What's guaranteed to make you cry?

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:25 pm

"Eternal Father, Strong to Save" will reduce me to a puddle every time. They played it at my father's funeral.

Hallmark commercials do it to me, too!

Do you find you're more easily emotional as you get older? I sure do! Show me a parade with a high school marching band and I'm going to embarass myself!

Since 9/11, can any of us see a fire engine, racing to save lives with a flag flying behind it and not feel that CHOKE?

theia · Post by **theia** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:08 pm

As you say, Lulu, a lot of things make me cry as I've got older (nearly wrote "get" and then realised I'm here!)

Loads of music more recently including Elgar's Nimrod, Vaughan Williams' Greensleeves and Roberta Flack's The first Time Ever I Saw Your Face.

The Last Night of the Proms and the Festival of Remembrance

Saying goodbye to someone at a railway station (definitely guaranteed)

Seeing people really disappointed because their hopes and dreams have been dashed

Seeing human kindness in action

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:02 am

There's an advert here on the TV for the NSPCC (National society for the prevention of cruelty to Children). It makes me cry every time (even though the kids are actors).

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:11 am

I can't cry. Wish to heck I could. Does this mean I'm really a witch????

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:21 am

Weddings and funerals do it to me every time. I swear I could go see a complete stranger in either situation and cry my eyes out.

The national anthem and God Bless the USA do it to me too.

The one thing I really hate is if I'm to the point of exploding because I'm so mad, I cry. Hubby knows if I'm mad and the tears start, someone is about to get told off in a not too quiet voice.

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:38 am

Seeing a man cry will do it everytime. THe bigger and huskier he is makes more tears come.

CheshireCat · Post by **CheshireCat** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:06 am

Animals being abused and negleted. People having to say good bye to thier best friend and make the decision for euthanasia.

We cry at work every day.:yh_brokeh

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:30 am

Sounds as if we're all empathetic!

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:19 am

ALL of the above. And Aussie Pam, I'll cry because you are a witch.:yh_cry

CheshireCat · Post by **CheshireCat** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:50 am

You know what used to always get me when i was a little girl?

The Hulk, you know at the end of every show when they played "Love Story" and the big guy was walking off by himself? That used to upset me so much. :-3

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:53 am

Me too all of the above. As well my kids make me cry some times for now reason I get all sappy and think of things in the past, about my kids and cry.... gosh some days it's just a mood and I almost go looking for a reason to cry. Good byes make me cry.

I also can cry in a happy situation, gifts given to me from the heart make me cry.... gosh then I do look silly.

Last birthday and mothers day (so close together) and my eldest scraped together a few bucks and bought me a green ceramic frog for the occasion and it had no significance what so ever I don't collect them or anything but it was the plain old fact that this kid who has no extra money went out and got this for me. Gosh even as I type this I get teary. I love my frog and some days just touch it to remind me how much I love my kid. Ok gotta go get tissues now.... I am feeling the tears.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:03 am

AWWW, Minxie....now you've made ME weepy!

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:11 am

white onions. everytime.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:19 am

::wah: Cynic! :wah:

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:23 am

Minks, I'm crying because you're crying and I love that frog too. Because my daughter collects frogs and it reminds me of when my 3 girls were little and they brought a frog home with them on the train...oh wait a minute...that was a toad and he hopped all over the basement and slimed everything.

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:40 am

I bawled like a baby in Heathrow airport when I had to say goodbye to Raven. Oh we had tears steaming down our faces.

I darn well cried when I went to pick up the ex's dog from doggie jail because when they took me into the section of jail he was in I came through a set of glass doors and I could see the cage he was in, his back to me and he was just a quivering as there was awful loud barking all around him. I knelt down to touch him and when I saw in his eyes he recognized me I bloody cried.

Just a half hour before that while sitting with the police officer I cried in anger when she told me "because I came to take responsiblilty for the dog" she had to charge me $300 before he could be released.

Guess I cry easily

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:42 am

:wah: Lol @ Zapata! :wah:

Lulu2 wrote: Sounds as if we're all empathetic!
Not so much empathetic, just pathetic in my case! I cry at everything! I'm a total wuss!

CheshireCat · Post by **CheshireCat** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:47 am

I'd cry too over $300 for someone else's dog. But I'd pay it to get him out of doggie jail. I'm a sucker for a sad face. It's a wonder I don't have 20 dogs and cats at my house. I am always falling in love with one at work.:yh_sigh

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:50 am

Kirk Douglas watching Jean Simmons riding off at the end of Spartacus

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:54 am

I could never work with animals at any capacity, I am far to much of a softie, it would break my heart to see the bad things

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:06 am

I cried when i saw my first grandchild

I cried when my son got married, or rather at the reception when he was giving his speech.

I sometimes cry at happy endings to films.

I cried on News years eve because i was lonely ( I think it was the drink what dunnit !)

I sometimes feel like crying when I read some of the stuff that people are having to put up with in thier lives here and at work.

I cry when I see my brother and REALLY cry when I have to say good bye to him...I adore him.

Blimey....I didn't realise what a cry baby I am :-1

Oh yes....and I feel like crying if people are really nice to me

I guess I don't think i deserve it..

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:09 am

Bez wrote: I cried when i saw my first grandchild

I cried when my son got married, or rather at the reception when he was giving his speech.

