I hated my very naice school, it was 3 years of utter misery plus 2 years of moderate unhappiness. I was one of the unpopular kids and just don't have many good memories of the place.
I've had an invite to the reunion for leavers including my year group. And I don't want to go. I'm in touch with a few school friends via Facebook, but have no desire to prance around the old dining hall reminiscing about pervert teachers and rugby matches or seeing my old boarding house or admiring the new science block or any of that.
However, I was chatting to a friend who said I should go, just because my life has turned out pretty well. She's picturing an American movie type scene of me strutting in wearing fabulous clothes, smiling with my no longer shit teeth, showing off pictures of my adorable dc and subtly dropping vague hints about my lovely high earning dh. She says I should go just to prove to myself how far I've come since those dark days, and part of me is tempted, however a bigger part of me just feels so 'meh' about the whole thing and I'd just view it as a wasted afternoon plus travel there and back.
Has anyone gone to a reunion and unexpectedly enjoyed it, or should I just leave the past as a distant blur?
AIBU?
to not go to my school reunion?
Blumkin · 14/11/2016 21:44
I wouldn't go. It would sound really arsey going on about the size of DH's wallet 
Just get him to take you out for a nice champagne afternoon tea or something and thank heavens that you dodged a bullet
Is it just me but I actually can't remember anyone I was at school with 
, and I only left in 2001. I'm Facebook friends with people I was close to but never see them in real life although they are all still local. I'd struggle to name anyone else.
Urgh, I'd hate that. If you're not up for it, don't go. I wonder if my school has reunions? As a girl's grammar school they probably do, they won't find me online though as I've moved away and changed my name 
Ha ha. The post it.
Who knows you might even get brought home in helicopter as well.
You never know your luck In a big city, as they say.
Although... You could go along and tell them you invented the Post-it
I didn't go to my school reunion as it involved a trek (possible flight) and I didn't think it was worth going. Then there was another reunion which would have involved an even longer flight. Again, I wasn't eager to justify the effort and expense.
No regrets.
I'm a bit 
at your friend. Do you think you need to prove anything to yourself?
Go if you want to, not because others tell you to.
Of course if only school reunions could be as enticing as old flames Cusack and Driver, loving it up in Grosse Pointe Blank...
Thank you for the explanation! I can sleep now. In answer to your question, I would not go.
I felt the same way about my school reunion. The only school friend I was still in touch with convinced me to go. TBH most of the girls stuck with their old groups and were as cliquey as I remembered. Yeah I swanned in looking my best with nice clothes, & tales of my exciting career but it was all pretty pointless. Apart from the karma of seeing how drab and grumpy some of the 'cool kids' had become.
Have a nice day out with proper friends instead! 
Dragon - it was co ed, originally a boys school, but then they opened up a few girls houses.
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