What Makes You Puddle Up?
 

For some people, it's a movie; for others, it's a song; still others just have to see or hear or even smell something, and they get misty-eyed.

So, what makes you puddle up?

Many of my triggers are movies. Right now, I have Mr. Holland's Opus on, and the waterworks are starting, but the other day, it was Cool Runnings. When the Jamaican bobsled team start to carry their sled, I'm verklempt. There are many more, but I thought I'd throw it out here.

Christina Perri's "A Thousand Years".
Ever After.
Courageous.
Micheal W. Smith's "Friends".
The Parting Glass/Health to the Company at certain times.

I work with a program that assists women leaving the sex industry. Most are trying to get out of prostitution. I tear up when they come up to me and tell me they have accepted Christ as their personal savior. I tear up again when they graduate from our program with a thirst for helping other women leave the industry.

I'm not a country fan, but "Almost Home" by Craig Morgan gets me every time.

Dead Poets Society. Every. Stinking. Time. Especially at the end where Robin Williams is leaving and turns around and the boys are on the desks. Waterworks!

The State Farm commercial with the little boy that asks his mom if the agent is sick then tells the agent "Don't worry, your hair will grow back. Mine did." Seriously. Almost cried just thinking about it.
And 5 million other things. I'd claim pregnancy hormones but I've been like this forever...

The sadness of a sweet old man that my husband & I picked up on the highway on Saturday. I had passed his truck by the side of the highway & knew the nearest gas station was much further than he was going to be able to walk. He is black & I am white. I could feel his initial uneasiness with us. He seemed to relax as we chatted about being married. He has been married to his wife for 52 years! We took him to the gas station, got gas, and drove him back to his truck. By the time we got there, we might not have been friends, but he had a smile on his face and shook our hands.

"Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg. Every time. It came out right when my father was killed.

Dogs. When you don't see a dog that you've grown close to for a few months and he or she greets you and just lays on you for the next few hours. That always turns me into mush on the inside.

When Don't You Worry Child by Swedish House Mafia was getting popular, I couldn't listen to if without getting really sad for a while because it was gaining traction right when the Newtown shooting happened.

The second movement, Horkstow Grange, of Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger also makes me sad everytime I play it or hear it. FYI, it's based on a folk song about a man who died either through an accident or murder.

ETA: The end of Toy Story 3. Right in the childhood...

When a dog or other innocent pet gets killed in a movie. In that Red Wedding scene in Game of Thrones, I was stunned but OK...until they killed the wolf/dog.

Those extended length Hallmark card commercials that play during a special Hallmark TV movie.

not the teary-eyed type but ...
 

When soldiers come home and "surprise" their family members at sporting, or other public events.

Usually, it's the soldier's child who turns around to find their previously-overseas parent right there with open arms.

...that right there is good stuff.

This is what I came to say. OMG I lose it every time!

Similarly, when soldiers have their first reunion with the dogs. Like this. (ANNNDDD I'm crying at my desk). I think it's something to do with the fact that animals don't understand why you're gone...you're just gone. And now I'm crying thinking about the fact that we're gonna have to board kitty for 2 weeks when we go back home. :(

Disney Movies are another one for me. There's at least one part in pretty much all of them that will make me bawl.

For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2bk_9T482g
And: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWZNZjSJco0 I was an absolute WRECK in the theatre.

I am currently crying at the drop of a hat, so all of the above.

Crying now, actually and wondering why I clicked on this thread.

ETA: the movie Bambi

NO STOP. :(:(:(:(

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Off the top of my head:
Poltergeist (the first one)
Family Guy: Brian and Stewie -Season 8, Episode 17 2010- At the end.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas-Saw it in the theater. I waited until the theater cleared out and went to the restroom to "clean up". All the women in there were "cleaning up" too. We talked and shared and hugged. I own the film but I'm not ready to watch it again.

Becoming Jane, Sense & Sensibility (Emma Thompson) Pride and Prejudice (Kiera Knightley)
Daria-Are we there yet
Gladiator
New Year's Eve-I only saw the last half but when the teen girl get's her heart broken.
LOTR Return of the King
Hope Floats-When Bernice cries as her dad drives away. I have to skip that part.
The Magdalene Sisters-Hurt my feelings and my heart. One of the most HORRIFYING things I've ever seen in my life. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318411/

A few episodes of Designing Women:p

In Life:
When people cry
Hurt animals- Why I could never work at an animal shelter/spca. I'd be a mess.

OMG, I was floored by the episode. So out of character for the show. I did not cry, but WHOA that got dark.

Does anyone else remember the 1988 movie The In Crowd, about an American Bandstand-like teen dance show? There's one scene in that movie that still makes me cry every time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usc-BVx42l0

Books about animals like Black Beauty, Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard, and anything by the British veterinarian James Herriott, like All Creatures Great and Small.
I would be an awful vet because I can't stand to see animals in pain.

