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Post by bambooshank on Sept 27, 2018 20:02:39 GMT -5
This weekend, Friday night and most of Saturday, is my 50th Reunion. I had planned on attending but the last 9 months had my brain writing promises my body isn’t able to keep. Hard to believe I once was this naive kid. banjo  |
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Post by peterd-Buffalo Spirit on Sept 27, 2018 20:05:05 GMT -5
… I know how you feel...mine is Oct. 6...
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Post by toshtego on Sept 27, 2018 20:19:06 GMT -5
I would love the attend a 50th year reunion for my small HS.
Not likely to happen. We did not have a Year Book or much of graduation ceremony. The Principal handed out diplomas and that was it. I doubt anyone can even remember the names of that graduating class. The school is still around but they are not ones for ancient history. There is no alumni associaiton or such.
Enjoy yours and be thankful they were organized. As we become older these things take on more importance.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2018 20:21:35 GMT -5
I know how you feel, my heart goes out to you. My 50th H.S. reunion is next year. I will not be attending. Me and my “69 Ford Torino......graduation gift.  |
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Post by toshtego on Sept 27, 2018 20:26:03 GMT -5
I know how you feel, my heart goes out to you. My 50th H.S. reunion is next year. I will not be attending. Me and my “69 Ford Torino......graduation gift. That is sweet! |
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Post by roadsdiverged on Sept 27, 2018 20:33:50 GMT -5
Nice wheels!
I hope I'm still in this body when my 50th HS reunion comes around. That way I can personally decline the event. I see the people I "grew up" with once in a while now and we never have much to say.
I don't like being around too many people at once, especially in a judgemental town like this one.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Sept 27, 2018 20:38:33 GMT -5
I had resigned my teaching "career" by 1969. Was fun while it lasted. I looked up my old high school on the internet..found pictures of old school mates...they really looked old to me now. I don't miss those days...they were crappy for me. Don't miss those people either.
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Post by Cramptholomew on Sept 27, 2018 20:59:51 GMT -5
I didn't go to my 25th, and won't go to a 50th either. I didn't fit in with most of the people in my grade, much less anyone else. Besides, I hate big gatherings. Introverts unite, separately, in your own homes!
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Post by driftingfate on Sept 27, 2018 23:45:22 GMT -5
I didn't go to my 25th, and won't go to a 50th either. I didn't fit in with most of the people in my grade, much less anyone else. Besides, I hate big gatherings. Introverts unite, separately, in your own homes! Amen. Couldn't drag me back with a team of Clydesdales. 30th coming up in a few years - they don't contact me, I don't contact them, it's like we are in synch. |
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Post by trailboss on Sept 28, 2018 1:01:36 GMT -5
Handsome kid on the pic... what happened?  This year would be my 40th.... the ones I would want to see, I cannot locate online.  |
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Post by unknownpipesmoker on Sept 28, 2018 1:25:40 GMT -5
This weekend, Friday night and most of Saturday, is my 50th Reunion. I had planned on attending but the last 9 months had my brain writing promises my body isn’t able to keep. Hard to believe I once was this naive kid. banjo
I'm going to bounce back and forth between an extroverted and extremely introverted post, as a reply to this, and I hope you don't take any ill meaning by my doing this.
You were a handsome devil, I bet you had your way with the ladies in your school.
I was never particularly handsome, more of a Charlie Brown type of guy, and I've always been okay with that. Women have still come and gone, and some of those relationships have been deep and meaningful, and some have not.
I left high school a mixed up longhaired Irish kid in a sheepskin coat... Went into the Navy... Came out of the Navy, with a hell of a lot of medical problems, grew my hair back out, and now Im still that mixed up kid in a sheepskin coat... Just old with pain and a limp, but I'm alive, and I appreciate every day and every minute.
I don't know if going back to one of those high school reunion things would serve me any real benefit - sure, I had friends. I might reconnect with one or two of them for a day or so... but then? They didn't persue a relationship with me past high school - I feel that the relationships I had with the people back then have already served their purpose in my life - and their lives as well - - For me, I let the past stay in the past.
