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NWR: High School Reunion Etiquette

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So a little background: I graduated in 2003 and no one really planned a reunion until recently. Some people got together on Facebook and started to plan.

They decided to have the reunion in a bar on a Saturday afternoon (3pm-6pm).

This is where I have a problem, they said we were all allowed a +1, but if they ran out of room, non class of 2003 guests would start to be asked to leave.

I'm seriously thinking I won't be attending after that request.
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  • teacherjodeeteacherjodee member
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    Exactly. It's a chain bar, The Library. The waitresses are stressed like sexy school girls. At least someone took the lead to plan something but this is kind of embarrassing.
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  • AjulianaAjuliana member
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    That's not much of a reunion.  Do you care enough to go?  You could always go with H and then ignore the controlling bitches who try to evict him out of a public space...
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  • tiny specktiny speck member
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    I wouldn't go to this, to be honest. It sounds terrible.
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  • thejucheideathejucheidea member
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    That sounds like what I heard our fifth reunion was like.

    So far, they haven't told us where our tenth reunion is, but it will be two weeks before we get married. We're definitely going because my fiance is wanting to see what this jackass classmate of mine claims he does, as my fiance trained him and was his supervisor for awhile, but we know he's going to try to inflate his title because, well, he's a jackass. We think it'll be funny.


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  • AddieCakeAddieCake member
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    That's a bummer. Our reunion was at a nice restaurant one night and then a family day picnic the next. I can't believe they plan to ask people to start leaving. What about the people who traveled from out of state? I'd be pissed to have traveled there and then have to leave b/c they didn't have enough room!


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  • misssunshine17misssunshine17 member
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    My fifth was in June- no way was I going. It was a random bar and like Lia said, with facebook I see the updates so I'm not at all interested making awkward conversation. 
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  • teacherjodeeteacherjodee member
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    Quite honestly, I think this is just proof some people didnt grow up. The guy who is planning it was a party jock type and his choice in venue seems to show that not much has changed.

    It would be nice and cheaper to have it in a park , where we can bring our families.

    FI will be out of town for work and I don't feel comfortable going to this bar by myself. It would different if it were somewhere else and I could bring my daughter.
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  • libby2483libby2483 member
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    That reunion sounds awful for several reasons.  I would skip it.
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  • mlg78mlg78 member
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    I've coordinated my last two high school reunions (10 & 15)...it sounds like this person didn't think they'd have such a huge turnout. How many people were in your graduating class?  I only had 34 so it's easy to accommodate all of us. :)
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  • teacherjodeeteacherjodee member
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    I graduated with 450.
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  • elizabethelevenelizabetheleven member
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    That sounds terrible. I refuse to go to any reunions, I didn't like many people back then so why would I care now?

    But I would NEVER go if there was a chance my FH wouldn't be allowed.
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] member
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    I skipped my 5th.  A lot of people in my graduating class already had kids and/or spouses by that point.  I was still in school. Life is different back in my rural hometown. I suspect I'll go back for my tenth next year, assuming it's not too close to the wedding.
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  • NerdyLucyNerdyLucy member
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    We've yet to have a high school reunion, even though our 10th would've been last year.

    Nobody wants to actually put it together, which I understand because I wouldn't want to either.

     

    I think it's also because a large pecentage of our graduating class never left our little hometown, so I don't think a reunion is thought of as necessary. 

    There are only a handful of us that left (I'm one of them).  Whenever we go back to the town's annual festival in the fall, it's sort of like an information reunion anyway.

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  • wittykitty14wittykitty14 member
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    Yeah, I probably wouldn't go to that.  A bar for a class of 450???  Yikes.

    I had an "unofficial" 5th reunion.  The plan was to meet at a bar, and the whole thing was organized on facebook, and not through our high school (as far as I know).  I guess it was supposed to be a really laid back thing.  And, it was 5.5 years after our graduation, which made no sense to me.  Clearly an after thought.  I didn't bother going, especially because I hated most of my class anyway.  I'll go for our 10-year, when there's something REAL planned.

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