Is anyone still in touch with any of the people they knew in high school?

[otherlander]

Just wondering. :shrug:

[Left Is Write]

1. My good friend Deb. We met at age 12. I was her maid of honor at her wedding in 1989.

I saw her most recently the summer before last.

Her birthday is in a few days, and I must remember to send her a card.

She turned 13 eleven days before I did. She teased me, because she was a teenager and I wasn't. I got her back when we turned 30; I was still in my twenties for eleven days past her birthday. :)

When we turned 40, we didn't tease. We commiserated.

She's a great person.

[Capn Sunshine]

2. Sure, and it was a long time ago

I have several friends from high school I see whenever we cross paths. It's a small world.
Class of "69, baby!

[bicentennial_baby]

3. I just got back in touch with one!

Through MySpace! never thought I'd talk to him again, but I found him, and it's been really great!

He sent me a pic from when I was 15 a few weeks back, and that alone was worth finding him again. :D

[crim son]

4. In a word, no.

Enough time has passed that I think I could handle connecting with some of them, though.

[AwakeAtLast]

5. Not like I thought I would

When I go back home I will see people from time to time, but I dont contact any of them by mail or e-mail.

Don't really feel the need to either, which I never thought would happen to me. Oh well.

[momophile]

6. one girlfriend; a few on myspace nt

[AggieGal]

27. I have found a lot thru myspace

It is great to see what they are doing now. The downside is seeing how big their kids are!

My husband found a friend of his from elementary school.

[LeftyFingerPop]

7. Just one, my best friend since the 2nd grade. n/t

[enigmatic]

8. yep

My best friend is also my oldest friend; we met when we were 10 and have been best friends for 34 years...

[AlCzervik]

9. my 2 best friends in the world are my friends from jr. high and high school.

i talk to them all the time.

[fizzgig]

10. i still live in the same town

and run with the same crowd. as far as the ones who moved away? not so much

[Nikia]

11. I moved away and haven't seen most of them since

The last couple times we were back, I saw a couple of them. One was a desk clerk at the hotel we stayed at. A couple others were employees at a grocery store we went to. Another was a waitress.
I did not acknowledge knowing them and they did not acknowledge knowing me.
Is it bad to be anonymous in my hometown?

[RoyGBiv]

12. Yes ... two best friends ...

Met them when I was 15 and they 12 and 15. And they were both at my daughter's graduation in May. Kinda freaky actually.

They are affectionately known to my daughter as her Spiritual Mother (left of pic) and her Fairy Godmother (right of pic).

[mike_c]

13. yes-- I'm going to visit a high school friend in a couple of weeks....

We talk on the phone once or twice a week.

[MountainLaurel]

14. One or two

I was one of the few people in my graduating class who went away (all of 30 miles in my case) to college, after which point I moved to the big city. I still talk to one of my best friends from HS (actually, she called today). But otherwise, no.

[VenusRising]

15. My best friends are ones I knew in high school.

We're all more like sisters than friends.

[Bjornsdotter]

16. No

...and it's a good thing.

Cheers

[borlis]

17. I've known my best friend since fifth grade.

And we also reconnected with a few others we went to grade and high school with. It's fun to go out and talk about old times and hear what everyone's up to now.

We had a grade school reunion a few years ago and this was more fun than the high school one was. These are the kids that really grew up together. Everyone knew each other really well. We had a really small 8th grade class (about 80 kids) and where we grew up nobody really moved around much like people seem to today. Our 80 kids were part of a freshman class of over 600. With a class that size, you don't really get to know everyone (or want to).

[LibraLiz1973]

18. Yep- all my close friends in high school are still my close friends

We aren't joined at the hip as in days past, but we talk all the time.

[otherlander]

19. Wow... I didn't expect so many replies!

:hi: Thanks for answering, everybody!

[Fox Mulder]

20. I graduated in 2000 and haven't talked to anyone since.

I don't really care to either. :shrug:

[LibDemAlways]

21. I keep in touch with several friends from

high school - some actually go back to 4th grade. I was in touch with more high school classmates the past year than in a long time, though, since George "Macaca" Allen was in our class and several of the people I've stayed in touch with contacted the media during his Senate race last Fall to inform them that his racism is nothing new.

[unsavedtrash]

22. since this year is our twenty year reunion people are coming out of the woodwork trying to get in

touch with me. Before that I half way kept up with one person.

[Omphaloskepsis]

23. I still live in the town I went to High School in...

~50% are friends from High School.

edit to add :: I am 29 years old..

[grace0418]

24. My husband and I had breakfast with a high school friend of his this morning.

I met her in college, so we've known each other almost as long. She introduced us, in fact, because a friend of mine from high school (who I don't see anymore) was her roommate in college. My husband was visiting her one night when I was visiting my friend and the rest is history.

I, on the other hand, have no interest in seeing anyone I went to high school with, except maybe one person who seems to have fallen off the radar. I do know one woman who I wasn't very close to in high school but now she's married to a friend/coworker of mine so we're now friendly. But that doesn't seem like the same thing because I didn't hang out with her in high school at all. I do remember a few people contacting me after I posted a myspace page and none of them were anyone I'd hang out with at all today. I guess high school just wasn't a very good time in my life.

