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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: can you leave a party without saying goodbye?

6 July 2024

9:00 AM

6 July 2024

9:00 AM

Q. Often at parties strangers bear down on me looking excited and are then offended when I don’t recognise them. This is because I have never actually met them – they have just seen me on television and made the mistake of thinking we know each other. To say ‘I think you’re confused because you’ve seen me on television’ sounds patronising so I don’t.

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