Don’t Tell Them Goodbye

Eric Scheske
3 min readFeb 18, 2022
Photo by Leon Seibert on Unsplash

It’s not often that I read something at Slate and say, “Rat own!” But this guy pretty much nails it, even if he doesn’t go quite far enough in my opinion: Don’t Say Goodbye.

He advocates a thing called “ghosting”:

Ghosting (aka “the Irish goodbye, the French exit, and any number of other vaguely ethnophobic terms)”refers to

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Eric Scheske

Former editor of Gilbert Mag and columnist for NC Register and Busted Halo. Freelance for many print pubs. Publishes here every Monday+. Paid Medium Member.