Those delightfully awkward days of unrequited crushes, backpacks covered in rock and roll pins, and locker mirrors are back to haunt me.  My ten year high school reunion is next weekend and I am not only feeling old, but wondering if I should go and make myself feel all old and awkward. 

This may come as a surprise to you, so hold onto your rolling chairs - I was a teenage geek.  This was before you could cozy up to the term Geek-Chic; back when there was a Steve Urkle air about the word.  It would have been much cooler to be able to call myself a teenage werewolf, but, alas, I cannot.  As the insanity referred to as "teenage girl" started to wear off, I realized that just about everyone felt awkward in high school - it wasn't just me. 

Even with that in mind, I have been debating my RSVP status for a couple of months now.  I could probably find something else to do with my $50 that would also involve a cash bar, and, with enough luck and a cab company, I would probably feel just as awkward the next day.  But I still have this bizarre compulsion to attend.  Maybe it is that train wreck mentality... I just have to see this, or maybe it is because I haven't made any solid, alternate plans for that evening.  Either way, I am still fence sitting with my invitation in hand.

Thanks to the wonders of the answer universe (Goggle) I was able to do some quick, scientific research in an attempt to answer to my question.

Didn't get much there, so I thought I would make a list of pro's and con's.  Since I haven't been to one of these before I didn't get very far:

• Pro: there is food
• Con: there is a cash bar

I thought about consulting a psychic, but judging by my luck with the Magic Eight Ball and correlating that to the ticket price, I thought it best to save my money.  Here I sit, less than two-weeks away and still on the fence.  Maybe there is one of those spinning wheels they have at resort bars that can give me the answer to this question, and more importantly, spinning wheel, answer me this: "why do people go to these reunion things again?"