Hilarious Stories That Prove Public Embarrassment Is Temporary
Public embarrassment feels permanent for about eleven minutes, then it becomes material. That is the great cosmic swindle of humiliation. In the moment, your brain tells you the grocery store cashier, three strangers in aisle seven, and a toddler with applesauce on his face will remember this forever. By next Tuesday, not one of them could pick you out of a lineup. You, however, will replay it in 4K with director’s commentary. The good news is that the same memory that m