People Share The Most Awkward Thing They’ve Witnessed at a High School Reunion
For some of us, high school was the time of our lives. For others, it was a living nightmare that could not have ended soon enough.
Naturally, then, the practice of taking all these types of people and sticking them in a room together can make for some wild and less-than positive experiences at times—as anyone who’s been to their high school reunions likely knows too well.
Whether it’s discovering just how much some people have changed in unexpected ways or reliving old memories that probably don’t deserve to be rehashed, high school reunions make for some epic times.
Here are some examples of some incredibly awkward, ridiculous, and shall we say, memorable experiences that people have had at their high school reunions.
1. What a Difference 50 Years Makes
Graduated in 1962, never went to any of the reunions. Didn't even know about them until the 50th, in 2012. I had been in odd places in the world, though. Encountered a classmate 50 years later; he gave me the roster.
Most of the people who went had never left the small farm town.
Of the people who could be tracked, over half the males were dead. Vietnam, AIDS, and all the random other usual culprits. I was nobody in high school, but I still seem to be on the green side of the dirt.
2. Umm, Surprise?
I play in a band. We got booked by a restaurant to play "for some class reunion." I show up to set up for the gig & it's my freaking class. I wasn't even invited.
3. Taxation Without Representation
My high school class president staffed the student government with a clique of his friends. I wouldn’t really call them the “popular”
crowd, but they were close enough and were cozy with social circles that didn’t want much to do with me and mine.
For graduation, they were tasked by the principal with making a slideshow of high school memories to play for the parents.
They had weeks to do this according to my teacher who supervised the student government, but they neglected to tell anyone else in the school that they were collecting pictures for the slideshow until 36 hours before graduation.
No one had time to contribute, so the “graduation slideshow”
that got shown to all the parents and grandparents of a class of 400 students consisted of 20 minutes of photos of the class president and his best friends at school events and going to bars in the city underaged.
There were literally ten people represented in the entire photo collection.
So yeah, now the class reunion is coming up and I’m about 80% sure it will be the same thing.
4. No Filter
My mom walked into her reunion and was saying hi to a few of the women when one of them dragged their husband over. In a very loud voice, she said: "You remember this woman, her brother was the one that fired you last month!"
My mom ended up avoiding them the rest of the night.
