In the midwest and south (seen it attributed to both regions and I’ve lived in both), you kinda slap your legs, stand up and say “Well! I’ve kept you too long, let me let you go.” Alternatives include “Well I’ve bothered you enough” and “Well I’ll let you get back to it”.
There you go. You aren’t being rude because you’ve essentially taken the blame for holding the conversation too long and you’ve ended the conversation.
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Are there any studies on this from earlier generations, or earlier centuries? I wonder if, in a more communal era of society, many or most conversations didn’t so much have a defined start and end, and just sort of drifted off and resumed among a consistent, small, local set of people.
Better to be considered a silent fool, than a blathering idiot.
Run DMC knew how to let someone know they’ve talked too long.
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