Seeing kids you went to school with on the street, and then remembering they're not kids anymore, and neither are you?

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eweguess@reddit

It’s wild to me that so many people still live in the same town where they went to school, and so do most of their former classmates. I went to three elementary schools, one middle school, and three high schools. All in different states. Since leaving high school I have lived in five cities, none of which were where I went to any school other than college\ The odds of me running into someone I went to school with as a kid, on the street, are astronomical.\ I really thought that was kind of normal, lol.

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Salty-Ganache3068@reddit

Nope. Because the last time I saw someone from school was the year I graduated.

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Bartlaus@reddit

Some years ago I started noticing that I might sometimes no longer recognize my old schoolmates but I WOULD often recognize their children.

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248Spacebucks@reddit

This is my daughter. I no longer look like I did in high school but she looks EXACTLY like I did in high school.

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

I wonder how come some people's kids look like carbon copies of one parent, like yours, and other people's kids don't look very much like either parent, except maybe a feature. 🤔

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SubstanceNo1544@reddit

Yeah ive always thought its a little strange how eerily similar I look to my father (especially now that I'm pushing 50) and you have to really look to find any of my mothers traits. Shit dad and I are within 1/2 an inch in height and I only outweigh him cause well.. he's 80 and doesn't eat anymore lol.

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248Spacebucks@reddit

Dude, genetics are WILD. My kids are made with all the same ingredients, one is 6 foot 3 and one is 4 foot 11. Neither resembles their father in any way physically.

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Porterhouse417good@reddit

Yeah, my kiddo is definitely cooler than I was at her age. 🤭

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HenryLoggins@reddit

Same hahahaha

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b1e9t4t1y@reddit

Seeing kids you taught on the street with kids the same age as the parents were when you taught them. 💀

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GenXist@reddit

Nah, my dude... It's seeing them in the obituaries that's fucking me up.

Most days, I think damn... S/he was a relatively young, that sucks, but... More and more recently, I've been thinking about how lucky they are to be just be done with this.

A job well done may feel sort of fulfilling, but NOTHING feels as good as clocking out.

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Malapple@reddit

I moved away from home at around 17 and moved out of state a few years later. I now go back occasionally and always look for familiar faces. Always have to force myself to think they’ll be older and probably graying… like me.

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Hepkat98@reddit

I have an ex-boyfriend that I see around town periodically. Then I realize he's not 25 anymore, so it's definitely not him. Then again, I'm not 25 either.

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

I don't necessarily do this with kids, but more like adult people I have known. I think it's someone I know/knew and then I realize they wouldn't look like that anymore because it's been 20+ years.

Also with cars. I'll see a car that's like someone's I used to know, and try to catch up to look who's driving it, then realize I am not even in the same state anymore and I highly doubt they'd still have that car anyway.

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Bazoun@reddit

I had a little reunion with my old friends this past summer. I hadn’t been home in ~10 years, and I hadn’t been around much since high school.

I knew I had aged, but somehow I expected that they would sort of still look the same, so I was shocked at the grey hair - I really expected to be the only one grey.

We had a great time, I have to go back faster than 8 years.

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Porterhouse417good@reddit

My best friend from school sent me pics of our last reunion that I didn't go to. I've never been to one at all. When I saw them, I was thinking, "Who are all those sad, old people?" (Apx 10 or so showed up)That particular reunion was at a local to them bar. A couple of the people were just looking at their mugs of beer forlornly, seemingly regretting some of their life choices.

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IfICouldStay@reddit

So I had to get a new dentist recently. I set up my appointment and noticed that the dentist had the same name as a guy I went to high school with. But when I got there it was this old man. Couldn’t be him. Yet as he was working on my teeth I kept thinking he looked familiar - tall, same voice. But he was so old! Maybe he’s my classmate’s father? It bugged me so much that after I rinsed I asked him, “hey, did you go to XYZ high?”

“Yes” he responds.

“Class of dickity-two?”

“Yes”.

So it’s him. “Oh, I knew it. You were in my class!”

“Really?” He says, and leans back to look at me. “What did you teach?”

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AlfaNovember@reddit

Yup! I’m back visiting my hometown for a few days, having moved across the country 30 years ago. I keep expecting to run into people from Highschool as though no time had passed. An expectation that prompts me to wonder if any of these ‘old’ dudes I’m seeing are people I once knew, and now no longer recognize.

