How I feel when I see a person from High School

JohnnyDrama68 · 11 months

I have a friend named Vinny who had an experience with an old high school classmate.

He was in a small bar having a drink before he left to meet up with a group of friends. He was getting ready to leave and in walked someone he went to high school with. So Vinny decides to go say hi on the way out. He hadn't laid eyes on this guy since high school, which was over 20 years ago. Now these 2 were never friends in the true sense of the word. They never hung out in high school, but did sometimes end up at the same party , knew each other, that kind of thing. He goes over and the guy is totally depressed, just on the verge of picking which building to jump off off.

Turns out his old classmate had fallen on some hard times. Lost his parents in a car accident 6 months ago. His wife left him a month later and is now occupying his house while he was forced to find a seedy ass apt. On top of that, he has been unemployed now for almost a year.

Not wanting to be a total dick, Vinny offers up the whole " If I can do anything to help, just let me know."

So the guy asks him to just sit down with him and let him release all of his frustrations to someone who would listen.

Vinny is thinking, I have plans he was literally 5 minutes from walking out the door when the guy walked in. So he had to make a choice, and I am even surprised by what Vinny did. He says to the guy, better yet, you're hanging out with me tonight.

They met up with Vinny's friends, he got a few beers in him, he was around happy people and he started feeling a little better. He actually ended up marrying a girl he met that very night, albeit several years later. They are currently very happily married, 2 children, he has stable employment making very good money, and life is nothing but roses for him.

Vinny and him are best of friends now.

How would this guys life be right now, if Vinny had just waved?

TimesWasting · 11 months

Ugh I do this. I don't want to have to explain that I don't have a job and didn't finish college and still live with my parents.

KISSOLOGY · 11 months

Awkward social conversation avoided

nadmaximus · 11 months

I don't see people from High School. They see ME.

Katnipkitty · 11 months

This is why I love living in another state. Never have to see those people again.

Nansai · 11 months

Am I the only one who doesn't mind seeing old highschool classmates?

GlaasHart · 11 months

Same goes for my ex.

severedfinger · 11 months

Why I moved 1200 miles away from my high school. Not a problem.

xpennyrawrx · 11 months

It's even more awkward if you still have them in your Facebook friends.

adriannezy · 11 months

I had a weird moment where I ran into an old friend from high school at a book store. We hung out in the same crowd, but were never really close friends. I think I went to homecoming with him and we did a bunch of theater together so it seemed rude not so say something. We approached each other and said an awkward hi followed by silence and nodding. He looked at me and said, "we don't have anything to say to each other do we?" I just looked back and said "no" and walked away.

Truest conversation I've ever had in my life.

mike2928 · 11 months

What episode of the Office is this from?

KyleGibson · 11 months

You should check out r/HIFW

dude2k5 · 11 months

Ha, same sometimes. Saw some guy, but I think he wasnt sure it was me. changed a lot since HS, skinnier, long hair, facial hair, etc. Went from like nerd social outcast to rocker nerd social outcast.

DeeKan · 11 months

Hooking up with girls from your high school is amazing/easy and if it doesn't go the way you want, you don't have to see them every day until graduation.

magic_murder_bag · 11 months

Switching coasts eliminated this problem

SlyScorpion · 11 months

Man, I ain't gotta worry about seeing former classmates from high school. I switched countries and reduced all chances to zero.

Mark_Lincoln · 11 months

Yup. Every year or two I receive a mailing from my Coral Gables High School Class _______ (fill in year) Reunion.

Two things stand out. The people running the reunion were the preppie rah-rahs I could not stand 45 years ago. They are always making inquiries for the whereabouts of people I did like a hang out with.

To Joann Lowney and Priscilla Adams, look out the preppie-zombies are out to find you. . . .

StuckAtWork · 11 months

I don't mind seeing people I went to highschool with. The reason for that is this: I was not a very popular kid, regular got verbally abused, etc... by all the "cool" kids. Now I make over twice minimum wage doing easy computer work while they're wearing high-vis vests, picking up garbage on the side of the road. I always make it a point to wave and smile.

mavstar · 11 months

Hah, try going to college in the same city that you attended high school.

hydrogen_wv · 11 months

You know what I do when I see people from high school? I kindly explain to them that I'd like a Large #1 with a coke, then they tell me my total, and I drive up to the first window...

