Larry David is really onto something here
Photo: Thomas M. Barwick INC/Getty Images There are about as many methods for avoiding someone at a party as there are reasons for doing so. If you don’t like the person and you know they don’t like you, simply maintain as great a distance as possible and size them up every 30 minutes from across the room.
I learned of this technique while watching the season-ten premiere of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm earlier this week, and I’ve been dying to take it for a spin ever since. In the episode, Larry David is at a friend’s party and informs his friend Richard Lewis that he will be using the Big Good-bye on Everybody Loves Raymond executive producer Phil Rosenthal, whose inane chatter about his ongoing TV projects Larry finds intolerable.
Watching the episode, I was struck by my familiarity with the Big Good-bye strategy without having ever really identified it for what it is. While people may have used it on me, I’m also not liable to notice. I am, however, often eager to leave a party, and I know well the taut bit of drama that occurs when you glimpse out of the corner of your eye a person you’d like to avoid but not piss off or even dismay.
We are not always the person we wish we were — but neither is the person we run into at the party necessarily the person we wish them to be. Just because a fellow guest has all the charm and ability to pour beer into a glass as the Dos Equis guy doesn’t mean I want to carry on a full-blown conversation with them. Maybe it’s shameful, but who cares. I’ll take my Big Good-byes where I can get them.
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