A Decade Later.
posted by FinleyTonight was the ten year high school reunion for both Beerslinger and me. The members of our class got together tonight, and many stories were told. People got drunk, and more stories were told.
At least, I’m assuming so. I’m here in Austin, 450 miles away.
The topic of our high school reunion was one that Beerslinger and I discussed several times. He had long ago resolved not to go, what with having no interest whatsoever in seeing the people he didn’t give two-tenths of a shit about during high school. For my sake, I was of two minds on the subject.
One one hand, I’m not ashamed of how my life’s turned out. I had a rough period there, but since then I’m above the base line in the Fortune 50 company I work for, I’ve got something of a social life and I’m not a hermit living in the desert. Things are actually pretty swell for me right now.
On the other, the grand total of people from my high school class I’ve had ANY regular or semi-regular contact with since graduating is… two. One of which writes for this site, and the other I keep up with through Beerslinger. Everyone else, I stopped talking to the night I got thrown up on after graduation. (Another time, another story) Hell, the guy who called me to tell me about the reunion was someone who I hadn’t talked to since Graduation and he apparently had lived within 100 miles of me here in Texas at one point.
I was unsure, until I realized something about this reunion. The only reason I would have gone was to answer these questions:
- Who got fat?
- Who went bald?
- Who got fat AND bald?
Other than that, I really don’t feel that interested in going over my life the last ten years with anyone. If they had really cared, they’d have kept in touch.
The clincher for me was finding out that they were asking $50 a ticket to go to this thing. 50 bucks for three hours of seeing people I wouldn’t pay to see any other time just wasn’t worth it.
Hence, I’m here at home tonight, typing out this post. And y’know what?
I wouldn’t trade it. Well, except for being on a beach with my round little friend somewhere. Course, that’ll probably be later this month.
So, I’ve got that going for me.
Out.
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July 2nd, 2006 at 7:47 am
Brother, just so you know I didn’t even know it was last night. And I’m not ashamed of one God Damned thing in my life.
However I plan to go to the 50 year reunion. If not in person, I’ll have someone bring what’s left of my corps.
So, I’ve got that going for me.
July 2nd, 2006 at 10:23 am
its corpse. btw.. damn since when did i become the spell checker?
July 2nd, 2006 at 5:18 pm
I had no clue you grad in 96; i have a few friends in LC who are going to their 10 year reunion this year.
And pylorns and I are going to ours next year…. should be a whole lot of no fun.