I think I regularly want to say goodbye at the end of a thread, but I don’t think I regularly want to tell people that the thread is no longer a good use of my time. To some extent they’re logically similar but I think the choice to leave a dinner saying “Marginal time at this dinner is no longer worth the opportunity cost for me” is kind of silly, and saying “I just wanted to say goodbye, I’m headed out now!” is standard and normal.
Oh, apparently I misinterpreted the meaning of “bowing out”, as I’m not a native English speaker. Anyway, I just want to register my opinion that I thought the “not worth getting into?” react was good in itself.
I think I regularly want to say goodbye at the end of a thread, but I don’t think I regularly want to tell people that the thread is no longer a good use of my time. To some extent they’re logically similar but I think the choice to leave a dinner saying “Marginal time at this dinner is no longer worth the opportunity cost for me” is kind of silly, and saying “I just wanted to say goodbye, I’m headed out now!” is standard and normal.
Oh, apparently I misinterpreted the meaning of “bowing out”, as I’m not a native English speaker. Anyway, I just want to register my opinion that I thought the “not worth getting into?” react was good in itself.