# The power of a man's tears **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 8, 2014, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959 "2014-05-08T08:11:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/1 "2014-05-08T08:11:11Z")
Recently my boss was showing me the task he wanted me to do next. I kept thinking that it was too complicated. I decided I had to say something. I said “I want to talk about my job”. Then I said that “I don’t want to do that”. He said “You don’t have a choice”. While saying “you could give me less hours or pay me less” I started to cry. He would be able to hear me crying like a little girl through my voice. I shed many tears and in the end I said I was sorry. I said I’d rather do other tasks which I described. In the end I think it worked out well. My job remained something I enjoyed doing. My wife messaged me and asked if I had been a naughty boy. I said that I had been. When asked for details I said I’d tell her later. When I met her I explained that I didn’t do what my boss wanted me to do. I also had some tears then too. I felt a bit ashamed of what I did and don’t plan on doing it again. Another story about my tears: A few years ago I was on a train and I was getting along well with I girl I had known from high school but had never talked to before. When talking about how I fix computers sometimes she said I could come and fix her dad’s computer. Then she said how cheap the train fare was and I said I got mine half price. She knew I wasn’t a student and wondered why I got it cheap. I said I was on the disability pension. I told her about my history and about how after I got out of the mental ward I got kicked out of my university housing. I started to cry even though I didn’t feel sad thoughts. I said that there have been experiments where some people had the connection between their brain hemispheres severed and each half answered in different ways (split brain experiments). Earlier I asked if we could exchange contact details (emails) and then she said she needed to change the email - one was her work email and the other was her personal email or something. The new one had a capitalized letter even though email addresses aren’t case sensitive. It was a fake email address. She must of become terrified of me. In the end I asked if she wanted to contact me and she agreed I think while trying to leave as soon as she could. That night I sent her an angry email to her original email address complaining about her being passive-aggressive. So in that case the tears terrified her. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/2 "2014-05-08T12:19:01Z")
the hell? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/3 "2014-05-08T12:22:51Z")
I think some manly tears are going to be shed when **JohnClay** realizes he left himself logged into the SDMB and walked away from his computer. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/4 "2014-05-08T12:32:32Z")
[Every thread needs music.](http://youtu.be/L7e5FT5Crjw) ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/5 "2014-05-08T12:54:03Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > I think some manly tears are going to be shed when **JohnClay** realizes he left himself logged into the SDMB and walked away from his computer. No, this sounds like his legitimate contributions. I do not think he is the victim of ghost-posting here. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/6 "2014-05-08T12:59:29Z")
Anyone else can’t wait to hear what it was his boss wanted him to do? My imagination is running wild. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/7 "2014-05-08T13:11:41Z")
I remember reading something by (I think) a New York State Trooper in which he shared the various ways people try to get out of tickets. He mentioned that it was not infrequent for women to cry, and he said that it was actually not a terrible tactic – although it didn’t move him, he said he knew a number of fellow officers that would cut a crying woman a break. He then mentioned that while he’d never had a man try it, he speculated it might even be more effective…a stocky, bearded trucker breaking down and sobbing over the prospect of a speeding ticket, he said, would probably have made him so uncomfortable he’d want to get out of the situation as fast as he could. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/8 "2014-05-08T13:33:58Z")
Please take your meds. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/9 "2014-05-08T13:39:13Z")
Are you that “Leave Paris Hilton Alone!” dude??? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/10 "2014-05-08T13:58:27Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > Recently my boss was showing me the task he wanted me to do next. I kept thinking that it was too complicated. > [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Anyone else can’t wait to hear what it was his boss wanted him to do? My imagination is running wild. That toilet aint gonna clean itself! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/11 "2014-05-08T14:37:40Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > That toilet aint gonna clean itself! My imagination is running wilder than that! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/12 "2014-05-08T15:31:07Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > My imagination is running wilder than that! Well if _that_ don’t make baby jesus cry. :cryingsmilie: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/13 "2014-05-08T15:40:46Z")
I’m almost crying from laughter at these responses. I thought there would be be a more sympathetic outpouring to the OP - but this is hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/14 "2014-05-08T15:49:37Z")
> [@Dorjan](#): > > Are you that “Leave Paris Hilton Alone!” dude??? :eek: It was Britney Spears and the dude was Chris Crocker who last time I checked had given up excoriating the media for hounding stars to show us how to make extremely boring vegetarian tortilla sandwiches. Wait, I just checked again, no he’s back to excoriating the media. This time it’s Bruce Jenner. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/15 "2014-05-08T16:14:50Z")
> [@Mr.Nylock](#): > > I’m almost crying from laughter at these responses. I thought there would be be a more sympathetic outpouring to the OP - but this is hilarious. You must not be familiar with this poster. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/16 "2014-05-08T16:31:01Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Anyone else can’t wait to hear what it was his boss wanted him to do? Put Grover and Elmo back in the toy box. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/17 "2014-05-08T16:35:44Z")
> [@](#): > > ELAINE: (gives Jerry the list) Here, here. Jerry Seinfeld, I cannot believe you’re doing this. This is absolutely infantile. > > JERRY: What can I do? > > ELAINE: Deal with it. Be a man! > > JERRY: Oh no. That’s impossible. I’d rather lie to him for the rest of my life that go through that again. He was crying, tears accompanied by mucus. Your boss, and that girl on the train, reacted perfectly normally ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/18 "2014-05-08T16:45:05Z")
I’ve heard that man tears have the power to invoke Taylor Swift, if the ritual is performed correctly. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/19 "2014-05-08T16:50:51Z")
You should cut your boss with a knife and then cry on the open wound. If the wound heals instantly, it means you’re a phoenix. Which means you should probably be careful around flammable objects. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959/20 "2014-05-08T16:52:48Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > You must not be familiar with this poster. I have a 2 part answer. Part a is a boring digression, part b is the simple answer. a) I’m not familiar with too many posters. One poster I’ve encountered seemed like he or she could be good nemesis material; but it doesn’t seem like it’ll pan out. Having a good nemesis relationship requires work and emotional investment by both parties. I think the poster just thinks I’m a moron, so I don’t think our relationship has much of a future. ☹ Anyway, enough with the digression, I’m pretty new to the board, so I keep forgetting about the wackiness of certain posters. Just last week I finally found out what the umkay thing was all about. By far, most of the posters have pretty nice and have interesting things to say IMHO. b) No, I am not amiliar. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-a-mans-tears/687959.md?page=2)