Men's Half Baked Good-Bye
Signing off is an important part of few scenes in movies, especially the ones involving intense conversations where the one who wins the talk, usually leaves like a boss. That is not to be so in the real world. It is especially true for men irrespective of their age. The art of saying a poor good-bye is ingrained in men so strongly that I have rarely seen one take off without a fuss.
I have personally done it so many times possibly more than the number of twinkles in a starlit sky. The number of things a man carries when he leaves a place never crosses the single digit. The mobile phone in one pocket, wallet in the other and key in third are the principal items. Yet there is always one which is let off and he has to return to fetch it.
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When he leaves for the first time he does it like a hero, thoroughly prepared, ready to face it be it day or night, so confident that he is ready to take on the world felt through the ‘bye’ he recites when he leaves. After he picks up the desired object either an almost empty refill pen or half-torn laminated ID card when he leaves the place for the second time he doesn’t recite a goodbye. He leaves the place as if he is doing something regularly.
Kindly don’t brand me gender-biased as there are women who do this too. But I can personally vouch that the proportion is far higher than in men. The half-baked goodbye is perhaps the best metaphor for everything associated with men. Reluctance to move forward with what one has accepted, the cloud of doubtfulness traveling with him, carelessness, the loud-speaker hypocrisy, unavoidable bias, a pinch of humor and possibly incompleteness.
Incomplete.
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