Top 10 11 reasons why they didn’t go to the reunion.

1. I have nothing to wear.  No, you have nothing that fits!
2. No one will remember me.  No, you’re afraid they WILL remember you.  Shouldn’t  have been so “naughty” in high school!
3. It’s at a crummy place.  Actually, it was very nice, but the cops did show UP!  More on that later.
4. My old girlfriend/boyfriend will be there, and she/he isn’t over me yet.  Trust me, they’re over you, I think YOU’RE not over them!
5. I’ll be in China doing missionary work and teaching English to the masses.   Ok, that’s just lame!
6. I couldn’t get an affordable flight.  No, but you can fly to every U of M Football Game for the last 30 years!  Now, we know where we stand!
7. I was banned from the Eagles Lodge.  Hasn’t everyone been at one time or another?
8. I have to take care of my grandchildren so my daughter can work.  I’m sure there’s another stripper off tonight, and she can watch them!
9. If I miss anymore work, I’ll get fired.  Well, we wouldn’t want that to happen…AGAIN!
10. No one treated me very well in HS, and I don’t care if I ever see them again.  Listen you loser, I was stuffed in a locker everyday of my life for 12 years, dragged into the girls restroom, and got beat UP by a GIRL my Senior year…but after 40 years and $100,000 worth of therapy, I went!  You should have Manned UP and dragged your sorry ass self over there!
11. It’s not my work release weekend yet.  I can’t believe a guy as smart as you hasn’t figured out a way around that ankle bracelet!

But, we missed you anyway, and we talked about you too!

I may have mentioned I was headed to my 40th High School Reunion this past weekend.

Well, I went.

And I looked Fabulous!

Seriously, I did…

And so did everyone else! 

Spending an evening with people you may not have seen at all, or very little in 40 years can be a little overwhelming.  I’m sure I didn’t get to talk to everyone for as long as I’d have liked, but catching UP with folks, finding out what they’re doing, how they are living “their” dreams, and seeing them, just made for a happy evening.

Now, I’m sure you’re all gonna’  be a little let down, but I didn’t see gray hair, double chins, beer guts, and wrinkles.  I saw in each one of their faces, the smiles I remember, the fun we had, the chances we took, and the successes we enjoyed. 

Many of us spent 12 years together, some 13, (except Randy since he  got kicked out of was a Kindergarten drop-out), and some only the last two or three years together when Germantown High School and Farmersville High School consolidated in the middle of a corn field and became Valley View. 

We missed a few who couldn’t make it, and we missed a few who aren’t with us anymore.  It was great to see and hear the stories of people who are a part of the twisted precious fabric that makes UP my life.  Some were satin, some silk, some cotton, corduroy, velvet and even some burlap.  But the quilt that was and is the Class of 1970, is one that I sleep under very well everynight.

Thanks for being a part of my life.

…to Glenn Beck, but I’ll be busy today and can’t make your party!

Mine will be more fun!