Almost any song by Bobby Goldsboro, especially Autumn of My Life, Honey, and Watchin' Scotty Grow.

Red Sovine Songs like Sad Song Teddy Bear and Giddy Up Go (he's from West Virginia & I just found out about him about 3 months ago).

Omigosh, good call on Michael W. Smith's Friends! Also, Ray Boltz's Thank You does the same thing to me.

Also, pet rescue videos, especial Eldad Haggar's/Hope For Paws. These two are my favorites:

Sky and Apollo (Check out their Facebook page! They are the ultimate feel good story!)

Fiona This video gained her the 2012 Rescue of the Year (I think, I can never quit crying long enough to see for sure!)

The part where he talks about being asked by pet owners whether he thinks animals go to heaven, and his rationale for why he thinks they do...I haven't read that in years, but I still remember how that affected me.

I am so bad about this - I cry:
1. when teaching "To An Athlete Dying Young" and "Our Town". Both remind me of former students who died far too young.
2. when singing sorority songs - great for pref ceremonies, when the belief was that making pnms cry was a good thing. I cry buckets.
3. during sorority ritual.
4. during the opening of the Magic Kingdom -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTo1WKsVzyQ
5. during graduation ceremonies.

I agree.

Some episodes of A Different World.

1) At a firefighter memorial or funeral when the bagpipers begin the haunting strains of Amazing Grace. That just sticks me right in the heart every time.


2) Similarly, when a dispatcher tones the "Last Alarm" for a fallen firefighter. If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's the Last Alarm for my beloved Fire Chief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNw4z3UtcWs

Ok yeah...I shouldn't have listed to that again because now I'm crying.


3) The song "Arlington" by Trace Adkins. This verse in particular:

I remember daddy brought me here when I was eight,
We searched all day to find out where my granddad lay,
And when we finally found that cross,
He said, 'Son this is what it cost, to keep us free'.
Now here I am a thousand stones away from him,
He recognized me on the first day I came in,
And it gave me a chill, when he clicked his heels, and saluted me."

First of all.. puddle up? Never heard that one before...

Ugh, yes!

Some others for me:

A Walk to Remember
Love, Actually (right when it starts and when it ends)
Pay it Forward

I'm sure I'll think of more...

I'm not a country fan either, but 'The Good Stuff' by Kenny Chesney is what gets me.


A book that makes me cry:

Lone Survivor: The eyewitness account of operation redwing and the lost heroes of Seal Team 10 - Marcus Luttrell

And a commercial:

The Google Chrome commercial with a dad and his daughter, who just went off to college: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1sT7QV8nfU

Many of the ones mentioned in this thread and more that I will add later.

The movie Up. Seriously, the first ten or so minutes of that movie make me cry every. single. time. The end makes me cry as well.

Ahhh, yes! I love 'Up' :)

THIS
 

Initiation. Singing the Allegri Miserere. And embarassingly enough, when I am murderously angry.

Now which movies do that . . .

Beaches
Stepmom- There's a scene where the Mom is giving her kids gifts and saying her goodbyes to them. I can't even imagine...

Call it corny: I bawl my eyes out every time I watch Titanic. One of my favorite movies ever!

I also tear up when I watch videos of military families reuniting. Happy tears, but tears none the less.

I cry at this too. Great movie.

When the boy gets the cape.. that's where I lose it.

I promised myself I wouldn't mention this movie until someone else did. So.. yea...

Stupid Titanic sucking me in every time and making me cry EVERY time.

OMG I will think about that scene randomly sometimes. That little girl should have gotten every acting award in the entire world.
The last episode. Can't do it.

It used to be the only thing that got me was thinking about my mother getting older and possibly living without her. My list has gotten longer as I've gotten more tender-hearted over the years. It now includes:

*a number of Gospel songs
*the series finale of Boy Meets World
*any sorority ceremony
*songs that remind me of my grandmother (like Remember Me)

First 10 minutes of "UP"

Somewhere over the rainbow

When Dobby dies in Harry Potter, no matter how many times I read that book

I am also an angry crier. It is one of the worst things ever, and makes it difficult for people to take me seriously. When it happens, it makes me mad. Which just makes me cry harder...

I cry when I'm frustrated. Which is frustrating in and of itself.

Yep, yep, yep

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I'm there, too. ESPECIALLY when I'm tired. Try to have a serious conversation with me past 10pm on a weeknight and there is almost guaranteed waterworks. Funny enough, that's when my husband decides serious conversations need to happen.

Dumbledore's funeral reminded me of my grandmother's. That damn book had me in the fetal position for at least 10 minutes. The same thing happened when the grandmother died in "A Day Late and a Dollar Short." Just don't mention the word "grandmother" ANYWHERE.