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What is Minnesotan goodbye?
Standard method of departing a Minnesotan social event or interaction. After a person announces he or she is leaving, person and host proceed to talk for 30 - 60 more minutes in the doorway or parking lot before leaving. Length of time between announcement of departure and actual exit is directly proportional to length of the relationship and inversely proportional to the outdoor air temperature.
Lars: "Well we better head out, great party, though. Awesome beer."
Sven: "Oh fer sure, the beer was home brewed, donchaknow."
*Lars and Sven stand in Erik's foyer and go on a tangent about microbrews for an hour.
Lars: "Oh look at the time, sorry to do a Minnesotan goodbye!"