Met an old school friend via facebook, the bit that grabbed my interest was that his avatar was of a mountain bike in the mud. Added as a friend, started talking and found out that 25yrs since we'd been at school we both loved mountain biking and decided to meet up.
So for the last 18months we've been all over UK with the latest trip to Dartmoor this weekend and a week's bothey / bivvying in Scotland planned for 2011 as neither of us has an overpowering wife that won't let us go out cycling as others who need permission to go to a reunion do seems to require.
We regularly laugh at the posts people up up from our school days and neither of us have any compunction to meet up with them as none of them ride mountain bikes!
I did have an invite for my 10 year reunion - I declined.
do many people here only have friends who ride bikes?
Folk i went to school with and bump into occasionally, recognise me instantly and i'm still scratching my head wondering who the hell it could have been, days later..
I'm glad that's not just me then. I get recognised by people I was at infant school with, I mean WTF?
Have only seen one person occasionally since the day i left. Would be good to go back for a laugh (Wouldn't remember many names) just to see how many had managed to stay out of prison (It were rough!:-))
I went to one, was better than I'd expected, I'm still good mates with a few folks from school though so it's not like it was a room full of basic strangers. Had one great conversation with one guy...
"How come you're not talking to us"
"Well Laurie, you were a c**t at school and it seems like you're still a c**t"
"Oh. Fair enough. Is that why Graham isn't talking to us?"
"I'd imagine so, hang on, I'll check. Oi, Graham?"
"What?"
"Are you not talking to Laurie just because he's a c**t?"
"Well, he always used to be a c**t, what are the odds he's changed?"
"Fair enough"
Turns out Laurie had no idea he was a c**t. He was most surprised.