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I was discussing this school reunion phenomenon with some friends the other day. We are all about the same age so our a few of us suffered through reunions recently or are bang-up looking forward to them in the near future. Noone had any particularly astonishing stories from their reunions but there were the few people who had done “stuff”, like be in a film or go to the Olympics. That sort of stuff. Couple of people had been hit up in the slammer but I’m from Devonport so that’s not really interesting. Then the interesting concept of “just not going” was brought to the table. Well… you have to go don’t you? School = compulsory so therefore school reunions = also compulsory. At least that’s the slim connection I had made and not really given any further thought too. Just not going. Wowsers. Not showing up does add an air of mystery and deviance that would otherwise be missing, but if you aren’t there to enjoy it does it really matter? You have to have a pretty genius excuse to miss the school reunion I think.  And make a video from your alternate location explaining why you couldn’t attend..

“Sorry I’m not there everyone, I’m filming a Hollywood blockbuster in LA. It’s a bit of a drag but the 60 Mil has been nice.” – Cut to gratuitous shot of the Hollywood Hills sign. Preferably have a celebrity friend in the video with you. “Oh, this is my boyfriend. He has a real name, but you guys call just call him Seth-From-The-OC”

“Apologies everyone. I was really hoping to get some time off to come and reunite with you all but obviously curing cancer is quite time consuming. Here we are in the lab..” -Cut to sweeping shot of a gleaming white lab with a bunch of overly beautiful lab assistants/underwear models. Assistant rushes up and whispers something. “Sorry, I’ll just have to look at this” Look into microscope. “Can I have your attention everyone. Cancer is cured.”

“Hola everyone down there on Earth. Sad to be missing out on the reunion but this space station won’t upgrade it’s own software (pause for laughter).” Insert some kind of pun about space. “Hope your all having a good night, I’m feeling a bit spaced out myself (another pause). Camera pans back to reveal me in a spacesuit having off the side of the international space station. Flash a peace sign “Better get back too it. I’ll be back on solid ground next week where I will be staring as myself in a movie about my life as the youngest female astronaut to single handedly do everything ever.”

So clearly unless you come up with some amazing apologies video to send in lieu of yourself, you have to attend your reunion.  There are a few exception to that rule but they are all unmentionable.