# When's the last time you cried?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 13, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/175042 "2003-05-13T20:28:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/175042/61 "2003-05-15T19:05:11Z")

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Jeez, I honestly cannot remember. Now I’m racking my brain. I can tell you the last time I probably _should_ have cried, but that doesn’t really answer the question. I don’t know what my deal is with crying. I’m human, bad things happen to me, I feel pain, I get blue (:() every now and again, but I don’t cry. I think my tear ducts are broken. The last time I can recall shedding a tear was about 2 years ago. There might have been another instance since then, but if there was, I honestly don’t remember it.

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**Author:** ![confiteor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@confiteor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/confiteor)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/175042/62 "2003-05-15T23:25:31Z")

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The Monday before last, I think, when my formerly-prospective-future-employee trotted out his psychotic nonsensical evil twin and a lot of utter rubbish about why, _actually_, they weren’t going to employ me now, so _ner ner ner_.

I rang The Boy, who came and hugged me whilst I ranted and sobbed onto his shoulder, and then bought me tomatoes and sang to me in the bath, so it wasn’t all bad. I hadn’t cried for ages before that, though, so it was a bit of a bugger.

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**Author:** ![rostfrei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@rostfrei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rostfrei)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/175042/63 "2003-05-15T23:46:18Z")

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Yesterday.

My grandmother died back in December 2002. She practically raised me. Sometimes, when I think about the fact that I’ll never see her again, I shed a few tears. I used to cry almost daily for a few months, but now it’s once a week or less.

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**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/175042/64 "2003-05-15T23:54:16Z")

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Last week, while posting to a thread on the Pit about rape, because a) it brought up some things, and b)I was menstrual.

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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/175042/65 "2003-05-15T23:57:09Z")

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Two days ago, at the high school’s final concert of the year. The director allows any senior who wishes to do a solo. One boy stepped to the mike and dedicated his song to his father who died 3 years ago. He sang “Papa, can you hear me” from Yentl. It was amazing. The room went wild when he finished.

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**Author:** ![Mole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mole)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/175042/66 "2003-05-16T11:33:28Z")

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1. 

Although I did get a bit weepy recently when I read about Maurice Cheeks helping that young girl get through the National Anthem.

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**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/175042/67 "2003-05-16T12:58:57Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by JuanitaTech \*  
> \*\ ***For Others**  
> This morning while listening to the ages of the boys bludgeoned to death by their \>insert series of expletives here\< mother.

I cried about this, too. It made me completely sad and rageful and what finally got me crying was imagining how scared and confused those poor boys must have been.

Then, later, I started to cry imagining that someone might do something terrible to my baby. (Not myself, as in the case of this news story, but some random act of horror.) I now cry at least 3 or 4 times a week, worrying about my child.

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**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/175042/68 "2003-05-16T13:22:10Z")

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I’ve still got tears in my eyes…shortly before reading this thread I was reading the one about June Carter’s passing.

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