I have a Northern friend (NE Ohio) who must have Southern blood, because I CANNOT get her off the phone for the life of me. It takes 10-20 "I have to go now"s (I'm not kidding) before I can hang up w/o just...hanging up on her.
Every conversation with my mother lol every “well I’ll let you go” inevitably leads to another 20 minute conversation before one of us finally notices the time and realizes I’m almost late picking up my husband from work 🤣
I was once caught in the middle of a Midwest goodbye and a Southern goodbye. It was my last time ever saying goodbye - Irish goodbyes for me these days.
@@jkquinn55 At the end of dinners he'd always say "Meeting adjourned!". He was a lawyer and on a number of local boards throughout his life so it was a habitual response. Since his passing a few years ago all of us kids and grandkids have adopted it. It's funny the sorts of things that get passed along and become family traditions! He'd be greatly amused at the thought of his strategic goodbyes being spread far and wide 😂
I have a vivid memory of my dad shooting the breeze with the meter reader, and the guy was in his truck, and started backing out of the driveway with my dad following him, STILL talking through his open window. Daddy never could take a hint. 🤦♀
When I try to leave my mama, she stands at the top of the driveway with a look that says, "As soon as you drive off, I'm going to take my last breath of life. Goodbye, dear child." Oh, the southern guilt I feel!
Does your mama call, and if you aren't home leaves a message that says, "please call me when you get a chance" and manages to sound like she's barely able to contain her sobs? Then, when you call right back, she's all laughing and just called to tell you that she bought some extra cheese at Costco, and did you want some? She could've said that in her message, instead of scaring the daylights out of me.
Driveway? I can't even get out the door without being chased down to take cake/pie/cornbread/ anything with me. Usually in a cool whip or country crock container.😊 I love it.
That's so true! We used to tease my mom about her matching salad bowls...they were all cool whip bowls. She been gone 5yrs now and I miss that! And every time she came to my house, she always brought said food and even toilet paper or dishwashing liquid. Said it was on sale so she picked me up some too. And then she wouldn't let me pay her. Lol, she would bring some of the most off the wall items but dang they sure came in handy at times.
In Atlanta back in the early 1960s - whenever we tried leaving my grandparents house it was long and drawn out and even when we did back out the driveway my Nana would run after our car with her arms splayed out and yell at us "Don't leave me! Don't leave me!" (yes, that part was pure theater - and she ALWAYS did it and we loved it.)
There's a talent to building in goodbye time in your visiting allocation. I want to be on the road by 6pm so I calculate starting the goodbye no later than 5:25pm which also means you'll have to allude to leaving no later than 5:10pm. You should also assume that, just as you're reaching for the car door handle, a cousin or niece or nephew is going to pull in the driveway behind you. Now tack another 90 minutes on.
" Yeah, I'mma bout to head out myself in a minute 'cuz I need to run by Mama's house to help her fix her tv. She gets cranky when she can't watch her stories." Works every time.
The definition of "Southern Comfort" is: Watching one of Matt's videos and feeling the solidarity of -- "I'm NOT THE ONLY ONE!!" Apparently "being Southern" is hereditary! Thanks for the confirmation, Matt 😄
Definitely not the only one. I have people in my family that if they were at my grandparents house, i would sit at the gas station til they were gone. Even if it took an hour. I didn’t have 3 hours to talk to my 4th cousin because he wants to have a “you need to do this” conversation. So that isn’t what I call a good use of time.
So accurate. Recently some friends stopped by on their way to Florida. We were sitting on super comfortable furniture in our air conditioned home, so cold you could hang meat in there, drinking the best sweet tea, made by me, laughing and enjoying ourselves when the couple exchanged THE LOOK. Y’all this has been so much fun, thanks so must for lunch, but we need to get on the road. We go outside then precede to stand in the boiling hot sun next to their car TALKING and LAUGHING, no comfy seating, no AC, no sweet tea. I mean to tell ya I kept trying to fit my feet into a tiny patch of shade from a pine tree limb that moved with even a hint of a breeze because the concrete was burning my bare feet. I bout got heat stroke before they ever actually got in their car.
😂😂 the driveway hot feet pass out, the solution is planting another palm tree and your camp chair just in case your company enjoyed their stay a bit too much 😂
@@SarafinaSummers it’s always the sweet tea and that Meyer lemon tree! We forgot the ever popular Chex mix coated with choc and powdered sugar “cowboy crack” and our pulled pork bbq sliders that keep folks lingering around for more hours
Thank you for the closed captioning. My blood is so NOT invisible that I draw mosquitoes away from all people in my vicinity. Truly. It's the only reason anyone ever invites me over.
@@Sybil_Detard Dang, I had a theory. All the ones in my family that are magnets are O-. Maybe that means its something we might could change then. 🤷♀️
Mom stretched out our visit by at least an hour from when I'd announce that it was time to leave. It often involved a trip to the shop for freezer food or a bag of thoughtful somethings, but squeezing in another round of Rummicub or Uno was her favorite. Hugs & kisses inside, hugs & kisses outside next to the car, & from the door, kisses blown & the hand sign: "I love you." A wave & a toot from the horn & I was officially on my way. ❤️ That's some serious love, right there. Luckiest people.
This is my favorite of yours yet! I couldn't stop laughing because it is SO TRUE!! My feelings actually get hurt when saying goodbye to a Yankee and I wonder if we're really friends. A friend doesn't let a friend drive home without a proper goodbye!
