# How long has it been since you cried? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 1, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239 "2007-05-01T00:35:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dgrdfd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@dgrdfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgrdfd)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/1 "2007-05-01T00:35:24Z")
I last cried about 3 years ago when my uncle died. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/2 "2007-05-01T00:39:54Z")
1999, when Dad died. For when someone suggests this question be added to the poll: “Male”. ---
**Author:** ![dgrdfd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@dgrdfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgrdfd)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/3 "2007-05-01T00:42:57Z")
[QUOTE=Kilvert’s Pagan] 1999, when Dad died. For when someone suggests this question be added to the poll: “Male”. [/QUOTE] Good thinkin’. Male here too. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/4 "2007-05-01T00:45:28Z")
Last Thursday. I’ve been having a little trouble with homesickness lately. (Female) ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/5 "2007-05-01T00:46:05Z")
Well, I teared up yesterday afternoon when I was attending a senior banquets and all the graduating girls started weeping. But it wasn’t open crying, I just smeared some mascara. I think I last cried over some stupid movie (Babe: Pig in the City?, Futurama: Jurrasic Bark?) or commercial which, of course, wasn’t really the reason I cried. I was just in a crappy, hormonal mood and the maudlin movie/commercial was the catalyst. ---
**Author:** ![MerryMagdalen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/6 "2007-05-01T00:49:09Z")
This morning. (It’s been a rough month or so.) ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/7 "2007-05-01T00:58:34Z")
Last night. That onion I was cutting was pretty damn potent. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/8 "2007-05-01T01:05:34Z")
I last cried about 25 years ago. I am male, in my early 40s. I came close about 7 years ago when my son was in the NICU after he was born. ---
**Author:** ![gatorman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@gatorman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gatorman)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/9 "2007-05-01T01:05:47Z")
About 3 and 1/2 years, rough times post college. Last time I had a headache? I can’t remember 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/10 "2007-05-01T01:06:22Z")
Yesterday. There is too much going on in my life right now + PMS. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/11 "2007-05-01T01:08:08Z")
Not long. Almost certainly less than a month. I have a tedency to cry over books–generally books that are depressing in the beginninng/middle but I know there will be a happy ending. (If I don’t think there will be a happy ending I don’t usually read the book). Female. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/12 "2007-05-01T01:08:15Z")
[QUOTE=Mbossa] Last night. That onion I was cutting was pretty damn potent. [/QUOTE] Excluding stuff like this and the occasional moist eye from cheap movie sentimentality ( I’m disgustingly girly that way sometimes ), maybe a couple of tears when my former pet passed away ~3 years ago. The last genuine sobfest? Maybe when I was eleven or twelve and someone inadvertently poked a sore point re: my parents semi-recent divorce. Rather caught me by surprise. I’ve never been much of a crier - less machismo that a stoic personality ( stupid cheap sentimentality gene asidse ). - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/13 "2007-05-01T01:09:02Z")
Yesterday. PMS (I’m sensing a trend in the thread) and various other crap. ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/14 "2007-05-01T01:18:10Z")
I cried watching _Children of Men_ this morning. Under normal circumstances, I probably would have teared up a little, but being pregnant and exhausted, there was some sobbing. Yay, hormones! ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/15 "2007-05-01T01:22:31Z")
Last evening, when I remembered my poor kitty dying of a ruptured spleen while I was trying to drive her to the vet after her bloodcurdling yowl. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/16 "2007-05-01T01:26:41Z")
About a week ago. Hormones. Can’t recall the last time I cried over something real. Not even at my grandmother’s funeral. (Female) ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/17 "2007-05-01T01:32:48Z")
Yesterday (female, age 20). ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/18 "2007-05-01T01:42:43Z")
Last night. Female. Honestly, I think I’ve cried more in the last month than I have in the last five years. It hasn’t been a good month. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/19 "2007-05-01T01:44:38Z")
A couple of weeks ago at my father’s funeral. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239/20 "2007-05-01T01:44:51Z")
What do you mean by cry? Weep, or genuine sobs? Cause I have tears in my eyes every month at my period…it’s just an emotional low for me. Really cry? About 3-4 weeks ago, over a money issue of all things. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-cried/402239.md?page=2)