing. (brochure/web site photos or something else??)

When he played the birthday party you'd think he'd play some classic music rather than cater to the handful of HS kids that were there. Despite requests for some music from the HS/college days of the birthday girl, he stuck to his current pop/dance/rap playlist. pretty annoying.

 

[csb]

Also the same DJ played a HS graduation party for the same people a few weeks before. HE played all the pop/dance tunes that the kids like and they had a good time. I thought it odd that he took out his cell phones and took some pictures of the HS girls dancing. (brochure/web site photos or something else?? Child ****ography Ring)

Fixed it for you.

We had a DJ at a Christmas party this year that was horrible. Kept harassing the crowd (not in a fun DJ way) and his equipment didn't work. In fact, we turned it into a drinking game...every time the sound cut out, we took a drink. We were pretty drunk by the end of the night.

 

[ALBin517]

I helped plan our last reunion. Some people wanted to go "fancy" kind of like a prom or a wedding reception...nice place, suit coats and ties, nice dinner, etc. Which would have a commensurate ticket price (on the order of $75+ per person).
I voted against that and just got a local hall (like a Moose lodge), catered food from a local deli, we had a cheap DJ but really could've made do with someones home stereo and a well-loaded ipod. Beers were Moose lodge prices and we kept the ticket price to $35/head which included a gift to the HS from the class.

I, for one, wouldn't pay $150 for my wife and I to attend a reunion. IMHO, low key os the way to go. the whole intent ot reminisce with people you haven't seen in a long time not to go out for dinner and dancing.

I have some concerns about the arrangements for my upcoming reunion because we are from a rural / suburban area and it's 70 miles from where I live now.

Ideally, the event would be at a hotel ballroom so the wife and I could book a room and stay late at the reunion if we want.

That's not really an option here. There is only one hotel in town and it's a couple miles from the reunion site. And since it's not an urban area, there is no way to grab a taxi from the site to the hotel if somebody has a few drinks.

Plus since there's only one hotel in town, they are price gouging. Their normal summer weekend rate is about $80 per night but it's up to $140 for that reunion weekend. "Welcome home, now grab your shoelaces."

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

I, for one, wouldn't pay $150 for my wife and I to attend a reunion. IMHO, low key os the way to go. the whole intent ot reminisce with people you haven't seen in a long time not to go out for dinner and dancing.

My 10th was $250/couple. It sucked balls. My wife decided to pass on hers the following year. However much it woulda been plus 2 cross country plane tix.

 

[MA_PE]

we planned ours on Friday night of Thanksgiving weekend. The theory is that some families are still local to where the school is and the "students" that moved away will be coming home for the holidays, which increases the likelihood of attending. I'd have to be pretty dang financially secure to have the disposable income to travel an extended distance and get lodging juust to attend a HS reunion.

 

[Road Guy]

There were a couple people I just didnt remember, one girl seemed shocked I couldnt recall her when she told me her name, I tried my best to play along but I still had no clue who she was, so last night I dug out the anual and I should have known her, we were in the same homeroom all 4 years and we hung out a lot 9,10th grade. It made me feel pretty ****** that I didnt remember her. She was gorgeous as a kid but looked like she had had a pretty tough life...dont know why but it just makes me feel pretty bad for not remembering...

 

[ALBin517]

There were a couple people I just didnt remember, one girl seemed shocked I couldnt recall her when she told me her name, I tried my best to play along but I still had no clue who she was, so last night I dug out the annual and I should have known her. She was gorgeous as a kid but looked like she had had a pretty tough life...

I run into that sometimes with chicks on Facebook whose last names have changed. Their profile will say they graduated with me and I'll think, "I don't remember anybody named Jane."

Then I'll be driving down the road days later and it will pop into my head: "That must be Jane Doe! What the hell happened to her? She was hot ... and about 200 pounds lighter."

 

[Wolverine]

There were a couple people I just didnt remember, one girl seemed shocked I couldnt recall her when she told me her name, I tried my best to play along but I still had no clue who she was, so last night I dug out the anual and I should have known her, we were in the same homeroom all 4 years and we hung out a lot 9,10th grade. It made me feel pretty ****** that I didnt remember her. She was gorgeous as a kid but looked like she had had a pretty tough life...dont know why but it just makes me feel pretty bad for not remembering...

Happened to me but opposite: Smoking hot girl at reunion says hi but I have no recollection whatsoever about whotf she is.
Then I went and looked up her picture. As a senior, she had still had chubby cheeks, freckles, braces, and froofy 80's hair.

In the 00's :

Hellloooooo