Immynimmy · 11 months

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alphanovember · 11 months

Oh, god, every time. Riding the train that passes through your town this happens every single day.

armorproof · 11 months

I have this, I still am IN highschool...

colonel_panic10 · 11 months

At least when I was in college I could use the excuse that I was late for class and easily escape high school encounters. I now have to devise to less obvious reasons to get away from high school run ins.

conanarama · 11 months

About a year after graduation I moved in with my bf and he happened to live in a neighborhood a lot of our fellow classmates lived. I swear, every time I went to Jewel to grocery shop I'd run into either the same girl or a few different people we graduated with. I stopped going to that grocery store.

siouxsie_sioux · 11 months

One of the reasons I moved away. I like being anonymous.

thisgameisawful · 11 months

I have a really bad habit of completely forgetting/not recognizing people from school and have hurt multiple feelings as a result :(

ohgreatYOUagain · 11 months

Argh!! I HATE when this happens. Its always the ONE person that completely annoyed the living hell out of me. and I'm in .... my worst clothes ever found in my room.

emptythecache · 11 months

Weirdly, I have a good job and a girlfriend, and still feel embarrassed when they married another classmate, have one or more kids, and still live in the same little town. I'm 24 for reference.

Rasalom · 11 months

I encountered this situation in probably the most unexpected but also most favorable way... The guy was delivering my pizza...

Yeah I was in my underwear, but damn, he was delivering my pizza.

angelicai · 11 months

It's funny because this happened to me a lot before I dropped out of college. Even though I was doing well in College and everything, my old classmates that I happened to talk to were still cocky as FUCK. It really matters on whom you're speaking to.

aimesome · 11 months

i can charge my phone while I pee now!

HeyyZeus · 11 months

LOL, I wouldn't remember a person from high school if I saw one. Selective memory is your friend!

Im_Not_Pinkie_Pie · 11 months

I'm listening to "Mr. Saxobeat" and staring at his gif. I'm not sure why.

EternalRocksBeneath · 11 months

Ran into a person from high school I was not fond of while going into a public bathroom at a movie theater. I could not hide and they recognized me. :-(

prboi · 11 months

Oh Jim, how do you get into these shenanigans?

Smegma_Torpedo · 11 months

It is definitely a negative symptom of our society when people don't feel comfortable giving a simple greeting to the people they grew up with. Why is it that as our population increases, people seem to get MORE antisocial and awkward? Perhaps it's just a false impression I get from reddit.

RawJarhead · 11 months

Except your car chair is most likely electric and would take like 10 minutes for you to be completely hidden if completely hidden at all

subzer0fun · 11 months

I hate visiting home town for the holidays and running into someone from high school because chances are, we were never really friends/they used to pick on me and they act like it's "so nice to see you!". I have been known to duck behind displays hoping that I have not been spotted. But there are a few people there that it is nice to run into and say hello... for a few minutes until the awkward sets in.

PullOutBoy · 11 months

I hate seeing people from school cause I'm pretty succesful now and am only 21. Like every slut I banged in HS has kids now. Every stuck up cunt I know is married or something. Only a few moved on to do cool shit

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ElvisNeedsBoats · 11 months

Oh, hi person I was forced to spend 12 years of my life with. I didn't see you there. Wow, you used to be hot...what happened to you? Could you please go on about your ugly children? Oh, WOW, you have pictures too.

Me? No, I actually have a life. I don't have to change another human's shit and piss filled pants.

You want my phone number so we can get together sometime? Sure. Let me get yours as well so once I see the number I won't have to answer.

Oh definitely, I'll be at the reunion we can catch up there. I can't wait. Good-bye.

endo · 11 months

First: Wow, way to date yourself. What are you, 2 years out of school? You cease caring when you hit about 25. You sound like a jerk or an elitist.

And second: "person from high school" should be "someone I WENT TO high school with"...

Because just about everyone is a person from high school, since most of us went to a high school.

echolaliality · 11 months

I'm in high school. What are you trying to say?

Oh I get it lol!!!

Of course I'll try to avoid them as much as possible.

Akira_kj · 11 months

It's so much easier when your mom stops driving you everywhere.

FUCK_WIZARD · 11 months

I love seeing people from high school. "Oh you work at the grocery store full time? That's cool, I made quintuple your salary last year."

Mark_Lincoln · 11 months

Yup. Every year or two I receive a mailing from my Coral Gables High School Class _______ (fill in year) Reunion.

Two things stand out. The people running the reunion were the preppie rah-rahs I could not stand 45 years ago. They are always making inquiries for the whereabouts of people I did like a hang out with.

To Joann Lowney and Priscilla Adams, look out the preppie-zombies are out to find you. . . .

Mark_Lincoln · 11 months

Yup. Every year or two I receive a mailing from my Coral Gables High School Class _______ (fill in year) Reunion.

Two things stand out. The people running the reunion were the preppie rah-rahs I could not stand 45 years ago. They are always making inquiries for the whereabouts of people I did like a hang out with.

To Joann Lowney and Priscilla Adams, look out the preppie-zombies are out to find you. . . .

th0mson · 11 months

Were you bullied?

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