You Know You Are Old When

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I've stopped seeing obits of classmates parents and teachers.
I'm seeing obits for classmates.
I put a small checkmark in my high school year book.
I'm starting to get some pages with multiple checkmarks.

I went to my 30 year high school reunion. There was a table there with candles and pictures of students. I told my friend the county sheriff how nice I thought it was...he said those are the deceased!!!
We didn't have a 40 or 50 year reunion. When I asked why he said not enough people left!

 

[MoKelly]

I went to my 30 year high school reunion. There was a table there with candles and pictures of students. I told my friend the county sheriff how nice I thought it was...he said those are the deceased!!!
We didn't have a 40 or 50 year reunion. When I asked why he said not enough people left!

Wow. That’s tough.

Our 50th is this year.

 

[dmccarty]

Yeah, it's all relative. My step father said recently, "I thought I was old and rich, until I moved to Florida."

He is right too.

There are some places in Florida where the amount of money is unreal.

It has been decades, but I once saw a three car fender bender in an affluent area in Florida. It was a Mercedes, Porsche, and either a Jaguar or Rolls. In some places, seeing ONE of those cars would be unusual at least once upon a time.

This morning I had a Mercedes SUV behind me and another one pulled out in front of me. That was really odd. Don't see many of those vehicles much less where I was at the time.

 

[drssg]

I went to my 30 year high school reunion. There was a table there with candles and pictures of students. I told my friend the county sheriff how nice I thought it was...he said those are the deceased!!!
We didn't have a 40 or 50 year reunion. When I asked why he said not enough people left!

I would interpret that to mean that there weren't enough that were still coming to the reunions.

I went to my 20th, and that was it. I was glad I went, but I wasn't interested in making it a regular thing.

One of the things that surprised me was that the high school cliques still seemed to be in place. I figured that we are all adults now and would interact on a different level, but the people that wouldn't want to talk to me in high school didn't seem interested in talking to me twenty years later.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I would interpret that to mean that there weren't enough that were still coming to the reunions.

I went to my 20th, and that was it. I was glad I went, but I wasn't interested in making it a regular thing.

One of the things that surprised me was that the high school cliques still seemed to be in place. I figured that we are all adults now and would interact on a different level, but the people that wouldn't want to talk to me in high school didn't seem interested in talking to me twenty years later.

I graduated from a rural school, about 90 graduates. Table had about 25 pictures & candles and 50-60 there, so I don't think it was lack of interest. I believe the sheriff who said not enough left.

 

[stuckmotor]

A similar story here. My dad was born in 1896 and my mom in 1899. I have already outlived my 3 brothers and 2 sisters by more than 10 years.

You really know you are old when your kids start talking about signing up for Social Security.

I feel much younger now. Your dad was older than my granddad.

 

[Bad Boy Biker]

Class had one every five years with its 50th two years ago. Never whet to any of them. Fellow students had nothing to do with me in school, I do not want anything to do with them since.

 

[Darth_DMack]

RE: High School Class Reunions... I graduated in '87 went directly into the Army. I have not been to a single one, and don't plan to. I've gone to several Military Unit Reunions. I am still in contact with so many, that I served with over the years, but maybe only 3 or 4 from my High School Days.

 

[MossRoad]

Speaking of high school reunions, my mother in-law is a member of the "Riley Over The Hill Gang". She attended Riley High School in South Bend, IN.

The only requirement for admission to the club is that you had to have graduated from Riley AT LEAST 50 YEARS AGO!

They have a reunion every summer. Last one had right around 500. The oldest was something like 106!

 

[drssg]

I graduated from a rural school, about 90 graduates. Table had about 25 pictures & candles and 50-60 there, so I don't think it was lack of interest. I believe the sheriff who said not enough left.

Wow, that's a lot of people dying in their forties! It seems like something is going wrong in that demographic beyond normal aging.

