When I first got online i registered but didn't join up to FR. I just wanted a nosey at old primary school friends really as we moved a lot and i went to lots of secondary schools so don't really remember anyone. After I found the people I remembered and had chortled at wedding photos with bins in the background that was that.
They send me emails occasionally but I've never really bothered with it again.
UNTIL.... I keep getting emails from people I can't remember!!! One was really friendly and I felt very bad as they obviously remember me and have invited me to a reunion. :o :o :o :o Yikes. What do i say? Sorry, can't remember you? How do i say that nicely!! Might just ignore it. :-[
The one that arrived this morning was a bit unnerving to be honest, bit creepy and now I'm scared. Don't think I'll be going to any reunion in case this nut job is there. ;D ;D ;D
any other FR stories out there?
I signed up, like most of the universe ;D and an old best friend made contact. We exchanged emails for a year, and birthday and Christmas cards, but slowely we stopped bothering, nothing in common, nothing really to say. Thing is, if they were the sort of buddies you wanted to keep, you would still be in touch with them, wouldn't you? That is what I think. Same with the work colleagues. I spoke to a few, but those that I was close to I am still in touch with. It is great to see what people have been up to since school. No lottery winners so far in my old crowd!
I had an email via FR from someone I went to school with - saying he was on a TV prog as Britain's only "openly Gay Amateur Boxer", called The Pink Pounder (insert joke here). At school we all thought it was an act to pick up girls. Back then he was so tall and thin and pale he looked permanently ill
never wanted to keep in touch with old school buddies,.. the important ones , we kept in touch after, school was one of the most miserable times of my life ;D
yes i know what you mean. the only one wanting to contact me is a bitchy girl that i never liked so i just browse every so often i was a shy girl who didn,t mix well
marg
Yikes Emmy, sounds a bit odd. Me, I'm terminally suspicious, are you sure it isn't someone trying to scam you. It's quite easy to start up a chat on a site like that and glean all sorts of info from others so you could pose as an old school chum.
I had a look a couple of times and have always been tempted to make up some mad & scandalous other life for myself just out of devillment. The only reason I haven't is that a lot of people still live locally & work would get back to my mum, who has a real thing about "what other people think of us". After 2 years she still hadn't told her cronies I was divorced!! oh the scandal.
I declined the joy of the we've hit 40 reunion. I just couldn't see the point.
Not through FR... but I made contact with 2 ex school friends - one was a very close friend and as she was in the UK she came over for a week and it was just like old times, we picked up where we had left off... the other girl came over for 2 days and i was glad when she left. We had nothing incommon at school and i found her even more pompous and full of herself when we met up again.
It's nice staying hearing what everyone is up to though... The one person i have trying to find was my first ever love... but can't find him anywhere. Think i would probably die though if i did ever make contact LOL
Could`nt find any of my old school friends, most of us went in the forces as there was`nt much work in the 50s, so we are either scattered all over the world or no longer with us. It was 53 yrs ago.
It's funny to see how many people are on there that either you don't remember or just wouldn't want to get back in touch with!
I found someone who used to bully me at school. In fairness I was a gawky, ugly ginger haired girl (no disrespect to redheads at all, I was carroty orange but have blossommed now that I'm in my early 30's!).
Anyhoo, I emailed him to say that he was horrible and that I hoped things hadn't turned out well for him... I was angry when I wrote the message, but when he replied he apologised and said that he was young and stupid back then and has grown up a lot! :o I wasn't expecting that but it did help me put it behind me!
I joined some years back and like many others I suspect said hello to a few folks and then it faded out.. We did have some luck however as I found an ex uni friend who was then living in Prague and Jenny found a friend of hers also in Prague-so we went over for three nights and met them both separately. People never change-they just get older-I hadn`t seen Denise for over 20 years and recognised her immediately
I have never found anyone either, I have had much more look with relatives on Genes Reunited, now that is a good one.
I would be very cautious about a reunion, I think a class reunion might be fun , but I would be nervous he meant a reunion of two,behind the toilet block perhaps!!
I went to an all girls school for some time so not much fun there.
XX Jeannine
yes, so did I, jeannine, working class girl goes to grammar school, all girls and a right lot of la di da bit**es they were oo, made my life a misery :(
still, no hard feelings ;D
I see names from the past on there and have been tempted to part with £12 to see what happens. Is the £12 just for six months or am I reading it wrong?