@@flattlandermontgomery1524 YES!!! This is so true! There is a little under 2 hr drive between my extended family & myself. Whenever they leave, I check the clock, & if it's been over 2 hrs, & I haven't gotten that text, I'm texting them, like "did y'all make it home okay?" 😂
i’m part southern and part nothern californian (and no i don’t mean southern californian- i mean florida and georgia southern) and my problem is i linger there too long giving fist bumps and “alright now”s until i finally feel as though everyone is satisfied and then i leave lmao
Mamaw’s goodbye went on forever no matter the weather as she had no AC so wasn’t put off by the heat and humidity. Sitting in a hot truck while she talked to her son as he backed out the driveway was torture and I knew we’d lost when he’d turn off the key and get out to look at the tree she wanted trimmed or door that was sticking. As her dementia progressed the goodbyes became longer and more difficult. I do miss her.
@@janeandle : You're probably thinking of the "It's a Southern Thing" channel he used to be with. Southern Living is a magazine that's been around for ages, one of those shiny "aspirational lifestyle" magazines, of the sort that would publish recipes for how to put a jar of peach juice in your sweet tea and garnish it with a peach wedge and a sprig of mint, complete with the artfully-posed photos of the glass of tea on an improbably immaculate back porch table with a fine mist of condensation running down the glass just so.
I legit did not realize these were southern behaviors until watching these videos. I'm floored that women outside the south hate being called ma'am. It's a sign of respect.
Originally a Missourian we just call it the long goodbye because it feels like all the worst traits of a southern and a midwest goodbye. If it were an Olympic sport my Grandpa would take the gold and my mom the silver. It starts with "kids, go get in the car" and we knew that just meant go play outside with your cousins near the car for a while because it's gonna be a good long time before mom even makes it outside. Then grandpa is going to lean over the driver door keeping it from closing for a while. Now I know that was probably mom's saying to start the process.
Oh yes, I’m all too familiar…. I remember the old times at the family functions where the cousins would all be having a good time and not want the night to end, so we’d either be huddled away in a bedroom playing video games or giggling into pillows or out somewhere in the woods making sure to not be seen or heard; not going to the kitchen for tea or lemonade or anything, because if we so much as made a peep, it would trigger a “Goodness goodness, we’d probably better head that way; get these children home” (a feeble excuse I daresay.)
I wish this video had come out the other day. I was over this older lady's house to look at her yard and when I was done we started talking. We moved from the backyard to the back fence to the driveway to right next to my car. Every time she'd say 'okay imma let you go' then would just keep talking 😂 I was there for an extra 20 minutes lol
From my experience in Arkansas, the standing up and walking to the front door part can be over 15 minutes. Porch is another 15. After that, it depends on weather.
@@carriecollins6697 Mosquitoes are absolutely part of weather. And the trucks that pump insecticide into the storm sewers are as much a sound of the night as annual cicadas are.
I don't think this a just a southern phenomenon. My family is from the Pacific Northwest and they do this too. And when you are finally driving off in your car, they wave and blow kisses. When I was young, I used to think it was annoying, but now I do it too. Family is precious.
Yall should meet my Aunt Shirly. Imagine driving your grandfather to her house to pick something up, and, after 5 minutes, I went outside while she talked with not a break in her breath. Two whole hours went by and she never stopped, I realized I had been walking around the van for two HOURS. She doesn't need oxygen and could probably survive in space.
Awesome video idea Matt. I often think that if the rest of the country had some sort of guide book or videos like this, they may not be as recognizable as " They ain't from round here". Thanks for keeping us with a smile on our face Matt.
This is so accurate! I had a tad bit of shame for a millisecond because I’m guilty of doing this to my adult children! Good-byes are at least a 15 minute ordeal.
When my mom is taking too long on the phone with me I usually say “granny’s calling” and it works like a charm (Edit: A friend asked me how I get away with that, because they assumed my granny would rat me out to my mom. They obviously don’t understand the relationship between a southern granny and her grandson 😂. My granny wouldn’t hurt a soul on planet earth, but I actually believe that if I killed someone, the first thing she’d do is try to figure out how to hide the body. My mama would have me thrown in jail in two seconds 😂)
That's so fucking true, omg. I've long since known my brother was the favorite of my mom and grandma and I could never understand why, still don't. But I was always my dad's favorite, we clicked, like they did, then also butted heads, immensely. Lol
This is so on point! I remember whenever we would visit my wife's parents the goodbye started in the kitchen, moved into the living room, out to the garage, into the driveway and then her father would begin the famed 22 point auto inspection walk around which ended with tire and headlight recommendations. Oh, and of course there had to be the ifnal discussion about which roads we would be taking that led to her father going back in the house to gather maps and show us how he would go. Generally if we had planned to leave after breakfast it ended up being a lunch departure. Of course then her mother would have to go in the house and put together 25 tupperware containers with enough food to travel for at least 14 days when the drive home was less than 3 hours! Gotta love the south! BTW, I now live in Arizona where simply getting a goodbye or hello is a major victory. BTW, Here's how are family did goodbye... th-cam.com/video/Hqq8QAT_baI/w-d-xo.html
My aunt was born and bred in Texas, ended up going to that burnt orange school and has lived in Georgia for the past 20-30 years. We timed her once at our vacation house and it literally took her an hour from the time she said her first good-bye to the time she left.
We have a version of this in Ohio as well. I call it the LONG Goodbye. My husbands last name is Long by the way. It starts in his parents kitchen, then moves to the back door, out onto their deck, then the driveway. I have learned to just make up and excuse like my back is hurting, and go sit in the car after a quick "bye guys I love you" then wait for the ritual to end.
