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?

The celebs mastering the dances on Strictly.
My grown up children's laughter when they're together.

Echobelly yes. There's a car that has a sad face. I can't think what it is. I watched a documentary that explained that one car company only has happy faced cars as it's a cultural thing.

Children's books that have happy endings. They make me sob.

I can't read my copy of the patchwork cat to my 2yo, she'd be damaged for life!

Underdogs unexpectedly winning - like Japan against SA in the last Rugby World Cup

(PP - How is finding the last post a "weird" thing to get emotional about? It is loaded with emotional significance!)

For me, group singing. Adults with decent voices though, not the whiny kids carols etc my local radio does 1 school carol a day and it's horrendous
Looking at the Plough constellation - I just feel "at home" when I can see it.
The smell of a certain overseas country. Every time I visit I have to go and stand outside the airport doors for a few minutes before I get into my onward transport.
When my cat lets out a big deep sigh and her whole body just "softens"

Throwing meat away, even just little bits of leftovers. I feel like every scrap should be eaten.

Teddies looking like they're left out or forgotten.

Children being thoughtful especially little ones.

Spontaneous applause.

oh RedDead you just reminded me of pitiful looking toys tied to the front of trucks.

The lifeboat maroons

I used to live in a coastal village, and if you heard a big bang, would stop and count to twenty. If there was another bang, you knew the lifeboat was being scrambled and the lifeboat men had dropped everything and were racing to get down to the lifeboat house.

Always choked me up...

Also I had read in a local magazine, that in ye olden days, when the lifeboat was launched with horses (rather than tractors) they would also stop dead in their 'day jobs' and go galloping down to the lifeboat house, ready to do their duty.

The lone piper at Edinburgh Castle. Highland cathedral being played on the pipes. The sheer beauty of Scotland

Was determined not to love the JL advert - but have watched it on a loop.

I don't mind Elton, (we had a song for our first dance) - but the smile on the little boy when he sees the wrapped up piano :)

struggles to get DD to do her piano practice

Children singing, hymns, the last post 😭

Brass bands (I thought that was just me too, it's actually really embarrassing I was in floods at the Remembrance Sunday service)
Club day floats (if you know what those are)
Gender reveals

Definitely brass bands. And the war veterans during remembrance services. I once sobbed so hard during a remembrance service that people thought my husband was away serving in the forces (he was in fact at home) and came over to hug me and tell me I would be in their prayers. I was utterly mortified.

Oh Little Town of Bethlehem

Christmas songs, children in Christmas concerts, children racing, brass bands (my dad had one march him down at his funeral), fireworks, watching elderly people lonely in cafes, any charity advert.

When they do fire alarm tests in work. I'm not sure why, something about everyone walking out in an orderly fashion.

Yes yes to vehicles moving for emergency services; nice to know this isn't just me.

Otherwise parental pride: anything on TV when parents are proud of their kids. My DC's parents' evening and school plays make me cry every time.

Flashmobs
Choirs
Spontaneous rounds of applause

Basically anything where big groups of people do the same thing at the same time.

The daftest time was a few years ago, I took my DD to her first pop concert. As the stadium filled up, music was playing and just before the warm up act started, they played Gangnam Style. Watching thousands of people doing the galloping thing all at the same time had me in FLOODS

Salvation Army brass band. Especially at Christmas time.
People (especially children) being left out.
Large waves coming over at high tide.
Fisherman's male voice choir.
Same as pp about the lifeboat maroons and also fog horns.
Putting up the Christmas lights at home.
The smell of a new season.

People winning a quiz show like Pointless or Eggheads

Elderly couples holding hands and showing affection

The sight of the Vulcan bomber flying . (Will never see again now it's grounded but I was lucky enough to see it on one of its last flights and it just made me cry).

The sight of a military ship setting off, with the families waving them away. I'm not from a military family but just makes me get emotional.

My 3yo son dancing (as in, following steps from a teacher) even though he's not particularly co-ordinated, he just earnestly goes for it and tries and he's so un-self-conscious. I just know that won't last long and I love his innocence!

In the TV show gladiator, the last race where they run up the travelator and burst through the screen at the end always made me well up

Old people walking old dogs. I always worry about how they would cope if one died.

Children singing.

hedgehog80 I cry if I think about penguins too! There is a scene in "Penguins: Spy in the Huddle" where a mummy penguin discovers her baby has frozen to death and she tries to warm it up. Then another penguin seems to comfort her by putting her flipper around her and omg... I cried for ages. It makes me tear up whenever I think of penguins now. It got worse when I watched Planet Earth (I think, can't remember) and a a penguin didn't have a lady penguin and he tried to steal stones to make a nest anyway and he was described as despondent. I cried again.

Poor penguins.