Premature Evacuation

Premature Evacuation: when someone leaves an event too early—leaving their guests or the person wanting more. Either their company wanted to spend more time with them or left for some reason or another and regret leaving the fun so soon. This can apply many situations from a birthday party to a business meeting and from a date to a sales call. The human interaction has to arrive at a natural ending place in order to avoid a premature evacuation. Have you ever met up with a friend for a cup of coffee and they drained their cup in five minutes and said good-bye following their last sip? Why did they leave so soon? Something you said might have made them feel uncomfortable or maybe they are having problems at home. This is drive-by interaction and does not lead to a fruitful or enjoyable encounter hence that person committed the social faux pas of a premature evacuation. Though sometimes a premature evacuation is necessary depending on the person you are spending time with. Sometimes you are hanging out with a doser or someone lame that you just can’t hang anymore—so without explanation you split!

This word came about when my sisters and I were all hanging out and just being our goofy selves. It was getting a bit late and my older sister decided to go back to her house. The two of us who remained continued to laugh and tell jokes. Not even five minutes after she took off, we got a phone call from her asking us what we were doing—begging us to put her on speaker phone so she could join in on the sister fun. We teased her for leaving and asked her why left so early if she still wanted to hang? She had no idea and then we decided that she had prematurely evacuated our hang session. She clearly still wanted to chill and we would have liked her share another laugh with us, but some emotional cue had prompted her to peace out.