I avoid most of mine - but I have a vivid memory of one girl who I had the misfortune to be at both primary and secondary school contacting me via Friends Reunited with a very much "Hi! Remember me? Remember how great it was when we did this and this and that and the other? Really hoping to hear from you soon!".

And my immediate thought was:

Yes, I remember that activity holiday. You threw my clothes into the snow in mid-February and left me standing in a towel, let the two biggest bullies in school into the dorm after lights out and giggled with your girl clique whilst it got perilously close to a case of indecency, and said in front of half the class that it was no wonder my mother couldn't have any more kids after she'd seen how I turned out.

Oh yes, I remembered her...

Even my parents comment that my friends seem to either be several years older or several years younger than me. I think that subconsciously, I'm still stuck in the mindset that wants to avoid people my own age as much as possible.

Dammit, I'm IN high school, and I hate the folks that went to high school with me.

And yeah, I get along pretty well with kids. >>

It seems you have to be ten years younger or older than me to get along with me. Well except Sam and Kat, but they're like... awesome, so, yeah. :p

~Tobe

I've only got a few friends my age, and their super nerds like me (even though I hardly ever contact them these days). Everyone else acts like a bunch of loudmouthed idiots.

I actually get along better with kids sometimes, but not if they're total brats.

It doesn't help that I'm a hermit most of the time, anyway.

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It seems you have to be ten years younger or older than me to get along with me. Well except Sam and Kat, but they're like... awesome, so, yeah. :p

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Depends on how old you are, really. So, unless you're 29, making the whole issue moot, I'd argue that our bond of mutual apathy qualifies as "getting along", purely because there's a lack of mutual hatred.

Unless you secretly hate me? :,

I run into some of them...I only went to public high school for 2 years so I didn't meet a huge amount of people or forged many friendships. I see a few down at my college but I see just as many out on the streets. I never really had a problem with anyone in high school and it remains the same now.

Ok, I'll make that a IRL rule only, just for you SH. :p

~Tobe

Yaaaaaay *hug*

In all seriousness, though, I've never seemed to have any problem with people my age... well, I suppose I'm somewhat apathetic, anyway, especially considering people my age are currently in those awkward years where they decide to go binge drinking and stupid crap like that; stuff that I'd never imagine doing. But yeah, usually if I can find a common ground to talk about, I can get along quite well.

Older people I'm pretty good at getting along with (in general, anyway); I've noticed I'm quite good at getting along with teachers, usually. Younger people, on the other hand... they generally annoy me. I mean, the REALLY younger people. Which doesn't really bode well when I have an eight-year-old younger brother, but, well, them's the ropes.

With teachers, it's always love 'em or hate 'em. Hate 'em is the ones that have the mindset of no matter what the arguement, the student is wrong, which is REALLY annoying with some questionable school policies, such as being cheated on or defending yourself (both of which are serious breaches of the rules).

And I generally can't really stay with anyone with an age that ends in "-teen".

The age "thing" seems to be an IRL thing a lot of the time for me, as well - either that or people like Dub, Kat or Tobe here come from somewhere where they breed my age group with a higher probability of brains.

Outside of the group of High School people I was close friends with, I haven't really kept up with anyone from high school, and given my horrible experiences there, I think it's a good thing. My five year reunion was a few weeks ago, and I missed it since I live on the other side of the country, but had I been in New York, I would've seriously considered not going anyway.

Although I did have an online incident about a year ago after Facebook became available at my college (this was before Facebook was open to everyone, and only certain colleges could use it). Someone from my old high school looked me up and asked to "friend" me. It wasn't one of the worse persecutors I had, but this was a guy who had made my life pretty miserable at many points, particularly during junior year theology class when I sat right behind him.

I remember writing a long e-mail to him, saying how I wouldn't even want to be his "friend" on the internet because of the way he treated me. To be honest, I was probably emboldenned by the anonymity the web offers. I don't think I'd ever be brave enough to say some of the things I wrote to anyone's face (unless I was reeeeeally drunk).

He wrote back saying that he didn't remember that, but he was sorry... To be honest, I wasn't sure if he was being honest or not. It was just a weird situation, and one I'd like to avoid happening again. I've got five or six people I was good good friends with back then, and we stay in touch. That's good enough for me.

I've lost touch with everyone I knew at school. for various reasons, I had absolutely no desire to stay in touch with any of them longer than I had to.

I did have the slightly twisted pleasure a couple of years back of being in a management position, and having to hire an electrical contractor in. One of his staff happened to be someone who had pretty much constantly bullied me at school. He walked in the door, saw me, and almost started shaking, as if he was expecting me to enact some horrible revenge on him for what he did to me at school!

You know what I did? I was quite possibly nicer to him than I've ever been to anyone. That was the best revenge of all, as it really freaked him out.

For the two weeks he worked for me, he was walking around with a paranoid look on his face wondering when the nice act would stop and when I would drag him into a back room and make him suffer. Sometimes the ambiguous veiled threat is better than the actual punishment.

...I'd still probably fire him after he got used to it. >>

Why be petty? Why risk your job just to get revenge for crap that happened probably a decade ago?

the age of my circle of freinds varies due to where i met 'em. most these days are from university, so their age is somewhere between 18 and early 30s. ^^

i've lost contact with most of my school/collage freinds, dispite trying to poke 'em online.
the only ones i see most frequently are several of my closest freind from then, and the girl who tried to bully me for a few years. *shrugs*

I seem to get along with most people I graduated high school with.

That said, I seem to have been kick out of my circle of friends... Don't know what I did, but I rarely talk to them.

Most of my friends are within a few years of my own age. In my home town they're on average slightly younger than me and over at uni they're on average slightly older, but there's usually not much in it either way.

I'm terrible at keeping in touch with people long after I stop seeing them regularly, though.

I don't know, all these "be nice to them is your best revenge" things, I never really felt it. I've tried it short term, I've tried it long term, and all I've ever felt was more and more taken-advantage-of.

Despite the fact that she's one of the most vengeful people I know, my mom's given me that advice - and typically, any advice Mom gives is the opposite of what I find the best way to do something. (And before any of you people who haven't happened to have heard of my mom before pounce on that - You're just gonna have to believe me when I say that's not as unwise as it sounds. There's many good reasons why I don't live with her.)