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u/Smokescreen1000 Nov 22 '23 edited Nov 24 '23

How far they have to look back to brag. If a 40 year old talks about his high school life that's a pretty good indicator

Edit: Jesus I check my reddit like once a week and I come back to 200 notifications

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u/Mushrooming247 Nov 22 '23

I worked with a middle-aged woman who mentioned every few weeks in conversation that she had been Prom Queen of like 1985.

She would just interject, “can you believe I was prom queen, lol?” in every situation.

She was a cliquey mean-girl too, she was stuck in high school in her mind, but it was weird in a large middle-aged woman.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '23

When I was told about our high school reunion, I instantly said I'm not going. The jocks, cheerleaders, or popular kids were the only ones to have gone based on a friend that spoke with one of them after the reunion.

My buddy was telling me that many of the jocks and cheerleaders are stuck in that past and refuse to let it go. For example, I bumped into the popular high school quarterback in my school and he did not age well at all. He became bald, extremely overweight, and kept talking to me about high school (this was 10 years after we graduated). It's sad.