Old, Fat, and Crooked

[cabinetman]

By now the news is out about my high school reunion. All in all it was pretty interesting and depressing to see a bunch of old fat and bent over dudes.

There he was, our high school football star, with a huge pot belly and couldn't stand up straight. Most of the women there I wouldn't have recognized in a line at the grocery store.
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[germdoc]

I know what you mean--got my 30th coming up soon, and I know I'll be surrounded by people getting old!

It is surprising how some people change--star athletes become fat and bald, wimpy guys get fit as they get older, hairy people go bald, etc. I still have all my hair, have a few gray hairs in my beard but not on my head, and only weigh a bit more than I did in HS.

What was interesting last time was how within 30 mins. or so with these weird old people all of a sudden it was like it was 25 years earlier, as if none of us had changed at all, at least not for the worst.

[dlminehart]

Funny how voices change less than other physical-related attributes. I think that's a big part of the reason that, within a few minutes, you're transported back over the years in speaking with an old friend.

[Pappy]

The only one I made was my fourtieth (and the only one I will make). Seems the gals circulated and to catch up a little with everyone but the guys, mainly the jocks, migrated into the same little clicks that they had in the 60's. The exception was, like in C-Man's case, the military men seemed to get together.

I got some bit of pleasure seeing what the years had done to some of the star athletes and knowing I am in better shape than most of them now.

[crokett]

My 20th (gad did I say that!) will be coming up in a couple years. I don't plan to go. Didn't go to the 10th either. When I graduated high school there weren't that many of my class mates I really wanted to see again, and that hasn't changed much over the years.

[shoottx]

At the start of this post I thought the C-man was trying to put forht and elequent description of Me!

My 20th (gad did I say that!)

If my math skills are correct next year will be my 40th. And it is a big who gives a ...... If I had wanted to hang around with those folks I would have stayed in touch. Mom who still lives in the hometown is a font of local gossip so i still get some news, whether I want it or not. And at this point most of those people attending no longer try to impress every one, they just compare medical issues..

I had a graduating class of 94 people, and I think most of them received a diploma. Along with the way all of the people change, we have lost a very high percentage out of our class, 3 of the 5 guys I hung out with are gone. Mostly from living to fast and complications from that.

[shoottx]

And of course there is this perspective

While waiting for my first appointment in the reception room of a new dentist, I noticed his certificate, which bore his full name. Suddenly, I remembered that a tall, handsome boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 40 years ago.

Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was too old to have been my classmate.

After he had examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended the local high school. "Yes," he replied.

"When did you graduate?" I asked.

He answered, "In 1957."

"Why, you were in my class!" I exclaimed.

He looked at me closely and then asked, "What did you teach?"