I looked at my high school yearbook!

I assume you're trying out a career in fiction for young adults.

I went to 6 proms.

I moved away from my hometown. We high schoolers have a facebook page and it's weird to think that they all kept up with each other in that town while I have no idea who they are any more

As low day at the call center?

I threw mine in the garbage decades ago.

This never happened.

Senior year, I did get my pics taken. My mother forced me. But I didn’t tell my mother about the due date to choose one because I wanted no pic in the yearbook. But the fetid gash in charge called my mother and told her she needed to pick a photo.

Both cunts are dead now.

A copy of every senior pic is sent to the yearbook staff—you need not buy any pics. No one gets left out.

The guy who was voted Best Looking WAS left out because he thought he would be cool and not take a picture for the yearbook. Years later, he told me he regretted not taking a picture

On our staff, we would have found away to get him in—a candid photo with a reference to his failure to get a senior pic.

We also had a fake student, with a made up name, who appeared in two or three places in each annual—an in-house joke/tradition. He was included in the index for authenticity.

My yearbooks are at my dad’s house. When my daughter and I visited last summer, she found them and wanted to look through them with me. 15% of my graduating class have died and I was struck by how I know them only as they looked 40+ years ago, in the yearbooks. I was/am very tall and I was in good shape in high school. My kid asked, “Daddy, what happened to you?” Ooof.

You keep a dead list from high school? 🫣

You're still a whore, darlin.

r11 you say you're tall...how many inches is your erect penish?

Two of my best friends from high school have been dead for years.

I’m only 53.

Yet my idiot father’s wife will probably live to be 150.

R12. There were 60 in my class (tiny, rural school). Nine have died, so it’s not hard to keep track. None died suddenly, like in car crashes or hunting accidents. Just diseases.

Yet you are still keeping track! Oy

Dear Diary: I had the most SPECIAL DAY

[quote]I moved away from my hometown. We high schoolers have a facebook page and it's weird to think that they all kept up with each other in that town while I have no idea who they are any more

Same, R3. I took early admission to university knowing that my future was elsewhere, not with people from high school. I never graduated from high school nor kept in contact with anyone. Forty or so years later a couple of friends from that time, fellow gays, found me via Facebook. I never bothered with yearbooks though a couple times some classmate (whose name nor face was at all familiar) would recognize me on the street when I was visiting family.

R19 How can you go to university if you didn't graduate high school.

Wow. Who knew that all it took to be popular in high school was contact lenses and a haircut?

R21 - Just ask Rachael Leigh Cook.

R20: Early admissions programs can admit advanced level students with exceptional test scores, through formal programs or individually.

My schools distributed our yearbooks over the summer and you had to go pickup them up on one of several days. Therefore, you couldn’t get your yearbook signed like normal. You could either get a handful of signatures from the kids who happened to be there the same time as you, or you could opt out altogether. Either way, I’m still annoyed about it 20+ years later.

This thread demonstrates that there are two types of people in this world: Those whose halcyon days died there, and those who halcyon days started later.

OP, are you a lesbian?

It is weird to read your post, OP.

A couple of days ago, I googled an old teacher.

One of the top results under her name was a link to the yearbook from my senior year. I don’t remember where it was hosted, but I was able to look through the whole yearbook online. I haven’t looked at it in almost 40 years. It was so strange.

I realized how many kids I never knew. MOST of our high school was poor kids and / or burnouts. But I really didn’t know any of those kids. My friends and I were the nerdy student government types. But at the time we thought we were the center of the universe.

Through social media, I have discovered a lot of the people I went to high school with are now crazy right-wing nutjobs. It's really disappointing.

R24 - I am angry FOR you! That is so fucking stupid. Did the Yearbook advisor have zero sense of time?

They fucked up their printing deadline. No way that would be an intentional choice.

R28 I grew up in blue collar near-coastal LA. My fellow grads seemed to have favored becoming Christian cops in the Inland Empire and beyond. Scary shit.

ok, that makes more sense, R30.

Although now I'm rereading that post and R24 said their schools (plural) would distribute in the summer. Sounds like a district decision to be shitty?

That makes no sense. Unless they were so cheap that Josten’s put them at the back of the line because $.

How many guys did you suck off from said yearbook, OP?

[quote]That makes no sense. Unless they were so cheap that Josten’s put them at the back of the line because $.

Let it go, Miss Marple.

Not every mystery or perceived inconsistency is worth the effort of solving it.

Speaking of not having seen some people since high school….

As you’ve gotten older have you had the experience of thinking you recognize someone from high school only to remember they would be 25 years older now than the person you’re seeing. It’s like I have to remind myself that I’m old now and they would be too.

I went to two different Jesuit high schools. This was the early 90s and I wasn’t out. Actually I didn’t even really know I was gay. But it was kind of comforting to find out many years later that my two best friends from those two different schools came out as gay as well. It’s like without even consciously knowing it, we found each other then.