I can confirm this as an Ohioan. If you've got a 7 pm flight you better start saying goodbye around 5 m and plan on eating. Add one hour if you're related. Make it two if fishing gets brought up.
Back in the day, after a visit to my parents’ farm in Ohio (just a stone’s throw from Wheeling), we had the long goodbye in the driveway. But wait! There’s more. After driving out the long driveway onto the road, there was a little knoll where we would honk the horn as a final buh bye. I really miss that. (I lived only an hour away.)
That third one works even better when Mama's in on it and actually calls you at a prearranged time. Then you're not even lying! And I legitimately use the skeeters are eating me excuse because I legit get eaten by mosquitoes. Those welts swell up instantly on me. No invisible blood in these veins!
My family is big on saying "don't rush off" to keep hostages in line. Even if you have been there 7 hours after what was supposed to be just lunch. I have learned to just reply "we'd better." No one has written me out of their wills yet, so maybe it will be alright.
A lifetime of growing up in the south, going to church, and watching my parents navigate the countless southern goodbyes has taught me how to navigate these situations flawlessly. I’ve been actually been complimented on how well I get out of the southern goodbyes. It’s a point of pride almost
Good tips as always. You forgot my favorite, just invite them to eat the next meal with you since you have talked so long it's basically time to eat again.
I learned to start saying goodbye 30 minutes before I need to leave. That way, I'll only leave 10-15 minutes late (40-45 minutes after I started saying goodbye). In the winter, I also use, 'I gotta get on the road, I want to get home before it gets dark.'
It is not possible to escape. I'm waiting to see what your solution is and then I'll edit. Ha, ha, love the last one, as that would actually work, good job Matt.
I work for a call center in Alabama, and its not just loved ones. Every call I take has to have like 5 minutes of saying " well we will be seeing you" " alright take care now" "you have a nice day now" "god bless" " alright then"
As a yankee transplant to the south, I actually fit in. My family in NY would take forever to say goodbye. My southern husband is always trying to rush me out of his family gatherings bc I’m the one holding us up saying goodbye to his family. 😂
When using the "important call" escape strategy, you can really sell it by adding a little startled jump and muttering "now what?" before dragging your completely dead phone from your pocket.
@@patdadysworld You heard that I am alcohol intolerant and cannot drink it without risking death? You also somehow managed to fail basic second grade level reading comprehension. Also, who the heck is Ben? Maybe you got our names confused because of your tragic illiteracy.
It really does take a long time to leave after a visit. Some of the best gossip comes up on the way to the car. Factoring in the goodbye time is a must, so relax and enjoy. Southern by the Grace of God.....embrace it!!!
My dad told the guys putting down the water pipes to come back if ever passing this way to sit on the porch anytime.Before long they were calling him pops that really made his week.
This is so incredibly true its not even funny, it takes me at least 20 minutes to say goodbye to my momma, however, I am one of those hated Southerners who mosquitos don't go after very often, if I'm getting bit, then everyone is getting eaten alive and all my family knows it so I can't use that trick
My wife’s siblings have told me, privately of course, that they love how brazen I am about telling people it’s time to leave. Whenever we have a family get together at our house a point will inevitably come when I’m done, and I will make the announcement, “I love all of you, but I’m kicking you out in 30 minutes.” The first time I did this everyone was rather shocked. Even more so when the 30 minutes was up and I started escorting people to the door. That was several years ago. These days most of them are grateful that they can escape without having to say goodbye for hours.
I cried tears when you said “enough speaking skills to star in a small town Baptist Church Easter play.” 😂😂😂😂 oooh it’s true. And wth is Southern Living doing to Tea?!
I just did this the last 5 days of my life. Son graduated from the Army in Georgia, we live in East Texas...missed with family from North Carolina....75% of my time was saying goodbye 100000000 times. 😢
I love your channel!! Just found you ab 2 weeks ago, and subscribed right away. While it's hilarious, it's so frighteningly accurate!! Keep 'em coming!!
To get away from my Nana,who lives next door to us and watches us go into our own door when we leave,I tell her “I REALLY have to pee!” Or if the hubby is with me “Hubby has to poop!” It gets us out of there then and there! 😂
I am from NJ and my mother took forever to say goodbye to any family. Rush us kids to gather our stuff and go home. We would then stand in the driveway for a half hour saying goodbye to the people we were coming over the next day to visit with.
My mother is of Italian heritage and though we lived in the South; we called it the Italian good bye. It literally took the folks 3 1/2 hours to even get out of the house, another 30 mins to round us kids up, then someone had to use the rest room all in all it was close to 4 1/2 hours before the drove up the lane. 😅
I don't know who invented this...Southerners or Italian-Americans. Been caught in both.😅❤At the end of the day, It's about people who care. THAT is a blessing. Love your channel Matt.👍
I have used 'blame the skeeters' on multiple times. usually at a family gathering when my former brother-in-law's family were there and they were doing their usual loud, rude AF, interrupting to start a whole new conversation Connecticut selves. I love the English goodbye. Maybe it is Irish? Hands on your knees, say "well" and everyone knows the visit is over. that is me now, in the deep South.
Kentucky here. You nailed it again. Except, you forgot the part about coming in the front door turning on the light behind you and waving until the car goes out of sight. Thanks for making me giggle
You just described every Missouri goodbye. Probably why some people lump us in with the South and not the Midwest. Either way, plan on at at least an hour in the driveway.
I like the "If I don't leave now I'm gonna get stuck in (insert highway) rush hour traffic". Specifically for me, I-4. No one would wish that on their worst enemy.
