Things to report from Reunion 2002 for class of 1997 at a former seven sisters college that is now coed.
1) The current students make me weep for the future. Porn star chic is in with the ladies (nice!) while fratboy chic is in with the men, leader to a near bench clearing brawl.
Girl, class of 2002: Are you an alum?
Bad Man: Yeah. 97.
Girl: I hope we've been living up to your expectations. We've gotten pretty wild. [grabs breasts]
Bad: I'm sure you're doing just fine.
Girl: We've been pretty raunchy [wriggles in seat]
Bad: I'm glad to hear it.
Girl: Like getting naked in the library.
Bad: That's cool. We used to fuck in the Stacks downstairs.
Girl: No, I mean, like, getting naked in the general area where everyone is. I'm on film!
Bad: Right on.
Girl: [grabs Bad, kisses him, and then walks away]
2) Reunion is apparently a time to vent old frustrations and pent up hostilities.
Bad: I just wanted to tell you, you look stunning tonight.
Girl: Thanks. Here's that drink I promised you last night. Oh yeah - you said the single meanest thing anyone has ever said to me.
Bad: [adopts defensive posture] I did? When?
Girl: Freshman year
Bad: Christ, what'd I say?
Girl: [repeated portion omitted]
Bad: Wow. I'm a dick. I'm sorry.
Girl: I feel much better now. Nine years of hating you, alleviated in one night. Give me a hug. [Exceedingly tall girl in heels hugs Bad into her bosom]
Bad: [thinking: What the fuck is going on here?] I'm so sorry. I had no idea. You're misinterpreting what I said. You should just have come to me.
Girl's friend: How could she talk to you? You were busy sleeping your way around campus.
Bad: I slept with three people while I was at that college, I don't know what you're talking about.
Girl's friend: Only pretty people? Jesus, Bad, I know you're shallow, but come on.
Bad: THREE. THE NUMBER.
Girl's friend: Oh. That's not what I heard.
Bad: Who the hell was talking about me?
Girl: Well, after my other friend C broke up with you and wouldn't even tell _me_ why, and we never figured out why, we just all decided to hate you.
Bad: Christ. You don't know why EITHER?
Girl: We assumed you knew.
Bad: I have no idea why she dumped me, she won't talk to me to this day. Find out and call me.
Girl: Right.
[this terminates soon after with an admonition by Girl's Friend that men at this college were all horrible, she never would look at any of them and she was upset because she never once got laid when she was a student.]
3) Reunion is a great time to reminisce
Friend: Yeah, so for my birthday I asked my girlfriend Junior year for a threesome.
Bad: What'd she say?
Friend: Well, first I suggested her friend Swedishgirl, to which I was summarily slapped.
Bad: Figures
Friend: Then I turned it on her - who would it be, I asked her.
Bad: And?
Friend: She said [Bad's exgirlfriend from Sophomore year]. She became a slut after you were done with her. Hangon, she was with you for a year, she was a slut then too. Anyway, girlfriend said simply "I want to see what all the hubbub is about."
4) Reunion is a great time to make new friends out of people that used to see you around.
Woman who has put on 40 pounds: You don't know me but I used to sit next to you at the editorial board meetings of the school paper.
Bad: Uh, hi.
Woman: Can I buy you a drink?
Bad: I'm ok, I've got this.
Woman: Ok. Well, here's to the school paper.
Bad: Here's to it.
Also several incidences of "nice to meet you, I was in X class with you, and you didn't know me."
Five years until the next one.
I'm sending thank you postcards to all the nice people that took the time to berate me for being a bad person during reunion.
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