From LordVoldemort7: I enjoy when people hate me. You’re spending your time thinking about me & I don’t know who you are. Whose life is pathetic again?

Ha ha ha! Well said, Lord Voldemort!

You know, Steve, some other people have asked me if I thought that the MA’ers would be reading this any time soon. I figure that the answer is a resounding “no,” but who knows. Like I said in the entry, I never disliked any of these kids back when they weren’t well-known in school and I was Mr. Popularity and, other than their continuing immaturity (i.e. that stupid picture) and inability to get over themselves, I have no issues with them now.

I hope that they have nice lives and that they’ve matured and experienced the world outside of their delusions.

Hi Stuck in MA,

Thanks for the comment. I can sense your frustration with the way that some of these MA’ers acted at the High School reunion. I couldn’t agree more with your big fish/small pond analogy, too. And I’m definitely pitying them – I couldn’t imagine living my life with such a small-minded, insular view of the world like some of these folks.

Thanks,
Joe

I wonder if any of them will find this (do people like this read?) and if so whether or not they’ll take anything you’ve written to heart.

People change… you marry, develop new interests, and in people who GROW and MATURE, your friends and other social circles change to reflect this progression.

When we went to his reunion, the most common phrase in the book they prepared was “I graduated on Saturday, and then went to work at the Pathmark, where everyone I’d graduated with started to work.” With the women, the phrase was followed by like “Angie and I are still best friends and still work at the Pathmark as cashiers.” Many of these people had been married multiple time.

We left early because the 80’s music was BLARING and not conducive to conversation. As I remarked, if you see each other every day, there is no need to have the music at a level suitable for conversation…

No one from this group grew and matured… they were still high school mentality in the body of a forty-something. Marriage was treated with the importance of a dating experience, and the divorce appeared to be no more shattering than breaking up with a high school boyfriend, perhaps because that was the pool form which the husband originated.

Your acquaintances are similar… they have nothing in their life in the 20+ years since school, and are still trapped in high school. Pity them that their lives are so empty that high school experiences ae still their most important, and remember such a state is one of laziness. YOU did the work to progress through college and life. YOU matured. They did not, as is evidenced by the crude, classless, graphic.

I teach at the local community college, and can tell the students who will enter the same path because college is an extension of high school in New Jersey, or at least at the community college level. They flunk out because they value a social life more than the degree and are unwilling to do the work to succeed.

Also, MA is a community that breeds pettiness and doesn’t seem to believe in educational achievement (i.e. the mayor). The entire place has a big fish/small pond mentality. Also a lot of screamers but few willing to work (again the entire council situation). I thank God, we are temporary residents, and my children will NOT attend school there.

Shocking as the picture is/was, remember, you matured and outgrew high school. These individuals did not. Do not be angry, but pity them instead.