I HATE crying in public.
I do, too, but I've gotten pretty stealthy about it in movies. Almost soundless, and my eyes don't get puffy and bloodshot when I cry, so no one can tell once I'm done.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - Aug 31, 2005 5:36:34 pm PDT #3377 of 10002
sarameg - Aug 31, 2005 5:37:29 pm PDT #3378 of 10002
The park! Take a book you haven't read, or visit a library and enjoy the end of summer.
OK, I have to admit something: I started crying at the opening credits of Titanic. Save the costumes and Winslet, I hated the movie. But at some point in my youth, I'd done the research and so... I was an utter mess by the end. It was embarassing. I had to wait until most people left.
Scrappy - Aug 31, 2005 5:41:17 pm PDT #3379 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
What's embarassing about crying in a dark room where no one is looking at you because they all paid good money to look at what's on the giant lighted screen? Sure, crying in a business meeting or at a restaurant, I'd be incredibly embarassed, but in a movie--that seems like the safest place to cry there is. No one cares, plus you can wipe your eyes while the credits are rolling and look pretty smooth by the time the lights come back up.
Jesse - Aug 31, 2005 5:44:04 pm PDT #3380 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My only problem with crying in the movies was the time I saw the first LotR movie with a friend, and it was her first time seeing it, but my second, and I started sniffling WAY too early.
No one cares, plus you can wipe your eyes while the credits are rolling and look pretty smooth by the time the lights come back up.
My movie "crying," sure. If I were actually crying, no way I'd look OK by the time the lights come back up. I look a MESS with real crying.
beth b - Aug 31, 2005 5:44:05 pm PDT #3381 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
yay heard fro the last of my relatives - everyone is safe
Kat - Aug 31, 2005 5:44:07 pm PDT #3382 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Unless you are like me, and you become blotchy face girl.
JenP - Aug 31, 2005 5:46:14 pm PDT #3383 of 10002
What's embarassing about crying in a dark room where no one is loking at you because they all paid money to look at what's on the giant lighted screen?
It's just a thing. There's no accounting, sometimes. Plus, I totally check out my movie-going companions to see who else caved.
P.M. Marc - Aug 31, 2005 5:47:08 pm PDT #3384 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Oh shit. I'll wait for dvd. I HATE crying in public.
Yeah, but if the whole theatre is filled with sobbing people, they're not going to notice one little you!
Scrappy - Aug 31, 2005 5:47:53 pm PDT #3385 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I get a really red nose and eyes from crying, but you guys presuppose WAY more interest in you from strangers than I ever run into.
ETA__I'm not counting friends, who will rag on a person for crying or not crying or looking too intently at every move Colin Firth makes...not that that's ever happened to me.
bon bon - Aug 31, 2005 5:48:35 pm PDT #3386 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I don't like the taste of salt and it grieves me that salt is no longer nutritionally evil, because then I could be superior for a brief moment. But the ONLY thing that salt has improved for me (simply by being salty; I'm positive salt improves taste undercover) is watermelon. Salt on watermelon is great.
Yeah, and chocolate covered pretzels and peanut M&Ms are great. Plus cheese and apple pie.