Group Etiquette

(a.k.a. Why You Should Check Who Has Just Left the Group Before You Start Talking About the Person Who Has Just Left the Group)

So while questing my Paladin (that's right!) in the south of Ghostlands, I come across another Paladin (I'm going to call him Winkle...his name was something along that line) questing on what seemed to be the same thing. As hesitiant as I always am about interacting with other players (WoW is a social game, what?), I gave over a Blessing of Might which got a "ty", and then went on to group up and do some quests together.

Riveting as this was, after about a quest or two, I started to tire of the company. Not that anything was wrong with Winkle, he seemed perfectly fine. But there's only so much of WoW that I can take with other people before I want to just get back to being alone.

My problem has always been that I never know how to say "Right, it's been a good 30 minutes, we've had some laughs and some drama, but I'm going to go now, so BB", disbanding the group and completely abandoning said player.

But I'm deviating. Back to the story. So anyway, I'm still stuck with this guy, who's insistent on doing some more quests together. I'm trying to be irritating to put him off staying in the group, but it's not working. When who should I spot but Ultimatehunk also in the Ghostlands. So I think, huzzah! And invite him to the group. Now it's an awkward threesome. Winkle still isn't getting the hint. Long story short, eventually it comes down to a time where Winkle says he has to go. So all nicey nicey I say "bb" etc.

Then he leaves the group.

I then say to Hunky "Damn it! Oh well, at least now it's just the two of us."

Hunky should have laughed at this point. He didn't. At which point I realise that it was Hunky that left the group. To make it worse, instead of leaving the group, Winkle said "Oh dear" and I had to leave to get out of there.

So that was one of the more awkward moments in my WoW life, and that's also one way to leave a group!