What Makes You Puddle Up?

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

My dad. Mostly, whenever I think about him, especially on fishing trips. He and I used to fish together a lot. The bedroom I grew up in was left unchanged, and whenever I go back to Dilworth to visit my mom I always look at the things or old toys or astronomy books my dad bought me, and that does it for me. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about him. When I graduated from vet school, that was one of the best days of my life, but he wasn't there and it made that day very difficult for me. I miss him SO much.

Sorry to hear. Assuming that your dad passed away, I can't even imagine what it would be like to lose a parent. Sorry for your loss.

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

When Gayle Sayers makes the speech about Brian Piccolo.

Yes. I thought of this after I posted. The book is sad, too.

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by Tulip86

First 10 minutes of "UP"

me too.

Originally Posted by StealthMode

OMG I will think about that scene randomly sometimes. That little girl should have gotten every acting award in the entire world.

I've wondered if she did. She really should have if not.

Originally Posted by MaryPoppins

Yep, yep, yep

heh...one of my favorite movies. No crying here.

[tea&krumpets]

Just a Dream by Carrie Underwood...every.time.

[ADPiEE]

I'm not a crier and I haven't cried in years but today I heard George Strait's "Love without End, Amen" and totally teared up thinking about my husband and what a good father he is

it's not quite the same without the music but here's the lyrics...

I got sent home from school one day with a shiner on my eye.
Fightin' was against the rules and it didn't matter why.
When dad got home I told that story just like I'd rehearsed.
And then stood there on those tremblin' knees and waited for the worst.

And he said, "Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,
A secret that my daddy said was just between us."
He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then.
It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen."

When I became a father in the spring of '81
There was no doubt that stubborn boy was just like my father's son.
And when I thought my patience had been tested to the end,
I took my daddy's secret and I passed it on to him.

Last night I dreamed I died and stood outside those pearly gates.
When suddenly I realized there must be some mistake.
If they know half the things I've done, they'll never let me in.
And then somewhere from the other side I heard these words again.

And They said, "Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,
A secret that my daddy said was just between us.
You see Daddies don't just love their children every now and then.
It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen."

[clarinette]

I will cry at really sweet Hallmark cards, so I'd say I cry almost at the drop of a hat.

One time when I was a blubbering wreck was near the end of The Dark Knight Rises, when Alfred's standing at Bruce's parents' graves. It's bad enough to see a sweet old man cry, but to go through that emotional rollercoaster of a movie and then see that, I was just completely done.

[amanda6035]

I saw this on FB today and thought of this thread:

[IrishLake]

Originally Posted by navane

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.

Yes, bagpipes anytime. They were played when my husband graduated academy, and I cried my damn eyes out. There was pride in those eyes too, though.

Originally Posted by MaryPoppins

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

Now which movies do that . . .

I am notorious for tears freely flowing while I'm cursing like a sailor. It confuses many.

Originally Posted by amanda6035

I saw this on FB today and thought of this thread:

I hate Titanic. Toy Story 3 definitely made me cry.

Marley & Me
The rescued animals videos
The service person reunions with family and pets
Onions
Seeing my kids do something independent for the first time
Dances With Wolves when the horse and the wolf are shot and killed

[NinjaPoodle]

lol..Onions. Not any more.

The Color Purple. Everytime. "Nettie!" "Celie!" "Mama"
I turn into a blubbering mess. Oye.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I seriously don't know what y'all are talking about. Tearing up?

I had no idea that puddling up wasn't a national phrase! My daddy used it a lot, but he got a LOT of phrases from his mother (Swiss heritage). Maybe that's its etymology? It doesn't seem to have a definition outside honeychileville.

But, if I were to get a little . . . watery-eyed, it would be at the end of sports movies. When Gayle Sayers makes the speech about Brian Piccolo. When the Fighting Irish carry Rudey off the field. When the Titans win the championship. When the Hoosiers win the championship. When Highland wins the championship.

Absolutely. Add when the Jamaican Bobsled team carry the sled to the finish line, and you have the ultimate sports line up!

For those of y'all who have read my retro rush thread, one of the parties that ADPi held was showing Brian's Song! Dozens of boxes of tissues, pretty trash cans, and popcorn & Cokes rounded out the party. My DH thinks it's hysterical that so many of my favorite movies are sports related.

[agzg]

Anyone who doesn't cry to this one has no soul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2bk_9T482g

[honeychile]

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[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by agzg

Anyone who doesn't cry to this one has no soul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2bk_9T482g

I guess I have no soul. I really didn't like Up, and I found scenes like that manipulative (as in "we're going to make you get teary-eyed now") rather than genuinely moving.

Originally Posted by honeychile

I had no idea that puddling up wasn't a national phrase! My daddy used it a lot, but he got a LOT of phrases from his mother (Swiss heritage). Maybe that's its etymology? It doesn't seem to have a definition outside honeychileville.

LOL. I knew what you meant. I was trying to get a "not me" denial across. Sorry that my facetiousness didn't come through.

And since I've admitted the sports movies trigger, I might as well admit my other trigger—musicals. Not every musical, of course. I'm not tearing up over The Music Man, and unlike some, The Sound of Music doesn't do it for me at all. But the final scene of Carousel, on the other hand, gets me every time.

[VintageKey]

In the movie Mamma Mia!, the song, Slipping through my fingers, where Meryl Streep is helping her daughter get ready for the wedding. I still puddle up even though I've probably seen that movie 20 times!

The song that gets me every time, and my kids know to change the station when it comes on the radio, is The Christmas Shoes, where the little boy wants to buy some shoes for his Mama so she can look pretty when she meets Jesus later on. Thank goodness that Christmas songs are limited to November and December!

[knight_shadow]

I am devoid of emotion, but when I saw this in theaters, I swear someone was cutting onions beside me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLwjEtY4uas