This was a really cool evening! Bryan is in the process of getting a band together at the moment. When we were at Freedomfest the other day, he ran into a friend who had a brother that is a drummer looking to join a band. Well, tonight we met up with this guy. He owns a pizza place and has a rehearsal room in the back of his restaurant. We stayed awhile and they talked and stuff.

Finally, we left. As I walked out the door, I heard a guy say my name. I turned around and he said, "Are you Stacy Clayton?" (which Clayton was my maiden name). I said, "Yes." Come to find out it was a friend of mine I hung out with in high school named John. Him and I were very close friends (actually I had a crush on him, but he never knew it). I introduced him to my boyfriend and we talked for awhile. Talking about the good old 80's a lot and what we had been up to in the last few years. Wow! I hadn't seen this guy since 1989! We are going to try to keep in touch. Come to find out he is a drummer in a band as well. The funny thing was I was just looking at a school yearbook about 2 weeks ago showing Bryan people I used to hang out with. Small world, huh?

Have you all ran into people you had not seen in years from your 80's past?

Sometimes. I ran into a girl I went to school with (she had to leave because she was pregnant) at Wal-Mart. She got a job there after her second kid was born. We caught up a little bit here and there, when I saw her.

One girl turned into such a snob, it was unbelievable!! This girl was such a brainiac, and she ended up going to a cosmetology school (we all thought she'd do Ivy League, that's how bright she is) and now works at the flippin' K MART!!! At least she could've persued the cosmetolgy career! Why get that training if you're never going to use it?? She's got a lot of attitude for someone who folds towels for a living. Don't get me wrong, I worked overnight stock at KMart. As long as the money is green, I have no problem with an honest day's work. But I certainly wouldn't stick my nose in the air over it. ;)

Lordy, Lordy!! :lol: If I think of anymore, I'll let you know.

I don't run into too many people from my past. I have had a friend since middle school which was the last school we attended together. I have known him since 87. Even to this day, I talk to him almost daily on ICQ and meet up with him every so many months. I moved to Portland and he still lives in Salem, but its only about 50 miles away.

I ran into a few old friends from my freshman year several years ago at a college. One guy hadn't changed much. He took me over the the house of the other guy. I didn't even recognize the other guy and his personality now is WAY different.

Overall, I rarely run into old 80's friends. Many of them moved to other states, or they are too busy raising their family or being married to deal with anybody. I don't want to find anybody from my high school because the school royally sucked and was full of stuck up rich punks.

If I see someone I knew 10 years ago and they were a friend of mine, I will say something, but I don't go out of my way. Most of them are now married, have the 2.5 kids, a house, and the white picket fence. Nothing that really interests me.

Yeah it happens from time to time. Copenhagen isn't that big big, so it's inevitable to meet people from the past on occasion .... I run onto people from elementary or high school. We usually end up talking for a little while and that's it.

I have some friends I still see on a regular basis :)

I see a lot of people from school in my store. It's usually fun when I see them.
A guy I dated in high school came in Christmas Eve this year. He was with his dad and a few other guys. His dad was asking me questions about a flag we have out in front of our store. Neither me or the guy I dated said a thing to each other. I don't know if he recognized me or not. I really, really wish I had said something though.:rolleyes: I was always so intimidated by this guy. I don't even know what I told his dad. I was totally nervous for some stupid reason.

Nope. I wish I did. Unfortunately all of my friends from the 80's are 2000 miles east of me. :( Miss those poeple a lot too.

I do!! Like Val, one works at Wal Mart! lol My friend has 2 kids and is on her second marriage :eek: I still see her sometimes at Wal Mart. We are friendly but that is about it.

Usually when i see someone I went to school with I try to avoid them. :D :p I just don't care for having to pretend to give a shit. Is that so bad of me?? :angel:

I run into people all the time. The Westchester County NY music scene was a very tight knit one. Everyone pretty much knew everyone else, or at least heard of them. Since I'm still involved in the scene, I run into mates from the 80's all the time. It's like we never went away....we just linger on like mustard gas! :laugh:

I have run into some of the people that I hung out with in the 80s, but most of them are serving time at this moment. I did run into the parents of one of my best friends about a couple of months ago and I did not realize who they were. Their son is right now serving 95 years in prison. It was really shocking that the parents remembered who I was.

Yup, see my family allll the time. :lol: :p

I come from a small town, so whenever I go home to visit my father, I inevitably run into various and assunder people that I knew while growing up. Most of the time they are people that I don't want to meet again! ;) I have run into a few good friends that I hadn't seen in years as well as a few of my favorite school teachers! :)

Last month I looked up an old classmate while I was driving home from my college reunion. (Okay, so I had a big crush on her in high school, but hey, that was 14 years ago.) What was weird was that I had done a Google search on her on a lark a week before, not expecting to get any hits. I was surprised to find her living up in Ohio. (We both went to high school in New Hampshire, and most of my classmates still live in the Northeast. So anyone living on this side of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio I'd consider as being in "my neck of the woods.")

Anyway, I was driving back from my college reunion in upstate New York, and my itnierary took me through Cleveland, which was not too far from where she lived. (Hiram, for those of you who live up that way.) So I decided to make a side trip to drop in and just say "Hi, remember me?" She was just as surprised and glad to see me, and we spent the rest of the morning catching up on the past 14 years. I probably won't see her again for another 14 years or more, so I'm glad that I did.

I ran into an old boyfriend a couple years back at a gas station. It was fun to see him, but still made me kind of nervous in that goofy crush fluttery heart kind of way. :rolleyes: I guess it was the old feelings surfacing from seeing him again. He had just gotten divorced and I found out he lived less than a mile away from me. But I never ran into him again after that.

I have run into a couple of friends and acquaintances from high school who had kids in the same preschool program as my son.

The funniest run-in was at a grocery store I ran into a friend from my old neighborhood who I'd known since before Kindergarten. I was just getting ready to move into our first house, and found out it was on the same road she lived on. They had just moved there two months earlier. Plus we both had sons named Ian, who are just 6 weeks apart! Our Ians are now good friends and we've been able to keep in contact.:)

I met a few old friends from way back and it's fun. One of them is on a commercial for East Side Marios from time to time! I'm currently trying to meet some more friends whom I haven't seen for eons.