School Reunion

[EcclesCake]

I'm meeting up with an old school friend next week.

The last time I went to a school reunion I was stunned at how the classroom cliques still existed. I'm confident that next weeks meeting will be a more positive experience though!

Would you want to meet up with complete strangers that you have nothing in common with apart from a few years of sharing a class room? Or do you think it is an opportunity to grow a friendship?

[EvianBaby]

Absolutely not. I've kept in touch with the ones I wanted to keep in touch with. I'm Facebook friends with a few of the others and that's enough for me. I have no desire to actually spend any time with them.

[pdust]

not a chance on this earth would i go to a school reunion

[rowanwitch]

No I feel if I'd liked them I'd have kept in touch... I doubt I'd have anything in common with them and most of them made my schooldays a living hell

[ummmm]

I'm still friends with my school mates.

[albaqwerty]

No thank you.
I'vve kept in touch with those that matter and have blissfully ignored all the rest.

[Sqad]

Yes....why not?...complete strangers can be more interesting than so called "friends"

Remember that complete strangers may become good "friends".... unlikely, but they may do ;-)

[mccfluff]

nope i keep in touch with those i want to

[EvianBaby]

Some of the girls I went to school with who I have on Facebook are total drama queens. The only reason I keep them on there is because it's like my own episode of Jeremy Kyle.

I'm happy to keep them at arms length.

[craft1948]

I met up with an old school friend just before last Xmas...............never again she was seriously weird!!

[Old_Geezer]

A friend is just a complete stranger you have learnt to tolerate.

I thougt I might meet some when my old school had an open day just prior to it being razed to the ground, but I didn't recognise anyone. Had very few contacts from FRiends Reunited either. The ones that did send a message I can't recall.

[China Doll]

No, it wouldn't hold an interest for me.

[ummmm]

I could go to certain pub on a Saturday night and it'd be like a school reunion anyway.

[EvianBaby]

They're not really complete strangers though are they.

Just the bitches and weirdo's we purposely avoided in the class room. :)

[EcclesCake]

LOL Evian - I have classmates on FB that are like that too!

[EcclesCake]

There are one or two from my class that I would like to have kept in touch with and wonder where they are now.

Leaving school in the pre-internet era meant that maintaining contact was a more formal exercise - letters, visits, phonecalls. FB and FR has opened up a more casual form of contact - at least it gives an opportunity to see if any of your classmates are complete weirdos!

[micmak]

From a Jim Reeves song.

"A strangers just a friend you do not know".

[daffy654]

I haven't been to any reunions or met up with any old school friends. I live a few hundred miles from where I went to school so have no chance of bumping into any of them thankfully. My school years were not the best time of my life and I was glad to leave them behind.

[shaneystar2]

I've kept in touch with two friends from school for over fifty years .We meet up as often as we can and exchange letters and emails .
We are and always were very close considering the different paths life has taken us on .
Funnily enough we went to a reunion a some years ago and bumped into a girl who was in our class and it was great ..so I now have another old "friend " and we all keep in touch .