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Are there anyone on here who are still in touch with friends (or even those were not quite friends) from their school days, possibly as a result of Facebook or Friends Reunited? I suppose that the technology of the internet and especially social media makes it easier than ever before in that respect, but even then, local newspapers still made it easy to get the message across. In the pre-internet days, it was very easy to lose touch, and one almost feels as if one would never hear from them again, unless it was due to negative connections.
I had just come back this evening from my 40th birthday visit to Berkshire, and dialed 1471 on my landline and found a mobile number that I didn't recognise. I pressed 3 and a familiar name from the past was mentioned in the answer machine message. He rang me back around 20 minutes later and we had a lovely 40 minute nostalgic conversation about our school days - we were in the same class for three of the Primary years, and to say that I didn't have much of a good time at school, what with me being a target for bullying and peer pressure, but he was definitely one of the good guys in my class - he said that had even posted me a birthday present inside a Jiffy Bag although I haven't opened it at the moment of writing this. He has done well, and went to university and so on which considering the school we both went to seemed rather implausible in hindsight considering how rough the area was. I actually sent a Christmas card to his old place where he moved away from in 1998 and that more or less triggered things off - he wrote back at the start of this year, and I sent him a birthday card for his 40th earlier on this year as well. It had been 30 years since we were in the same class together.
We were namedropping former pupils and teachers as if there were no tomorrow and having a good natter into the bargain of things such school trips and all that, and it was like a virtual school reunion over the telephone - it was so fitting that he rang me as I have reached my 40th birthday - the telephone call was just like a birthday present in itself. He said that if we wanted to stay in touch meet up, it was fine by him.
So, are there other people on here who are still in touch with people they went to school with, or does anyone actually think that keeping in touch with someone associated with the past might be a dangerous thing (such as the unearthing of a few skeletons in the cupboard that time should have forgotten), and that one's school days are water under the bridge and therefore we should let bygones be bygones? I have often thought of that as being a bit risky looking back as we should move forwards in life, but they do say that time is a great healer.
I had just come back this evening from my 40th birthday visit to Berkshire, and dialed 1471 on my landline and found a mobile number that I didn't recognise. I pressed 3 and a familiar name from the past was mentioned in the answer machine message. He rang me back around 20 minutes later and we had a lovely 40 minute nostalgic conversation about our school days - we were in the same class for three of the Primary years, and to say that I didn't have much of a good time at school, what with me being a target for bullying and peer pressure, but he was definitely one of the good guys in my class - he said that had even posted me a birthday present inside a Jiffy Bag although I haven't opened it at the moment of writing this. He has done well, and went to university and so on which considering the school we both went to seemed rather implausible in hindsight considering how rough the area was. I actually sent a Christmas card to his old place where he moved away from in 1998 and that more or less triggered things off - he wrote back at the start of this year, and I sent him a birthday card for his 40th earlier on this year as well. It had been 30 years since we were in the same class together.
We were namedropping former pupils and teachers as if there were no tomorrow and having a good natter into the bargain of things such school trips and all that, and it was like a virtual school reunion over the telephone - it was so fitting that he rang me as I have reached my 40th birthday - the telephone call was just like a birthday present in itself. He said that if we wanted to stay in touch meet up, it was fine by him.
So, are there other people on here who are still in touch with people they went to school with, or does anyone actually think that keeping in touch with someone associated with the past might be a dangerous thing (such as the unearthing of a few skeletons in the cupboard that time should have forgotten), and that one's school days are water under the bridge and therefore we should let bygones be bygones? I have often thought of that as being a bit risky looking back as we should move forwards in life, but they do say that time is a great healer.
One guy as nice as he was and was a semi-friend at school, but was better on FB only talked about his Window Repair buisness and his love of old Ford Escorts and a lot of bragging over "Ttamlined Hair" nearly getting him excluded which was never so - then he just beamoaned my Original Home Town saying he had many Windows to repair - making out it was the only place that attracted yobbos for the need to repair Windows - so as nice as he was in trying to organise potiental re-unions , he was too far in love with himself I felt and now in hindsight he is no better than he was at school!
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