My girlfriend was very apologetic as she watched me cringe. I told her that I've come to terms with it--I could have done other things that night instead of attend a concert I knew would make me cringe, and I wasn't in as much discomfort as I'd expected to be.

This certainly wasn't as bad as the time I was eating lunch in a local food court, only to find we were going to be "serenaded" by a bunch of middle-school students playing holiday carols on their string instruments (mostly beginner-level violins and violas, thus very nasal in tone and very off-pitch). >I< would have to be tone-deaf to be able to stay in a room full of such sounds. It almost ruined my lunch, although it did give me a fun story to tell...