While reunions with your school or college friends can be quite exciting, it can also be embarrassing too. Nothing beats meeting your old pals with whom you would have cooked up mischief with and who would have been a victim of your conspiration. While walking through those old corridors and classrooms during our rare visits, nostalgia swells up. The very thought of those carefree days makes us want to go back.
Corona virus stole my plans in meeting up with my old school friends. But, I finally met them up virtually on zoom after 28 long years and it was mind boggling that I could head-start again from where we left off. We realized that we haven't aged a bit. Forever Young Minds.
Leaving you all with a hilarious excerpt from Darla Methey's article. Enjoy 😂
The Alumni…
The outfits that people wear, or should I say, squeeze into…
One woman made her reservations months in advance but for whatever reason purchased her dress reunion day. Minutes prior to the reunion, as she was getting dressed at her hotel, she realized the security tag was still attached. She dashed to the store to have it removed only minutes before the store closed.
At another reunion, a group of former football players decided to renew an old skit that won them 1st place in the school’s talent contest their graduation year. However, ten years later, during the break dancing part, one gentleman got down on the floor and tried to get down and funky. He shouldn’t have. His black dress slacks ripped all the way down.
One alumna called just hours prior to her reunion in tears. She had just dyed her hair (never had before) and looked like, in her own words, “something out of a science fiction movie.”
Even my sister-in-law had her eyebrows waxed for the very first time two days before her reunion. A hairless gap in one eyebrow was noticed (you just can’t glue hair back).
However, one of our favorite stories was a 30-year reunion. Toward the latter part of the evening an alumna decided she needed to remove painful pantyhose. Well, that was not the only item of clothing she removed. Everything came off. She (age 48) ran back into the grand ballroom stark naked and before anybody could catch her (everybody was in shock), ran to the elevator until security caught up with her.
Committee members and alumni keep us on our toes. For the most part, it creates a lot of joy to play such a huge part of reuniting old friends with an occasional laughable story. As my own twenty-year high school reunion approaches in the year of 1999, I will dust off my gym membership card, color that gray right out of my hair, and invest a small fortune in wrinkle-free creams.