In KY my mom is this person and she won't come out of the house all day but for years on a nice subdivision she is out hanging on your car in a frumpy to little clothes on.. And NOTHING WORKs.. she usually goes back and forth bringing containers of stuff you didn't want or need...LOVE YOU MOM
at my own risk, I sent this to my own mama! 🤣😭 thanks for the video pal! Bama fan son, Braves fan son, Floridian and resident- southeastern southerner 🙏✌🕊
As it has been pointed out, not all non-Southerners are of the goodbye and leave variety. Up here we have the Midwest goodbye. We don't have skeeters and homemade sweet tea so much either.
Also try to get to the car ahead of your hostage taker, in one movement you must get in the car, close the door and immediately put your seat belt on - DO NOT LOOK UP AT YOUR HOSTAGE TAKER, start the car and put it in reverse NOW is the only safe time to look up and waive as you slowly drive off.
![โฮ่ง! (SUGOI) - LYKN [ OFFICIAL MV ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nFp4zjAARFs/mqdefault.jpg)
Subscribe to my channel. Unless you have invisible blood.
SC and nice to meet neighbors 👋
Eat a few tablespoons of brewer's yeast, and your blood will be invisible to them. Or at least, repugnant.
I don’t know. The skeeters don’t bother me as much now that I’m older. However, if there is a tick within a ten foot radius of me, it’ll find me.
I've been stuck in a driveway goodbye for 3 days. We ate all the leftovers on day 2. Send help.
Been following you from the start.
Great shirt!
This also applies to phone calls. It takes about 20 "well, I'll let you go's" before anyone in my family actually lets you go.
I have a Northern friend (NE Ohio) who must have Southern blood, because I CANNOT get her off the phone for the life of me. It takes 10-20 "I have to go now"s (I'm not kidding) before I can hang up w/o just...hanging up on her.
Right?? But I do have to say, while I've been "held hostage" in this manner, I've also been the hostage taker as well...
Just tell them your about to "drive through the dead spot" and just hang up.
3 hours later 😆😆😆
Every conversation with my mother lol every “well I’ll let you go” inevitably leads to another 20 minute conversation before one of us finally notices the time and realizes I’m almost late picking up my husband from work 🤣
I was once caught in the middle of a Midwest goodbye and a Southern goodbye. It was my last time ever saying goodbye - Irish goodbyes for me these days.
Grabbing a pint and heading out the back then?
Someone needs to do a video of the two because they are extremely similar. 😂😂
@@gaiasguardian205Hey, I'M Irish!
What the hell, bro. "Grabbing a pint." Pssh
It's grabbing a *liter!*
@@davetom8517 no when drinking beers it is pints or gallons
I seriously thought you were going to say you're still in the middle of it. 😅
My grandfather always went with "Let's get to bed so these good folks can go home". Never failed! 😂
@@jkquinn55 At the end of dinners he'd always say "Meeting adjourned!". He was a lawyer and on a number of local boards throughout his life so it was a habitual response. Since his passing a few years ago all of us kids and grandkids have adopted it. It's funny the sorts of things that get passed along and become family traditions! He'd be greatly amused at the thought of his strategic goodbyes being spread far and wide 😂
Your grandfather sounds like a true gentleman and a scholar! 👍
A wise man indeed
I tried going to college in 1987. Still waving from the driveway..
I feel this 🤣
😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
I have a vivid memory of my dad shooting the breeze with the meter reader, and the guy was in his truck, and started backing out of the driveway with my dad following him, STILL talking through his open window. Daddy never could take a hint. 🤦♀
🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
😂 sounds like my grandfather 🤪
I am the Mama who does that. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My husband. Then he tells me to not drag it out. 😂
When I try to leave my mama, she stands at the top of the driveway with a look that says, "As soon as you drive off, I'm going to take my last breath of life. Goodbye, dear child." Oh, the southern guilt I feel!
I start crying the night before one of us leave.
Does your mama call, and if you aren't home leaves a message that says, "please call me when you get a chance" and manages to sound like she's barely able to contain her sobs? Then, when you call right back, she's all laughing and just called to tell you that she bought some extra cheese at Costco, and did you want some? She could've said that in her message, instead of scaring the daylights out of me.
😂😭🤣😭
My granny did the same thing. She's been gone for years but I still feel the Southern guilt!
Granny had that one nailed down big time.
Driveway? I can't even get out the door without being chased down to take cake/pie/cornbread/ anything with me. Usually in a cool whip or country crock container.😊 I love it.
That's so true! We used to tease my mom about her matching salad bowls...they were all cool whip bowls. She been gone 5yrs now and I miss that! And every time she came to my house, she always brought said food and even toilet paper or dishwashing liquid. Said it was on sale so she picked me up some too. And then she wouldn't let me pay her. Lol, she would bring some of the most off the wall items but dang they sure came in handy at times.
You should pair up with Charlie Berens and do a Midwest goodbye vs a Southern Goodbye
YES
I wanna see that
Great idea. Will break the record for longest youtube video ever.
I disagree. He and Charlie are so different and seem to have very different values. I can't see them being able to gel together.
Charlie’s humor is a lot more wholesome while Matt’s is far more bitter 😂
In Atlanta back in the early 1960s - whenever we tried leaving my grandparents house it was long and drawn out and even when we did back out the driveway my Nana would run after our car with her arms splayed out and yell at us "Don't leave me! Don't leave me!" (yes, that part was pure theater - and she ALWAYS did it and we loved it.)
your a liar i wont stand for it
There's a talent to building in goodbye time in your visiting allocation. I want to be on the road by 6pm so I calculate starting the goodbye no later than 5:25pm which also means you'll have to allude to leaving no later than 5:10pm. You should also assume that, just as you're reaching for the car door handle, a cousin or niece or nephew is going to pull in the driveway behind you. Now tack another 90 minutes on.
