How To Midwest: Saying Goodbye

In this video, I teach you how to say goodbye like a Midwesterner--properly.

[@amberbrown5359]

Omg yes! We call our mud room the “goodbye room” to say the 10 minute goodbye after the good bye ritual has started 2 hours prior

[@Michael-st9ky]

Youll fit in Brazil very well! If you need to leave at 8, you say goodbye at 6 😂

[@georginatoland]

My parents are from the upper midwest. This is pretty much my entire childhood at every holiday. The chat just keeps moving towards the cars. 1/2 hr at each location. ❤😂

[@TheManoDestra]

I can confirm...... this is true. Hi Camber by the way :)

[@robertkirkendall2010]

I have a friend from Ohio and his goodbyes are always 15 to 20 minutes long.

[@cambercarpenter]

This checks out.

[@moorek1967]

You forgot one. The men must then lean on the car hood to have a conversation about the car, then decide there is an issue with the car and open the hood and proceed to poke around while talking about sports or the weather, or hunting season. Then when you go back inside finally, you completely that they were even there.

[@fnnsirnifkgjdnkskxkfdhngud3569]

You missed saying “ tell your folks i said hi “

[@kurtislawler984]

My grandma always used to make jello with marshmallows. It was the best!

[@cambercarpenter]

It IS the best. Thank you for noticing.

[@mirrorblue100]

Chocolate pudding with mini-marshmallows - now thats some good salad.

[@deadpoolmlp5810]

Grew up outside Chicago. This is 100% accurate, and it drove me crazy as a kid, because I just wanted to go home and play video games, but my mom had to talk for another half hour.

[@charlieblank3393]

midwest america sounds, actually pretty good

[@cambercarpenter]

It sure is!!

[@guccideltaco]

My husband is Tejano; I'm from Indiana. When we visit my family, he about loses his MIND with our "goodbyes". His idea is that you say goodbye and you actually leave right then. I mean, seriously?!

[@cambercarpenter]

Ugh! We both married MONSTERS.

[@ryanjackson846]

Same with me and my wife, I'll tell her I'm leaving and she's ready to go where I will set there and talk and say goodbye over and over lol.

[@justinlarson7879]

Oh yeah no for sure!

[@donavonseibert507]

Omg this sentence...is more Midwest than the Midwest itself.

[@ebtv7663]

Yep that's my grandparents

[@cambercarpenter]

May we all take after our grandparents until the end of time.

[@CreamCityTravel]

This is the best! I'm actually working on a short film about this.

[@cambercarpenter]

That's amazing!! I'd love to see it.

[@pondca]

Yup, EVERYTHING Ms. Carpenter said is true. Sadly.

[@Michael-st9ky]

In Brazil it is the same 😂😂😂 I love the good bye ritual, some get it some dont. On the other side of culture, I remember my first time being hastily escorted out of the door to leave. I thought it was strange not having spent more time saying goodbye

[@scottlowman.1044]

I'm from the Midwest & this part drives me crazy.

[@kjelpeterson5236]

Nailed it

[@Nokiaphone-r5q]

This is EXACTLY how it went when my parents were buying a home pretty much word for word

[@rubyfisch5077]

We're from MN, and so of course we do this with all of our guests. But my husband takes it one step further and does the MN goodbye with the guy who delivers propane, and the mailman if he has to drive up to the house to deliver something that doesn't fit in the mailbox, etc. But they're all from MN too, so they expect it and keep the conversation going themselves.

[@gfxFUN]

This deserves so much more attention.

[@cambercarpenter]

The internet is not a meritocracy.

[@mirrorblue100]

My gramma would always stand in the kitchen doorway and wave to us for as long as she could till the car went behind a tree - then she'd run to the window and wave till my dad got the car backed onto the street and took off. And they were big full arm waves, too. She was from Sweden.

[@subninja8069]

Yep... very accurate

[@joekev27]

Born and raised in chicago can confirm.

[@marlanyc2985]

omg.. what a good laugh you gave me!

[@taydinnygaard3678]

I hate when that happens

[@TheRescueDogs]

Truth!

[@sally8708]

I’m no longer (really) in the Midwest, but I Midwest goodbye people all the time. I don’t realize it until after I get home. I then text my friend and apologize 12 times and explain that I’m from the Midwest.

[@thes.a.s.s.1361]

I often wonder why this is, usually there is a historical reason for certain rituals. My wife’s family is from Illinois and Wisconsin and she does the Midwest goodbye without the watch out for deer. But the goodbye and the host says “Goodbye, oh wait did you hear so and so got married and another 2 hour conversation begins”

[@Emilyrsps]

Sooooo true! My mother-in-law is from Minnesota, I'm from Vermont. She just spent the last hour talking about going to my brother-in-law's house. I'm like your husband, I say goodbye and then I leave.

[@shanestuart-ramirez429]

Spot on!!!!!!. Hahahahaa

[@heathwest3718]

Its similar in the south. We say "come go with us" and one would reply with "well I better stick around here for awhile". Funny channel

[@trajectoryunown]

Thank God I'm practically asocial. I tend to avoid these situations but have been caught up in them on more than a few occasions. I try to just say my goodbyes and slip out before further conversation can take place. Most of the time people just think I'm weird because I'm generally polite and overly considerate of others' talking points in conversation even to the point of forgetting what I wanted to say. If I interacted "normally" I would definitely be perceived as rude for this behavior. On a side note, what in the ever loving mother of heck is that abomination you described as an edible foodstuff? Marshmallows and Jello?

[@riksauer6308]

I love Jello Salad too!

[@curetiamhices289]

That’s the way it is in Nebraska and Kansas.

[@timbuktu8069]

Wait! How else do you say good bye?

[@cambercarpenter]

I've heard some people (east and west coast) just say goodbye and leave. Monsters.

[@timbuktu8069]

@@cambercarpenter Well...sure...*after* you hear about Carly's new job at the outlet store and you tell them about Maddies goiter operation. (can I get you another cup of coffee?)

[@MandiChukin]

Yup, this is my family

[@bobszurek3247]

Oh sure you bet, this is spot on.

[@JoeBoomerMusic]

Holy s… this is rich.

[@angryvader1662]

True story

[@saden2214]

So true 😂