 

[jjeff]

Remember my grandmother always commenting her reunions were getting smaller and smaller when she passed away at 92 her last reunion was at a supper club on a 4 seat table for a noon luncheon, previously were located at banquet halls in the evening.

 

[George2615]

Wow. That’s tough.

Our 50th is this year.

My 50th was 4 years ago. I think the last reunion we had was the 15th, none since.

 

[sixdogs]

I would interpret that to mean that there weren't enough that were still coming to the reunions.

I went to my 20th, and that was it. I was glad I went, but I wasn't interested in making it a regular thing.

One of the things that surprised me was that the high school cliques still seemed to be in place. I figured that we are all adults now and would interact on a different level, but the people that wouldn't want to talk to me in high school didn't seem interested in talking to me twenty years later.

That's what I was getting ready to write. I went to mine and the losers and azz-hats of many decades earlier were unchanged and unrepentant. Looking back at what they were long ago was about the same as the careers they wound up in.

My best friend, ironically was a Fonzie kind of guy that had the babes, the hot rods and was so cool he was untouchable. He's still cool. The nerds of then seemed to fare the best.

The kid that I wanted to beat to a pulp still had that attitude but now it doesn't matter. Not many of us left but next time around I'll pass.

 

[goeduck]

My high school is so small that they have an "all class" reunion every year.

 

[scootr]

That's what I was getting ready to write. I went to mine and the losers and azz-hats of many decades earlier were unchanged and unrepentant. Looking back at what they were long ago was about the same as the careers they wound up in.

My best friend, ironically was a Fonzie kind of guy that had the babes, the hot rods and was so cool he was untouchable. He's still cool. The nerds of then seemed to fare the best.

The kid that I wanted to beat to a pulp still had that attitude but now it doesn't matter. Not many of us left but next time around I'll pass.

That is exactly how I thought it would be - hence I never went BUT I do belong to the high school website. Joined when looking for a friend. Found him in the grave . Chatted with an old girlfriend. That was fun

 

[MossRoad]

The only person I'm really interested in seeing from my high school days is my wife.

45 years next September.

 

[MoKelly]

Chatted with an old girlfriend. That was fun

Reminded me of the classic Garth Brooks song.

Talk about feeling old - he recorded the song almost 35 years ago!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Wow, that's a lot of people dying in their forties! It seems like something is going wrong in that demographic beyond normal aging.

Very true. The high school was in an old building that always had smoke from the incinerator burning outside .
Quite a few students were older, some older than the teachers . Lots of farmers...a mixture of car, truck, farm accidents & cancer. Over half smoked cigarettes (never heard of pot) & everyone drank .

 

[deserteagle71]

I've stopped seeing obits of classmates parents and teachers.
I'm seeing obits for classmates.
I put a small checkmark in my high school year book.
I'm starting to get some pages with multiple checkmarks.

I do the same with my high school yearbook. Over a third of my class is now deceased. This year would be my 60th class reunion - but there has been no talk about having one.

 

[Oaktree]

I went to my 20th, and that was it. I was glad I went, but I wasn't interested in making it a regular thing.

One of the things that surprised me was that the high school cliques still seemed to be in place. I figured that we are all adults now and would interact on a different level, but the people that wouldn't want to talk to me in high school didn't seem interested in talking to me twenty years later.

I went to my 40th, 60th coming up in a couple years but don't plan on going. Almost none of the kids I hung with in HS were there, and it was kind of boring being around a bunch of people I didn't know very well then and are essentially strangers now. I'll cut some slack on the "wouldn't talk to me" thing...I was pretty quiet and relatively invisible in HS, so it's likely no one really even knew I was there.
I moved away from my hometown shortly after graduation, so no real connection to the place other than seeing my sisters at holidays.

The nerds of then seemed to fare the best.

One thing I noticed at my 40th was that the best looking women were the ones you never really noticed in HS, quite a few of the ones I thought were hot in school looked well past their prime.