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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]some theories.

- the ice cream truck is sort of embarrassing ITSELF in front of adults by playing a loud, grating tune meant for children in order to alert them to its presence. You are feeling embarrassed FOR the ice cream truck.

- you feel some shame around childhood innocence and some cringe like reading your old diary. Remembering how you used to feel and behave can lead to a feeling like embarrassment. Like you should have known better. Somewhere along the line, someone taught you that innocence needed to be moved past. [/quote]

I agree with all of these theories, and the music itself is triggering and flamboyant. But we don’t need to feel embarrassed for the ice cream truck driver, because they seem to always have a line of people (at least where I live they do).

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yes i dont mean you should *really* feel embarrassed for it, because the music is working to alert others to its presence. It's more of a reactionary gut feeling.[b] I feel similarly when people sing and dance in musicals. Like - yes of course for sure. But also .... eeek[/b]. [/quote]

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....[/quote]

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