Saturday night was the 20 year reunion for the class of 1989. Yeah, I know, technically I was a graduate of the class of 1990, but I can’t bring myself to associate with a class that I only spent 1 year with, so I’m sticking with 89. Besides, it’s been 20 years; you think anyone outside of my group of friends remembers that I didn’t graduate with everyone else? Me neither.
So, 5 out of 10 of us went. Not bad, considering 2 of us were officially class of 1990 and another 3 didn’t get an official diploma from CHS. The night was off to a hot start as soon as I got my name sticker – it had our senior yearbook picture. Now I never took a yearbook pic senior year, so they had my Jr year pic where I had a shaved head and was wearing a COC shirt. Nice. I think I was the only person there that looked just like their pic.
We loitered around during the cocktail hour and mostly talked to each other. Although, I did talk to my old childhood friend from when I lived in SO. It was good to see him and hear that his family and parents are doing well. Spoke to a few other people that I played sports with in Jr High and HS and then when I was going in for dinner I saw a friend that I hadn’t seen a lot of over the past 5-10 years so it was good to catch up with her over the course of the night. During dinner there was a DJ playing all of the 80 hits we all know and love, as well as a video screen showing pics from our year book – which I was featured in due to having a friend on the year book committee.
My general consensus is that both the guys and girls fared about the same. Some guys gained weight or lost some hair (raises hand), and some of the girls gained weight or dyed their hair. But there were a few girls that looked very good, especially considering that I know they had children. I have to say, that for the most part, everyone looked similar to how they looked in high school. Now, I was on drugs and skipping class for a good portion of high school so there were a lot of people that I just didn’t know, but for the most part I recognized a good portion of people and if I didn’t I took a peek at their name tag. On a side note I only recognized 2 of the black people from our class that were at the reunion (there were less than 20 there). Also, one of the funnier moments of the night occurred when everyone moved to the hotel bar after the festivities ended. I was talking to a friend of mine and this girl comes up and is like, “Oh, I wanted to say hi to you” and then kind of butted into our conversation. It took me about halfway through the conversation to figure out that it was a girl I hooked up with a couple of times in 10th grade. Oh well.
The highlight of the night was a conversation Jeff and I had with a classmate. Within 5 min we heard all about how his marriage fell apart and how he was banging the babysitter. It was classic. At least he mentioned that he’s on the wagon, so I guess that’s good news.
All in all it was a good time. My friends still see each other so it wasn’t like we had to go to see anyone, but it was still a good excuse to get out of the house. We also had a BBQ at my buddy’s house the next day so that was just icing on the cake.
A question we were wondering is - what's next? 25 years or do they wait for 30? No one knew.
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I actually had my 10 year reunion on Saturday night as well. I wasn't going to go, but decided to go through with it at the last minute. Pretty much everyone looked the same, even though I hadn't seen most of them in 10 years. Same shit happened w/ the name tag, picture of me with a shaved head. I got the "are you still listening to that weird music" question from a few people. Overall it was actually pretty funny though.
No one asked me about HC, but a dude said to me," You used to listen to heavy metal right?" (I did before HC). Apparently this dude was living in Japan and just saw Iron Maiden. Pretty cool
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