Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Waiving Goodbye

As noted before in this space, I do not say "goodbye" at parties or large gatherings.  I just leave.

This has been called "Mungering," which Martin defined as "Verb:  to waive goodbye."  Which I thought was pretty clever.

Here is an excellent argument for why Mungering is not only rational, but polite.

8 comments:

Tom said...

I came here just to say goodbye...

Now what?

Anonymous said...

I usually Munger too. Mostly because I'm an introvert, anxious to leave, and don't want to waste time saying goodbye to everyone.

LMM said...

and then Michael says "see you" when ending a phone call

Unknown said...

My wife thinks it's rude to Munger. Hence it takes an hour to leave a party, and Jackie has two more drinks because he just wants to go and by all logic should have 154 DWIs.

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Pelsmin said...

I'm with you, Mike. If you've said hello at some point, I think there's a certain arrogance to walking up to someone who's hosting a party for 100 people to announce that YOU are now leaving. At the end of the evening, I don't believe they'll say, "Hey, I never heard Pelsmin say goodbye before leaving!"

Mungowitz said...

Jewish friend of mine, prof. at Harvard, had this to offer: "Generally, Protestants just leave, without saying goodbye. Jews say goodbye, but then they never leave. And Catholics do neither, waiting to be discovered the next day, passed out under the kitchen table." Good times.

Anonymous said...

I remember waiting to order food at a certain APSA conference because Munger Mungered.

Tommy the once starving brit

Cowboy Prof said...

Does this work in reverse?

Do you enter parties without saying hello?