What’s fun to do to others, but embarrassing when done to ourselves? For some of us, including yours truly, it is singing happy birthday in public. There’s just this unexplainable shame when you’re surrounded by a group of people, all singing you cheers for your birthday, which makes you uncomfortable.
That also happened for the anonymous Redditor last week but to a lesser extent. In a post, she said that she was feeling secondhand embarrassment for her fiancé who was singing happy birthday boisterously to his 5-year-old son. After she explained to her fiancé that she felt embarrassed during the singing scene and that it could have been done at home, the fiancé found him unreasonable. Was she really in the wrong? Find out below!
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It seems like OP’s dislike towards public singing of “happy birthday” lead to an argument with an SO
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The audience concluded that OP was indeed in the wrong here