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QuoteMy friends and I like to think about what our 10 year reunion will be like. We try to guess who's going to be doing what, and it's surprising how accurate some of our predictions were right out of high school over 5 years ago.
My group of friends wasn't the "popular" group, but we weren't outcasts either. So, when many people talk about their high school days, I usually don't relate to neither the "Working on the Homecoming float was so much fun," nor the "I only had one friend in high school and that was my history teacher" stories.
My guess is that many skydivers don't meet the level of conformity to be "popular," but I'm curious to know how many outcasts there are!
Depends on your perspective.
I graduated from high school in Korea.
In 2000, I had the choice of going to a reunion in Hawaii for Seoul American High School, or go to the WFFC...
Guess which one I chose.
I could have done both, but...which one was more important to me?
I try (but often fail) to live up to an aviator's maxim - the amount of runway behind you is the most useless measurement you can take - it's how much is in front of you that matters.
Regards,
mh
"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."
vonSanta 0
Heh, definitely an Outcast. Tiny, skinny scrawny guy with a quick mouth and too much pride to stop the words from exiting his mouth. My teenage years consisted of almost daily violence at school or wherever the Big Dudes Who Wanted To Set Me Straight would meet me. I had a problem of doing and saying exactly what I wanted without much thought of the consequences so I guess I'm not totally innocent.
So I bonded with other "freaks" and had a great time socially, at least when we weren't either fighting or running from the more numerous Big Dudes. They cannot run very well, btw, and they really hate when you laugh at them as you extend your lead. Haven't changed much except I got better impulse control and am more introverted, but that's aging, I gather.
HS is in the past and I don't dwell on it or the persons involved back then. It just doesn't matter what they are or what they do or what they think about what I'm doing, so I see no point in ever going to a reunion.
Santa Von GrossenArsch
I only come in one flavour
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So I bonded with other "freaks" and had a great time socially, at least when we weren't either fighting or running from the more numerous Big Dudes. They cannot run very well, btw, and they really hate when you laugh at them as you extend your lead. Haven't changed much except I got better impulse control and am more introverted, but that's aging, I gather.
HS is in the past and I don't dwell on it or the persons involved back then. It just doesn't matter what they are or what they do or what they think about what I'm doing, so I see no point in ever going to a reunion.
Santa Von GrossenArsch
I only come in one flavour
ohwaitthatcanbemisunderst
Even though I played most sports and had a wide network of all types of friends. I considerd myself a nerd. I started every year n Football and Basketball and was in the Band. I was in all the gifted classes but ditched all the time. I played in a Mormon basketball league (my best friend was Mormon). You only has to show up to Church once a month to be in the league, so I only went once a month. It was usually at night and I was usually buzzed form drinking beers before I went. I had girlfriends but never for very long. A lot of kids thought that I was stuck up. I found that out years after being out of school. I wasn't stuck up I was fairly shy. It just took me a while to get to know someone and open up to them.
So it seems I was a little of everything. Popular and an outcast at the same time. I only talk to a few of them from time to time now anyways. It is true in my case that the real popular kids ended up much worse off then then nerdy kids did. I grew up in a pretty rough area and most of the cool guys ended up in jail or dead. The cool girls all got knocked up by the cool guys and are either widows with small kids or are waiting for daddy to get out of jail. It is kind of sad actually!
So it seems I was a little of everything. Popular and an outcast at the same time. I only talk to a few of them from time to time now anyways. It is true in my case that the real popular kids ended up much worse off then then nerdy kids did. I grew up in a pretty rough area and most of the cool guys ended up in jail or dead. The cool girls all got knocked up by the cool guys and are either widows with small kids or are waiting for daddy to get out of jail. It is kind of sad actually!
Dom
Lee03 0
I don't know what I was in high school. I was very unhappy. I played sports, lettering in Football and Baseball, was pretty good at both, in baseball, good enough that I played in college as well. I had a nice car, a fast one, all the ingredence that should have made me one of the most popular in the school, but I was the guy that everybody picked on, made fun of, was the butt of every joke. Treatment I received was pure cruality. Wound up in many fights, could take care of myself pretty good against one, but not against three or four, and that's always the way it worked out, against three or four! I couldn't buy a date. Girls in the school wouldn't be caught dead with, or even around me. High school was a miserable experience for me! I don't know why I went back to any reunions, but I walked into my 10 year reunion wearing Marine Corps Dress Blues, amazingly, all the people that had picked on me avoided me, most people spoke cordually to me, several of the girls that would have nothing to do with me 10 years earlier, were "friendly", but to be honest, I stayed away from them, didn't feel like having anything to do with them. Went to the 20 year reunion, much the same went on there as it did on the 10th. I doubt I'll go back to another reunion. Just too many bad feelings and memories!
