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Title: I had a kind'a upsetting day
Post by: CC27 on February 13, 2020, 08:09:33 AM
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3Hotdogs (3,551 posts)


I had a kind'a upsetting day.

 
Got a letter inviting me to my h.s. class 60th reunion. Included was a listing of deceased class members.... 54 of them of a class of 153.

Some were strong athletes in the day... our school teams won many state championships in football and track.

Some were girls who distracted me from my studies. I know I would'a gone to Harvard or Columbia if I didn't spend class time looking at them out of the corner of my eye and pondering --- well, lets not go there. As it was, my graduating class rank was third from the bottom. I blame them girls on it.

Several became lawyers, school teachers, principals -- one was even a Nobel Prize laureate.

Some were friends. One of them, I couldn't stand because he was a bit of a bully to me.

Most of them just got through school as best as they could like everyone else. Contrary to popular sayings, high school is not the best time of most of our lives. That, I learned one night in a hotel room in the Poconos. It was a couple of years after h.s. and I was on a ski trip with a group of employees from a local insurance company. It was about 1 a.m., I was in the room getting ready for bed when the door opened and my new room mate came in, three sheets to the wind. Bar had just closed for the night. We made introductions and recognized we were both from the same school. He was two years ahead of me.

He was on the football team that had won the state championship, two years in a row. I envied him at that time. I weighed 105 lbs. in my senior year and I wasn't scheduled to excel at any sport. I told him I remembered watching him at the football field and how good a player he was. It was at that point, he broke down in tears, remembering the pain of getting hit and the emotional pain of having his play not meet his father's expectation of a top notch football player.

Two years ago, I encountered the quarterback of the team in our senior year. He broke his hip during a game and now walks bent over a cane from arthritis where he had his injury.

I concluded that maybe I didn't have it so bad, after all.

I don't know if I will attend the reunion. The two people I was closest to are on the deceased list. Those that are left, nothing against them but would there be anything to talk about besides grand kids, how I screwed up my marriage and how I screwed up most of the jobs I had.

Anyway, that's what's going through my head tonight.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212983704

Wow is all i can say.
Title: Re: I had a kind'a upsetting day
Post by: BadCat on February 13, 2020, 08:13:46 AM
Well, like all dimocrats....it SUCKS to be you.
Title: Re: I had a kind'a upsetting day
Post by: USA4ME on February 13, 2020, 09:16:38 AM
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Those that are left, nothing against them but would there be anything to talk about besides grand kids, how I screwed up my marriage and how I screwed up most of the jobs I had.

Perfect reason for you to go, primitive; you’ll make everyone else feel good about themselves.

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Title: Re: I had a kind'a upsetting day
Post by: Zathras on February 13, 2020, 09:42:34 AM
Ah, yet another DUmbass reminiscing about the zenith of their pathetic lives. It must suck when the high point of your life is high school.
Title: Re: I had a kind'a upsetting day
Post by: jukin on February 13, 2020, 12:10:06 PM
L-O-S-E-R.... loooooooser. 

LOSER
Title: Re: I had a kind'a upsetting day
Post by: SVPete on February 13, 2020, 02:07:09 PM
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3Hotdogs (3,551 posts)

I had a kind'a upsetting day.

Got a letter inviting me to my h.s. class 60th reunion. Included was a listing of deceased class members.... 54 of them of a class of 153.

 :thatsright: Welcome to the reality you should have noticed 20 years ago.
Title: Re: I had a kind'a upsetting day
Post by: Old n Grumpy on February 13, 2020, 03:46:11 PM
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3Hotdogs (3,551 posts)


I had a kind'a upsetting day.

 
Got a letter inviting me to my h.s. class 60th reunion. Included was a listing of deceased class members....

And my name was on it!! :thatsright:

 :-) :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: I had a kind'a upsetting day
Post by: Ausonius on February 13, 2020, 04:59:58 PM
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I don't know if I will attend the reunion. The two people I was closest to are on the deceased list. Those that are left, nothing against them but would there be anything to talk about besides grand kids, how I screwed up my marriage and how I screwed up most of the jobs I had.



Typical DEM voter!!!  However, one must admit, this DUmmy is brutally honest!   :o


Ah, yet another DUmbass reminiscing about the zenith of their pathetic lives. It must suck when the high point of your life is high school.

Yes, some people peak too early!   :-)
Title: Re: I had a kind'a upsetting day
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on February 13, 2020, 06:01:16 PM
Some people's only real purpose in life is to serve as a bad example.
Title: Re: I had a kind'a upsetting day
Post by: Ptarmigan on February 13, 2020, 06:42:20 PM
As I said before, for some people, their whole life is one giant high school. They never left high school.
Title: Re: I had a kind'a upsetting day
Post by: SVPete on February 13, 2020, 06:44:22 PM
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I don't know if I will attend the reunion. The two people I was closest to are on the deceased list. Those that are left, nothing against them but would there be anything to talk about besides grand kids, how I screwed up my marriage and how I screwed up most of the jobs I had.

Finally the real reason (s)he's reluctant to attend the reunion, being faced with how (s)he's failed in life.