High School Reunion! Could ya! would ya! date your heart throb from years past?


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Gr8Guyn2008 is offline Gr8Guyn2008 Post #21  August 28,2009, 7:42am
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Yeah dude, for real. If your reunions are anything like mine, most of the men are fat, totally gray (if they have any hair left at all), pretty much inactive (a lot are dead) and a lot haven't really advanced to anything.

I've seen your picture and you're none of those.

My reunions have lots of pickens if I wanted 'em. See my next post.
Uh, don't believe I have ever had a current picture on the Advice site. I used to have baby pictures and photos from my college days. The current photo is of my parents circa 1940. There is one part of what you said about me that is true though, I am not fat. The gray and / or no hair part I do fit.

When I went to my 30th reunion, the only one I was ever notified of, there were three types of people there. Those who time had been kind to, those who time had not been kind to and those who were still living in the '60s.

See my above reply to LadyJuJu re: the "in crowd". When I went to school you went to your neighborhood school. My high school served an area that was home to mostly doctors, lawyers, and executives and was quite wealthy. We moved to that area when it was out in the boonies and had become popular for the rich and elite. Being neither rich nor elite I mostly did not fit in.
 
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Gr8Guyn2008:
I think there's some truth to what you say. I want to a private all boys catholic high school. 155 in my graduating class. My sister also went to private school. There were 15 in her graduating class. At least she went on scholarships. My dad worked his butt off to come up with the money for my tuition. I never did fit in. I wasn't an athelete, popular or smart. One of my classmates father brought him a 1963 corvette convertible for his 16th birthday. My dad brought our first car a 1960 Nash Rambler station wagon. So I hung out in the neighborhood with its row houses and front steps. I never made life long friends from high school, so there's no real reason to go back to a reunion. Maybe I'll change my mind, my 45th is next year.
 
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A few years ago, I met up with three former high school boyfriends -- of course we are all middle aged now and comfortable with ourselves, so it was pleasant to chat with them. They were nice guys in school, and they are nice men now. No one is setting the world on fire, but they grew up into good, responsible men. I truly enjoyed our visit, and I felt quite gratified that they were all so nice and normal because my elder sister spent all of my high school years telling me how AWFUL my taste in boys was! So, ha! to her!
 
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Ladyjuju wrote :
For many of us, we have had high school reunions, from 10, 20, 30 and oh boy, perhaps some 40 years ago!..but the question is..........we all had our heart throbs in high school, some were our old boyfriend/girlfriend, some were guys/gals we just dreamed of and idolized! What would you do if you went to your high school reunion and you met him/her again, and all the same sparks were flying in technicolor!! And he/she actually made a pass at you! Would you rekindle the past? Would you try to get a date out of it? or would you just move on.. and figure it was just the thrill of the moment that made you feel that way?
Although I missed my 10th I went to my 20th and did hook up with a girl from my class who I vaguely remembeed. She had certainly "blossomed" (and that attracted me)! Although fun for a while it did not last because we had almost nothing in common. At my 30th I became acquainted with one of the homecoming attendants I did not know in HS but did not follow up with her. After the main party during an after hours get together at his (very large) house our class (male) co-valedictorian got it on with someone unknown while keeping his wife and the rest of us waiting. None of us could figure out who he had been with. Since I was by then divorced I took a date to the 40th. Several classmates actually asked her whose daughter she was and the other (female) co-valedictorian made a pass at my date by shimmying by in a weird way. My date caught it since she had grown up in Laguna Beach, a town having a large percentage of gays in its population, although I was oblivious. Although I did not attend the 50th which was heavily attended a professional videographer was hired and I saw the video. A few of the people looked quite good for their age, but not many. The women looked more like the mothers of some of the women I currently date or have dated in the past ten years rather than women I would actually date today.
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sorry, duplicate post
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wordwoman wrote :
This possible scenario is the implicit reason I've avoided participating in each and every high school reunion.
You are very wise. It's just not worth it to risk the temptation.

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After the main party during an after hours get together at his (very large) house our class (male) co-valedictorian got it on with someone unknown while keeping his wife and the rest of us waiting.
 
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I had a coworker marry a man she met at a school reunion (she was in her 40's at the time, I think.)

Seems to me a solid option - at least you know these are age-appropriate people, and with some modest pre-screening.

If you want to meet potential partners, you could find worse ways to spend your time.
 
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I like the thought of this, but sadly, my high school does not do reunions, and besides it would be in Switzerland and hardly any of us from the international school there are still living in Switzerland. I'd just be curious to see what some of the people turned out like. 2009 would have been 15 years.

There is one guy that I always wonder what if though, the older brother of my younger brother's friend. He was 2 years behind me in school. However, his mom and mine are still friends and so I do know he went on to become a doctor, and married a British woman he met in college. You never know.

I don't know if I'd actively seek out a relationship at a reunion (I did go to my 5th year college reunion). My hairstylist actually hooked up with a guy she went to high school with. Back then they wouldn't have been caught dead dating each other, but they've matured and moved past that now, and things are great. You never know what can happen.
 
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While married, my husband and I attended his 20 year HS reunion. It was a glitzy event at a Los Angeles Marriott hotel ballroom, and most of the women wore sequined gowns with slits up to the thigh, etc. I went because he asked me to. There was an award for one guy who'd had the most jobs since graduation: thirty-something!

My 20 year reunion a few months later was much more casual and comfortable. My husband refused to go because he thought he wouldn't know anyone. (helloooo?!) So I met my grade school friend who flew in from Mississippi, and she and I attended together. I had purchased a spiffy new outfit and was determined to have fun despite being dateless.

I don't remember much except dancing a lot with a "jock" (who's now a Comptroller for a large school district) I knew from kindergarten all through the 12th grade. His buddies teased me that "even his wife can't get him to dance anymore." Apparently, I was quite persuasive! I no longer drink seven & sevens!
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I rekindled one, a little before the 20th and we went to that as well. Some were surprised, like another old girl friend. But, it was a wonderful two year romance.
 
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