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To start a thread on embarrassing emotional outbursts. (LIGHTHEARTED)

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KungFuPandaWorks · 13/08/2019 14:53

I'm not really a big cryer, so when I do end up crying it is over something absolutely ridiculous.

My favourite - A few years ago, I had been craving pie,chips, and mushy peas from my normal chippy. It had been closed for a while and had finally reopened. Bingo I can have a chippy tea. So off DH goes to get our tea and I ask for the mushy peas separately from the pie and chips. He comes back and as I'm unwrapping everything in an excited manner, my world came crashing down. They'd pour peas over my pie and chips. My DH walked into me sobbing over the food in kitchen because it was ruined now they had poured peas over it🙈😳

The recent one and the reason behind this post. We had popped round too PILs, ended up watching emmerdale. And I absolutely blubbed like a baby when the character died in the factory fire. My FIL looked at me like thisHmm and went "Kung you do know this isn't real and the character isn't dead in real life"

In between sobs I managed to choke out " I know. But it's just a soooo sad" all whilst MIL is patting my hand in a there there manner, and PIL is side eyeing me and looking at my DH then back at me.

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Laiste · 13/08/2019 21:10

I cried because the bloody stupid oven had blown out and not cooked the oven chips a couple of months ago. I'd just been waiting like a prat while i gassed them for 20 mins. But that was the tip of a massive ice berg of other stuff.

A funny one was when i went to see The Green Mile at the cinema years ago. I'd read the book and didn't want to go but friend begged so i went. Lord i cried and cried and tried to keep it silent, like you do, but knowing what was going to happen made it worse and at one point i'd held my breath so long i had to let out this massive loud SOB BlushBlush It was during a really quiet bit as well. Heads turned to look. Very embarrassing.

Seriously79 · 13/08/2019 21:25

I cried watching the Red Arrows, in my defence I was heavily pregnant. My boyfriend didn't know what to do with me, he just stood there watching me asking 'why are you crying?' It made me sob even more, he had to move me away from the crowd - baby came a few days later.

Violetroselily · 13/08/2019 21:29

I cried at the story in the news yesterday about the gay penguins looking after the abandoned egg.

Someone asked me if I was ok and I just started clubbing at my desk whilst muttering about the lovely penguins

Violetroselily · 13/08/2019 21:29

*blubbing, not clubbing...

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KungFuPandaWorks · 13/08/2019 21:37

At least we can all look back and laugh at these moments now and enjoy sharing our outbursts Grin

violet was gonna say that's definitley a strange emotional reaction until you put your correction 😂

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Iwantacookie · 13/08/2019 21:42

Pregnant with ds2 all I wanted was some chilli heatwave Doritos but local shops didn't sell them and I wasn't going to a supermarket.
Went out for a few drinks that night (I was on soft drinks) and first pub we went into sold chilli heatwave Doritos. I opened them and sobbed at the bar.

amusedbush · 13/08/2019 21:46

When DH and I were first going out he thought it would be funny to hide when I went to the toilet and jump out behind me. I got such a fright I burst into tears Blush

He looked mortified and hasn’t done it since!

LuigiB · 13/08/2019 21:58

Recently I decided to really clean up my diet (over 40 health check and my weight was mentioned), so I went on this mission for three weeks of eating healthily and exercising loads.

I then weighed myself and I had lost one kilo. One single fucking kilo! I went home and wailed in front of DH and then stormed into the kitchen, grabbed two giant biscuits and sat on the back step eating them and sobbing that it wasn’t fucking fair.

After a while DH tip-toed into the kitchen and gingerly asked if I wanted a gin. I did and I got a bit drunk which made everything better until the next morning😂

weaningwoes · 13/08/2019 22:15

Me and two of my mates were plastered in a caravan once and one of them (for a joke) threw a small glass of water on me. I burst into the most epic sobs you've ever seen and couldn't stop for ages. I think, as I often say to my toddler when she does similar, I was just very very tired 😆

weaningwoes · 13/08/2019 22:17

Also nearly cried in the National Space Centre this weekend watching a planetarium show about the moon landings. Was wiping away tears thinking about all the hard work and dedication and courage that went into that achievement... I don't even bloody care about space! Hormones are a terrible thing.

spaniorita · 13/08/2019 22:28

The other day ds started binge watching a late 90s American teen sitcom on Netflix - it was an episode where two teenage boys had been left babysitting a small baby and they couldn't stop it crying despite various 'hilarious' attempts, when it dawned on me that the baby was real, and really crying - it's not the done thing to do that now, it's sound effects and dolls, and I suddenly found the whole thing really distressing to the point I had to ask ds to turn it off. The programme was made in the 90s and the baby in question is arguably a strapping great big 20 something by now, but I couldn't stop thinking how frightened that baby must have been to be crying so much, and I had a bit of an unexpected sob over that.

