My Senior Year book

We  are supposed to have our 40th reunion this year.... 

Hi,

This is, one of the saddest things in my life ... our High School, Madison's West High School was totally screwed up and the fuddyduddy westside stuck up fauxrichladies, did not like the people that came from Central High when it closed. These people were closer to the UW, and way more liberal, wore different clothes not likely to be found at Sears, and smoked a little dope sometimes, instead of hiding in the bathroom to steal a cigarette, like they did at West High, or worse ... lie to everyone that they were virgins!

In the end, the lady that was in charge of this ignored all the graduates that came from Central High for at least 1968 and 1969 at that school, and any attempts to get the school to remedy that have been totally ignored, and not a single call or email ... and it's not like some of the folks from that school are not known over the Internet. But most of the folks that graduated are still invisible. I have only been able to connect with one of them in the Bay Area and even then, Richard, as cool as he is, is still distant ... it's like ... nothing ever mattered to anyone, and besides, who cares!

There was a young lady I had some fun with that last summer in there, by the name of Terry ... that I wish it had been a better time, and I had more English to tell someone off ... her older sister got pregnant and the guy went off to VietNam ... and I have no idea what happened to him, or her for that matter ... and the mother was ballistically protective of her daughter and called me a dirty alien that she did not want to even touch her daughter or family, and get the hell out of her house ... whereupon I went to Richards and heard Crosby Stills and Nash (1 and 2) to soothe me, but I knew that Suite Judy Blue Eyes was mostly **** for everyone, except the rich and the famous!

For the record, her and I stayed honest to the danger and did not abuse the priviledge or the "law" ... but the total dishonesty and ugliness that the mother and sister displayed was, for me, and for Terry I'm sure, one of the ugliest things I have ever seen in my life. The sheer hatred and accusation about foreigners was so ugly ... I've often tried to find Terry ... and would love to at least say something ... now that she is long and far and away from all that.

But it was hard for an 18 year old to even have any idea what the woman was screeching about ... that lacked everything in the book you could think of! Quite an awakening, having been in America only a couple of years to have to see and swallow that! But the hippocrisy surrounding West High and its "straight" liars ... yeah ... I won't miss them a whole lot anyway ... they were not worth looking at, regardless!

Funny stuff GH!  I must admit that I did enjoy going back for my 10-year reunion because I had bulked up and looked great plus I'd been making some very decent money so seeing some of the snobbier classmates (some of whom were still working at fast food joints while going to college) was enjoyable.  But, for the most  part, my life has been better off without interacting with them so there's no reason so start now.

craigb


My 30th is this year - not going to make it!

Don't be defeatist.  I never thought I'd make my 30th either.

Now here I am bouncing along as a spritely 54 year old.

(well, mebee not bouncing or spritely but apart from that...)

I wouldn't go to a school renunion.  I hated it first time round and spent years trying to avoid many of the people I knew at school.

Why would I want to give all that up?

Yeah, they get a little sad after the 30th or so. Strange thing, within the last two years I've reconnected with people I haven't seen in 30 - 40 + years. a lot of them still have an impression of me of when they knew me back when. You should go to these things with a new outlook and try to catch up and revise "knowing" each other. Some of those people have become people you wouldn't associate with. Time changes everyone.

My band played for at least 5 proms during my years in high school...it was baaaaad......

What you guys are saying is exactly why I don't have a Fakebook account.  It allows hundreds of old annoyances and relatives to usurp my free time just to let me know they're going shopping or something.

Hey, I've spent the better part of my life trying to get away from these very same people!  LOL!

Book of the Face is OK.....

If they even bother to find me and submit a friend request..... These days, I'm more like that guy in the TV commercial right before he says "Grenade" and runs....

My un-addressed friends list is pretty long. I delete the list every so often. Others who were in the list get culled and if they become a bother, they join the blocked list. 

Most don't even know they were unfriended. Oblivious. 

just as well......