NP here. I don’t think sharing an ice cream is gross nor strange. |
I become vicariously embarrassed when I see dog owners waiting while their dog takes a $hit. It's just so disgusting and we're all witnessing it! |
YES. This is why I am not a theatre person. I die for everyone. Of course they are singing and dancing... it's a musical... and everyone seems to love it... but I have to pretend to love it if I am watching... or at least pretend I don't want to head for the doors. And then at some point I think about how rank the clothes must be that they wear every night... so much awfulness. Yuck. There likely is a German word for feeling cringed out by the completely appropriate and rational (per any given context) outward demonstrations of others. Who knows it? It's not fremdschämen because the others aren't acting embarrassing per context... but it's still in that neighbourhood.... |
I lived at the top of the court, and the ice cream man would pull up at the bottom of the court, and I could never get money and get back in time before the ice cream man left.
I always made sure DD had enough money in her cargo shorts in case the ice cream man pulled up at the park! |
Sounds like your parents maybe shamed the idea of ice cream, or everyone getting their own cone. They may have thought of it as greedy, too expensive, too indulgent, whatever, but it hardwired the idea of you being embarrassed for your craving/wanting of ice cream as a kid, and the song brings that feeling back, like Pavlov's dog. |
I find the music creepy. No bad childhood memories of ice cream trucks. |
Hahaha love you pp. I was also a quasi psychology minor because prof was hot. Dropped the minor so I could work full time in tandem with full time undergrad. I agree with your diagnosis. |
Good idea 👍🏽. It could be a trigger going back into your childhood. Were you overweight as a child & other kids taunted you when you would buy an ice cream from the ice cream truck? Or were you one of those kids who never had any $$ to purchase treats from the neighborhood ice cream truck and other kids used to tease you for it?? |
It might be the frequency and tones that your nervous system is reacting to and not the idea of ice cream trucks |