cry me a river

So Colin recently wrote a blog that prompted readers to comment on things that make us cry (well, and diss him a little). Fictional and seemingly ridiculous things seem to top our lists (well, his anyway). (By the way, Colin, exhub is right there with you and the "Babe" thing.)

Then I stumbled upon this on the internet and it made me realize that I'm not the only wuss around that finds these things lump in the throat inducing.

Ok, here are the top 10 things that make me cry. Like, sob my eyes out...creating gargantuan piles of wadded kleenex and bright red puffy eyes.

10. The coffee commercial...the one where the parents are asleep upstairs and the son comes home from the military, quietly goes into the kitchen, and starts brewing a pot of really crappy coffee like Folgers or Maxwell House or something and his mom wakes up, smells it, realizes he's home, and runs downstairs calling his name.

9. The movie "Lost and Delirious." It's Brokeback for girls but better.

8. "Ice Age." Have you guys seen it? At the end where the baby is waving goodbye to Diego? Oh my god.

7. Whenever I hear Fire and Rain, Beautiful, or Wonderful Tonight. Those will never be karaoke songs.

6. I watch Oprah really infrequently, but when they have those stories on there...the ones about people who have had horrible things happen to them and then someone shows up to fix it all...

5. The last episode of "Sex and the City." Big shows up in Paris and rescues Carrie from her pathetic boyfriend and tells her, "it's you...it's always been you." 6 seasons of heartbreak, and it's all wrapped up perfectly in the end.

4. When Dorothy has to say goodbye to the Scarecrow. There's always something in my eye...

3. Any footage from 9/11, especially when I think about what people went through, even if they have no meaning to me or impact on my life.

2. When Debra Winger's character in "Terms of Endearment" is saying goodbye to her kids, when Barbara Hershey's character in "Beaches" dies and leaves behind her kid, when Ali McGraw's character in "Love Story" dies and leaves behind the love of her life...you get the idea.

1. The end of "Homeward Bound," the sappiest Disney movie ever made, a remake of the Incredible Journey. When the forlorn kids are all outside moping and one by one their animals return...I can handle Sassy and Chance. But when Shadow shows up limping from being injured and we thought he had died? Fuck.