TSSDNCOP · 13/08/2019 22:38

We visited the space centre when we went to Florida. All was well until we finished the tour and the grand finale was the Space Shuttle. I totally lost it.

Seriously. The bloody Space Shuttle.

OkOkWhatsNext · 13/08/2019 22:41

My Ocado delivery was really late, should have arrived between 8pm and 9pm but got to 10:30 and i’d heard nothing. I called up the call centre and they said, oh sorry the driver got delayed and had to cancel it, did you not get a message. Well I was mighty pissed off, we had no milk for the morning and because i’d left it that late to call there was nowhere open nearby to pop out and get some. I ended up sobbing down the phone at the guy that I had no food to give my children for breakfast. Honestly it was like I thought they were going to starve. I think i’d had a busy frustrating day, and couldn’t face the thought of no cuppa in the morning. I just couldn’t hold back the tears. I couldn’t even speak by the end of the call and had to put the phone down. Well DH got up early and went to get milk for me and the shopping came the next day with a part refund so was fine in the end. Bit embarrassed about how hysterical I was but it was like the final straw or something and I just couldn’t help myself! Blush

MamitaSi · 13/08/2019 22:48

I watched Toy Story 4 with my kids last week and I could not stop myself from crying when Woody and Buzz parted ways.

And when I recomposed myself a bit the movie finished and played the soundtrack and I had another meltdowb

Scruffalicious · 13/08/2019 22:57

Watching a stage version of Our Day Out. When the girl says to the teacher, "if you were my old man, I'd have been all right, wouldn't I, Sir?"

Sobbed like a hot mess.

QueenofallIsee · 13/08/2019 23:06

I am known to be pretty much dead inside so imagine everyone’s surprise a few weeks back when I sobbed bitterly for AGES at the Dogs Trust Advert, ate 3 bags of wheat crunchies and then slept for 6 hours......we suspect peri menopause

DrMaryMalone · 13/08/2019 23:14

Good few years ago now I lost it big style in tears of frustration at a public town council meeting. They were discussing planning applications including a new build scheme which didn't include any affordable housing. I stood up and gave this speech about how the village was turning into a town of retired people and holiday homes because young people had no chance of buying a house in the place they grew up due to lack of social housing and extortionate prices. And it's...sniff....just...sob...not fair.....howl!

Drogosnextwife · 13/08/2019 23:25

I get pretty emotional about loads of daft things, the bag pipes, adverts, when I feel proud of my kids or even other people's kids. I don't let myself cry though, I hold it back so mi h it hurts my throat!

PivotPivotPivottt · 13/08/2019 23:36

A few days after I found out about my miscarriage I stuck my fingers up at a customer and burst out crying in the middle of the kitchen.

Heavily pregnant I went to KFC drive through and got home and realised they'd messed up my order. Next thing midwife chaps my door just a few hours after my check up as she couldn't get me on the phone to say I had to go to hospital the next morning as she suspected PE. I burst into tears on and started ranting about how this was the worst day ever beacuse KFC got my order wrong and now this Blush

GodDammitAmy · 14/08/2019 00:00

@Seriously79 I don't know why but I well up every time I see the Red Arrows. I used to see them a lot because of where I lived but not now I've moved, I haven't seen them for at least 15 years. Apparently they flew over my High Street a few weeks back when they were doing a show locally. I was in a shop and heard the jets but didn't know what it was. When I found out I burst out crying at having missed them.

CherrySocks · 14/08/2019 00:04

The Argos delivery men brought my new bedroom furniture upstairs very obligingly and I thanked them profusely, then after they had gone I phoned the customer service line to say how good they had been, and my voice started getting very emotional about them ……. I don't think I was pregnant at the time or anything.

Crinklesmile · 14/08/2019 00:41

Ive now howled twice watching Eleven read Hoppers letter, then Peter Gabriel swells in with his perfect rendition of Heroes and the tears just heave out of me, it honestly makes me breathless

amusedbush · 14/08/2019 13:49

I burst into tears on and started ranting about how this was the worst day ever beacuse KFC got my order wrong and now this

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fraxion · 14/08/2019 17:09

Watching The Repair Shop can be a bit dodgy.

Yes! Last night and poor old earless Ted 😭. I was very emotional, especially when he got picked up.

catofdoom · 14/08/2019 17:14

We had a party last week and I saw one of my friends was crying. She'd come back from France and seen family she'd not seen in ages and wouldn't see again and was telling a bunch of friends about it.

I walked up to her and gave her a hug. She said "I shouldn't be crying, Cat lost one of her best friends a couple of weeks ago, that's cause for crying".

Everyone asked me what had happened so I started crying. Cue four other women start crying. One of their husbands bounced up all happy and "hey ladies, what's going on--- oh my God, why the fuck are all six of you sobbing?!" and his look turned to absolute horror!