" Yeah, I'mma bout to head out myself in a minute 'cuz I need to run by Mama's house to help her fix her tv. She gets cranky when she can't watch her stories."
Works every time.
"can't watch her stories." BAM! That's some old school mama talk.
"Cain't watch her programs" is also acceptable (Pronounced PRO-grums for some reason)
The definition of "Southern Comfort" is: Watching one of Matt's videos and feeling the solidarity of -- "I'm NOT THE ONLY ONE!!" Apparently "being Southern" is hereditary! Thanks for the confirmation, Matt 😄
Definitely not the only one. I have people in my family that if they were at my grandparents house, i would sit at the gas station til they were gone. Even if it took an hour. I didn’t have 3 hours to talk to my 4th cousin because he wants to have a “you need to do this” conversation. So that isn’t what I call a good use of time.
So accurate. Recently some friends stopped by on their way to Florida. We were sitting on super comfortable furniture in our air conditioned home, so cold you could hang meat in there, drinking the best sweet tea, made by me, laughing and enjoying ourselves when the couple exchanged THE LOOK. Y’all this has been so much fun, thanks so must for lunch, but we need to get on the road. We go outside then precede to stand in the boiling hot sun next to their car TALKING and LAUGHING, no comfy seating, no AC, no sweet tea. I mean to tell ya I kept trying to fit my feet into a tiny patch of shade from a pine tree limb that moved with even a hint of a breeze because the concrete was burning my bare feet. I bout got heat stroke before they ever actually got in their car.
Great story... but the skeeters are really getting at me so....
😂😂 the driveway hot feet pass out, the solution is planting another palm tree and your camp chair just in case your company enjoyed their stay a bit too much 😂
@@stephaniepapaleo9001 Let's not forget the weed garden and Myer lemon tree for the sweet tea! /j
@@SarafinaSummers it’s always the sweet tea and that Meyer lemon tree! We forgot the ever popular Chex mix coated with choc and powdered sugar “cowboy crack” and our pulled pork bbq sliders that keep folks lingering around for more hours
Thank you for the closed captioning. My blood is so NOT invisible that I draw mosquitoes away from all people in my vicinity. Truly. It's the only reason anyone ever invites me over.
😂
You too huh? Are you O- by chance?
That’s my mother-in-law lol she’s always surrounded by mosquitoes and we’re entirely mosquito free. If she’s not there, I’m the mosquito magnet 😒
@@liznichols4916 A+. Sorry for your magnetism.
@@Sybil_Detard Dang, I had a theory. All the ones in my family that are magnets are O-. Maybe that means its something we might could change then. 🤷♀️
Matt, don't forget "here is something to eat on the road"
"Oh don't be silly, we got plenty a' leftovers!"
Midwest and Southern goodbye.
A: park a little bit away from where you're going. That way you can sneak away and be out of sight before they notice.
Then youll be in the mosquito territory, dont park anywhere near a tree or a shrub
Mom stretched out our visit by at least an hour from when I'd announce that it was time to leave. It often involved a trip to the shop for freezer food or a bag of thoughtful somethings, but squeezing in another round of Rummicub or Uno was her favorite. Hugs & kisses inside, hugs & kisses outside next to the car, & from the door, kisses blown & the hand sign: "I love you."
A wave & a toot from the horn & I was officially on my way. ❤️
That's some serious love, right there. Luckiest people.
This is my favorite of yours yet! I couldn't stop laughing because it is SO TRUE!! My feelings actually get hurt when saying goodbye to a Yankee and I wonder if we're really friends. A friend doesn't let a friend drive home without a proper goodbye!
Well a Brit will break your heart then. They sometimes just give you a slight nod and dash. Not even the word goodbye.
I'm a mid westerner, we show our live by insisting that you call or text to let us know you got home safely. And actually being worried if you don't.
As a northerner, I prefer to just cut the cord and be done with it. Y’all are too sensitive. 😉😂
@@flattlandermontgomery1524 YES!!! This is so true! There is a little under 2 hr drive between my extended family & myself. Whenever they leave, I check the clock, & if it's been over 2 hrs, & I haven't gotten that text, I'm texting them, like "did y'all make it home okay?" 😂
i’m part southern and part nothern californian (and no i don’t mean southern californian- i mean florida and georgia southern) and my problem is i linger there too long giving fist bumps and “alright now”s until i finally feel as though everyone is satisfied and then i leave lmao
Mamaw’s goodbye went on forever no matter the weather as she had no AC so wasn’t put off by the heat and humidity. Sitting in a hot truck while she talked to her son as he backed out the driveway was torture and I knew we’d lost when he’d turn off the key and get out to look at the tree she wanted trimmed or door that was sticking. As her dementia progressed the goodbyes became longer and more difficult. I do miss her.
My condolences
Having a pet at home helps. It's not foolproof, but if people know you have a dog at home, they're more likely to actually let you go.
That Southern Living jab got me. 😂
I heard it but I missed the reference. What did SL do?
Is he not with them anymore?
They ruin recipes I'm guessing:)
@@janeandle : You're probably thinking of the "It's a Southern Thing" channel he used to be with. Southern Living is a magazine that's been around for ages, one of those shiny "aspirational lifestyle" magazines, of the sort that would publish recipes for how to put a jar of peach juice in your sweet tea and garnish it with a peach wedge and a sprig of mint, complete with the artfully-posed photos of the glass of tea on an improbably immaculate back porch table with a fine mist of condensation running down the glass just so.
