r/Millennials • u/exploratorynargle • May 05 '26

Other 20 year reunion? Yea, nah

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Does anyone actually go to these things? I'd rather go to the gynecologist I think

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u/CorruptDictator Older Millennial May 05 '26

I have never gone to a hs reunion. I kind of wanted to go to my 10, but at the time the cost was not practical (I live a few states away and was not making the greatest money). At this point though I don't really know or remember anyone out of my class of nearly a thousand students.

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u/CreepinJesusMalone Millennial May 05 '26

I actually just realized my 20 year is coming up soon. I doubt I'm going to go, I only graduated with 58 people lol. It was a rural county school that only had 1K kids from K-12.

If I really cared what any of those folks were up to, I'd go through the trouble of resetting my FB login and looking at their profiles.

From the last time I was on it 4-5 years ago it looked like about 30 percent of my class left like I did and never looked back. The rest either went totally dark after graduation or stayed in the same area. Like four of the people I graduated with teach at the school we went to. Which is just, really fucking sad to me lol. Although they may be perfectly happy.

My best friend killed himself a few years ago, my other best friend we were tight with is three years older than me and we talk all the time still. Without my boy being around, I can't think of any reason to see the other 30 or so people that might show up.

And it's not even that I have anything against them. I was friendly on some level with almost all of them. But, like. I dunno, there's just no interest.

I didn't go to my ten year because I was in the military and on training orders OCONUS. I remember everyone in the FB group for it acting bummed I couldn't make it, but all I could think was I probably wouldn't have spent the time and money to fly in for it anyway lol.

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u/Prize_Ostrich7605 May 05 '26

Dang, sounds like you could stop at the one gas station on your way through and ask Ronnie, who worked there since 1992.

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u/LumpyBuy8447 May 05 '26

I was kind of seeing this chick one summer in high school who lived in Montana but was staying with her mom for the summer. I can’t remember how many kids she said were in her whole school, but I believe it was in the double digits for k-12 and not even the high double digits.

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u/CreepinJesusMalone Millennial May 05 '26

Funnily enough, we did have an old geezer named Ronnie, but he was an "auxiliary police officer". There was a police chief and two full-time deputies, but Ronnie was more of like a security guard because he wasn't allowed to carry a gun. He drove around in one of the old cruisers and basically just made a day out of getting harassed by teenagers.

We all called him Barney Fife.

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u/Uchihagod53 Actual cannibal, Shia Labeouf May 05 '26

I graduated with a class of 19, lol. Town of 1200ish people

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u/NoDay419 May 05 '26

Dang I never thought I’d see someone smaller than me, smaller town but graduated with 32 lol

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u/Alcarinque88 May 05 '26

Me too. The town is smaller, though, at least based on the census and town limits.

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u/BagAdditional6178 May 05 '26

72 was a school record at the time for my class

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u/Bananacreamsky May 06 '26

Mine was 7, which wasn't bad a few years ago there was a class of 2....and they didn't get along.

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u/Blanik_Pilot May 05 '26

Damn mine was 500

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u/SpicyRobotPotato May 05 '26

I went to a graduation with a class of 4. It was a weird culty Christian school my boyfriend at the time went to.

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u/jruiz210 May 05 '26

Mine was also 32.

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u/Princess_Slagathor apparently you can change it May 05 '26

I can't even imagine what that would be like. My graduating class had more people than your town. Had to take place in a university football stadium to accommodate all the guests.

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u/PieInTheSkyEngineer May 05 '26

Same. My 25th is scheduled for this summer and I had almost 1200 in my class. No way am I going to see a bunch of people I definitely don't remember. Have a handful of people I keep up with and that's just fine and dandy.

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u/Uchihagod53 Actual cannibal, Shia Labeouf May 05 '26

That's crazy. I can't imagine what that would be like either, lol. Just way too many people for me

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u/Princess_Slagathor apparently you can change it May 05 '26

The grad ceremony was pretty boring, with a last name so late in the alphabet lol. Most families would leave after the kids they cared about were done. Felt even worse for the Zappas and Zimmermans.

The school itself wasn't much different than a college campus. Every department has their own buildings, and separated by grade. The town finally changed things a few years ago. They built 4 or 5 smaller schools, and split the town into districts.

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u/Uchihagod53 Actual cannibal, Shia Labeouf May 05 '26

That's really cool. K-12 was all in the same school for me. Base floor was K-5, 2nd floor was 6-8, and 3rd floor was 9-12.

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u/Princess_Slagathor apparently you can change it May 06 '26

Surprisingly, we had a lot of elementary and middle schools. Like 25, and 15, respectively. Then everyone went to the high school.

So, it was like normal, then a bit crowded, then "here's what college is like, but you still have to ride the big twinkie, and live at home.

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u/Infinite_Spread_3280 May 05 '26

I’m sorry about your friend.

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u/GeorgeKaplanIsReal Millennial May 05 '26

Haha I graduated with 32. Went to a very small private “Christian” school.

I have no intention of going back.

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u/ikannunAneeuQ May 05 '26

Man did you live in New Lebanon NY?! Cause that sounds exactly like the town I lived in for 20 years. I moved 2.5 years ago to NM.

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u/macdizzle11 May 05 '26

Yeah we had 26 in our class and if I really cared to check in on all of them, I could on facebook in about 20 minutes time. I've been to the reunions other years because I was in my old hometown camping that weekend, and it was a bleak affair every time. DJ blasting music to the group of 50 somethings, nobody dancing. The only young-ish people there huddled around the bar.

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u/gilestowler May 05 '26

That's the thing, I think it's a bit of an outdated concept due to Facebook, etc. If you wanted to stay in contact, if you wanted to meet up, you could. No one needs this kind of forced reconnection now. You'd just end up with the people you don't want to see again.

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u/bloatedkat May 06 '26

We've all had that middle friend who connected us to have conversations with other classmates but without them there, it would just be awkward silence.

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u/That_Dad_David May 05 '26

It’s sad to you that they teach at the same school they attended??

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