I think that EJ hit it on the head.
Tim you took the words out of my mouth, I still drink, go football and go on holiday with friends from school, but when I meet up with closer friends from school, I just have nothing in common with them, maybe they grew up. :P :P :P ;) ;D ;D :-* ;D ;D ;D :P
All the names I recognise seem to have become computer programmers or accountants - don't think I'll be getting intouch!
Always worry that the happy memories of the past will be ruined by seeing how people have turned out when they "grew-up".
Anyhoo, I wouldn't want to meet anyone who'd be a friend to someone like me ;D
I've met a few and have absolutely no desire to meet up again. So glad I didn't go to the re-union, they said it was excruciating. EJ is absolutely right. We all move on, generally.
A few years ago I found half a dozen from my old school through FR and met up with them the following year at a school reunion. I recognized one of them immediately but the others were little old ladies although we were only in our late sixties at the time. Absolutely nothing in common with any of them. They had all stayed living within spitting distance of the school whereas I had spent those 50 odd years living in three other countries before coming back to the UK in 2000.
The state of repair of the school distressed me. The main building of our school was a mansion built in the 1700s and was used by bishops as a stopover on their way to London. Window frames rotting so they didn't close properly, peeling paint everywhere and the beautiful old conservatory had glass missing and looked as if it was a ruin. Set in beautiful grounds - and although at that time, just after the war ended, it was a lovely place to have as a school - I absolutely hated my five years there and didn't make any firm friends there as I lived too far from the school to be able to meet up with any of the girls (or boys for that matter) after school. And all that homework made my life a misery. School - ugh :(.
Through FR I did make contact with one of the boys from my class - the one who used to tell me I had footballers knees!!! We emailed and phoned each other once in a while, but then two years ago his daughter called me to say he had died from a massive heart attack the night before he was due to be released from hospital where he being treated for something else.
I still get the emails from FR and from GR, but more often than not I just delete them.
Tricia
Glad I asked now. I've found the whole experience most unnerving I have to say. Didn't realise what a suspicious hermit I had become. Also school not the happiest time for me so no real desire for reunion. ;D I now live miles away from my home city so I've decided i'm going to go and invent myself again via the profile. Any ideas for my new life?
Can't help you with a new life, but on the subject of Genes Reunited I have managed to locate branches of my family tree that I didn't even know existed!!
One thing I will do before my time is up ( a long time from now I hope, but you never know) is to write down stories of what I remember from my own childhood, adolescence and adulthood so that when I'm gone my stories are still there.
I miss my granddad who would have been the perfect mentor for my lottie as he had one for as long as I remembered. Kept bees too. The honey was heavenly! I just wish he had written down more of his memories so I could read about them now.
Quote from: tim on July 06, 2007, 19:19:30
I think that EJ hit it on the head.
So true
I hitched up with two old friends from school a few years ago and have remained in contact. It has been brilliant as we always got on well at school and really just lost touch through moving around.
Have to admit that all the messages I got via FR from other schoolmates I didn't feel quite the same about got polite but probably rather standoffish replies in the 'thanks but no thanks' mode!
CLx
Yep, i'm totally with EJ too. It's interesting in a nosey kinda way to see what others have done since we all left school, but i'm not the same person as I was back then & neither are they (hopefully!) so what would we have in common now?
I have remained close friends with my best ever friend from school though (we were inseperable at school & quite famous for it!), despite having lost almost total contact during our uni years. Now we've both moved back 'home' to lincolnshire, are married and settled, and she's just had her first baby - now that's the sort of friend I'm keeping hold of! x
I lost touch with my school deliberately immediately after leaving. A few years I got back in touch with a lot of people from my class, and we mostly seem to get on at least as well as we did back then, and I'm still remembered by most of the teachers we've come across. I can see it wouldn't work for everyone though.
The only true friends I had at school are still my friends to this day.
We had a school reunion or two and they were great fun.Gald we all had to wear name tags because,for the life of me,I could not recognize some of them,and them me probably.
There is now a military section on FR and next Sunday I will be meeting an old Army buddy who I have not seen since 1977.We have spoken on the phone and he sounds the same.Have made contact with a few others too so more reunions on the way I hope.