I sometimes cry at happy endings to films.

I cried on News years eve because i was lonely ( I think it was the drink what dunnit !)

I sometimes feel like crying when I read some of the stuff that people are having to put up with in thier lives here and at work.

I cry when I see my brother and REALLY cry when I have to say good bye to him...I adore him.

Blimey....I didn't realise what a cry baby I am :-1

Oh yes....and I feel like crying if people are really nice to me

I guess I don't think i deserve it.. Oiy Bezzy but you do deserve all niceness that comes your way.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:12 am

minks wrote: Oiy Bezzy but you do deserve all niceness that comes your way.

Oh Minks....don't...you'll make me cry...:wah:

Anyway ...back at you young lady...you're the best :-4

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:14 am

Bez wrote: Oh Minks....don't...you'll make me cry...:wah:

Anyway ...back at you young lady...you're the best :-4

oh goodie we just made each other sob at our keyboards... what a pair hehehehe

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:15 am

[QUOTE=helefra]I cry at movies that have anything remotely sad in them. I'm a big weepie when it comes to stuff like that.:yh_cry

Sometimes there is really good music that will have me moved and I end up with a tear in my eye

Oh John Lennon's "Imagine" gets me all the time

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:23 am

oh goodness, I am so unemotional....it takes a lot to get me even teary-eyed....but I think my kids will bring it out....I got teary-eyed at my daughter's preschool graduation :rolleyes: .....I was thinking I'm going to be a mess at all of their big events.....

CheshireCat · Post by **CheshireCat** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:59 am

minks wrote: I could never work with animals at any capacity, I am far to much of a softie, it would break my heart to see the bad things

It's hard sometimes, heartbreaking really. We see the worst of the worst. But when you get to save a life it makes everything worthwhile.

We did a c section an a cat the other night, we saved all six kittens and the mother. That brings a tear too.

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:19 am

CheshireCat wrote: It's hard sometimes, heartbreaking really. We see the worst of the worst. But when you get to save a life it makes everything worthwhile.

We did a c section an a cat the other night, we saved all six kittens and the mother. That brings a tear too.

Oh just the thought of this makes me feel all squishy

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:43 pm

Nothing makes me cry....

except onions.

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:45 pm

K.Snyder wrote: Nothing makes me cry....

except onions.

well I was just thinking about you macho type and I bet... a ball peen hammer to the knee cap could do it. HAH of course that is all in jest you know.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:59 pm

sunny104 wrote: oh goodness, I am so unemotional....it takes a lot to get me even teary-eyed....but I think my kids will bring it out....I got teary-eyed at my daughter's preschool graduation :rolleyes: .....I was thinking I'm going to be a mess at all of their big events.....

Go on - let it go you big softie

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:01 pm

minks wrote: well I was just thinking about you macho type and I bet... a ball peen hammer to the knee cap could do it. HAH of course that is all in jest you know.

Oh my life.....Minks knows what a ball peen hammer is, ........and she's a ........WOMAN!!!! :yh_giggle

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:02 pm

Clancy wrote: I can't say it made me cry, on seeing this, quite the opposite.

.....that is what I call, one "happy" bride

Are you sure the one on the left isn't a ventriloquists dummy?

CheshireCat · Post by **CheshireCat** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:02 pm

I broke my big toe when I slid on the bathroom tile floor. THAT made me cry! :yh_cry

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:56 pm

Golly gosh, it's really moist in this thread. Witch Pam to the rescue ...

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CheshireCat · Post by **CheshireCat** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:32 am

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And the scene where the wolf is shot in Dances with Wolves.

Oh, the wolf!! I know exactly what you mean. I lost it and my buddies that I was watching the movie with never let me live it down!

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:38 am

minks wrote: well I was just thinking about you macho type and I bet... a ball peen hammer to the knee cap could do it. HAH of course that is all in jest you know.

Nah,

that would just really **** me off....

I would probably yell in agony, incrimental with the amount of force obviously, and a tear may trickle from the likes of my cheek from nerve, but to cry in my opinion is nothing shy of spiritual.

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:04 am

Lately it does not take much. Someone dying on a TV show. Or just someone crying.

Shweet tatersalad · Post by **Shweet tatersalad** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:06 am

National anthem

Pledge of allegiance

The song "Proud too be an American"

Free bird

All these are connected.

Big boys don't cry buuuuuuuuuuuuut,the last time I shed a tear was on the day my daughter was born,the day that shook my world and put it all in focus.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:53 pm

This is an interesting thread. When I said I didn't cry, earlier on, that was mainly true. I've thought about it more. I don't cry when I'm injured. I don't cry when I'm blue. I don't cry when the cosmic smite key kicks me in the face. I really regret that I don't cry in these circumstances. Tears really help. It's a big release and tears contain natural tranquillising substances. The idea of crying yourself to sleep is a sign of this effect. I have been known to get wet eyed in schmaltzy movies, or at those awful saccharine inspirational stories of the day emails. I have even experienced a bit of ocular dampness in the presence of great beauty. Go figger.

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 3:13 pm

Beautiful art: La Pieta, works of Monet among many others. Beautiful voices like Andrea Bocelli and sopranos singing arias.

Adam Zapple · Post by **Adam Zapple** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:00 pm

Any movie where a bawling kid has to say the final goodbye to his/her dying mother. A moment of special communion with God.