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Alfas
Jul 9, 2020 13:42:59 GMT
Post by Humph on Jul 9, 2020 13:42:59 GMT
I rather prefer staying sober at those sorts of gatherings, one learns so much more...
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Alfas
Jul 9, 2020 13:44:35 GMT
Post by tyrednexited on Jul 9, 2020 13:44:35 GMT
I rather prefer staying sober at those sorts of gatherings, one learns so much more... 😉 I would have to be far from sober in advance to even contemplate any re-union at my School. |
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Jul 9, 2020 13:46:59 GMT
Post by Humph on Jul 9, 2020 13:46:59 GMT
Why am I not surprised?
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Alfas
Jul 9, 2020 13:56:54 GMT
Post by tyrednexited on Jul 9, 2020 13:56:54 GMT
..it's odd, really. My school has an Old Boy's association. It is (or appears to be) still active, though it was long atrophied before I even got there, let alone left. I don't think they have a single member from beyond 10 years before my arrival there, which makes them all very, very old (A fact I thought I'd point out before you do  ). |
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Jul 9, 2020 14:02:39 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 14:02:39 GMT
In truth I've never attended an official school reunion because I'm in touch with so many of my class mates still, and we socialise together frequently. Well, we did, and hope to again. We've had a few beer and gin fuelled zoom calls recently. Good lads.
On the day I bought my first Alfa (of only 2, I'm not utterly mental), I met them at a pub to show it off. Rare for me to drive to a boozer, so it really was a special event. Their faces were a picture, and they didn't take the mickey at all, when we noticed the fuel dripping from the tank on to the pub car park surface...bonus hilarity because the same fault had materialised on the Citroen GSA I'd had a couple of cars earlier...the tale is still recalled on a regular basis, like a broken Qashqai door mirror, or a wrecked alloy.
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Jul 9, 2020 14:09:38 GMT
Post by tyrednexited on Jul 9, 2020 14:09:38 GMT
My schoolmates largely disappeared off to University, and then became very much a diaspora, far too widespread to keep in touch with.
The one I did actively keep up with until fairly recently went completely off the radar a year or two ago (house sold, no new address, disappeared, no exchange of Christmas cards!). A bit of a mystery after staying in touch for almost 50 years, and meeting up until not long before.
I still correspond with a few University friends, and am in touch with ex-work colleagues, but School is now a distant past.
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Jul 9, 2020 14:16:22 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 14:16:22 GMT
We all managed to keep in touch during University years, thanks to the invention of postal services, and then the telephone and the internal combustion engine.
I'm in regular socialising contact with 3 University friends, far fewer than my school friends. Most people at my University were unconscionable arseholes for varying reasons.
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Jul 9, 2020 14:23:28 GMT
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Jul 9, 2020 14:51:59 GMT
Post by Humph on Jul 9, 2020 14:51:59 GMT
There was a sort of gang of 12 that I hung about with at school or around that time. One became a fast jet pilot in the RAF and subsequently a BA pilot, another a museum curator, 3 of them are dead, another has a large PR company, one is a surgeon, another ran a soccer school in America, one, who was exceedingly popular and 'successful' with the girls, became a lawyer and now lives with his husband, one went quite high up in banking, another was a senior police officer, one is now a partner in a large firm of accountants. And then there's me. Oh well, at least I'm not one of the dead ones. 😉
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Jul 9, 2020 14:57:59 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 14:57:59 GMT
Never mind Humph, I bet none of them have got an Aygo.
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Jul 9, 2020 14:59:39 GMT
Post by Humph on Jul 9, 2020 14:59:39 GMT
You know, I think you might be right.
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Jul 9, 2020 15:16:03 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 15:16:03 GMT
My two wealthiest and most successful (in business) school friends live near to central London and DNGAF about cars. Last time I saw one of them with a car he was in an absolutely knackered 1998 FIAT Bravo. The pair of them are multi-millionaires, having started and sold very successful companies. The other one is the son of a minor celebrity, who used to drive about in a FIAT 126.
Actually they're both very successful in their personal lives too, with very glamorous and intelligent wives, and a nice crop of children, so at least we've got that in common.
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Jul 9, 2020 15:25:52 GMT
Post by Humph on Jul 9, 2020 15:25:52 GMT
Of my previous list, there's an eclectic group of cars, I'll mix them up in a different order but they include, an old 240 estate, an old Z3, a new 7 series, a newish Discovery, a very new Porsche 911 ( or whatever they call them now ) a Defender, a V90, a Tiguan ( but we always did wonder ) and my wagon.
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Jul 9, 2020 15:27:59 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 15:27:59 GMT
240 please. Lots of SUVs there.
Of course the best vehicle any of my friends owns is the Concorde Credo.
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