R37 did you fancy them?

Hi, it’s R24 again (I’m not R30). No, they made the choice so that the yearbook could include that year’s prom and graduation. Before that, the yearbooks always showed photos from the prior year’s spring events, and I guess they found this the better option (our graduation was in June, so getting it by August was actually an impressive feat).

That’s just dumb—I never heard of that at any school, anywhere. What good yearbook staffs do is create a spring supplement that can be printed late (usually 20 pages or less) and designed to be attached to the inside back cover. A bizarre idea to hold back the entire yearbook for weeks or months past the end of the school year.

Well to be fair, I grew up in a really dumb town.. I think they voted 85% for Trump.

53 years after graduating HS I'm one of the few who are still alive. Luckily my 2 best friends I went all through school with are still alive and still my 2 (of 3) best friends.

I looked through one of mine about six years ago. I certainly was not better looking than I remembered. What surprised me was reading what everyone wrote in it. Many people complimented my talent and looks. I didn’t recall that. Maybe they were just being nice and didn’t know what else to write…..

I got Best Dressed. The photo was so gay: I look like Bob Mackie holding out a beaded dress on a hanger for approval by Anne, the Best Dressed girl. We’re standing, beautifully dressed preppies - as one was then - in a dumpster strewn with all the outfits she’d rejected.

Somehow I’m just not that invested in my high school cohort. I stay in touch sporadically with three guys from high school. I was very grateful for a nice set of luggage from my grandmother when I graduated, because I was out of there, I thought forever. And managed to be for almost 25 years. When my Mom got sick, though, my husband and I moved in with her to keep her out of a nursing home, so I was back where I grew up and would occasionally see people I’d known. It was the 25th anniversary, so I got a ticket and a new suit and thought I’d catch up with 200 people I hadn’t seen for a quart

R44 Continued “I hadn’t seen for a quarter of a century.”

I never saw them. I forgot all about it until the next day when I saw the suit hanging in the closet.

It meant something then. I heard about the 50th anniversary but had no interest in going.

My yearbooks got thrown out by a bitter ex roommate years ago.

I got a little melancholy and/or nostalgic when COVID first hit and I had a shitton of time on my hands, but beyond that, I had a miserable time in school and do not wish to relive it, ever.

I never kept in touch with anyone from high school. 40 years later, when my parents died, some of my high school classmates showed up at the funerals. It was really awkward for all of us, especially since I had no idea who they were, even after they told me. I just did not recall them at all. Apparently high school is very important for some people. It meant nothing to me. I didn’t even buy a yearbook.

They told me my classmates get together for a monthly breakfast. I couldn’t think of anything to say when they told me that, other than “Oh.”

So glad I live thousands of miles away.

R8, that’s not true. There are at least two other people from my senior class that have an empty spot in the yearbook.

I can’t help your school’s incompetence—

I thank God I never bough a stupid high school ring. Doesn’t anyone actually wear those?

I get a kick out of looking at our cars.

I never bought a school ring, either. They were ugly.

I bought a ring...it was so dumb. I wore it for like three weeks. lol

Still have it, though. :-)

There were some hot guys in high school. My yearbook is worth it for the swim team photos. And hot teachers.

R38, no I didn’t fancy them and they didn’t fancy me, which makes it more interesting. We were just really good friends that found each other connecting subconsciously on something none of us were even aware of.

I bought a school ring and a mug. They got me… And the Who’s Who book…. Jesus I was needy for a sense of place and validation.

Mine were thrown in a box just before graduation and have remained in the same box ever since. Not looked in in many years. Many! I am thankful knowing that I look younger and much better looking since graduation.

He looked high in his HIGH school yearbook.

Back when Facebook had only been around a few years, I looked up one of the worst high school bullies. A truly heinous jock. He is gorgeous, great body (pictures in swim trunks on his boat), and wealthy. Life is really not fair.

R58 so you finally get it.

[Quote] Back when Facebook had only been around a few years, I looked up one of the worst high school bullies. A truly heinous jock. He is gorgeous, great body (pictures in swim trunks on his boat), and wealthy. Life is really not fair.

There’s always hope he’ll die a painful death

[Quote] And the Who’s Who book

Totally forgot about that!

Again, bless the perv in the Yearbook club who took shots of the swim team in their speedos. So fucking hot.

I look at the photos of the best looking guys in my class and remember seeing them naked in the locker room after gym class. I remember how big their cocks were and how much pubic hair they had. I imagined what our teachers looked like naked, how big their cocks were and how much pubic hair they had....

Memories...

[quote] First I was WAY handsomer than I ever thought at the time.

Because you are used to how ugly you are now.

R62 Would love to see this pic.