How to say goodbye to a room full of people??

sahxox said: ↑

Yeah that's where I'm at :/ I find I do better if I try to be positive but it's hard

You cannot fight it all the time, sometimes you need to rest and regroup.

I often slip out without saying goodbye...rude/awful but I'm in fight or flight mode. 🙁

My method: say bye while going out of the door or area where people are. No direct eye contact, just walk on. Some people say bye back, some don't. Oh well.

Write a note 😎

option 1. "Peace-out e'rybody."
option 2. "I'll see ya guys later."
option 3. "Adios amigos."
option 4. "Y'all have a good evening/day."

You don't. I slip away as quickly as I can. If there's just a couple of people, then I'll say bye.

"**** you cowards" would sure make them attentive

mozart87 said: ↑

"**** you cowards" would sure make them attentive

Ha ha. If you can't make a good impression, make a nasty one 😠

Three good approaches:
-make the rounds and say a parting word to each person there who cares whether or not you are leaving.
-as someone else mentioned, piggyback on someone else's departure, with a vague wave and "bye!" to the group
-if it's most comfortable for you, thank the host/hostess and slip out quietly. As long as one person knows you are leaving, people are less likely to wonder where you ran off to.

I get the hell out of Dodge.

Absolutely_Sweet_Marie said: ↑

Three good approaches:
-make the rounds and say a parting word to each person there who cares whether or not you are leaving.
-as someone else mentioned, piggyback on someone else's departure, with a vague wave and "bye!" to the group
-if it's most comfortable for you, thank the host/hostess and slip out quietly. As long as one person knows you are leaving, people are less likely to wonder where you ran off to.

Marie

It's been a long time since this happened to me. 1-2-1 is my only chance. I see you as a genius who guides me. You must have experience. This is Queen's Manners I was taught early in life and forgot. The ever forever smile & greet is too far beyond my comfort zone.

This goes for any friends, strangers, or new people and when each firing boss shows me the door and tells me to say goodbye to everyone in turn. This was an indicator of me lo longer being capable of such things. So far I've been friendly as acted. One incident I deeply regretted doing as told and ended in deep tears outside the door with the boss with just one word to utter, staring into oblivion. I felt forced to be prim and pretty, and wish I'd picked up all the furniture and thrown these at the staff and tried to garotte the boss. Next time... if ever I get to work at all, ever, I would behave violently like that because my timid blessings and handkissing is not for for me.

Such a withdrawal from life being rejected is tough to cope with. Each time I've acted nice on greeting. It feels empty

A plumber left my house last week and probably detected my state of being as I wouldn't stop talking about the job in hand and myself. I'm desperate for company. He walked town the stairs with a smirk and a feeble mocking wave. Last neighbour put up with me at her place for an hour. We left doing her recycling and she made a feeble wrist shake and finger wiggle.

Long time ago before 2000 I was in a houseful with my uni buddy on his socialite peak after our warehouse party, with swathes of girls our age. I won't forget him saying "say goodbye to Amelia" when I left. We'd never speak about greetings like that. I think he's seen my shortcomings.


Looking way back...

Trying to remember how i was...
I'd eye up everyone as they were glaring at me... whoooahh that would make me feel good to be wanted
I'd leave with:
"NEXT!"

Ummm... I need to research my shopping checkout manner, where they always look the other way. No words. Those haircutters, and gym trainers. No words.

In a large group setting, I just slowly back into the shadows. Kind of like this...

I used to think this was a little awkward too, for me it was difficult but I guess I learned from watching other people do it... I group them in fives or whatever group they're standing in I say goodbye in general. So if you're in a party of 100 people, just go around and say goodbye to people in groups, and you don't need to say bye to anyone you don't know.

I just say goodbye to the hosts of the gathering. I've seen people say bye to everyone in a room and it takes saying "cya later" a bit too far in my opinion. People don't really care that much if you've say bye or not from what I can tell, they might say afterwards "where did such and such go, oh well", that's about it. Depends on the amount of people. If there are 10 people, then you usually say bye to all, but if it's a bigger party then you shouldn't need to.

Again if it's a big party, wedding, whatever it is. You can just say bye to the hosts and as you walk out maybe do a wave.

There are so many different opinions on this that it doesn't really matter what you do. You could even leave and they ask you, just say you had an emergency to attend. Easy.

I just stand up and address the whole room by saying 'goodbye' to all at once.

I tend to be unnoticed in a large group settings so I just wave and walk out.