@@BrooksMoses Oh okay, yeah that's what I was thinking, so Thank you for correcting me. 😊
I legit did not realize these were southern behaviors until watching these videos. I'm floored that women outside the south hate being called ma'am. It's a sign of respect.
"It makes me feel old!!1" is the excuse why I guess?
That’s because a ma’am from outside of the south is a dude!😂
Originally a Missourian we just call it the long goodbye because it feels like all the worst traits of a southern and a midwest goodbye. If it were an Olympic sport my Grandpa would take the gold and my mom the silver. It starts with "kids, go get in the car" and we knew that just meant go play outside with your cousins near the car for a while because it's gonna be a good long time before mom even makes it outside. Then grandpa is going to lean over the driver door keeping it from closing for a while. Now I know that was probably mom's saying to start the process.
We Missouri folk like an hour long goodbye. Lol.
Oh yes, I’m all too familiar…. I remember the old times at the family functions where the cousins would all be having a good time and not want the night to end, so we’d either be huddled away in a bedroom playing video games or giggling into pillows or out somewhere in the woods making sure to not be seen or heard; not going to the kitchen for tea or lemonade or anything, because if we so much as made a peep, it would trigger a “Goodness goodness, we’d probably better head that way; get these children home” (a feeble excuse I daresay.)
I wish this video had come out the other day. I was over this older lady's house to look at her yard and when I was done we started talking. We moved from the backyard to the back fence to the driveway to right next to my car. Every time she'd say 'okay imma let you go' then would just keep talking 😂 I was there for an extra 20 minutes lol
From my experience in Arkansas, the standing up and walking to the front door part can be over 15 minutes. Porch is another 15. After that, it depends on weather.
It's the same in Georgia, though the mosquitoes are factored into the weather here.
@@carriecollins6697 Mosquitoes are absolutely part of weather. And the trucks that pump insecticide into the storm sewers are as much a sound of the night as annual cicadas are.
@@Bacopa68 what ever bro i dont think you are sensitive
And one can talk about the weather for a good 30 minutes
I don't think this a just a southern phenomenon. My family is from the Pacific Northwest and they do this too. And when you are finally driving off in your car, they wave and blow kisses. When I was young, I used to think it was annoying, but now I do it too. Family is precious.
All good hearted people are a little bit Southern on the inside 🍑
Yall should meet my Aunt Shirly. Imagine driving your grandfather to her house to pick something up, and, after 5 minutes, I went outside while she talked with not a break in her breath. Two whole hours went by and she never stopped, I realized I had been walking around the van for two HOURS. She doesn't need oxygen and could probably survive in space.
Awesome video idea Matt. I often think that if the rest of the country had some sort of guide book or videos like this, they may not be as recognizable as " They ain't from round here". Thanks for keeping us with a smile on our face Matt.
This is so accurate! I had a tad bit of shame for a millisecond because I’m guilty of doing this to my adult children! Good-byes are at least a 15 minute ordeal.
When my mom is taking too long on the phone with me I usually say “granny’s calling” and it works like a charm
(Edit: A friend asked me how I get away with that, because they assumed my granny would rat me out to my mom. They obviously don’t understand the relationship between a southern granny and her grandson 😂. My granny wouldn’t hurt a soul on planet earth, but I actually believe that if I killed someone, the first thing she’d do is try to figure out how to hide the body. My mama would have me thrown in jail in two seconds 😂)
Right lol!
My granny would have to call from heaven!! Ugh! My mom gets off the phone by saying your dad's home 😂
😂😂
Now that's the dang truth!!
That's so fucking true, omg. I've long since known my brother was the favorite of my mom and grandma and I could never understand why, still don't. But I was always my dad's favorite, we clicked, like they did, then also butted heads, immensely. Lol
This is so on point! I remember whenever we would visit my wife's parents the goodbye started in the kitchen, moved into the living room, out to the garage, into the driveway and then her father would begin the famed 22 point auto inspection walk around which ended with tire and headlight recommendations. Oh, and of course there had to be the ifnal discussion about which roads we would be taking that led to her father going back in the house to gather maps and show us how he would go. Generally if we had planned to leave after breakfast it ended up being a lunch departure. Of course then her mother would have to go in the house and put together 25 tupperware containers with enough food to travel for at least 14 days when the drive home was less than 3 hours! Gotta love the south! BTW, I now live in Arizona where simply getting a goodbye or hello is a major victory. BTW, Here's how are family did goodbye...
th-cam.com/video/Hqq8QAT_baI/w-d-xo.html
I needed to get away from Mama because I had a 4 hour drive home! Another great one, Matt. Thank you! ❤
hey whats up bro
My aunt was born and bred in Texas, ended up going to that burnt orange school and has lived in Georgia for the past 20-30 years. We timed her once at our vacation house and it literally took her an hour from the time she said her first good-bye to the time she left.
HOOK'EM HORNS !!!!
We have a version of this in Ohio as well. I call it the LONG Goodbye. My husbands last name is Long by the way. It starts in his parents kitchen, then moves to the back door, out onto their deck, then the driveway. I have learned to just make up and excuse like my back is hurting, and go sit in the car after a quick "bye guys I love you" then wait for the ritual to end.
I can confirm this as an Ohioan. If you've got a 7 pm flight you better start saying goodbye around 5 m and plan on eating. Add one hour if you're related. Make it two if fishing gets brought up.