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 28, 2018 1:34:06 GMT -5
This weekend, Friday night and most of Saturday, is my 50th Reunion. I had planned on attending but the last 9 months had my brain writing promises my body isn’t able to keep. Hard to believe I once was this naive kid. banjo Bummer you can't make your reunion. As for the photo... You haven't changed a bit. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 28, 2018 10:17:53 GMT -5
I know how you feel, my heart goes out to you. My 50th H.S. reunion is next year. I will not be attending. Me and my “69 Ford Torino......graduation gift. I had a 68 Torino GT Convertable. I was driving a 68 Cutlass when I graduated though. My 50th reunion is next spring I think. Big school, 525 in the graduating class. |
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Post by bambooshank on Sept 28, 2018 15:11:22 GMT -5
The only thing I feel badly about is not visiting with my best man, over 44 years and 2 states away ago, yes we’ve kept in touch, I forced him to our 25th and he wrote saying he couldn’t wait to sit and talk face to face at our 50th.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 15:22:00 GMT -5
The only thing I feel badly about is not visiting with my best man, over 44 years and 2 states away ago, yes we’ve kept in touch, I forced him to our 25th and he wrote saying he couldn’t wait to sit and talk face to face at our 50th. banjo Have your best man stop over and visit with you for a few days, that just might work. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 15:43:27 GMT -5
Nice pics. Thanks for sharing. My folks divorced so I didn't end up going to high school with the same little buds I grew up with. That's somewhat of a game changer. My high school classmates and I weren't together that long. Army and college drove a permanent stake in those relationships afterwards. I've never had any contact since.
Congrats though for those with reunions coming up. Even if you don't have a good time, there's still something to be said for sucking oxygen at this point in the game. Have a pipe and enjoy.
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Post by trailboss on Sept 28, 2018 16:59:02 GMT -5
Whatever you do, do not register on classmates.com... every time you click on a former classmates pic, they get a notification that you searched them out.... in my case it led to some unwanted attempted contacts... usually by women that looked like they chose to ride the rough road of life.
No thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 17:09:17 GMT -5
Ooooops ^^^^^^^^^^^ now your old school girl crushes want to ride in your truck......nope, don’t think that will happen....smart man👌👍👍
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Post by kxg on Sept 28, 2018 17:34:32 GMT -5
This weekend, Friday night and most of Saturday, is my 50th Reunion. I had planned on attending but the last 9 months had my brain writing promises my body isn’t able to keep. Hard to believe I once was this naive kid. banjo Sorry you are unable to attend. And I hardly recognized you without one of your great pipes! |
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Post by Pistol Pete 1911 on Sept 28, 2018 18:26:05 GMT -5
This weekend, Friday night and most of Saturday, is my 50th Reunion. I had planned on attending but the last 9 months had my brain writing promises my body isn’t able to keep. Hard to believe I once was this naive kid. banjo Nice pic of Sal Mineo lol |
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Post by That Falls Guy on Sept 28, 2018 18:36:16 GMT -5
Just had my 50th, it was a memorable event. There were only a few classmates that I really cared to see, but it was still nice to see all of them, and how they had changed throughout the years.
13 of our classmates were deceased, and one could not attend due to serious illness.
Thankful that I was able to attend.
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Post by toshtego on Sept 28, 2018 18:46:45 GMT -5
Whatever you do, do not register on classmates.com... every time you click on a former classmates pic, they get a notification that you searched them out.... in my case it led to some unwanted attempted contacts... usually by women that looked like they chose to ride the rough road of life. No thanks. I don't know. Years ago I registered on Classmates.com and got in touch with a girl I had an enormous crush on back in 1968. Janet could not remember me, of course, but recognized I had been there since we knew the same people. We had a long correspondence about our lives today. Me, savoring every word in the remembrance of cool, dusky, green-eyed Janet of infinite grace and cool. Suddenly, she figured out who I was back then and all communication ceased. Was I ever disappointed. The point being, if you were not cool then, you are not cool now! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 19:14:21 GMT -5
Whatever you do, do not register on classmates.com... every time you click on a former classmates pic, they get a notification that you searched them out.... in my case it led to some unwanted attempted contacts... usually by women that looked like they chose to ride the rough road of life. No thanks. I don't know. Years ago I registered on Classmates.com and got in touch with a girl I had an enormous crush on back in 1968. Janet could not remember me, of course, but recognized I had been there since we knew the same people. We had a long correspondence about our lives today. Me, savoring every word in the remembrance of cool, dusky, green-eyed Janet of infinite grace and cool. Suddenly, she figured out who I was back then and all communication ceased. Was I ever disappointed. The point being, if you were not cool then, you are not cool now! You know your cool, I know your a cool guy and so does the majority of this forum. I wouldn’t let any one that has had NO contact with you for over 45 plus years, doesn’t know the man you are today have the right to judge the type of person you are today👌👍👍 Her loss!!! |
