What Makes You Puddle Up?

[StealthMode]

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

Hope Floats-When Bernice cries as her dad drives away. I have to skip that part.

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

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

Some episodes of A Different 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)

[Tulip86]

First 10 minutes of "UP"

Somewhere over the rainbow

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

[StealthMode]

Originally Posted by Tulip86

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

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.

[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.

[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!

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by 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!

I saw "Mama Mia!" with my eldest daughter the week before I took her to college for her freshman year. I cried buckets.

[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