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Do you ever keep in touch with your high school friends?
By: Sepideh Date: August 2, 2019, 12:49 pm
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Let me share with you one of the best happenings in my life:
Last week, one of my best friends in high school, called our
home after years! She added me to a group in which my high
school friends were there. She found all of us who now were in a
group. We arranged a meeting and I was so excited to meet each
of them after years!
Do you ever keep in touch with your high school friends?
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Re: Do you ever keep in touch with your high school friends?
By: Allie Date: August 2, 2019, 2:35 pm
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I do!
I am not the kind of person who has many friends, just a few
good ones, so we've been friends for a while.
I met mine when I was visiting my family and we had a great
time! I was really glad to meet them and know I can still rely
on them in spite of the time and the distance
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Re: Do you ever keep in touch with your high school friends?
By: MartinSR Date: August 3, 2019, 2:32 am
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Oh. We have a meeting with our high school friends every 5th
anniversary of our maturity exams...
But I have no contact with anyone inbetween, I have little time
to be in touch with them...
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Re: Do you ever keep in touch with your high school friends?
By: Nikola Date: August 3, 2019, 4:33 am
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I missed quite a few reunions when I lived abroad but I can't
say I regret it too much. I have kept in touch with several
people, my closest friends are a group that never stopped
communicating and hanging out, even though we studied at
different universities, we've lived in different countries, some
of us got married, some have kids, the four of us always find a
way to meet up. It's rarely just the four of us, people bring
their partners, which means that we speak English or German,
sometimes the kids have to come, too, and we have brought our
parents before. It can get busy :)
Apart from these guys, there are about three other people I know
from school and hang out with once in a while. We meet
individually, go to art exhibitions or food festivals or get
philosophical in some quirky pub. I don't feel as motivated when
it comes to meeting up with the rest of the class because some
people tend to brag, some of them just talk about their children
all night and look at you like "you poor thing" because your
life doesn't tick their "ideal life" boxes.
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Re: Do you ever keep in touch with your high school friends?
By: SHL Date: August 3, 2019, 4:55 am
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[quote author=Sepideh link=topic=1295.msg18829#msg18829
date=1564768151]
Let me share with you one of the best happenings in my life:
Last week, one of my best friends in high school, called our
home after years! She added me to a group in which my high
school friends were there. She found all of us who now were in a
group. We arranged a meeting and I was so excited to meet each
of them after years!
Do you ever keep in touch with your high school friends?
[/quote]
Good question about keeping in touch with high school friends.
The answer for me is generally no. I have two friends, only one
of whom is who I would consider a good friend. He’s in Idaho
with a large family and is a native Dutch/English speaker.
The other friend is a former American Airlines Pilot, but he was
kind of a screw up as a pilot and, although he won‘t admit it, I
believe he was forced into early retirement.
In 2008 he was the captain of a flight from Seattle to New York
or Boston. An hour out of leaving Seattle he lost electrical
power and switched to an emergency battery (that is supposed to
last only an hour) while he and his co-pilot tried to figure out
what was wrong. He should have turned around and gone back and
landed or landed at the nearest airport, but he kept talking
with the maintenance people thinking he could fix the problem.
He kept going and must have forgot about the emergency battery
(called the APU I think) which surprisingly lasted about 2
hours, and got over northern Minnesota when suddenly he lost the
emergency battery and everything appeared to be shutting down.
He was left to rely on a stand-by emergency battery back up
system that only can run the flight controls in the cockpit and
a few basics, like the radios. Then he panicked and declared an
emergency and said he had to land at Chicago. So, he came in on
partial power (no lights in the cabin), no way to use the public
address system, and had to slip notes to the stewardesses under
the cockpit door to tell the passengers what was going on. He
landed at Chicago, but couldn’t extend the flaps where they
belonged, due to the power loss, he had to land too fast, he
told me he put one landing gear on the grass next to the runway
to slow down the plane, he couldn’t use the trust reversers (it
was a Boeing 757) to slow the plane and had to apply maximum
braking, and left black marks on the runway almost blowing the
tires out. He almost ran off the end of the runway, but just
barely made it by swerving to the left. The plane was evacuated
using the emergency slides and there were only minor injuries.
But, there was an inquiry and a few people sued.
The story made the news. One lady said the captain ran to the
back of the plane and asked everyone if they were okay. They
said he looked scared and white as a ghost and kept saying the
757 was a very safe plane, that everything was fine, and that he
had logged hundreds of hours in the flight simulator training
other pilots on the plane and not to worry.
I think he never flew after that, although he insisted he did
nothing wrong and that the pilots union was behind him 100%.
I never knew the full story but he sells real estate now. The
guy always was kind of a goofball, even in high school.
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