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You instantly cry

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thebodylovesspring · 15/06/2014 18:36

Just listening to Abbas slipping through my fingers'and can't avoid crying much to the kids amusement.

Also for me nannas speech to Barbara in the 'Royal family'when she says she just wished to be with her family and not in a home.

Also Daddy my Daddy in the railway children.

Also opening sequence of up

What's your weak point?

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marriednotdead · 15/06/2014 21:54

I have deliberately skim read before posting as I quickly realised that this thread itself would be added to my list!

So many things set me off, usually triggered by moments of pure beauty.

The London Marathon gets me every bloody time, it's one day where thousands of people turn out with nothing but goodness in their hearts which to me makes the world feel like a better place.

Songs- Mike and the Mechanics- the Living Years. It came out around the time when a young colleague returned home from a work party (pre mobile days) to hear that her father had died suddenly Sad

Crowds singing- either joining in with a band or football fans e.g. YNWA.

Emile Sande- Clown. Heard it on DDs iPad two or three times while she was in labour with my first grandchild. Am welling up just thinking about it!

I'm going to stop now while I can still see to type Grin

HippyPottyMouth · 15/06/2014 21:55

Elvis - Don't Cry Daddy.

That song with the line "Tell my father, tell my mother, I've done the best I can." I don't know what the rest of the song is about, but it was on the radio all the time when my dad was dying.

When I was pregnant I was driving to work one morning and saw an old couple walking along arm in arm. As I sat in a traffic jam they went into a hairdressers alongside me. The old lady shuffled in, leaning heavily on the arm of the stylist. The man came back out and inched along the pavement unsteadily. Together they walked steadily and well, apart they struggled. I was in bits.

Ratbagcatbag · 15/06/2014 21:56

Good god slithy I was just about holding it together, that quotes destroyed me. :(

RainbowsStars · 15/06/2014 21:59

Watching the charge of the light brigade

ToAvoidConversation · 15/06/2014 21:59

OBEM- every single episode

Marley and Me

Gray's anatomy - so many episodes leave me sobbing but particularly the episode Mark died in.

ER - When Mark dies and they read his letter (fucking imaginary Dr Marks... They need to stop with all the dying)

When the Miners came up in that capsule. Every time another one appeared I started crying again.

Only1scoop · 15/06/2014 22:02

Sinead o'connor....nothing compares

When she sings

'All the flowers that you planted mama....in the backyard'

Thenapoleonofcrime · 15/06/2014 22:02

When Gangsta Granny dies in the book by David Walliams. Awful, I was reading it aloud to the children every night for a week and suddenly found I couldn't read any more without crying. I think we all cried.

CarmineRose1978 · 15/06/2014 22:03

slithytove, I've never seen that quote before and it destroyed me. My brother died last year and the thought that he might not know we're not behind him yet... It is comforting but upsetting...

fairnotfair · 15/06/2014 22:04

End of the school year when the Yr 6s are leaving, and they all sing "One more step along the world I go" in their hopeful little voices

Jude the Obscure: "Done because we are too menny"

The final chapter of "A Tale of Two Cities"

"Highland Cathedral - played at the end of my father's funeral

MrTumblesSpottyBum · 15/06/2014 22:06

Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr Seuss always gets me.

Also, Charlotte's Web and Clair de Lune...

And YY to the John Lewis as Always a Woman.

Gulp.

firstchoice · 15/06/2014 22:08

I watched the film of Jude the Obscure before I was a mother.
I couldn't leave the cinema for sobbing for ages.
I don't think I could re-watch it now.
A heartbreaking story without the fate of the children, and when that comes (and the reason why) it is like a truck hitting.

Soopermum1 · 15/06/2014 22:11

another voter for Dance with my Father Again by Luther Vandross. luckily Dad is very much alive but I read about it and the song was very much from Luther's personal experience

Houseofmaidens · 15/06/2014 22:12

Ridiculously, whenever any woman gets appointed to a lofty and internationally respected type of position in a book or on TV. e.g. when CJ Cregg was appointed Chief of Staff. I blubbed. No idea why. Hilary Clinton to Secretary of State didn't touch me.

pigluscious · 15/06/2014 22:13

Reading this thread in bed with DH and thinking about 'baby mine' has made him sob and exclaim: 'Stupid fucking cartoon elephant'.

Just after our daughter was born she was given a cuddly bunny that said 'you make me so happy' on it. Floods.

EvilStepMam · 15/06/2014 22:13

Beaches - watched this aged 18 not long after my best friend had been killed.

Marian Keyes Anybody out there, I was convinced Anna had been beaten by an abusive ex Blush when I realised what had happened I actually let out a howl.

Roberta Flack- The first time ever I saw your face, gets me every time.

Soopermum1 · 15/06/2014 22:14

oh, and The Swan from Carnival of the Animals. played at Nana's funeral a couple of years ago.Classy choice

slithytove · 15/06/2014 22:17

Sorry ratbag and carmine

Just, you know. Fx it's true.
Sad as it is, that thought is sometimes the only thing getting me through the day.

TexanKenDoll · 15/06/2014 22:17

Chelsea Pensioners, no idea why! Zadok the Priest by Handel, reminds me of my wedding.

headinhands · 15/06/2014 22:18

Children's library books should come with a bloody warning on the cover. I got caught out idly reading books while dd was choosing. It was only Robert Munsch 'Love You For Always.' Total mess, quick exit and casually gave it to dh to read at bedtimebGrin. Dd was only 2 so didn't understand but was a bit 'wtf' about our inability to finish the darn book.

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thebodylovesspring · 15/06/2014 22:19

Is it post kids that we become wreaks?

I remember a post a whole back saying what you regret about having kids.

For me it's not regret of course but fear. Total and utter mind numbing fear that my kids will somehow die before us. Thankfully dd didn't.

My fil spoke at my mils funeral and he said

my darling wife's greatest joy was her 5 children, their husbands and wives and our grandchildren. She wanted to go before them to prepare heaven and make sure she had the kettle on and a hug waiting

Jesus Christ.

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slithytove · 15/06/2014 22:20

pig that made me smile and sob at the same time! Stupid fucking cartoon elephant indeed.

It's the big bitchy elephants getting to me now, who would bully a baby with no mummy :(

slithytove · 15/06/2014 22:22

Fear, definitely. And it's completely worse after having (and losing) kids.

And body, that quote has started me off again! Such a lovely thing to say. I'm really hoping my nana is looking after DD for me, and that DD keeps other babies company in heaven.

williaminajetfighter · 15/06/2014 22:23

Yay to littlest Hobo theme song and to Mary Margaret OHara.

My tear inducing songs are;

Empty Garden - Elton John
Long and Winding Road - Beatles
Rainbow Connection - muppets ... Don't ask why!!

slithytove · 15/06/2014 22:25

Ffs. Just googled and read the full text to "I'll love you forever".

Floods.

LuluJakey1 · 15/06/2014 22:27

Brass bands

World War Two Memorial Flight - the Lancaster bomber makes me cry every time I see it. Have no idea why.

Ambulances when traffic pulls over for them.