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.

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The themes to Braveheart and Lion King (when Mufasa is in the clouds not the intro)

I don’t know why, they just hurt.

Oh pisspawpatrol I watched that when I was pregnant. DH came in to me sobbing!! I’m still not sure I’m over it (DD is 5!). That poor penguin Mummy

‘Gravity’ by Embrace make me weepy. I’m not sure why...

FaithInfinity I'm kind of glad i'm not the only person who sobbed at it! I'm definitely not over it.

Oh, How to Train Your Dragon 1 and 2. I cried for ages.

This is embarrassing, but one of my nans cats looks like Toothless so much, and we’ve helped a lot of stray cats. I relate the entire story to how animals are mistreated due to being misunderstood and not valued (eg black cats = unlucky, unadoptable, wild animals used and abused for our entertainment etc) and how people punish animals for their basic instincts.

Pictured is my nan’s ‘Toothless’ - she was a fiesty stray that we had to build up trust with, just like Toothless 😭

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Groups of horses running together.
I can't watch the Grand National or any kind of horse race.
The Lloyds Advert is also a no no.

At the kids sports days when the last runner comes over the line I’m always clapping like they’re getting an Olympic gold and trying to get others to do so too!! It makes me so emotional! I feel they’ve put in all this effort just to get round, in front of all these people, they deserve a bigger clap than the winners IMHO. Often not even my kid!!!!

You’ve Been Framed clips when people fall and look like they’ve really hurt themselves..instead of laughing like you’re meant to, I well up!

Oh god, so many things make me cry. It's ridiculous really.

Standing ovations make me sob like a baby. I love the theatre and musicals and I'm fine if the audience are just clapping while sat down. Once people start to stand though and the applause becomes more enthusiastic I'm just undone it's embarrassing when in company!

Babies being born on telly. Whether it's real or just on shows or films it makes me cry. One Born Every Minute is a sob fest from start to finish!

The Snail and the Whale. Not once have I managed to read it to my son without welling up by the end.
Also driving along the motorway and seeing a train racing past on the railway. I don't know why it gets to me.

1. ambulances as per OP
2. guide dogs and police dogs (so dutiful 😢😢) 3). Dogs doing agility courses. I weep my way through them Crazy? So glad not the only one

The smell of the seasons changing.

Old people singing and lots already mentioned.

I get the emergency vehicle thing too. It just feels like everyone cares and works together for a few moments, always brings a lump to my throat.

Anything where people help each other or animals. I welled up at a video I saw on Facebook today of a couple running into a police station with a choking puppy and the police all rushed out to help and saved it, it was lovely.

I also struggle seeing anything where children are scared, hurt or upset, even if it's not real.

Oh and New Year's Eve always feels emotional too. When the countdown happens and all the music and fireworks, I kind of feel a weird sadness that another year's over and gone and think of all the people who didn't make it, and also wonder what will happen and who will be gone by the time the next one comes round. That sounds depressingly awful.

Putting the Christmas tree up (reminds me of my departed ddad)
Working and assistance dogs
Children singing away in a manger

I burst into tears at a first aid course when they demonstrated cpr on an infant mannekin.
No idea I was going to react like that, I felt pretty embarassed.

Goodbye Mog by Judith Kerr.

Children who have lost their childhood- hothoused mathematicians, musicians, beauty queens...
Philip Pullman’s books about Lyra’s world. For the same reason.
And “My Love is Like a Red Red Rose” sung clear and true or played by a cornet and brass band.

So many things. I am massively sentimental.

Lots of carols, especially Once in Royal David's City-when they get to the 'with the poor and meek and lowly' bit, it's game over for me.

In the same vein, I live near an Infants school and when the reception kids go off to the church in their costumes for the nativity it just breaks me. I think it's because it reminds me of when DS was little.

As part of my job I go to HEIs and meet with students and staff. I have been choked up more than once in meetings with students, they can be so positive, enthusiastic and inspiring-I just love it.

Automatically Sunshine by The Supremes, kills me.

Stories about people rescuing cats, especially if the cats are old or injured. Actually just anything about cats.

I could go on all night, I am a veritable fountain of tears

I cry at pretty much everything. ALL OF THE ABOVE, plus the bouquets of flowers on the roadside marking a fatality, hearses driving along the road etc and also my children loved the ‘Animal Ark’ set of books and I would often end up sobbing surrounded by tissues every bedtime story time. I should have shares in andrex!

Seeing a hearse on the road always brings a tear to my eye 😢

I used to be a glittery, witty, cynical little thing and then came the DC...
It’s easier to list stuff I don’t cry at now.

Anyway, fuck off the lot of you with your brass bands, nativity plays and Dickin medals.

I’ve just got something in my eye.

Guide Dogs on duty . They'd like you to see their "Yes, Yes , ver busy and important Dog here " face but behind those serious eyes they're concentrating on their task , the devotion and training that they've been through uppermost (My DParents adopted a retired GD, her personality off duty and on duty was so different)

When one of my guinea-pigs die and I have to clean the whole cage to eradicate their smell if we want to introduce a new one.
And how we don't want to forget the one who has gone but there's a new scared little soul who needs our attention.

15 Years ago we were looking to adopt a cat or kitten. We went to a rescue centre and when I saw all the cats in their cages looking out I burst into tears
I had to go outside

Also, musical Theatre. The first song always makes me cry, doesn't matter what the show is, I'm gone!