Back in the day, after a visit to my parents’ farm in Ohio (just a stone’s throw from Wheeling), we had the long goodbye in the driveway. But wait! There’s more. After driving out the long driveway onto the road, there was a little knoll where we would honk the horn as a final buh bye. I really miss that. (I lived only an hour away.)
thank you matt. as a yankee who married into a southern family this has been helpful
this is actually so true, and the more family members you have the more time you’ll be spendin outside saying goodbye
That third one works even better when Mama's in on it and actually calls you at a prearranged time. Then you're not even lying! And I legitimately use the skeeters are eating me excuse because I legit get eaten by mosquitoes. Those welts swell up instantly on me. No invisible blood in these veins!
I resemble that remark. Thank you Matt for helping me with my affliction. 😄
As a person that gets attacked by skeeters before anyone else I agree with this. All you have to do is mention mosquitoes and I'm outta there.
are you really a cat
@@patdadysworld are you really that color of blue?
@@berlyn3014 yes i take colloidal silver
@@berlyn3014 So I am hearing that there is a chance that you are a cat.
My family is big on saying "don't rush off" to keep hostages in line. Even if you have been there 7 hours after what was supposed to be just lunch.
I have learned to just reply "we'd better." No one has written me out of their wills yet, so maybe it will be alright.
A lifetime of growing up in the south, going to church, and watching my parents navigate the countless southern goodbyes has taught me how to navigate these situations flawlessly. I’ve been actually been complimented on how well I get out of the southern goodbyes. It’s a point of pride almost
Good tips as always. You forgot my favorite, just invite them to eat the next meal with you since you have talked so long it's basically time to eat again.
Southern goodbye and midwestern goodbye are remarkable in their similarity.
The Southern goodbye sounds like the Midwest goodbye, which begins with a slap on the knee and a "Welp!" It can also take 4 hours.
Reminds me of saying goodbye to my grandparents when we'd visit Alabama. 😂😂😂
My family and relatives growing up while visiting:
“Well, we better go.”
“Well, what’s your hurry? Why don’t y’all just stay?”
😆 My inlaws live 4 miles away and we go through this each time we visit. Which is several times of week.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 oh no God bless you 😂😂😂😂
@@dianasimplifies anytime they say let us walk you out we know the visit is just beginning. 😆
@@BobbiJo yeah I was gonna say how can you say mama is calling if she’s the one holding you up 😆😆😆😆
I love the respect for moms message. My mom is a saint, I’d never want to run off and leave her like that.
You should do a collaboration with Charlie about Midwest goodbyes.
Ok, you just described my entire family. Even those who "went north" to live and come back home for "visits" (6 weeks or more)
Other folks 8n the rest of the country don't understand that. *sigh*
@@MaryofMayberry Sure we do
😂😂❤😂😂 Sending a thanks because you really do provide wonderful, clean humor! Thank you and gotta go, Mama's calling!❤😂😂
I learned to start saying goodbye 30 minutes before I need to leave. That way, I'll only leave 10-15 minutes late (40-45 minutes after I started saying goodbye). In the winter, I also use, 'I gotta get on the road, I want to get home before it gets dark.'
It is not possible to escape. I'm waiting to see what your solution is and then I'll edit. Ha, ha, love the last one, as that would actually work, good job Matt.
I work for a call center in Alabama, and its not just loved ones. Every call I take has to have like 5 minutes of saying " well we will be seeing you" " alright take care now" "you have a nice day now" "god bless" " alright then"
As a yankee transplant to the south, I actually fit in. My family in NY would take forever to say goodbye. My southern husband is always trying to rush me out of his family gatherings bc I’m the one holding us up saying goodbye to his family. 😂
Your husband sounds like me lol. My wife is from Texas though, so about 75% southern.
Family walking you out to your car:
"Oh, Martha May says, Hi."
"Well how she doin'?"
"She's good. She...."
A whole nuther conversation begins 😬
When using the "important call" escape strategy, you can really sell it by adding a little startled jump and muttering "now what?" before dragging your completely dead phone from your pocket.
hey yo every body knows dont drink and drive i heard that you go gon the road drunk stay safe out there
@@patdadysworld ????????????
I know some people who know you and they said u have Ben taking it a bit to far just chill
@@colormedubious4747 i heard about what happened
@@patdadysworld You heard that I am alcohol intolerant and cannot drink it without risking death? You also somehow managed to fail basic second grade level reading comprehension. Also, who the heck is Ben? Maybe you got our names confused because of your tragic illiteracy.
It really does take a long time to leave after a visit. Some of the best gossip comes up on the way to the car. Factoring in the goodbye time is a must, so relax and enjoy. Southern by the Grace of God.....embrace it!!!
They forgot to employ the Southern goodbye.
No matter how bad my day is I know that a new Matt video will automatically make it better!
My dad told the guys putting down the water pipes to come back if ever passing this way to sit on the porch anytime.Before long they were calling him pops that really made his week.
You and Charlie Behrens should do a collab of Midwest meets South 😂
Thank you for a great smile today. "Only one person that is more important..."! That is perfect! Thank you for sharing what is right and fun.
This is so incredibly true its not even funny, it takes me at least 20 minutes to say goodbye to my momma, however, I am one of those hated Southerners who mosquitos don't go after very often, if I'm getting bit, then everyone is getting eaten alive and all my family knows it so I can't use that trick
My wife’s siblings have told me, privately of course, that they love how brazen I am about telling people it’s time to leave. Whenever we have a family get together at our house a point will inevitably come when I’m done, and I will make the announcement, “I love all of you, but I’m kicking you out in 30 minutes.” The first time I did this everyone was rather shocked. Even more so when the 30 minutes was up and I started escorting people to the door. That was several years ago. These days most of them are grateful that they can escape without having to say goodbye for hours.
