A farewell
Someone is leaving — a job, a city, a group. This is the last night, and everyone knows it.
- When did you last cook a dish from memory, and who taught you?
- When did you last hand-write a card, and who received it?
- When did you last keep an object from a place you left?
- When did you last change your mind because of one sentence?
- When did you last leave a party early, and what did you say?
- When did you last stop to watch a stranger do their job well?
- When did you last throw away something you had kept for a decade?
- When did you last introduce two people who then became friends?
- What did you fail at and would do again tomorrow?
- Whose taste do you trust more than your own, and about what?
- What are you good at that you would rather not be known for?
- What tradition do you complain about and would miss if it stopped?
- What did you learn from a teacher you did not like?
- What will you miss about a place you were glad to leave?
- What would you tell whoever replaces you that nobody wrote down?
- What did you assume on your first day that turned out wrong?
- What's a skill from an old job you never get to use here?
- What do you know about this place that isn't written down anywhere?
- What's a trick you use that you've never seen anyone write down?
- What's within arm's reach right now that you'd hate to lose?
- What advice do you repeat so often that people quote it back?
- Guess what I will miss about this place, and why you think that.
- Guess what I am taking home on my last day here, and why.
- Guess what I wanted to be at ten years old, and why.
- When did you last give a toast, and how did it land?