Thanks to all who contributed to last weeksâ âOff topic topicâ..... Some interesting perspectives were shared and the general conclusion is that weâd rather donate food to a street hobo than cash, as they will just buy alcohol and drugs.
This weekâs off topic topic is:
I did my high school senior year in 1970 (42 years ago) in a small village school and we had only 64 pupils in my class.
Since then, we have religiously had our re-unions every 5 years and all of them were attended by at least 85% of our remaining class mates. (10 have subsequently died)
We are currently busy compiling a book of little memorable incidents and events of our school days and a brief history of everyoneâsâ life since leaving school.
Of the 54 remaining persons, we have managed to trace all of our friends (world wide) except for 2 whom we know are in England and Austria respectively..... All the others have been contacted and will contribute to this book.
So, the questions for this weekâs topic is....... have you ever had a class re-union (or planning one)..... do you still have contact with any or some of your old school mates ..... Do you feel that the friendship bonding between old class mates is firmer- or on a different level that that which you have with work colleagues or new friends you met after school?
It will be interesting to hear your views.
This weekâs off topic topic is:
I did my high school senior year in 1970 (42 years ago) in a small village school and we had only 64 pupils in my class.
Since then, we have religiously had our re-unions every 5 years and all of them were attended by at least 85% of our remaining class mates. (10 have subsequently died)
We are currently busy compiling a book of little memorable incidents and events of our school days and a brief history of everyoneâsâ life since leaving school.
Of the 54 remaining persons, we have managed to trace all of our friends (world wide) except for 2 whom we know are in England and Austria respectively..... All the others have been contacted and will contribute to this book.
So, the questions for this weekâs topic is....... have you ever had a class re-union (or planning one)..... do you still have contact with any or some of your old school mates ..... Do you feel that the friendship bonding between old class mates is firmer- or on a different level that that which you have with work colleagues or new friends you met after school?
It will be interesting to hear your views.
). I often see other people that I went to school with roaming around shopping in the larger neighboring town but I don't talk to them or even really acknowledge them. Comes down to them having no interest in the things that interest me ( nature, animals, reading, super natural, art) and they pretty much had me pegged as the "trouble maker" or "eco freak". I must admit I did play up to the label a bit by making the prim and proper girls who LOVED their makeup and fashion look at pictures of vivisection and the cruel tests they carry out on various animals just so that their precious hair spary didn't sting their eyes. One girl stated "How can you look at that stuff? I thought you liked animals?", my response was "Burying my head in the sand wont stop it happening, and you need to know what goes into the products you use". She pretty much flounced off tossing her head in a superior manner and called me a weirdo. So you see there is no love lost between me and them. Although it is funny a couple of times I have been unfortunate enough to run into ex-school members who have snobbed, ridiculed and excluded me when at school and suddenly now make a big song and dance about what great friends we where. I reckon I'll have a few wriggle out of the wood work even more if my novels ever get published, good luck to them is all I can say, because they wheren't my friends then and they sure as hell aren't now.
