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The act of not requiring someone to bid one or more other humans farewell if doing so would be too emotionally distressing. Or the uncomfortable person himself decides to just "sneak out early" before others are awake to observe his departure, so that he doesn't have to endure the whole "long tearful parting" crap that would otherwise be "socially mandatory" if the other folks knew he was leaving.
A prime example of "waiving goodbye" is related in the classic "origin of the yodel" joke: the traveler heads out "at first cock's crow" from the farmer's barn where he'd been sleeping overnight, so that there wouldn't be any embarrassing --- and possibly dangerous! --- explaining to do if the farmer's wife and/or daughter decided to do any joyful "crowing" of their own about the wonderful things that the traveler had performed with his own "cock" on them the previous evening when they had separately gone out to the barn to bring him food and wine for his supper.
by QuacksO August 4, 2019
Get the waiving goodbye mug.Due to all of the muddy and cabinet-battering misadventures that he often goes through, R2D2's beeps and trills occasionally become a bit irregular. so his vocally-emotional copper-jacketted friend performs C3PR on him to "even things out" again.
by QuacksO October 10, 2018
Get the C3PR mug.Tevye and his fellow "Yiddishmen" were so "imparverished" largely due to their obsessively following da foolish and woefully-outdated "Old Testament" ways ("Tradition!") of their equally-closed-minded-and-clueless forebears.
by QuacksO March 14, 2023
Get the imparverished mug.What wif all da recent news of shipping-container disasters in ports and on da high seas, it appears dat there is a widespread lack of deckonomics in da water-based cargo-transporting world today!
by QuacksO February 21, 2023
Get the deckonomics mug.Refers to the (unfortunately very-seldom-practiced!) consideration of using a separate hand-held rubber eraser --- or at least to slip on one of those much-longer-lasting wedge-shaped "supplementary" eraser-caps if you know you'll be doing a lot or error-expunging --- to clean most of your mistakes instead of just mindlessly consuming your pencil's minuscule built-in eraser, so that you don't wear da entire 0%!$&#@ eraser clear down to the metal ferrule before the pencil's even been "sharpened away" much at all, causing any unfortunate person who subsequently attempts to use said pencil to not have any eraser left for "emergency" erasures (i.e., where he needs to make a quick correction in a tense/flurried situation, like trying to hastily jot down a phone number or address, or to quickly fill out a form where neatness is a must). It helps eliminate waste, as well --- think how many still-perfectly-usable pencils (i.e., they still have most of their "length" remaining) likely get discarded just because their erasers are worn down.
I always bring along a few pencil cap erasers in my purse, since I know how few people actually practice pencil-eraser etiquette, and so oftentimes the only pencils that will be lying around for people to use will not have any eraser left.
P.S. There's also such a thing as "pencil-POINT etiquette --- if ya wear down the lead in a "public" pencil, such as a string-tethered one for a "customer comments" notes-box, practice a little fellow-human consideration by scraping away a bit of the wood at the tip to expose a little of the graphite core again (here's where always carrying a small pen-knife --- or even better, one of those tiny two-finger-grip "dog-bone" or "hourglass" style sharpeners --- can come in handy), so that da next patron who wishes to fill out a store-satisfaction card can have enough of a point on da pencil to actually do so!
P.S. There's also such a thing as "pencil-POINT etiquette --- if ya wear down the lead in a "public" pencil, such as a string-tethered one for a "customer comments" notes-box, practice a little fellow-human consideration by scraping away a bit of the wood at the tip to expose a little of the graphite core again (here's where always carrying a small pen-knife --- or even better, one of those tiny two-finger-grip "dog-bone" or "hourglass" style sharpeners --- can come in handy), so that da next patron who wishes to fill out a store-satisfaction card can have enough of a point on da pencil to actually do so!
by QuacksO November 17, 2018
Get the pencil-eraser etiquette mug.(1) A probationary status at your place of employment after having been convicted of either "padding" your work-hours or periodically snitching a few bucks from da cash register to supplement your take-home pay.
(2) A probation arrangement whereby you actually get paid a wage for behaving yourself.
(2) A probation arrangement whereby you actually get paid a wage for behaving yourself.
Since ex-cons are often automatically suspected whenever a crime occurs in their vicinity, I was glad dat my work-release-program employer was able to definitively find out dat it was one of his regular employees who had been skimming da till, so dat my clean payrole-record didn't get undeservedly tarnished.
by QuacksO August 26, 2023
Get the payrole mug.While it's completely true that it is indeed unhealthy for everyone involved if someone cannot display a reasonable degree of calmness when having to postpone financial gain/reimbursement, the opposite "extreme" can also be used abusively, as well --- in other words, the person(s) responsible for doling out said greatly-desired funds to the aggravated-with-the-delay individual can invalidly identify the person's tearful foot-tapping as "impaytience", when in reality it HAS INDEED been an unreasonably-long period of time that said person has been waiting for his promised cash-reward, and so he could NOT reasonably have been expected to just placidly wait that long.
by QuacksO January 29, 2019
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