I’ve got a problem a lot of you might someday have. It’s a
fundamental problem having to do with two basic constructs of societal
relationships: being
polite and being
heard.
How can I
communicate the varying degrees of “
goodbye”? There is no middle ground. There’s the archetypical “bye”, “goodbye”; there is “later” and millions of variants thereof including the
l33t “l8r”; there are even phrases borrowed from different
languages like Au revoir and Adiós. There are a million ways to say ‘goodbye’ in a civil and polite way.
But what do you say when you really want to say:
just leave, you vile fucktard! but
nicely?
Further, why must people have five-minute-long goodbye sessions on the
computer? Shouldn’t one ‘goodbye’ suffice? Taken from an actual
conversation I had four minutes ago:
Names changed to protect the guilty.
Intellectual_Badass: Goodbye.
Her: Bye!
Intellectual_Badass: Night.
Her: Goodnight!
Her: I’m going to go now!
Intellectual_Badass: Yep.
Her: Because I’m tired.
Her: Au Revoir.
Intellectual_Badass: Goodbye
Her: Bye!
It’s a vicious circle.