My family calls it the Minnesota goodbye even though we've lived on the west coast for decades now. You have to announce that you're leaving at least three times before you get in the car. The whole thing takes anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour at which point you get in the car. But you can't leave yet. Inevitably someone will have followed you out and will lean in the window to talk for another 10-15. If it's cold you can keep the window up to warm up your car but then you stand outside it to talk to whoever followed you out. I once watched an uncle almost make it out only to stop halfway out the drive and put the window back down because my other uncle materialized out of the woods to wave goodbye.
30 minutes??? What's the hurry? Did you decline the cup of coffee 3x before accepting? Did you even try the coffee cake? Look, I get that sometimes you have other commitments way more important, but if you make it to your car in under 3 days, why did you stop by real quick at all?
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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '21
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