I cried tears when you said “enough speaking skills to star in a small town Baptist Church Easter play.” 😂😂😂😂 oooh it’s true. And wth is Southern Living doing to Tea?!
I just did this the last 5 days of my life. Son graduated from the Army in Georgia, we live in East Texas...missed with family from North Carolina....75% of my time was saying goodbye 100000000 times. 😢
I love your channel!! Just found you ab 2 weeks ago, and subscribed right away. While it's hilarious, it's so frighteningly accurate!! Keep 'em coming!!
To get away from my Nana,who lives next door to us and watches us go into our own door when we leave,I tell her “I REALLY have to pee!” Or if the hubby is with me “Hubby has to poop!” It gets us out of there then and there! 😂
This is among my favorite skits you've done. Loving it, please keep em coming! Although I must say, I think the taste tests are my favorite 😅
My favorite "goodbye excuse" is "welp, gotta get going, dogs ain't been out in a while and they probably need more water. We'll see ya later " 😂🤣😂🤣
Nowadays, just sneeze or cough. They'll be only too quick to let you go!😂
😂😂😂😂😂 clear your throat a few times….get some phlegm up. They will sprint back to the house 😂😂😂😂
Not in my neck of the woods. I could hack up a lung and they just say knowingly, “allergies?” 😂
@@bygraceonly182 😆😆😆😆😆
I am from NJ and my mother took forever to say goodbye to any family. Rush us kids to gather our stuff and go home. We would then stand in the driveway for a half hour saying goodbye to the people we were coming over the next day to visit with.
My wife and her family have extended Southern Goodbyes to phone calls. Matt, I need a video for how to escape those too.
My mother is of Italian heritage and though we lived in the South; we called it the Italian good bye. It literally took the folks 3 1/2 hours to even get out of the house, another 30 mins to round us kids up, then someone had to use the rest room all in all it was close to 4 1/2 hours before the drove up the lane. 😅
Nothin like bein held hostage for 20mins in the driveway talkin into a car window! 😆
I love your videos. I watch every one. They can always make my day! Thank u so much for your wonderful sense of humor. Take care. 😊
Another good one, Love what you do, Matt!
I'm a born & raised Minnesotan still living in Minnesota.
We have our own "Long Goodbye".
My mama wouldn't know a cell phone if I handed her one lol
I don't know who invented this...Southerners or Italian-Americans. Been caught in both.😅❤At the end of the day, It's about people who care. THAT is a blessing. Love your channel Matt.👍
Being a southerner living up north when I go home, the long goodbyes feel like a long hug. Up here everyone is in such a rush.
I have used 'blame the skeeters' on multiple times. usually at a family gathering when my former brother-in-law's family were there and they were doing their usual loud, rude AF, interrupting to start a whole new conversation Connecticut selves. I love the English goodbye. Maybe it is Irish? Hands on your knees, say "well" and everyone knows the visit is over. that is me now, in the deep South.
Can't tell you how many times my siblings and I fell asleep in the car while the adults said goodbye. And yes, we got eaten alive by the skeeters 😂🤣🤣
Oh, I felt this one, lolll. Hope these tricks work as well trying to get out of a random "reunion" at Walmart...
Irish goodbye...GOAT 🐐
Unless you are attending a wake
Kentucky here. You nailed it again. Except, you forgot the part about coming in the front door turning on the light behind you and waving until the car goes out of sight. Thanks for making me giggle
Hanging up a phone call with my parents is easily 10 minutes
As kids, when parents said it was time to go, we knew we had 20 minutes to an hour before we'd have to check in.
You just described every Missouri goodbye. Probably why some people lump us in with the South and not the Midwest. Either way, plan on at at least an hour in the driveway.
Have you seen a Midwest Goodbye? It takes a good 2 hours to even leave the house.
Missouri has the Midwestern/Southern Combo long goodbye. They can last forever!
No, no Midwest is just as bad; just inside.
I like the "If I don't leave now I'm gonna get stuck in (insert highway) rush hour traffic". Specifically for me, I-4. No one would wish that on their worst enemy.
You have to say the tea will be rurnt.
In KY my mom is this person and she won't come out of the house all day but for years on a nice subdivision she is out hanging on your car in a frumpy to little clothes on.. And NOTHING WORKs.. she usually goes back and forth bringing containers of stuff you didn't want or need...LOVE YOU MOM
Love your videos! :)
at my own risk, I sent this to my own mama! 🤣😭 thanks for the video pal! Bama fan son, Braves fan son, Floridian and resident- southeastern southerner 🙏✌🕊
Y'all come back now". ....and they do! Been there. 🙄
It's a Southern Thing really messed up when they didn't stop you from leaving Matt. You are so funny!
As it has been pointed out, not all non-Southerners are of the goodbye and leave variety. Up here we have the Midwest goodbye. We don't have skeeters and homemade sweet tea so much either.
Cold & weather are our main excuses, also length of drive but that one can backfire as you will immediately be offered a place to sleep
Also try to get to the car ahead of your hostage taker, in one movement you must get in the car, close the door and immediately put your seat belt on - DO NOT LOOK UP AT YOUR HOSTAGE TAKER, start the car and put it in reverse NOW is the only safe time to look up and waive as you slowly drive off.