When They Overstay Their Welcome
In today’s episode, John presents a humorous holiday edition with a list of the top 10 ways to encourage your guests to leave your home after a dinner party.
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Today we address a topic that we often face during the holidays: how to discreetly get your guests to leave at the end of a get-together.
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Top 10 Ways to Encourage Your Guests to Leave
Now for today’s presentation starting with some short announcements.
Thank you for listening to the podcast and following me here and elsewhere.
Happy holidays, belated Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas.
This leads me to a slight diversion from my usual interview or solo presentation.
I’d like to present my Top 10 Ways to Encourage Your Guests to Leave After a Party.
I have certain family members who tend to linger long after it seems appropriate to me. And, it’s not uncommon to be out to dinner with certain individuals and suddenly notice that all of the other tables are empty and the waitstaff are staring at us and rolling their eyes.
At home, the same thing sometimes happens to me and Kay. She is too polite to give the slightest indication that her patience is wearing thin. But I am not so patient.
So I have applied some of the following methods to encourage them to leave. And I did a little research and found a few more suggestions to round out the list.
The List
10. Probably the most gentle and only slightly underhanded: pull a friend aside and ask them to stand up in a few minutes and suggest that it’s getting late and they will be leaving soon.
9. Fake a yawn yourself and ask if anybody else has an early appointment in the morning. [Might not work if its Christmas Eve or a long holiday weekend]
8. Slip away from the table and return in a few minutes with your pajamas on.
7. Change the music from whatever was playing to something quiet and bring up the intensity of the lights at the same time.
6. Start turning off the lights (one of my favorites).
5. Start cleaning up and putting food in “to-go” containers.
4. Bring up a very boring topic. Granted this one takes some thought, but certain topics can get others to start yawning. Ideas might include how to pick out a good life insurance policy, how many types of glue there are, or maybe the latest celebrity couple break-up.
3. Sneak out of the room and cut the main breakers to the whole house or apartment. Tell your guests that it’s part of rolling blackouts that usually last an hour or so.
2. Tell everyone that there is a fireworks display nearby in ten minutes and they can see it from your yard.
And NUMBER 1. Discreetly turn up the thermostat about 30 minutes before you want them to leave.
Listen to the episode to hear more details and my preferred methods.
Dr. John Jurica’s Advice
I’ll admit, it might be better to be frank and politely ask people to leave.
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