Are you able to make yourself cry to get out of something?

I can.

Sixth grade. Math class. An annoying bitchy girl is sitting beside a young Angela, harassing her and grabbing the attention of the teacher. The teacher pulls Angela out of the classroom and asks what is going on between her and Bitch Girl.

Angela tells the teacher about how the girl has been harassing her since the beginning of time. Then she thinks of something sad to force tears to her eyes.

The teacher now sees how desperate Angela is to get Bitch Girl's seat moved. The teacher walks back into the classroom and moves the girl immediately. Angela follows with a smug grin on her face.

Four years later

It's Christmas time at a teenage Angela's family member's house, despite it being two weeks before Christmas really comes.

Angela has hated these relatives since her grandmother died and the aunts have nabbed at the deceased's personal effects with greedy hands.

All the young girl got this year was $80 worth of iTunes gift cards because her relatives never bothered to ask what she wanted.

She cringes every time her prepubescent cousin screams 'I feel like a woooman' at the top of her lungs. The only thing Angela wanted was to get out of there.

She stumbled weakly over to her mother. In a false choking sob, she whispers, 'Mom, I don't feel good. Can we leave soon?'

Her mom sympathetically rubs her daughter's back and tells her, 'Yes, go wait in the car, and we'll be out once we say good-bye to everyone.'

Angela crawls back to their silver Toyota, same grin as she once had four years ago.

Mission accomplished, she thought as she unlocked the car and climbed into the backseat.

tl;dr Can you make yourself cry to get out of horrific situations? Do you have a friend send a text message so you can sob about your 'dead relative' to get out of a shitty date?

I think everyone can fake cry? =/

My brother can't. And I know some people at school who try but fail terribly.

I can fake cry if you give me five minutes. I just think about how much life suck and how no one will ever like me and BLAH BLAH BLAH.

But i stoped fake cring because last time i did it i became a little depressed and started to cut myself and that sucked -_- (i was emo for 3 weeks 8D)

No, because I think that's pathetic. Even though what's more pathetic are the people trying to pout and give the 'puppy dog eyes'.

Just, stop it, you look like a dumbass, pardon the language.

In cases like yours, however, it's clear no one was going to listen or care otherwise.

I suck at fake crying. c: If I'm upset anyway, then yeah I can probably pull it off. But normally? No. I'm usually pretty happy, so it's really hard. XD

I had a friend who tried the puppy dog eyes.

She looked liked she was constipated o___O

It's not like I was up in front of my class or family bawwwwing my eyes out. I had no other way to get out of those situations.

Give me a break. I was desperate :x

I can make myself cry if I try hard enough. Actually, I've found that if I try to sing in a high-pitched voice I start crying. Haha.

So there's always that.

But I don't try to fake cry.

People send text messages over dead relatives? If I was the date, I would totally call bullshit.

In any case, no, I can't fake cry. It would be a useful tool I suppose, though. I think I just waste all my tears during PMS days.

Sometimes I can, it's usually depending on how I feel that day overall.

If something sad happened in a movie I can think of that and make myself fake cry, but if I've had an overall kickass day, I usually can't fake cry.

I don't do it very often. It's always my last resort, only being used if absolutely necessary.

For the 'Christmas' party, I'd been asking my mom for a while if we could leave, and she never answered me.

I thought my head was gonna explode with my cousin singing that Shania Twain song :x I was seriously desperate to get out of there.

One of my old guy friends had that happen to him. Some girls are just like that, I guess .-.

He knew it wasn't real, though. It was a blind date set up by his other friend XD

I really think fake crying is pathetic.

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

I think fake crying if just a manipulative way of getting what you want. And it is very pathetic.

I can't make myself cry, but I can get out of anything.

Fake crying is pathetic. Period. If you can't deal with life without it-last resort or not-then maybe you should try other options. :/ And saying that you're the 'best' fake crier out there (while you didn't explicitly say so), and constantly saying that others who try look retarded is kind of...strange.

Plus, people WILL catch on (I don't care how good you say you are. There's no way to totally BS people. I know I don't buy into tears at all unless I know the exact situation/was there), and then nobody will think you're actually upset if you really start to cry. You can lose friends over it and blahblahblah, the list goes on. :/

My suggestion: find other ways to cope with bad situations.

Life isn't going to serve itself to you on a silver platter just because you shed a few tears. It's honestly ridiculous. Especially since you take PRIDE in such a ridiculous 'talent'. Then again, you could also be someone who only cares about themselves and getting their own way, so, whatever. You'll probably tell me more about people looking 'constipated' when giving the puppy dog eyes.

Oh, and being ungrateful for $80 of anything is stupid. Go BS to someone else. :/

Nope, I can't really force myself to cry but I'm pretty sensitive anyway.

I've actually been sick at my relatives house and I just had to lie down in one of the empty rooms. Boo hoo. :c You think you were having a bad time? I'm not going to rip you up and say that's pathetic, but just imagine my situation. My family still didn't take me home when I was physically ill. =/

Wow. I wish my relatives were that generous. I usually get lotion sets or bath soaps (which im allergic to).

I can. But it sucks because when I cry my eyes burn. xD

I normally don't have to do that to get what I want though. I'm a spoiled only child so I usually just have to ask and if they say no, which they usually don't, they give me a reason that I usually agree with and I move on. xD That, and the teachers like me because they think that I don't cause problems. :P

But I feel for you in those situations. c: Though just talking to the teacher would prolly have been better. Dunno though. I don't know your teacher.

I really hate it though when the kid starts like... WAILING. Oh my lord it gets on my nerves. My cousin does that. I want to strangle her because everyone but me thinks she's serious. :c

I haven't pretended to cry in many, many years, since I always ended up really crying. The waterworks aren't that easy to shut off if you're not a manipulative snot.