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Post by toshtego on Sept 28, 2018 20:04:33 GMT -5
I don't know. Years ago I registered on Classmates.com and got in touch with a girl I had an enormous crush on back in 1968. Janet could not remember me, of course, but recognized I had been there since we knew the same people. We had a long correspondence about our lives today. Me, savoring every word in the remembrance of cool, dusky, green-eyed Janet of infinite grace and cool. Suddenly, she figured out who I was back then and all communication ceased. Was I ever disappointed. The point being, if you were not cool then, you are not cool now! You know your cool, I know your a cool guy and so does the majority of this forum. I wouldn’t let any one that has had NO contact with you for over 45 plus years, doesn’t know the man you are today have the right to judge the type of person you are today👌👍👍 Her loss!!! I was not "cool" when it counted, back then. Few are. Thanks for the kind comments but it is no substitute for not winning Janet Azevedo. I wish I had a photo of her from then. I saw photos of her 10 years ago and she still looked stunning. She was not perfect. Her nose was too big and she was no genius. The way she moved that slender body. The fine blond hairs on her arms. Those green eyes. That light olive skin. She had no attitude of superiority, quite down to earth then and later. I just was not her type. Maybe I should have tried harder? Anyway.... you get my drift. Some boys never grow up about some things, not completely. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 29, 2018 2:11:18 GMT -5
Whatever you do, do not register on classmates.com... every time you click on a former classmates pic, they get a notification that you searched them out.... in my case it led to some unwanted attempted contacts... usually by women that looked like they chose to ride the rough road of life. No thanks. I don't know. Years ago I registered on Classmates.com and got in touch with a girl I had an enormous crush on back in 1968. Janet could not remember me, of course, but recognized I had been there since we knew the same people. We had a long correspondence about our lives today. Me, savoring every word in the remembrance of cool, dusky, green-eyed Janet of infinite grace and cool. Suddenly, she figured out who I was back then and all communication ceased. Was I ever disappointed. The point being, if you were not cool then, you are not cool now! I find that very strange, that after many years, once knowing who you were she stops communicating. Why would someone do that? I'd like to think that, after someone has grown up, they would understand that people change. Like @lonecoyote wrote, it's her loss. Although, unless you know otherwise, perhaps she took ill and wasn't able to communicate anymore, and it had nothing to do with your level of cool. |
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Post by toshtego on Sept 29, 2018 3:53:20 GMT -5
I don't know. Years ago I registered on Classmates.com and got in touch with a girl I had an enormous crush on back in 1968. Janet could not remember me, of course, but recognized I had been there since we knew the same people. We had a long correspondence about our lives today. Me, savoring every word in the remembrance of cool, dusky, green-eyed Janet of infinite grace and cool. Suddenly, she figured out who I was back then and all communication ceased. Was I ever disappointed. The point being, if you were not cool then, you are not cool now! I find that very strange, that after many years, once knowing who you were she stops communicating. Why would someone do that? I'd like to think that, after someone has grown up, they would understand that people change. Like @lonecoyote wrote, it's her loss. Although, unless you know otherwise, perhaps she took ill and wasn't able to communicate anymore, and it had nothing to do with your level of cool. Hard to say. We were not in the same social circle back in the '60s. Perhaps people change with age and possibly not. Maybe she just lost interest in the conversation? She had the right. Thanks for thinking about it and the advice. |
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Post by Wolfman on Sept 30, 2018 21:40:32 GMT -5
Nice wheels! I hope I'm still in this body when my 50th HS reunion comes around. That way I can personally decline the event. I see the people I "grew up" with once in a while now and we never have much to say. I don't like being around too many people at once, especially in a judgemental town like this one. Josh, I keep reading your comments on different threads and many are erriely similar to mine. |
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Post by roadsdiverged on Oct 1, 2018 4:20:13 GMT -5
Dangerous!!! But same here haha. Theres been a few times that I dont comment because I simply dont need to.
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Post by Legend Lover on Oct 1, 2018 6:19:34 GMT -5
You've a forum doppelganger. We're going to have to merge your accounts.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2018 6:54:45 GMT -5
doppelganger......I’m impressed.....an invented twin👍 The word is used mostly in Europe.
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