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"*sniff*"

I used to hate school (it was 20 years ago, yet I still know I hate it). But strangely I got an email from an old school friend who I hadn't seen for 2 decades yesterday, saying 'Hi, remember me?' and all the fun memories came flooding back.

He's now a massive Quake/UT and flight sim fan, works for IBM, and we've started emailing each other with lots of 'do you remember when...?' type emails.

It's all because I signed up at friendsreunited.co.uk (it's free, but unless you manage to insert your email address in your profile without them noticing it'll cost people £5 a year to email you). It's a great site where you just find your school, insert the year you left, and it brings up a list of all the other kids that left the same year as you, and you can scroll a year or two either side if you left early or late and catch up with all your old mates. Most of them have profiles as well, you can add yours to let people know what you're doing now.

(The girl I had a crush on in the school band turns out to be married, one kid, living in Australia. Damn...).

They've just added workplaces on there too, Special Reserve Limited is even listed, so you can catch up with old workmates in previous jobs and so on.

I'm now off to locate Terry Madden, who, whilst we worked together at PJ Sales Ltd in 1993, borrowed my copy of Super Smash TV for the Megadrive and never gave it back. I'm hoping he's still got it or there'll be trouble.

FantasyMeister wrote:

I'm now off
> to locate Terry Madden, who, whilst we worked together at PJ Sales Ltd in 1993,
> borrowed my copy of Super Smash TV for the Megadrive and never gave it back.
> I'm hoping he's still got it or there'll be trouble.

Hah! I found this last bit so very amusing. Must have been a good game!

~Resurection~ wrote:
> Ah if only i had friends at school, maybe i could train my body up and go get
> those people that didn't like me.

like the ones who called me Martin Cloones
> grrrrrrrr

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Ha ha! Sorry, couldn't help it

I went to a different high school to all my friends at primary school, most of them went to Heaton Manor

Well when we were in year 7, I thought most of them would be at the primary school fair, so I went along and sure enough all my old friends were there

And you know what? They couldn't even remember my name! It only took them a year to almost completely forget me!

Crazy!

Ah if only i had friends at school, maybe i could train my body up and go get those people that didn't like me.

like the ones who called me Martin Cloones grrrrrrrr

Man, I keep forgetting to look up my old mate from primary school

He's probably at Uni right now, he was a genius

If there was a way of getting their address, it would be worth the £5 so you can put dog much through their letter boxes and stuff, but otherwise, I'm not interested.

The people I went to school with that I want to keep in contact with,I do.
The others?

Don't want to speak to them anymore anyway

I'll sign up in 20 years :)

I was going to sign up, but then I realised I'm still in school, and I can see them any day.

Damn.

I'm not sure that I'd actually want to see anyone from my school once I've left. I'll probably get shot or something before a 20 year reunion, anyways.

I signed up to them, and have only got 1 email so far, but then thats probably because I signed up my name in a different year so I could see everyone else without them seeing me.