Vacation or Reunion: You Make The Call

[Thornir Alekeg]

Tahoe with family. I don't bother with reunions. I keep in touch with the people from High School and College that I really want to. I suppose there are a few people it might be interesting to see again, but more likely people I have no interest in ever seeing again would be there instead.

 

[was]

Definitely Tahoe. My 10th reunion was nothing more than an excuse for about 90% of the people there to get drunk and whine about the 'old' days. It was really pathetic.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I agree with this. Real Life ^TM High School reunions aren't worth the time. (Not unless you like taking a surreal look at the past.) After all, we're not talking Grosse Point Blank. Right?

True. I didn't go to my reunion. And I heard that the cliques that were there in HS were still there. And me, being the "wallflower" I was in HS, didn't see that as anywhere near remotely interesting at all.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

I went to the one high school in the USA that apparently doesn't offer reunions (Chantilly High School in Chantilly, Virginia). They've had my contact info since 1994 (I graduated in 92) and I've never heard anything about a reunion; my 10 year came and went without a word from them. I check their website regularly but don't see anything posted.

I don't know how other high schools do it, but I know our reunion isn't really affiliated with the school at all. I got the feeling that was the norm. It's being put together by a couple of alumni. They created a Yahoo group and I think they found me through my website.

 

[Teflon Billy]

I basically destroyed my 10 year reunion in its infancy by posting to the boards the reasons I wasn't coming.

I guess enough people agreed with me, as it was cancelled for "lack of interest"

Got to correspond with someone I had forgotten was an Ok friend though, so that was nice (She and her husband arrange "Adventure Vacations" in Belize! Who'd have guessed?)

 

[DaveStebbins]

Well, last weekend was my 25th high school reunion and I had a blast! There were a bunch of people that I spent more time speaking to last weekend than I did in four years of high school. I didn't see any evidence of the old cliques left and it was lots of fun catching up with classmates I hadn't seen in 20+ years. Seeing everyone with their kids at the picnic Saturday afternoon was a real hoot. Hearing one of the old stoners complain about his kids lecturing him on what's appropriate behaviour was priceless. Everyone who showed up (probably about 50 people out of a class of 200) seemed to have a good attitude and I think most everyone had a great time.

Our reunions are all done by the classmembers, nothing to do with the school. Heck, one even pays hosting fees for our class website, so everyone knows what's going down when.
http://www.oneontahsclassof1980.com/main.htm

By the time ten years have passed, the things that separated people in school are mostly gone, and everyone has pretty much the same concerns now: job/school, spouse/ex-spouse/SO, kids, house, in-laws, taxes, etc.

I had a much better time than I anticipated, reconnected with a bunch of old friends and made a bunch of new ones. Not bad for an old, shy, nerd.

-Dave

 

[alsih2o]

Reunions suck.


As a writer you should go. Imagine the wealth of material!

 

[Dark Jezter]

It sounds to me like you'd enjoy the Tahoe vacation more. High school reunions are really only worth going to if you are dying to see who from your graduating class got fat, who got bald, who got rich, who turned out to be a real loser, etc.

Myself, I'd much rather spend a week with family in a nice condo at Lake Tahoe than attend a high school reunion. Sure, there are a few people whom I wouldn't mind catching up with (every now and then I wonder whatever happened to my old high school sweetheart), but on a whole I have little to no interest in my high school classmates.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Update

I decided to go to Tahoe, and hoo boy did I ever choose wisely! Weather was perfect (mid to high 80s at the height of the day), sky was blue, drive was easy, and the condo was POSH. Absolutely no regrets. I heard from a friend who went to the reunion that pretty much none of our friends made it, and while she had a fun time, it didn't sound like my kind of thing at all. I must have been born without the nostalgia gene.

Thanks everyone for making it all so clear for me.

 

[Dungannon]

I'm surprised nobody asked the really important question, did you stay in the CA side of the lake or the NV(gambling) side?