Comments on: Effective Immediately I Will Be Crying To Make My Own Life Easier

By: groovebunny

groovebunny — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:12:24 +0000

Wait! I’ve been blogosphereless for the past 7 months and you’ve had a baby?!?! Congratulations!

My kidlet is 8 now and he still makes me want to cry. I’m looking forward to when he’s in his teens as friends with teenagers have told me at that point I’ll trade crying with wanting to beat my head against the wall.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:09:56 +0000

Speaking as a woman who has an inherent inability to control tears if they demand to be shed, whatever the circumstance, I hail and welcome you to the club. I should warn you, though. The membership benefits sound much better on paper than they play in real life.

By: dgm

dgm — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:22:23 +0000

don’t worry, pauly. everyone suffers the postpartum blues. (well okay, you and all the new moms). in another year you won’t feel like crying.

By: Eve

Eve — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:38:00 +0000

If you’re going to do it- make sure you give it 100%.

Remember to take that VERY long pause between sobs, where you’re not breathing for, like, 15 seconds, and your mouth is wide open, and your face turns purple, and it scares the bejeesus out of everyone.

I can see this working…

By: Midwesterner in NYC

Midwesterner in NYC — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:17:32 +0000

I think you are on to something. If the homeless in NYC were crying instead of almost mean, I would feel compelled to give them a lot more. Of course I would be broke and have to move or join them.

By: jerry

jerry — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:38:25 +0000

I’m crying right now. So much so, I think my keyboard is about to short out. If I keep crying maybe they will get me a new ergonomic keyboard. Sweet. But sad, still very sad…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:10:27 +0000

Thank you. I hate those stupid little 1-ounce icecream scooper things Subway uses to scoop the tuna onto your sandwich! Who do they think eats a thimble’s worth of tuna for lunch anyway?

Great, now I feel like crying.

By: jacquie

jacquie — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:09:04 +0000

Actually Sandra, Pauly has already come up with the perfect reason why tantrums are so effective in this post.

Is this article mostly pertaining to men crying because women have been doing this for years? I think there is a completely different effect when a man cries, versus a woman crying.

Crying has gotten me out of many a speeding ticket and also got me some “poor baby” s when I scraped my shins running and tripping UP the stairs (which I seem to do all too frequently).

Anyway, I think cops feel more sympathy for a woman, whereas, if a man started crying, they might make them step out of the car for further evaluation.

By: Dave2

Dave2 — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:04:55 +0000

Effective immediately, I will bitch-slap people who cry to try and get their way.

Though… I think you might be on to something for getting extra cheese bread. Hmmmm…

By: MIchelle

MIchelle — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:47:18 +0000

That’s a pretty good idea. The problem is that no one cries alone when I’m around. If I see even a total stranger crying, I immediately well up too. (Overdeveloped sense of empathy, I think) So then there will be two of us crying! We could take over the world!