Dates that crash and burn. Jerks who play the victim. "Jokes" that die on arrival. First-hand embarrassment is hard enough, but there’s something particularly difficult about digesting the most humiliating and infuriating moments of others...
One day, my dad looked at me, and then looked at my mom, and said: “It’s me or him. Choose.” I thought my mom would take my side, but I was so, so wrong.