Psychoanalyze me: Why in the world does this embarrass me?

[Anonymous]

Does the ice cream truck song remind you of any particular music? I once spent the first six months of a job with the Sesame Street theme song in my head until I realized my desk phone’s ringtone reminded me of Sesame Street.

[Anonymous]

The music is too earnest and old-fashioned. Someone is trying hard to make a living driving the truck, playing the recording, and it's kind of sad, a sad life, no matter how you want to spin it. The trucks are old and look like they're held together with papercilps. Not like a shiny new food truck that would not play music and seems entrepreneurial in this era. So you feel embarrassed for the whole
enterprise. It's like seeing sad childhood things that no longer have a luster.

[Anonymous]

Sort of similar to the PP I was going to suggest that maybe it's a vicarious embarrassment for the driver/truck owner.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Were you too get get ice cream when you were a child?

I’m assuming you meant “too fat to get ice cream” and the answer is no, I was on the thinner end of normal.

Sorry, I meant to poor

We weren’t poor, but my parents probably wouldn’t have splurged on this, and if they did, we would have had to share one treat (we often shared one ice cream cone, for example) But I was never embarrassed by it. To this day I sometimes share a cone with DH if we take the kids out for ice cream.

You share a cone? Hmm.

[Anonymous]

Yesterday, I heard the ice cream truck for the first time this season. I wasn't interested in buying ice cream, but it made me smile - BUT I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT WHERE THE TRUCK WAS and it was driving me batty. It was clearly parked for a while, but I couldn't see it from the front or backyard, or any windows.

We never had an ice cream truck on our dark wooded cul-de-sac growing up, so I don't necessarily have "nostalgia" - except maybe 2nd had nostalgia for a kind of neighborhood charm that I always wanted. Now I have it. Sort of. Because I couldn't find it, it's still an elusive concept.

Anyway, that doesn't answer your question OP. Maybe you had some kind of embarrassing childhood incident with the ice cream truck?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were you too get get ice cream when you were a child?

I’m assuming you meant “too fat to get ice cream” and the answer is no, I was on the thinner end of normal.

Sorry, I meant to poor

We weren’t poor, but my parents probably wouldn’t have splurged on this, and if they did, we would have had to share one treat (we often shared one ice cream cone, for example) But I was never embarrassed by it. To this day I sometimes share a cone with DH if we take the kids out for ice cream.

You share a cone? Hmm.

Come on, this is not strange. I don’t want a whole ice cream cone because… I just don’t. In what world is it weird to share an ice cream cone with your spouse?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were you too get get ice cream when you were a child?

I’m assuming you meant “too fat to get ice cream” and the answer is no, I was on the thinner end of normal.

Sorry, I meant to poor

We weren’t poor, but my parents probably wouldn’t have splurged on this, and if they did, we would have had to share one treat (we often shared one ice cream cone, for example) But I was never embarrassed by it. To this day I sometimes share a cone with DH if we take the kids out for ice cream.

You share a cone? Hmm.

Come on, this is not strange. I don’t want a whole ice cream cone because… I just don’t. In what world is it weird to share an ice cream cone with your spouse?

It’s weird because you both have to lick it. Gross. Also sounds eating disordered.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were you too get get ice cream when you were a child?

I’m assuming you meant “too fat to get ice cream” and the answer is no, I was on the thinner end of normal.

Sorry, I meant to poor

We weren’t poor, but my parents probably wouldn’t have splurged on this, and if they did, we would have had to share one treat (we often shared one ice cream cone, for example) But I was never embarrassed by it. To this day I sometimes share a cone with DH if we take the kids out for ice cream.

You share a cone? Hmm.

Come on, this is not strange. I don’t want a whole ice cream cone because… I just don’t. In what world is it weird to share an ice cream cone with your spouse?

It’s weird because you both have to lick it. Gross. Also sounds eating disordered.

You sound like a prude. Do you not have an active sex life or…?

[Anonymous]

Sharing an ice cream cone is gross.

[Anonymous]

You associate ice cream trucks with impoverished living. It embarrasses you because you feel like you live above that level/that your neighborhood is not lower class.

[Anonymous]

This is an interesting question OP. I’m going with repressed memory. Maybe you were doing something you knew was wrong or something really dorky as a kid at the same time an ice cream truck was passing by and the sound is now forever linked to your feelings at the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sharing an ice cream cone is gross.

Unlike, say, kissing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were you too get get ice cream when you were a child?

I’m assuming you meant “too fat to get ice cream” and the answer is no, I was on the thinner end of normal.

Sorry, I meant to poor

We weren’t poor, but my parents probably wouldn’t have splurged on this, and if they did, we would have had to share one treat (we often shared one ice cream cone, for example) But I was never embarrassed by it. To this day I sometimes share a cone with DH if we take the kids out for ice cream.

You share a cone? Hmm.

Come on, this is not strange. I don’t want a whole ice cream cone because… I just don’t. In what world is it weird to share an ice cream cone with your spouse?

It’s weird because you both have to lick it. Gross. Also sounds eating disordered.

Np. OP did assume the missing word was "fat". That's sort of like a projective test.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were you too get get ice cream when you were a child?

I’m assuming you meant “too fat to get ice cream” and the answer is no, I was on the thinner end of normal.

Sorry, I meant to poor

We weren’t poor, but my parents probably wouldn’t have splurged on this, and if they did, we would have had to share one treat (we often shared one ice cream cone, for example) But I was never embarrassed by it. To this day I sometimes share a cone with DH if we take the kids out for ice cream.

You share a cone? Hmm.

Come on, this is not strange. I don’t want a whole ice cream cone because… I just don’t. In what world is it weird to share an ice cream cone with your spouse?

It’s weird because you both have to lick it. Gross. Also sounds eating disordered.

Np. OP did assume the missing word was "fat". That's sort of like a projective test.

You’re really reaching. I too would get “fat” from “get”. I would not assume “get” was supposed to be “poor”.

[Anonymous]

Maybe its the tune that's playing and not the truck.