Should I go to my 10-year reunion or not?

[Rhody31]

My 10-year HS reunion starts in two hours and I still haven't decided if I want to go.
I had plenty of friends in high school, but once I got to college I made new ones who are much more involved in my life than anyone I went to high school with.
Part of me wants to go, another part of me doesn't care, especially since I'd have to pay $70 and then for whatever booze I drink. I don't want to miss anything, but I don't know how much I'm going to miss and I'll be more annoyed if I pay, get bored, then bounce.
I went to my five-year, but now I'm engaged and a totally different person than I was and, quite frankly, I remember a lot of kids I went to HS with being judgmental pricks and I don't want to get caught up in that.
What's my best bet? Because right now, I'm right in the middle and can't make up my mind.

As an aside, my backup play is going to my college buddies' 10-year reunion because I have more friends there - him and his wife and about 10-12 other people - but I think that would be weird.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Go. You've changed since your 5th. Maybe they have as well.

 

[Idaho]

Go.

When my five year reunion came, I didn't go, thinking I didn't really like those people when I was in high school and that I wouldn't like them five years later.

I felt the same way for the 10-year, but I went anyway and found out those' judgmental pricks' were just high school kids and that I was the 'judgmental prick' five years later. I actually enjoyed my 10 year reunion.

My 20 year reunion was a few years ago - I'm old - and I went because I had a bigger family, I was a different person and as stereotypes go, I wanted to show off my hot wife, family and even myself. I wasn't a terribly popular kid in school, but I remember my 10 year reunion being totally non-cliqueish. Just people hanging out and remembering each other and swapping stories about what's been going on over the years.

People who weren't really my friends during HS became my friends after the reunions.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

I'm going to my 25th tonight.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

OK, what's up with reunions on Thanksgiving weekend? Our reunions are held in the summer.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

OK, what's up with reunions on Thanksgiving weekend? Our reunions are held in the summer.

I could see it for the fifth when presumably many classmates might still be in college, but by 10l, 20 ot 25, one might think that wouldn't matter anymore.

 

[Trey Beamon]

What's the point of a five-year reunion?

 

[Smallpotatoes]

What's the point of a five-year reunion?

That's why I didn't go to mine.

 

[Dyno]

Reunions from my school are traditionally on Thanksgiving weekend as well. The thought is that people are back in the area to visit their parents. Also, it's a long weekend for lots of people (sorry journalists).

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

It costs $70 and you can just show up and pay?

 

[Rhody31]

It costs $70 and you can just show up and pay?

35 a person. We were supposed to buy tickets ahead of time, but I sent an e-mail saying I wouldn't know until Thanksgiving Day because if our games got rained out, I'd likely be working tonight.
I decided I'm going. Worst case, I leave early and head to the local 99, where a couple people who don't want to go decided to start an unofficial reunion.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

It costs $70 and you can just show up and pay?

35 a person. We were supposed to buy tickets ahead of time, but I sent an e-mail saying I wouldn't know until Thanksgiving Day because if our games got rained out, I'd likely be working tonight.
I decided I'm going. Worst case, I leave early and head to the local 99, where a couple people who don't want to go decided to start an unofficial reunion.

People can go to both boards reunions?

 

[bagelchick]

I'm going to my 25th reunion tonight, too.

 

[SoCalDude]

All of my reunions were in the summer, except the 25th, which was over Thanksgiving weekend for the reason already mentioned, people have moved away but their parents are still here and they come back for the holiday. We also opened up that reunion to the classes ahead and behind ours. It was the worst-attended of all of our reunions.
I always enjoy the reunions. People do change. And, most times, if you remember that you didn't like somebody, you can't remember why you didn't like them.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

It costs $70 and you can just show up and pay?

35 a person. We were supposed to buy tickets ahead of time, but I sent an e-mail saying I wouldn't know until Thanksgiving Day because if our games got rained out, I'd likely be working tonight.
I decided I'm going. Worst case, I leave early and head to the local 99, where a couple people who don't want to go decided to start an unofficial reunion.

People can go to both boards reunions?

The real challenge comes when you try to crash the reunion of your high school's crosstown rival the same weekend. [/notsayin'nuthin']

 

[JR]

I'm waiting for my 45th reunion in 2012. There may be some no-shows.

 

[Bad Guy Zero]

My 20th reunion was last year. I didn't go. I haven't been to any of them.

There was a 20th reunion I considered attending. I received info about a reunion for a high school in California [I went to high school in Texas]. Guy had the same name as me and graduated the same year. If I'd had the money to make the trip and stay at the posh hotel [seemed like it was a school in an affluent area] I would have gone. Maybe I'll make it to the 25th.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Went to my 10th a few years ago and it was a good time. I really had a lot of anxiety about going though because I really had not talked to any of my former classmates in a long time. I had reservations answering questions about significant others, kids and careers but thankfully nobody wanted to talk about any of that stuff. We just sat back, drank lots of alcohol, reminisced and enjoyed the moment.

 

[Boom_70]

Geez-- We're not a Quija board.Try this if you can't make the call on your own.

http://www.museumoftalkingboards.com/WebOuija.html

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I didn't go to my 10th because I wasn't very popular in school and figured that things would be the same, plus I didn't want any bad memories drudged up.

But I ended up going to my 15th and had an excellent time (although my wife was bored out of her mind, couldn't really blame her, I was bored at her reunion, too). It almost felt like we were a family that was reuniting. Even people who I hadn't cared that much for came up and said hello.