I'm sorry if it came off as mean-spirited. I'm not sure that I could have predicted that it might sound that way, though. You describe a state of feeling overwhelmed by all the people, but it's a state that lots of people (including myself) feel a great part of the time, and we notice that American culture is entirely unsympathetic and unsupportive of shyness. You post that for a few hours you had to live like us. (It doesn't seem to cause you any suffering.) I crack a joke about it. Can you bring me up to speed on why that is mean-spirited?