So I’ve been a bit serious lately with one of the bigger challenges in life that I have faced and that is getting betrayed by a business partner.  More will certainly come on that later, but for now, let’s look at something a little different.  Are you ready?  I thought so, let’s read on!

 

The 10 Year High School Reunion

 

Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend my wife’s 10 year high school reunion.  This was held at one of the local universities in a nice big room.  There was also some kind of singles dance down the hall a bit where cologne was running rampant, but more on that later.

 

My wife has spent the last six months going full steam ahead planning this 10 year high school reunion with a couple of her friends.  It’s been her second job.  My second job has then become doing anything to help her work on the reunion, such as keeping our daughter Ellie from chewing on things important to the reunion.

 

So we arrived early to get stuff setup for the reunion and apparently they were planning on having a stage for the reunion but instead there was just an open area against a wall.  Uh oh, things going wrong with something, now that’s absurd!

 

But that’s okay because there was a table, podium, and microphone there.  And a place to hook up a laptop to show a slide show presentation so all was good… or was it?

 

We had food catered to us in a room with about 25 tables each with 10 chairs or so to them.  All of the waiters were Spanish.  So when I said to one of them, ‘these rolls are tasty, can we get some refills?’ I got a um, shrugged shoulders, blank stare to which I responded, ‘don’t worry about it’.  No extra rolls for me to eat, I’m a big boy, I can handle it.

 

And then it came time to show a slide show and, whoops, there is sound but no display.  Luckily, one of the husbands of an alumni, or maybe it was an alumni with a wife, was able to tinker around and working his mojo got the display to work.  Woo hoo, the slide show is full steam ahead.

 

So a few wrenches were thrown into the reunion, but that’s ok.  It worked out great, everyone loved it, and the thanks my wife and the reunion committee got was great.  It goes to show that effort, dedication, and proper planning lead to wonderful things.  The 10 year high school reunion was a big success!

 

After the Reunion

 

Then there’s the after reunion stuff… Which means everyone talking to each other and catching up.  And for the spouses it means finding something to keep yourself occupied.  I had a book that I am reading about real estate.  It’s actually a pretty interesting book so far.  When I am done, I will post a review on the drjerm website, but until then, you can check it out here.

 

And when my neck was hurting from reading, I found myself counting the bark chips in the plant holders, counting the tiles on the walls and floor, and pacing around like an English soldier or wandering drunk, except I wasn’t drunk.  Counting the tiles was fun, it reminded me of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ movie released a few years ago where in prison, Edmond Dantes tells the priest he’s counted 12,000 (or some high number) odd stones and the priest asks him if he’s named them yet to which Edmond balls like a baby.

 

But eventually people dispersed and we cleaned up and got ready to leave.  All in all, a successful event.

 

The Dance

 

On the way out of the university it was very evident that a singles dance was going on.  All I did was walk in the halls as many guys walked by, their hair greasier than a basket of fries, their clothes ironed so much that they look like their poor iron is probably crying from overuse, and the cologne!

 

Wow, I’ve smelled cologne before, but this was more than cologne, it was as if the guys at this dance found a fountain of cologne, and each bathed in it for 40 days in preparation for this big event, and then they washed their clothes in the cologne fountain, and then, after getting dressed, sprayed bottles of cologne on themselves.  I thought I was going to pass out into a coma.  Luckily I made it home, safe and sound.

 

EDIT –> I am sorry for the Google Ads that are being displayed for this article.  I am going to have to tweak this article to get some better, less crude ads to display.

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