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To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
--Nevil Shute, Slide Rule
To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
--Nevil Shute, Slide Rule
dterrick 0
I see your geek and raise ya a Bandcamp... 
Our HS had a grad class of about 275. I was among 21 who graduated in the FIRST (...ya, I know...) French Immersion program to be offered outside the French Quarter of Winnipeg. I empathize with "visible minorities" because within the world of school, we WERE a minority and were always segregated - "visible" or not.
On top of that, I was a MAJOR band geek with a minor Geek in photography. My Junior High Social life was scarred (pardon the poor pun) by nearly 200 stitches to my face thanks to a Golden Lab on my paper route 2 years earlier. this carreid into HS despite my efforts to break into the "english party scene" - ultimately playing music and with things mechanical took a larger part of my life then they had a right to at that age. Add the "froggie" thing and you might understand how I wound up with the Class Medals in English, French, Music, and the 3rd highest GPA average in the entire graduating class (....GEEK STAT...). These are NOT qualities that endear you to the "popular" set so you know how I voted and whether I attended the 10th reuinion.
#20 should be interesting. While unlike da bytch I dont expect to have a World Record to hold over the whuffos, I know that no classmates of mine jump - and I'm fine with that. Actually, between my new acccounting position (I account for most of the Quebec operations of Westfair foods - en francais ), my success at anti-geeky sports like sports car racing and skydiving, and a waistline that's only marginally different from my HS days I feel pretty damn good about being a "30 something" without alimony or child support payments! Someday I might even settle down
Let the fun contine... Revenge of the Nerds is not just a movie
Dave
Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)
Our HS had a grad class of about 275. I was among 21 who graduated in the FIRST (...ya, I know...) French Immersion program to be offered outside the French Quarter of Winnipeg. I empathize with "visible minorities" because within the world of school, we WERE a minority and were always segregated - "visible" or not.
On top of that, I was a MAJOR band geek with a minor Geek in photography. My Junior High Social life was scarred (pardon the poor pun) by nearly 200 stitches to my face thanks to a Golden Lab on my paper route 2 years earlier. this carreid into HS despite my efforts to break into the "english party scene" - ultimately playing music and with things mechanical took a larger part of my life then they had a right to at that age. Add the "froggie" thing and you might understand how I wound up with the Class Medals in English, French, Music, and the 3rd highest GPA average in the entire graduating class (....GEEK STAT...). These are NOT qualities that endear you to the "popular" set so you know how I voted and whether I attended the 10th reuinion.
#20 should be interesting. While unlike da bytch I dont expect to have a World Record to hold over the whuffos, I know that no classmates of mine jump - and I'm fine with that. Actually, between my new acccounting position (I account for most of the Quebec operations of Westfair foods - en francais ), my success at anti-geeky sports like sports car racing and skydiving, and a waistline that's only marginally different from my HS days I feel pretty damn good about being a "30 something" without alimony or child support payments! Someday I might even settle down
Let the fun contine... Revenge of the Nerds is not just a movie
Dave
Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)
Hey, where's the STONER selection ?? 
I'm definitely not there now, but the stoners were the in-crowd at my high-school.
Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast!
Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool!
bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump
I'm definitely not there now, but the stoners were the in-crowd at my high-school.
Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast!
Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool!
bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump
Hey, where's the STONER selection ??
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Right on dude, thats what I qualified as in my reply, was starting to think I was the only one
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Right on dude, thats what I qualified as in my reply, was starting to think I was the only one
dropdeded
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The Dude Abides.
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I would do anything to go back in time and give up all the fun I had in HS to actually learn what I was supposed to have learned and join the ranks of the Geek.........I am sure paying for it now!
And I would be in band too!
"Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance,
others mean and rueful of the western dream"
And I would be in band too!"Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance,
others mean and rueful of the western dream"
Thats me. I spent most of my time in the shop, didn't play sports, wasn't cool, and lived on a farm. I was always a social outcast. I did have friends and they weren't all nerds.
We had the ten year reunion a mounth ago. Everyone knew who I was I realy haven't changed, I'm still the same size and have all my hair. Most of the popular people now leed boring sometimes lonely lives. When asked what I was doing, besides farming, I'd say jumping from planes. You meen skydiving they'd say. I answered yes and no they have never had to push me either. Me a skydiver who would have ever thunk it.
We had the ten year reunion a mounth ago. Everyone knew who I was I realy haven't changed, I'm still the same size and have all my hair. Most of the popular people now leed boring sometimes lonely lives. When asked what I was doing, besides farming, I'd say jumping from planes. You meen skydiving they'd say. I answered yes and no they have never had to push me either. Me a skydiver who would have ever thunk it.
kallend 1,649
I left HS 40 years ago this week. Can't say I remember all that much about it. I was remarkably average until the final year when I finally decided to make an effort, and ended up being the only person in my class to win a full tuition + room and board + books scholarship to Cambridge.
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
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