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To ask what the weirdest thing you've cried at is?

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DwangelaForever · 07/05/2018 20:02

So we were driving home from our bank holiday Monday trip out today and drove past the tail end of the marathon. I was suddenly overcome with emotion and started crying all all the runners 😂 (p.s I am pregnant so I have an excuse - unlike Vatican wailer 😂😂😂😂)

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PickettBowtruckles · 08/05/2018 08:11

I cried a couple of days ago because I didn’t fancy anything for dinner and DH said I had to eat and then made the most fantastic mashed potatoes and I was so pleased because I really liked them (My excuse is early pregnancy and just getting used to the nausea, I was so relieved to like my dinner Blush)

GlitterFart · 08/05/2018 08:44

A video on Facebook the other day about a woman who finds a queen bee with no wings and builds her a netted garden so she can live a happy bee life in there, then the bee dies in her hands, I was sobbing just before bed and got a very Hmm look from DP

UpstartCrow · 08/05/2018 08:47

I had a dream that my favourite Ddog was still alive, woke up and remembered he wasn't, and I burst into tears Blush

Velvetbee · 08/05/2018 08:50

I saw your title and came to post about me howling yesterday, then saw your post!
Driving to work I got among the cyclists from a triathlon, their effort and determination made me properly sob. I felt so protective of them on their little bikes while I was in my great big car.

To be honest I haven’t been the same since DS1 20 years ago. There was a Heinz tomato soup advert that started it. I don’t even like tinned tomato soup.

Zaphodsotherhead · 08/05/2018 13:11

I am now sobbing at Upstarts post.

There really is no hope for me at all.

PivotPivotPIVOTTT · 08/05/2018 13:18

I cried about an hour ago when my 1 year old waved and said ta ta for the first time. I'm over emotional this week and cried in bed last night as she's turning 1 this weekend. I cry at everything on TV if they add in music for effect. Sob stories on BGT have me in floods of tears because of the music and I hate myself for it as I HATE sob stories😂

applesisapple5 · 08/05/2018 13:22

Walking along and apropos of nothing I thought about the scene in Mr Holland's Opus where he sings and signs 'beautiful boy' for his deaf son... bawling crying! I'm even welling up now!

Helipad · 08/05/2018 13:26

I once cried at the school children (probably reception year kids) group singing Christmas carols at front of Sainsbury's. My DS1 was 8 months old so maybe I was still hormonal Grin.

lastnamefirstfirstnamelast · 08/05/2018 13:28

I cried yesterday when i was putting my new spring quilt cover on, it has pics of rabbits and baby deer, I cried because the deer looked lonely x

thatsmyjoomper · 08/05/2018 13:33

A Christmas card that was divided into 4: picture one was a snowman, picture 2 he had an unwrapped present and looked happy, picture 3 he was super happy with his new slippers, picture 4 he is looking down and realised he has no feet 😭😭😭

thatsmyjoomper · 08/05/2018 13:33

A Christmas card that was divided into 4: picture one was a snowman, picture 2 he had an unwrapped present and looked happy, picture 3 he was super happy with his new slippers, picture 4 he is looking down and realised he has no feet 😭😭😭

SheNumpty · 08/05/2018 14:30

I sympathise with you, pregnancy hormones are a killer. When I was getting my train home from work when pregnant one day I was in floods of tears on the station platform because I couldn't see a single pigeon with two fully formed feet. It was just the saddest thing in the world at the time. Yeah, hormones are the devil's work!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 08/05/2018 14:41

When I was about 5 days post partum after having ds2, dh sent away the midwife, because I was asleep. When he told me, I burst into tears - and I still, to this day, could not tell you why. I was recovering well from the birth, feeling fine, feeding was going OK, and I had no worries at all, either about myself or ds2.

The Rolf Harris song 'Two little boys' always used to make me cry. Dh thought I was bonkers for putting it on the cd player in the car, singing along and crying. He was probably right.

AnneProtheroe · 08/05/2018 14:43

Children singing
Brass bands playing, especially at Christmas
Scruff returning and then later on dying in The Archers
Christmas tree twinkly lights Blush
The Bear and Hare JL Christmas advert (even the music sets me off)
Nic dying in The Archers (and I didn't particularly like her character!)

I'm not pregnant, either! Grin
Guess I should just avoid Christmas and The Archers...

The80sweregreat · 08/05/2018 15:01

i cried on sunday night when Oliver won the ' big painting challenge' i missed a few episodes in the middle, but it was very good and his reaction to winning was brilliant.
I have been known to cry at the Chase when the contestants actually win, but its rare that they do!
most things set me off though.

Cakemadeoffruit · 08/05/2018 15:33

Cars moving for ambulances, chokes me everything.

Watching an episode of little lunch, where the children are talking about graduating and going to high school. There was obviously a gap between this episode and the rest of the series as the children had grown so much and a couple of the boys voices had broken. Big tears rolling down my face at the thought of how my own children are growing and I'm worried that some of DD illnesses are puberty starting. She's only 8 and I'm terrified.

The most public situation was an certificate assembly. DS had won an award and it was the week after finding out my brother's illness was incurable. I absolutely sobbed and drew concerned glances from teachers who knew what was going on. Filling up now just thinking about it.

amusedbush · 08/05/2018 15:37

I cried my eyes out watching a video about a guy hand rearing a newborn bird. It was so tiny and hungry and I was just weeping while DH thoroughly regretted showing it to me Grin

Anewhope · 08/05/2018 15:39

I cried once because the dog looked cute and I loved her so much 🤦 hormonal idiocy is the only explanation.

borlottibeans · 08/05/2018 15:50

"Who wants to live forever" sung by Freddie Mercury when you know what's going to happen to him just makes me bawl.

There's a video of him singing it live somewhere (Live Aid?) and he's so skinny and clearly unwell, and must have known himself that he was on his way out at that point. I'm a bit sniffy now just thinking about it.

StableGenius · 08/05/2018 15:50

Dc are 14 and 12 now, but the opening for In The Night Garden used to make me well up regularly when they were watching it, all clean and bathed in their pyjamas before bed. I've got a lump in my throat thinking about it now.

toomuchtooold · 08/05/2018 16:13

Somebody mentioned ITNG. I well up at the start of it thinking about the kids who live in chaotic neglectful or abusive households and who might be watching it as their only decent goodnight. I always feel like we could just set up some mattresses in the spare room and brush their teeth and find them some teddy bears and put them to bed safe.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 08/05/2018 16:19

I have remembered another - I cried so much when I got the results from my nurse training that other people in my set thought I had failed -I hadn’t, I had passed - I have no idea why this good news reduced me to a snotty mess.

Racheyg · 08/05/2018 16:21

The film Leon.

I've seen it so many times. And everyone it gets me

MissionItsPossible · 08/05/2018 16:46

I cried (buckets) when Nadia Hussain won the Great British Bake Off.

The thing is, I do not watch the GBBO, had never seen an episode before in my life and haven’t seen one since and had it on in the background for the last ten minutes waiting for the next programme so it's not like I was emotionally invested Confused

DwangelaForever · 08/05/2018 17:03

@MissionItsPossible I always cry at bake off 🙈 especially that episode!

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