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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I just looked up cillini bloody hell, that’s chocked me up! I never knew that those places had a name, heartbreaking.

Brass bands
A proper pipe band, kilts and all.
Was at The Menin Gate in Ypres Belgium when the Last Post was played. Just have to hear a trumpet now and those first notes.
When I come across the maternity hospital baby wrist band for my d's (who is now 40).
Come across baby/toddler pics of same ds..... I'm in floods.
When my eldest dgd who is 11 plays with her 18 month old cousin who is my youngest dgc....It just fills my heart.
When I'm busy and find my dgd (10) has cleared the table without being asked, and said nothing.

keepingbees yes I feel like that on New Year's Eve too - I find it really melancholy. In Liverpool you can hear the ships' horns at midnight as well, it's just quite mournful. I don't find it celebratory at all unless I really try to snap myself out of it.

Auld Lang Syne - can’t listen to it without welling up

POPholditdown that puss does look like Toothless. Aw.
I can't watch any of the video clips in Children In Need, Comic Relief etc, I can't bear seeing how hard life is for some people

Beat me to it Arabella I was just going to say the DC watched the start of children in need on Friday. I couldn't look at the screen at all.

I am crying now
Agree with pretty much everything

Ahhh I agree. That isn’t weird to be upset about sick and disadvantaged children. I feel terrible that I often fast forward those stories as they make me cry

Ain’t Got No, by Nina Simone, especially the first part.

When I see my tiny dog running back up the garden path after he's done his business,his legs are going so fast as he wants to be back with me in the warmth,it's unbelievably cute

Oh actually. When there's a minutes silence before a football game. There's something really special about a stadium full of thousands of people, stood in total silence

Hey, don't worry - we always snaffle up the reduced chickens and stick them in the freezer.

Whenever I see a clip of Nadiya winning Bake Off, when she says “I’m never gonna say, ‘I don’t think I can.’ I can and I will”
Always sets me off, even now writing it!!!

The Rainbow Bridge. My cats are still on this side of it, but I do get very emotional about the idea that they will toddle across it one day.

Certain beautiful hymns, such as Rock of Ages.

The Cat Carol: extremely bittersweet song about a cat, a mouse, and Santa. It's easy to find on YouTube, but only watch it if you dare!

The particular quiet of a Sunday morning when everyone else in the house is asleep...it makes me feel at once contented and melancholy and I've no idea why.

@starlight45

I TOTALLY get the pumpkins not fulfilling their destiny thing. I get VERY emotional about Christmas trees not fulfilling their destiny sob

Brass bands, bagpipes, animals that have been run over, wrestling (?) Reminds me of precious times spent watching it on my grandads knee on a Saturday afternoin in the 70s.

I’m finding the fact that other peoplle are looking up cillíní and being saddened sad, but in a good way. My maternal grandparents had a baby who would have been my mother’s elder brother, who died unbaptised at birth. My grandfather made his coffin and buried him in the local cillín himself, at night, and as he himself was dying, forty years later, it was the baby’s burial he kept revisiting and worrying about as he rambled — because for a devout Catholic of his generation, that baby went to Limbo.

OMG ambulances. Yes, this. I lost it the other day, properly ranty, when two cars were just SITTING THERE at a red with one behind them, siren on flashing lights. "FFS MOVE! MOVE!" DD saying to me: "there is no place for them to go." " there is, there is! The idea is they go through the red lights st the intersection!" In the US the ambulances and fire trucks can control the traffic lights to get through. I will never forget being at my parents house there waiting for the ambulance to take my grandma to the hospital for what would be the last time. They send a fire truck and a police car out with it...we could hear the sound of them coming from quite a ways off...(NB: yes, I thought it was excessive too but I am still tearing up thinking about it now.)

My school song- and it’s many, many years since I was at school.
Watching the children I taught perform the Nativity. A solo of The Little Drummer Boy had me in bits.
The Nutcracker and by extension, the Royal Albert Hall.
Flash mobs. I’d love to be in one.
When I was head of year, my year group had a celebration assembly. I was so proud and very teary. Couldn’t let them see though.
Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton and A Winter’s Tale by David Essex. No idea why that one gets me.

Hearing La Marseillaise being sung. I'm not French and have no French connections, so I don't understand it.

Bagpipes. Especially when they are played in places other than Scotland. My whole chest and my throat tighten up and I can feel the tears welling up. I am not Scottish.

I'm actually crying now about the ambulance thing. It makes me very emotional as my dad died 25 years ago of a massive heart attack. The ambulance got there so fast but there was nothing they could do.

I always think about the families waiting for help as we did and pray that they can get there in time.

Ambulances. I always silently will them on to just get there and save them, please. Stories in the news of the raf jets being scrambled to intercept. I think of those brave men and women running to do their duty and get those planes up into the sky. Probably first triggered by watching the black and white battle of Britain film where the alarm goes and they all just go I their spitfires, knowing they were probably going to die.

Oh and the Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer song. I think it's because all of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names etc.