Minnesota Goodbyes

I once heard Garrison Keillor describe how you say goodbye in Minnesota – it's a long, drawn out process that starts a least a half hour before you really need to leave, and moves from the house to the porch, then slowly out to the car, where you say goodbye again. Once in the car, you roll down the windows, continue to say farewell, until you have the car in gear and rolling away, whereupon you finally really do say goodbye.

You Minnesota people got nothin' on the Tanzanians. They have taken your Lutheran Tradition and raised it to an Art Form.

From now on, when describing a long farewell, I shall refer to it as a "Tanzania Goodbye". As as added benefit, I'll probably have to describe what I mean, which could easily add another 15 minutes to our farewell.