How Do You React

[Purple_Popple]

If someone close to you starts crying, be it a loved one, friend or work colleague, do you get embarrassed, do you make an excuse and leave, or do you get right in there with a good comforting hug ? I'm a hugger ! Can't bear people crying alone, I have to join in!

[RATTER15]

I'm not into hugging guys and would possibly feel a little uneasy around a crying male, I hate to see woman upset so a hug would be the way foreword as long as it was appropriate.

[RATTER15]

Forward *

[brenda]

Got to 'fess up-- am a total hugger, cannot bear to see people cry.

[rockyracoon]

Lol Boxster, I'm a sick sympathiser, I can't help it. Thank God for my OH, he does all the vomit cleaning in the house.

God I'm retching just typing this :(

BRB!

[Scarlett]

I am hopeless with people showing emotion, as it is not what I am like. But if someone is crying I think it is a natural instinct to reach out to that person- whether to touch their hand or arm or whatever. I don't like doing it, but I find myself unable to avoid it.

[solvitquick]

The scene is a large busy supermarket and a woman checks onions for freshness by smelling them. She starts a few tears.
Tilly thinks she's upset & starts crying in sympathy and it spreads fast to rocky and Purple. They, elina, pixie and brenda leap on the woman to hug her. The woman screams: "I'm suffocating, please let me breathe!".
Tambo produces a snotty hankerchief, the sight making rocky and tilly vomit all over the woman and the supermarket supervisor.
Meanwhile grasscarp grabs the tannoy and starts a joke: "This Irishman, Englisman...." He fails to finish because the tears and vomit short-out the tannoy electrics and trigger the security alarm.
When the police arrive baldric, boxy, ratter and SIQ etc., look sheepish but are not carted off in the Black Mariah like the over-sympathisers. The original woman is rushed to A & E, with a string of onions around her neck, covered in sick and on oxygen of her crushed hugged chest while on the floor.
All were released later including the onion woman from A&E and everyone burst into tears of joy and lived happily ever after.
Honest folks, I was there!
SIQ.

[pixie373]

Ha! Brilliant!

[solvitquick]

Dear pixie,
Aaaw, ty luv. Nope not brill from me, just doodling with words to lighten the mood.
I left out a number of names 'cos during the kerfuffle a few swiped a charity-box: "Guide-dogs For The Blind-Drunk" and did not wanna implicate them.
Oh and Scarlett said to me: "What'll happen to me now. SIQ?".
I said: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"
Sarlett looked into the sunset & said: Oh well.. tomorrow is another day.."
The very end,
SIQ.