"Embarassment: A Universal Experience Across Time and Situations" From female medical students blushing during their first anatomy class to a doctor asking a naked man to cough, embarrassment knows no bounds. Even children scratching their bums in public or awkward encounters with prostitutes in London can make us turn red with shame. But it's not just humans who experience this emotion; even animals like the sable-point rabbit caught grooming its face can feel embarrassed. Just like spies captured at Greenwich in 1798 or Alfred, the neat-herdsman, caught off guard in his cottage by an artist named I Hall. Even humorous illustrations like "The Parents Who Came By Charabanc" by H. M. Bateman or George Kershaw's cheeky valentine card titled "Why Should I Blush?" remind us that embarrassment is often intertwined with laughter. In one particular scene depicted as a color lithograph, a woman catches sight of someone making an awkward and ridiculous appearance at her door. The sheer mortification on both sides is palpable. And let's not forget the image aptly titled "Not Here, " where someone finds themselves in an embarrassing situation they wish they could escape from immediately. Embarrassment may be uncomfortable and sometimes painful, but it reminds us of our shared humanity. No matter the time period or circumstance, we all have moments that make us want to hide our faces and disappear into thin air.