Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉

When leaving a party, I learned a trick from a friend.

Rather than starting the painful process of saying goodbye to everyone, or having to wait for the herd to thin out, you just casually stroll out.

If anyone asks you say “I am going to the car to get a sweater”

Dec 19, 2022 at 12:46pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadPhil EatonDec 19, 2022

@Migueldeicaza I always heard of this as an "Irish goodbye". Which is apparently also called a "French leave".

I'm happy to know party-goers have been studying the technique for centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_leave

French leave - Wikipedia

Show threadLeszek CiesielskiDec 19, 2022
@eatonphil @Migueldeicaza I love how on the continent it's the "English exit". Everyone pins the practice they consider rude on their favourite nation 😉
Show threadIsmael OleaDec 19, 2022
@eatonphil @Migueldeicaza In Spain the name is «French style Goodbye» :-)
Show threadJeroen-bart EngelenDec 19, 2022
@Migueldeicaza I just don't say goodbye to everyone. I say goodbye to the host(s), then throw a general "goodbye!" to anyone paying attention. Then I leave.
Show threadThomas DickersonDec 19, 2022
@yeep @Migueldeicaza 💯
Show thread¡a!nDec 19, 2022
@Migueldeicaza The Irish Goodbye - https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/craic/irish-goodbye-how-to
What does the phrase an Irish Goodbye mean?

Are you sick of hanging around at a celebration after you're ready to go home and have to say goodbye to everyone present? Then you need to know about "the Irish goodbye." The origins of the Irish Goodbye, where guests at a public event abruptly leave without saying goodbye, are lost to history.

IrishCentral.com
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Dec 19, 2022
@iain this is beautiful
Show threadAndrea MargiovanniDec 19, 2022
Whoa! It seems so similar to the customs of southern Italy.
Show threadGustomela 🏕️🪵🐻Dec 19, 2022
@andrea da napoletana ho sempre trovato gli Irlandesi i napoletani d’Europa, almeno fino a quando li frequentavo con una certa costanza 20 anni fa (Dublino è molto cambiata)
Show threadSean SantryDec 19, 2022
@iain @Migueldeicaza I think the article misses an additional benefit—and why the Irish goodbye is more considerate—which is that it prevents you from inadvertently starting a mass exodus from the party.
Show threadduffbeer703Dec 19, 2022
@iain @Migueldeicaza Lol. Reminded me of my grandma! Thank you
Show threadSophie OPDec 19, 2022
@Migueldeicaza "saída à francesa" as we call down here
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Dec 19, 2022
@edcrypt god I love that there is a name for this
Show threadgabiDec 19, 2022
@edcrypt @Migueldeicaza Despedirse a la francesa en España también 👋🇫🇷
Show threadlefterisjpDec 19, 2022
@Migueldeicaza what if it's summer 😁?
Show threadDec 19, 2022

@lefteris @Migueldeicaza

In that case, it's "I need to return some videotapes.".

Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Dec 19, 2022
@lefteris “getting more beers from the car”?
Show threadMarius GedminasDec 19, 2022

@Migueldeicaza @lefteris

I misread this as "bees" and it was so much better.

Show threadJanie LarsonDec 19, 2022
@Migueldeicaza Good luck trying that in the Midwest. https://youtu.be/MHCmE4ABnNs
The Midwest Goodbye

YouTube
Show threadParalax^SDDec 19, 2022
@Migueldeicaza Around here we call this "the French exit". I have no idea why that is but the term is known :)
Show threadPetey 🇨🇦Dec 19, 2022
@Migueldeicaza the old Irish goodbye!
Show threadrealdaweiDec 19, 2022
@Migueldeicaza introvert lifestyle…great superpower
Show threadbiddsterDec 19, 2022
@Migueldeicaza I like this, it will simply add to my mystique...
Show threadJonathan MoosekianDec 19, 2022
@Migueldeicaza I left Twitter to get a sweater.
Show threadDan SullyDec 19, 2022
@Migueldeicaza This is what I do when introvert me needs to recover.
Show threadChristof Damian 💙💛Dec 19, 2022

@Migueldeicaza

Also known as Irish Goodbye.
My favourite. It doesn't work if you are there with your partner.

Show threadRomheatDec 19, 2022
@Migueldeicaza in ninja way “smoke bomb” 🥷
Show threadGlyphDec 19, 2022
@Migueldeicaza this idea has merch https://mas.to/@dasharez0ne/109523980952023748
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Show threadRichardDec 20, 2022
@Migueldeicaza I learned it as "Other people leave the party and don't say goodbye, but we Jews keep saying goodbye and never leave the party."
Show threadKarinaDec 20, 2022

@Migueldeicaza Irish exit. Irish goodbye.

If you are a woman...carry a clutch purse and no coat. This gets tricky in winter.

If it is at a bar...never leave a tab going, pay for each drink. When you get up to go...leave half of the drink on bar cuz there is an expectation you will come back to finish it.

Know your exits....use the one closest to the bathroom. Easy exit.

If you are in the Midwest. May the odds be ever in your favor.

Show threadTimHDec 20, 2022
@Migueldeicaza The Irish Goodbye is a classic, but I prefer the Tokyo Sayonara which is where you leave and only say goodbye to the cat 🐈 (or for me, the dog)
Show threadmclovedayDec 20, 2022
@Migueldeicaza I was going to do this at a party this weekend, but my coat was under a pile of jackets that I had to root through to find. Kinda drew some attention. :)
Show threadDial Tone, Busy Signal *biiip*Dec 20, 2022
@mcloveday @Migueldeicaza that's what you get for being early 😂
Show threadmclovedayDec 20, 2022
@simSalabim @Migueldeicaza so true. The 'plan' was to get there early so I could leave after an hour or so. Two hours later ...
Show threadjec&Dec 21, 2022
@Migueldeicaza I simply say "Goodbye people, see you later" and do a general wave to everybody🤷‍♂️