College *was* a good time and I am still friends with a number of wonderful people.

[hellbound-liberal]

25. Yes, I graduated in 1976 and I still keep in touch with my favorite teacher.

I had her in 9th, 11th and 12th grade and she told me when she signed my yearbook that we had the same birthday. We have been exchanging birthday and Christmas cards ever since. I also recognized her at an awards ceremony as the person who inspired me to become a teacher.

[Callalily]

26. Only during

the annual phone-a-thon alumni fund raiser.

[pagerbear]

28. Good God, no!

[Deja Q]

29. A female friend had attempted...

We were good friends as children, into high school too...

She was very pretty.

I was in a depressed mode at the time.

I regret not responding to her.

I wish her the best.

[Inchworm]

30. I have 2 real friends from H.S.

One who has been a traveler like myself and the other who never left my home county. No matter where in the world any of us were we always kept in touch.

:hi:

[The_Wizard]

31. Yep, 9 of my friends

I graduated in 86. I have 9 friends from HS plus my wife who was my high school sweetheart. My wife and I had our 20th Reunion last year. It was nice to see other schoolmates but everyone worth anything we keep in touch and see regularly.

[BarenakedLady]

32. One (n/t)

[begin_within]

33. My class is planning their 30-year reunion, and

reading down the list of names is like reading an encyclopedia of ancient history. I didn't go to any of the previous reunions. It seems like SO long ago that it's more like a series on The History Channel rather than something that is part of my life. The fact that these people are all still around, and I could actually go and see them live, in person, seems a little bizarre because that whole era seems like some kind of story that happened, and was recorded in the yearbooks, but it's hard for me to connect it to my life now. But it's intriguing - I might just go to see what these people look like now. To answer your original question, no, I have not kept in touch with even one single person from my high school. I only found out about it from classmates.com. I guess I wasn't close enough to any of those people. My sister has kept in touch with a few of her friends (from the same high school) and she has gone to a couple of the reunions and had a great time. I think she had a much stronger social network there than I ever had.

[AndreaCG]

37. My 30th reunion was last week

I didn't go cause I am in the midst of a depression and have nothing in particular to brag about. My classmates are all overachievers and I just didn't need the ego deflation.

However, if the producer who is reading my screenplay had replied with a yes we are interested I would have been there with bells on.

[begin_within]

38. So I guess that's what those reunions are really about...

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

34. grade school

it's fun remembering old times and being reminded that you are old as dirt. :cry:

[bikebloke]

35. Ran into one a couple years ago

He recognized me in the Apple Store. For me it took a moment for him to click. I guess he changed more than I did. Now that I'm back in the area I grew up in, I could be passing fellow high schoolers all the time. Only in memory they're still teenagers. Who knows what they look like now.

[RetroLounge]

36. Graduating class of 1000 kids.

I still talk to exactly one...

of course it's been nearly 30 years since graduation :scared:

RL

[mainegreen]

39. Two n/t

[NMDemDist2]

40. nope n/t

[Tikki]

41. Every day, all day long....it's my......

husband.







Tikki

[1gobluedem]

42. A couple

My best friend who I met the summer before kindergarten and went all the way through school including college together. Her whole family is like family to mine.

One occasionally; a writer who keeps me on an e-mail list for when she is looking for people to interview or has news. She recently wrote a book that is supposed to be about her sister's murder but is really about her own bad marriage and is full of inconsistencies from our school days.

One, who lives here in town but she's a doctor and incredibly busy. Known her since kindergarten, though.

[Paladin]

43. Looking Forward To Our 40th Reunion Next Year

Good bunch of people; still keep in touch with a number of them, even though I live in another state, now.

[TK421]

44. I tried to contact one of the few people I actually got along with

and we e-mailed each other a couple of times, but I haven't heard from him in a few years. Pretty cool guy; he was part Australian and had family over there. He used to tell me all about it

[SexyLiberal]

45. Found after 17 years

I found my best friend from 8th grade upo after having lost contact after 17 yrs....we picked up right where we left off!

[firefox_fan]

46. Nope. They can all go to hell! :)

I'm a loner. :-)

[evlbstrd]

47. I ran into my high school's debate teacher.

Clerking in an adult book store.

[seemunkee]

48. My wife, along with a few others

Played poker last night with my wife's best friend from HS. I've known my longtime and camping partner since middle school.

[DainBramaged]

49. Nope

Went to my 38th year High School reunion, glad I'm not.

[acmavm]

50. Sure. And from Junior High. Only 3 people.

P.S. Went to high school with the Ice Man.

[terrya]

51. No. That's a part of my life I don't care to revisit.

Or be reminded of.

[treestar]

52. Yes, about five of them

Living in the same area, now, though. I wasn't when I lived in another (faraway) state.

[I Have A Dream]

53. No. I'd like to know what has happened in a few people's lives, but not many. n/t

[cloudbase]

54. Not in the last 25 years. n/t