{"id":16542,"date":"2012-07-23T00:53:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T22:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16542"},"modified":"2012-07-23T00:53:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T22:53:15","slug":"how-to-get-rid-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/23\/how-to-get-rid-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get rid of me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I couldn’t pass up the title of the Lifehacker<\/a>‘s article “How to get rid of people who overstayed their welcome<\/a>“, \u00a0since I am one of those people who pretty much always overstays the welcome. \u00a0I am trying to learn the signs, but somehow they escape me every time. \u00a0Even after reading the article, I have to say that this one works best for me:<\/p>\n

People won’t always get your subtle hints. Sometimes you need to tell an overstayer directly that the conversation and hang out time is over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yup. \u00a0Just tell me when it’s the time to shut up and leave. \u00a0I never find it offending or rude. \u00a0Because I immediately know that you’ve probably tried telling it to me in some other way, and I failed to notice.<\/p>\n

Given the size of lifehacker’s audience, and the problem described in this article, I have to say that I’m sort of glad, that I am not, obviously, alone.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I couldn’t pass up the title of the Lifehacker‘s article “How to get rid of people who overstayed their welcome“, \u00a0since I am one of those people who pretty much always overstays the welcome. \u00a0I am trying to learn the signs, but somehow they escape me every time. \u00a0Even after reading the article, I have … Continue reading How to get rid of me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[90,429,79],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal","tag-communications","tag-culture","tag-people"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16586,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/30\/i-got-rid-of-my-livejournal-account-a-year-ago\/","url_meta":{"origin":16542,"position":0},"title":"I got rid of my LiveJournal account a year ago. \u00a0…","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 30, 2012","format":"status","excerpt":"I got rid of my LiveJournal account a year ago. \u00a0It feels like it has been more. \u00a0But I haven't missed it once. \u00a0I guess that makes it into a good decision.","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10962,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/08\/getting-rid-of-my-hardware-museum\/","url_meta":{"origin":16542,"position":1},"title":"Getting rid of my hardware museum","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In the pre-Christmas cleanup craze, I cleaned out the bigger part of my in-house computer history museum.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In cold blood, I threw away about 40 kilograms of computer hardware.\u00c2\u00a0 Among that were a few kilometers of network wires, all sorts of power and signal cables, power supplies, video cards, sound\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11054,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/07\/limassol-getting-rid-of-abandoned-cars\/","url_meta":{"origin":16542,"position":2},"title":"Limassol getting rid of abandoned cars","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Google News I came across this article in Cyprus Mail, which talks about the new regulation from Limassol municipality for removing abandoned vehicles.\u00c2\u00a0 Interestingly, I thought about it a few times already.\u00c2\u00a0 There are many abandoned cars in the city, and they often add to the parking problem that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Recycled car","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/190\/468997186_2404f81e32.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9497,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/25\/no-more-www\/","url_meta":{"origin":16542,"position":3},"title":"No more WWW","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 25, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I am trying to stop using the \"www.\" part when typing in URLs. 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