Advice from Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin.
When is it OK to consider a “goodbye” finished? When does a goodbye have to be followed by waving, and for how long?
If guests are leaving our house and we say goodbye at the door, do we have to stand there waving and calling out more goodbyes while they get in their car, so as not to close the door behind them and possibly look like we are happy for them to be gone? Do we have to wave while they drive away, or can we start putting the dishes into the dishwasher?
If we are the ones leaving, do we have to wave out the back window until we round the corner? It seems rude to turn away from people who are waving or watching, but in each of these scenarios, we already said a warm goodbye. When can we just turn away and do whatever we need to do next?: Still there? Ah. Well, then, the answer is that after you’ve said a proper goodbye, you can leave, turn away, do the dishes, go to bed, whatever.
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