OT: MGoFeelingsball - Things that make you cry

Submitted by The Mad Hatter on

Since there's nothing going on today I think is an original idea for an OT thread.

I've never been much of a crier, even as a kid.  I can count on my hands the number of times I've shed tears as an adult, and when it has happened no one saw it.  Not my wife or my kids.

So imagine my 16 year old daughter's surprise when she looked at the seat next to her in Hill Auditorium and saw her dad sobbing like a 3 year old that was just punched in the face and then told Santa wasn't real.  She has never once seen me cry and I freaked her the fuck out by doing it.

So there it is.  Handel's Messiah makes me cry like a little bitch. 

 

What about you?  A certain scene in a movie?  A dog food commercial?  Finding out that you were adopted?  What makes MGoBloggers shed some tears?

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ST3

March 24th, 2016 at 12:33 PM ^

I didn't shed a tear, but I came close, when I saw a guy propose to his girlfriend after she had received a cochlear implant. He wanted the first thing she heard to be his proposal. OMG. Definitely sent shudders down my spine.

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EGD

March 24th, 2016 at 12:36 PM ^

Have you seen the story on the Miracle Class from Mott Children's Hospital that came out this week?  I didn't cry.  Might have had to wipe some dust out of my eyes though.  

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4godkingandwol…

March 24th, 2016 at 12:39 PM ^

Ever since having our kids,i find I cry at any child with an illness or worse.

The picture of the young Syrian boy washed up on the shore of turkey, face down, dead. Yeah, I cry every time.

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Great Lakes Pirate

March 24th, 2016 at 12:40 PM ^

Those damned Sarah McLachlan abused animal commercials. If I'm not fast enough to change the channel I run the legitimate risk of writing a check for my bank balance mailing it away in a puddle of sadness.

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Great Lakes Pirate

March 24th, 2016 at 1:00 PM ^

Yep. It was the initial reaction I had to them and it hasn't changed since. But really the thought of abused animals makes me really sad on its own, so I suppose it is just that the commercial brings those thoughts to the forefront.

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Sam1863

March 24th, 2016 at 6:03 PM ^

But then I get royally pissed off at the thought of any knuckle-dragging asshole who would treat an animal like that. Makes me want to introduce their empty head to the business end of a crowbar.

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Nobody Likes a…

March 24th, 2016 at 12:41 PM ^

I was very close with my maternal grandparents and being Irish they would do that thing where they would sing "Danny boy" to me. my name is Daniel so it happened a lot. forget that the song is sad enough anyways hearing your elderly grandparents sing to you about their own mortality. I weep inconsolably whenever I hear it

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UMxWolverines

March 24th, 2016 at 12:42 PM ^

Sometimes I get misty-eyed when I'm working out in my uncle's field as it used to be my grandma's field and he had the property line redone when she died. Her house looks out at the field and it's still weird to not be able to drive the tractor up to her house and say hi and just sit and talk for a while when I'm done. Besides just missing her I miss the house as well. It was a giant colonial tri-level and you've never seen a more neatly kept house. 

Videos of soldiers coming home usually get me too. 

And I'm fully prepared to cry at wedding and when my first child is born. 

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The Mad Hatter

March 25th, 2016 at 8:13 AM ^

If you happen to check this thread a day later, do it in the church. They make you go through some BS classes, much of which you'll be rolling your eyes at, but I think it was well worth it. They make you take a pretty interesting compatibility test and then go over the results. That thing was 100% spot on in predicting the issues that would later cause problems in our marriage. Plus, the ceremony, while long, was beautiful. And it makes Catholic parents happy when you get married in the church. And you can still get "obey" put in the vows. Which is awesome.

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UMAmaizinBlue

March 24th, 2016 at 12:42 PM ^

Crying every time I see the video of Brock Mealer touching the banner back in 2010. I cry just like the day I saw it in person. I'll just assume everyone else here is the same otherwise I'd have to hate you.

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Chuck Norris

March 24th, 2016 at 12:43 PM ^

That bit from Inception where he's driving away and the music swells and Murph is crying and he checks under the blankets and she's not there and god fucking damn it.

Actually I cried like 4 times in that movie.

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Wolverine In Iowa 68

March 24th, 2016 at 12:45 PM ^

Movies or events between father and child.

Having already shared I had to bury two infant children, those hit me hard.  Kevin Coster asking his dad to have a catch at the end of Field of Dreams, Jackie Gleason telling Tom Hanks he was the last person he thought would come through for him...

Any time my surviving daughter has a big event: confirmation, programs at school, things like that.  I'll be destroyed when she graduates, I'm sure.

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Sam1863

March 24th, 2016 at 6:11 PM ^

Field of Dreams, absolutely. I saw it in 1989 when I was in Sacramento for my Dad's funeral. After several emotionally raw days, my sister, stepmother and I needed to get out of the house, and "Hey, let's go catch a movie. I've heard good stuff about this new Costner flick."

Good idea, but a bad choice for the circumstances. I was OK until "Hey ... Dad? You wanna have a catch?" Then I lost it hard. We sat there trying to collect ourselves until they brought the lights up. Even today, I gotta be careful with that movie.

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Michwolverinefreak

March 24th, 2016 at 1:06 PM ^

Marley and Me. Anyone who didn't cry during that movie has no soul.

I remember someone on ESPN saying that about Rudy though, and I was like, "Crying during Rudy? Word?"

 

Edit: and that one scene in Tangled.

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