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Biography Ideas
You've had a very rich life since Handley High School days. There's no shortage of things you can tell us.
Here's 10 ideas that you might want to keep in mind as you let your classmates in on your life.
Keeping them in mind as we all visit together at the reunion should also serve you well. If none of the 10 work for you then consider the added one, number 11.
1. You could begin by telling us how you benefitted from your Handley experience. Perhaps you could recall some of your extra-curricular activities and how they helped you achieve success in life.
Coach Mitchum: "Memorize this letter. Don't tackle anyone wearing it."
HHS Defensive Lineman: "OK, coach, I'll try remembering."
2. You could tell us about some of your successes in life since leaving old HHS.
"Teacher says if I don't do well in school, I'll end up like you."
3. Perhaps sharing some of the humorous things that have happened to you would be interesting to your classmates.
"You're using my athlete's foot ointment."
4. Sharing some of your hopes and wishes with your classmates would most certainly be something that would help them to see the real, inner you.
"I know it's sudden, but I want a divorce."
5. Well, along with these ideas it might be good to avoid some life experiences that might tend to be a little too revealing and might diminish our perception of your otherwise perfect life.
"You're not making any sense! First you say your wife ran off with your best friend, and then you tell us you never actually met the guy."
6. Part of enjoying the reunion is the anticipation of renewing acquaintance with some old classmates that you've perhaps communicated with, but not actually seen for many, many years. Just don't be disappointed if you find that nature has demonstrated its perverse sense of humor in our features as we've grown older.
"When you told me on the phone you were 42, 22, 38, I didn't realize you meant your age, your I.Q., and your shoe size."
7. Don't forget that you'll be able to renew your connection with your teachers from old HHS and to give them an update about yourself after all of those years.
"I'll never forget the time you strapped me for talking in class."
8. It might be wise to leave out some of the injustices that you have experienced, as well, since we've all experienced such things, and there's no point excessively burdening others with your petty problems.
"The jury has found you not guilty, but I'm going to give you two years just to be on the safe side."
9. Of course we'd all be delighted to hear a little about your family. Just don't bore us all to death with an excessive amount of details, but that's just common sense, isn't it.
"Don't do that while I'm eating."
10. Finally, I'd suggest that you keep any discussion of your medical problems to a minimum since at our age we all get plenty of gall bladder discussions every day of the year among our everyday acquaintences.
"Hospital regulations. You gotta wear the straps while I read you the bill."
11. If you can't think of anything else, you could always tell us how you met your spouse.
Perhaps it was a chance meeting that quickly turned into love at first sight. It happens, you know.
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