Some people haven’t changed
My 10 year high school reunion is coming up in a couple weeks. Not sure of the exact date, because I have no plans to go. (Even if I still lived in the same state, I don’t think I’d go.) I’m still on the email list for announcements/reminders/whatnot, mostly because it’s easier to delete stuff than reply and say I’m not coming. (Yes, I’m a bad reunee. Or whatever the word is.) The highly original plan: Everybody pays $100 a head to show up at the country club and get drunk (legally this time).
This past weekend, someone — we’ll call her S. — suggested getting together the night before the main event, “because I realize that is people are flying home just for the Reunion, why not have a little more going on for them to get there $$$ worth for the plan ticket or drive!!!” Well, that’s a nice idea.
Now the guy who’s been organizing this for the past year (I’ll show my ignorance — why does it take a year to plan this sort of thing?) is upset. (Three pages of angry email upset.) C. points out that S. hasn’t even signed up to come to the “official” reunion, so *how dare she* use *his* email list to invite everyone to *her* party instead of *his*?! (Apparently he’d missed the fact that she’d actually invited everyone to an event that happened the night before… not much “competition” there, C.)
The real fun part is that apparently C. didn’t put his own address on the list…. so S.’s invite went to everyone except C. And thus: “In fct I was never even sent anything from S. asking me if I wanted to meet at the [Friday night event]. Guess I wasn’t invited. Guess I wasn’t good enough, or liked enough, or part of that clique of people.”
It’s so nice to see that at least some of my classmates are unchanged by the passing years.
(Oh, incidentally…. no, I’m not dead, and yes, I’m still paying attention to this. Updates on the last couple weeks in bits and pieces, as I think about it.)