The guest who wouldn’t leave…..

Have you ever had a gathering at your house, say a holiday party, and everyone is pretty much gone, except that one or two last guests, who decide to have another drink, sit back comfortably and never stop talking? You’re polite for a short time, you sit and talk, say for fifteen minutes….and then you think to yourself, maybe if I start cleaning up a little, they’ll get the hint that the party is over, and leave…..and then they wanna get another drink, and sit back again…..you start power cleaning, never say a word, you don’t have to, the guests who wouldn’t leave are on a roll…….funny stuff, well, maybe it was at 9:00 p.m…….but everyone else has been gone for 45 minutes, you’ve cleaned up everything, you’re tired and you just want to go to bed…..why won’t they leave? Are they that clueless? If I sit back down, they may stay longer…..I don’t want to talk……I just wanna go to bed……why did I have to clean up everything so quickly…..now there’s nothing to do….I could dust……pulling out a vacuum may be a little rude…. And they are guests in my house…….they haven’t seemed to notice the times I so obviously yawned……..where’s the dog?…maybe I can make a fuss over saying good night to the dog……no wait, can’t do that….they’ll probably start talking about dogs…..no, better to keep my mouth shut then to give them any more conversational fodder…..


You’ve been there? Right?


Next time you’re the last table in the restaurant……..you need to remember how this feels……and how badly you wanted to shout “The parties over! We’re closed! Go home!”