Sure, Leave

“Ghosting — aka the Irish goodbye, the French exit, and any number of other vaguely ethnophobic terms — refers to leaving a social gathering without saying your farewells. One moment you’re at the bar, or the house party, or the Sunday morning wedding brunch. The next moment you’re gone. In the manner of a ghost. ‘Where’d he go?’ your friends might wonder. But — and this is key — they probably won’t even notice that you’ve left.”
 — How do you make your exit from parties

? I generally tell the person whom the gathering is in celebration of not to leave without making sure they say goodbye to me first, and then sneak away, which makes them feel like they somehow eschewed their responsibility and gets me off the hook. But there are plenty of ways of cutting out. Also, I am worried that Slate has, like, one or two topics left, probably about where to hide boogers after you pick your nose in the office and how to fart in an elevator, and then they will have to shut down because they’ll be all out. I guess they’ve had a good run.

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