# When's the last time you cried?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 4, 2001, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480 "2001-11-04T22:51:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/1 "2001-11-04T22:51:18Z")
For me, it was two days ago, while watching the movie _Riding in Cars With Boys_. I am a complete movie-sap, and so I cried for the last half-hour or so.
And yourself?
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### Author:  [@Corixidae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corixidae)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/2 "2001-11-04T22:55:27Z")
Sept. 17, when I was giving the eulogy for my grandmother at a memorial service we had.
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### Author:  [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/3 "2001-11-04T23:03:55Z")
When I found out my friend who normally works in the Pentagon wasn’t there 9/11. The stress got to me, and the relief was so great that I lost it.
Other than that? It’s been a while. I don’t cry often.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/4 "2001-11-04T23:44:32Z")
Two days after 9/11, when the DJ at the radio station I listen to said “Damn the playlist” and ran Whitney Houston’s recording of the national anthem. I was on lunch break in my car and just broke down right there.
I’m tearing up thinking about it now…it was the first time since the attacks that I really _felt_ the magnitude of what had happened. That impact hits me again every time I remember.
jayjay
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### Author:  [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/5 "2001-11-04T23:53:04Z")
when I watched this:
[http://www.oldcity.com/wtc.html](http://www.oldcity.com/wtc.html)
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### Author:  [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/6 "2001-11-05T00:00:30Z")
Some time last night.
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### Author:  [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/7 "2001-11-05T00:03:42Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Kalashnikov \*
> \*\*when I watched this:
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> [http://www.oldcity.com/wtc.html](http://www.oldcity.com/wtc.html) \*\*
That link is, to say the least, extremely poignant. made me teary…
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### Author:  [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/8 "2001-11-05T00:28:11Z")
Well, I teared up the last time I watched Field of Dreams for the umpteenth time. But my last real cry was a few weeks ago when I went home to my parents’ home for a five days and left Mr. Cranky & Cranky Jr behind. When they dropped me off at the airport, I just put my face into Cranky Jr’s hair and smelled his scent as he sat there happily looking at airplanes from his carseat. And then I bawled all the way through the terminal.
I’m crying now just remembering what that was like, trying to get enough of him into my head and brain and nose and eyes to last me for the whole trip.
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### Author:  [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/9 "2001-11-05T00:40:54Z")
Good god, I can’t watch all of that site tonight. I’ve bookmarked it though. Gee whiz. Thanks for the link.
And pardon the hijack, but I want to say that even though I am a pacifist I pray for the death of people like Osama bin Laden who spread the mental illness of hate like he does. I am not saying I want someone to kill him–I just want Allah or God or karma or someone/thing to strike him dead, him and anyone else, anywhere on earth, that preaches that sort of hatred for fellow man. It can be a painless death, just get them off my planet. Forever.
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### Author:  [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/10 "2001-11-05T00:44:13Z")
An hour ago.
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### Author:  [@natb71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natb71)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/11 "2001-11-05T00:49:04Z")
Last night.
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### Author:  [@naughtysiggie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naughtysiggie)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/12 "2001-11-05T01:19:18Z")
Just a few minutes ago - I was cutting an onion
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/13 "2001-11-05T01:30:11Z")
If you must know, it was last weekend when Airman took me back to the airport. I carried on like someone had died.
Robin
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/14 "2001-11-05T02:19:48Z")
At my younger brother’s wedding reception, Oct 27, during the best man’s speech (by my older brother).
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### Author:  [@rfsgrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfsgrl)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/15 "2001-11-05T04:13:10Z")
About 2 hours ago… I took my kids to see Monsters Inc. GREAT movie… wont spoil it… but it was only briefly an \*\* awwwwww\*\* moment the rest was great fun
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### Author:  [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/16 "2001-11-05T04:42:54Z")
Just now, after seeing this. I just wish some of the SDMB apologists would see this.
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/17 "2001-11-05T05:35:58Z")
Yesterday, walking home from work. I feel like I am wearing a mask most of the time, to get through the day and be around people, but when I am alone, I can take the mask off and cry. I cry a lot, almost every day. But, FTR, I haven’t cried at a movie since I was four, and I have never cried from reading a novel (non-fiction is something entirely different). The news makes me cry.
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### Author:  [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/18 "2001-11-05T05:46:19Z")
June 9th, about 1:30pm. While attempting to comfort my 14-year-old daughter at the end of my father’s graveside service.
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### Author:  [@suziek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suziek)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/19 "2001-11-05T05:54:05Z")
I cried for three days straight sitting in front of the TV watching the WTC going down over and over, and the Pentagon being attacked, and the aftermath, with all those families looking for their loved ones, hoping against hope that they had somehow survived. I cry every time I hear America the Beautiful, like tonight on the Emmy’s. Every morning I feel like I’m waking up to an alien world, one forever changed, and I carry around this underlying sadness that makes me cry at any reminder that my country, and it’s military, are in extreme danger. I expect to adapt, as many people all over the world have who live with violence and death right in their own front yards. But I hate it.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2001, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whens-the-last-time-you-cried/91480/20 "2001-11-05T07:08:28Z")
October 25 of this year.
I think.
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