My 30 year HS class reunion is tonite and I'm not there. Wanna know why?

[Itchinjim]

Because I hated those smug republican Catholic assholes back then and I have no love for them now. Fuck 'em
FUCK YOU COLLECTIVLY ASSUMPTION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1978! (except for me 'cause I was darned cool, being a high school Deadhead and all way the hell back then starting in about 1975 or so.)

[Critters2]

1. Davenport, huh?

I'm a native myself. But Protestant.

[Itchinjim]

3. West, Central or North?

[Critters2]

4. We moved to Illinois when I was 12. Would've been West otherwise.

Lived just west of Division and 36th.

I went to high school in Kewanee. Yes, home of Good's Furniture. :banghead:

[Itchinjim]

7. Kewanee is a damn sight better than Geneseo.

And 30 years ago Mary was hot.

[Critters2]

8. My ex is from Geneseo. Still lives there.

And yes, Mary was hot. I remember the tongues waggin' all over hog town when she "took up with that Good man!"

[Itchinjim]

9. Geneseo is kind of like a poor man's Pleasant Valley,

if not for the Deere execs, it would still be corn fields. But so would Pleasant Valley I guess.

[MorningGlow]

2. Yeah! Fuck 'em!

Catholic girls high school survivor here, Class of '83--good gods, but they were insufferable. I went to my five-year reunion and that was the LAST ONE. Five years...so everyone was 23...and those damned Catholic girls were all married and had five kids, and if you weren't just like them, they'd look at you with sympathy! "Ooh, not married?" with a pinched, pitying expression. Ewww, like I wanted to be married and have a brood only a couple of years out of college. :eyes:

[Itchinjim]

6. Insufferable. Thats the only way my classmates could be described.

Their absolute certainty in everything the priests taught. Sheep. Every last fucking one of them. Perfect republicans. Congratulations on surviving by the way.

[MorningGlow]

10. And congrats to you as well--surviving that environment is tough

Yeah, the whole "blind obedience" thing got to me as well. I started investigating Hinduism and Buddhism in my sophomore year, and by senior year I was writing essays about reincarnation, absolutely horrifying my classmates. One of them asked me if I was a witch (how she made that leap from reincarnation to witchcraft I never did figure out--probably because of her limited perception--witchcraft was the most anti-Catholic thing she could think of) and ironically I did become a witch many years later.

My very Catholic aunt occasionally laments "What happened to you? You went to Catholic school and everything!" (Meaning how come I'm no longer a devout church-going Catholic--if she knew I was a witch it'd kill her.) And I always answer, "BECAUSE I went to Catholic school!"
:rofl:

[bigwillq]

5. Then it's better off you are not there.

You're better off.

[JVS]

11. My reunion was cool. The old shitheads didn't dare show.

Saw some people who I see every year at Xmas. Saw a few people I hadn't seen in a long time, I wish a few more had shown up. I enjoyed drinking the scotch.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. I went to my tenth and will soon be attending my fortieth

My tenth was gratifying. I was a graduate student at an Ivy League university who had just spent a year in Japan, and most of them had never left town and/or were on their second marriage.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

13. I understand

and feel the same way - My 35th HS reunion is next summer. If I went I would still want to slap the shit out of a few of the people who picked on me relentlessly. I was tortured by the girls but the boys were evil too. They ruined my HS Annuals by getting a hold of them and scribbling mean things inside - they shoved me in trash cans. They taped me to a post with duct tape and left me in the sun. They threw sodas on me. They called me terrible names. I was tormented. Nobody gave a shit and there were no rules to protect kids like me.

I got my BA at 19. I never looked back and I never forgot how cruel those SOB's were and I do not forgive one single one of them. They all had messed up marriages and were pregnant before they could graduate from college and so they stayed in that hick town and are still driving their pick up trucks with gun racks in the window with W stickers and McCain '08. Fuck them all.

There... I feel better. :)

[grace0418]

14. LOL! My 20th reunion is this month sometime and I have no intention of going.

I feel the same way as you, although I was a nerd as opposed to a Deadhead.

[RetroLounge]

15. I went to my 10th. It was okay.

I had just gotten married, started a job with a big 8 firm, etc.

of course my life went to shit and I was a drunk homeless loser a few years later.

Next year is my 30th. Won't be going.

RL

[Squatch]

16. Hold a grudge, much?

:shrug:

[Darth_Kitten]

17. Why diss catholics?

:shrug:

Guess people are selective on whom it is or isn't politically correct to put down?

Prove me wrong.