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DaddyOhMy@reddit

I once bumped into someone I hadn't seen in nearly 20 years and then I realized it wasn't them, it was someone who happened to look like the person looked like 20 years ago.

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cran-mangosteen@reddit

Luckily, I have no chance of running into anyone I knew when I was younger. The only person I am friends with is 26 so if I happen to go out, it's with people half my age. I don't know what people my age do. I don't know what they wear or where they buy clothes. My body is 50 but my brain never progressed out of my 20s. I spend an ungodly amount of time at cleveland clinic and when people my age try to talk to me they may as well be speaking gibberish.

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That_Pen_1912@reddit

I am like this as in I’m like there’s that kid who shits his pants. But I don’t have this oh yeah I’m an old lady myself. My age is “regular” and everyone else is old or young in relation.

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Guidance-Still@reddit

Seeing the hottest girl in school that everyone wanted , divorced single moms with multiple kids and multiple husbands

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Upset_Peace_6739@reddit

For me it’s seeing kids I used to babysit that no have their own kids.

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Drunkskunk22@reddit

This happens to me all the time. My classmates age too! Who woulda thunk?

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LayerNo3634@reddit

It's amazing how all of my friends have aged, but I haven't...at least I don't think I have...I would know, right?!?

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BuDu1013@reddit

My best line of defense is a close shave and a shaved head not one white hair.

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ChavoDemierda@reddit

It really sucks when you recognize that homeless guy, then realize he was a friend of yours in school.

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PassComprehensive425@reddit

I recognized the eyes. I was "That man remind me of that cute guy from hs," as we were driving down the street. When I was told that is him. And then got the sad story on how he ended up homeless. Saw him consistently until right before Covid. Here's hoping he finally got the help he needed.

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ChavoDemierda@reddit

One of my best friends from middle school ended up homeless because of undiagnosed schizophrenia. Even though his father was a retired cop, the other cops didn't care and shot him dead instead of getting him the care he needed. I'm still friends with his cousin. The entire family felt betrayed by his dad's former colleagues. I would too.

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agravain@reddit

I dont live anywhere near where I grew up, so I never run into anyone I knew in high school.

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SprinklesOriginal150@reddit

I have recognized and greeted people by name that I haven’t seen since junior high and they always get all freaked out. 😂 Guess I just have a good memory for faces.

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egret_society@reddit

There’s an Emo Phillips joke there.

https://youtu.be/CDH9JblkzLM

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raistlinwizard1@reddit

How do you recognize them?? People's appearance changes so much over many years' time, not to mention decades...🤔

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HenryLoggins@reddit

Not everyone changes that much. I’ve seen some almost unrecognizable people, but for example, I look very similar Same face, overall shape, etc…. Just older and gray.

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Befuddled_GenXer@reddit

Same here. I've exchanged acne for gray hair, but otherwise I look like an older version of my high school self.

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ChavoDemierda@reddit

Yeah, I look pretty much the same except I gained a few pounds.

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RunsWithPremise@reddit

I'm at the age where we are definitely seeing who is aging well and who isn't. I feel like I'm aging pretty well, all things considered. But I chose to make exercise, hydration, and a somewhat healthy diet a part of my life. I see some other former classmates on Facebook and it looks like they chose boxed wine and cigarettes. Then there are some who are aging as well or better than I am. There is one woman I went to high school with who doesn't look like she has really aged at all past early 30's.

It's a little strange to think about the fact that I was 18 when I finished high school and I've been alive another 25+ years since then.

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MaddMango68@reddit

I'll meet someone out in the wild that I haven't seen since high school. I'll play nice and be cordial, but as soon as I get home I'll breakout the years books. It won't be my HS books though, it has to be my junior high books. I'm not sure why, and no, it wasn't all the drugs and rock and roll. HS is a blur to me.

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MassDelusion101@reddit

Recently went to an event knowing one of my former high school besties was going to be there, as well. Had not seen her face-to-face in almost 40 years. When someone pointed her out to me I was flabbergasted by how much my friend had aged. I immediately texted my daughter and said “IM OLD!” because I knew darn well if her aging startled me, then I was delusional to think the person I saw in the mirror everyday hadn’t dramatically aged, as well, over the years. 😆

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gimme3strokes@reddit

Yeah, it hits hard.

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zeldasusername@reddit

Actually I was recently home and kept doing that, looking at these kids thinking that's what's his name

I did recognise someone eventually while he was following me around the shopping centre, little weirdo

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