Weird things you get emotional about

[GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat]

For me, it’s an emergency vehicles coming through traffic and everyone just moves. I feel a real collective spirit in the moment of a stranger’s crisis and it really chokes me.

You?

Brass bands, male friends being very tender to one another, cillíni, the moment in the evening when the lighthouse near where I grew up starts, the Oxford May morning hymn, coming home from a walk in the twilight on a winter evening like this one, a certain kind of peaceful old man pub. And all the usual stuff like elderly couples holding hands.

Oh the band! My son goes to a school with an amazing band (he’s not in it) and they play at lots of events in our town, I always get prickly eyes at them playing.

Lost and found and because of it penguins in general
I’d gone through some very difficult things and was a bit heartbroken the first time I saw the animation.....it somehow stuck in my mind and when I see a penguin I cry and if I watch it ......I’m a wreck ! I love it but it has so much meaning to me and makes me very emotional

Flashmobs! And children trying hard, in a performance or running a race kind of thing!

Was going to say brass bands and thought it would be an odd one but apparently not @bedhair

Tonight's sunset. It was so beautiful it truly took my breath away and I get myself getting rather emotions about it. Not entirely sure why!

Children singing Christmas carols.
Church bells pealing, e.g for weddings or practice.

Military marching bands . I only have to hear the boom boom boom of the big base drum and I am gone ! As a child the ending of Dads Army got me every time when the band starts up backed by the air raid siren . Gulp !

Oh and the end credits of All Creatures Great and Small !
The last notes are accompanied by a picture of the snowy dales and for reasons I still don't understand it makes me feel wistful and sad and my stomach sort of twists !

Emergency vehicles choke me up too!

Just googled cillini

Weirdly this year it was fireworks. All the collective ooohing and ahhing made me feel a bit choked up. I think it was just the fact that (financial and social impacts aside), we essentially set off fireworks because we think they are beautiful.

Brass bands, especially at Christmas and remembrance time

I used to always cry at the KFC advert with the foster kid growing up and going back as an adult and offering the new foster kid some KFC... Its silly but I swear I would be in floods of tears!

Definitely brass bands, esp when playing Xmas carols, children singing, and the song 'Because I knew you' in Wicked, which is what I wish I could have said to a very close friend who died unexpectedly.

Rainbows. Such a cliche but it’s true They’ve appeared at several moments when things seemed too shit to get through and have been a reminder that beauty, though often fleeting, is always around us.

Anything where people get awards or prizes for things they’ve done. Chokes me up.

The end of anything like books and good tv shows.

Cooking a roast. Something wonderful about feeding people, especially the DC, vast quantities of hot, lovely food I’ve put effort into making special. In a similar vein, watching the DC laying the table in preparation for a big family meal.

When the band starts up on Remembrance Sunday that gets me every time. But I don't count that as weird.

Oh I'm often welling up when any child I work with does very well in class! I feel so proud of them sometimes. Likewise for shows they perform. Softie.

Male voice choirs, especially Welsh ones
The Welsh national anthem sung at the rugby
Brass bands

Anything and everything. I teared up at the John Lewis Ad and I'm really not one to get excited about these things. I blame having kids, I used to have a stone cold heart before them

People finishing races - not the winners but those who have given 100% and don't win.

Christmas Carols

Acts of spontaneous kindness or support. Years ago while watching a Christmas play I remember a child dropping a prop off the stage and stand like a rabbit in headlights obviously about to cry, her friend climbed hed off the stage and passed it back to her, hugged and then carried on with the next line. Made me sob like a baby - it was the little hug that did it.

Going to the Christmas carols choir in December ❤️

Hearing England football fans sing the National Anthem at big matches.

Ugly vegetables that no one wants.
Lost balloons.
Whole chickens that are reduced. They died for nothing.
Dogs left outside shops on their own.
Abbatoir signs.
The John Lewis advert. I don't even like Elton John's songs.
Animals in fields. Destined for the abbatoir.

Since I became a mum, pretty much everything makes me cry.

My husband is on some new epilepsy medication which for some reason has made him really hormonal and emotional. More through frustration though. Found him in our bedroom sobbing as he was trying to put the duvet cover on

whole chickens that are reduced

Sorry that made me giggle

brass bands and children singing, especially christmas songs! i’m so glad it’s not just me.

Old people collecting for the poppy appeal