Q from emacs dummy

[notbob]

I love emacs as a file manager.  Still learning for editing and other
subtleties.  Ran into real bizarre behavior, recently.  In dired mode and
had a new file buffer open.  I tried to close emacs (C-x C-c) and got the
usual "wanna save file" (no), etc, but still would not close emacs.  Only
when I killed the buffer would it close.  How can I force close emacs,
regardless of open buffers?

nb