Hallmark Moments.

I was reminded of this one last night. See... I'm a cornball... an emotional sap... it's just a little bit hidden... or maybe it's not at all :P This was quite some time ago. I was watching a tv movie... Hallmark you may presume... you're right. Nieceamine had come home from school about three quarters of the way through. Before abandoning a sinking ship (every Hallmark movie ever), she sat down for a few minutes. Commercial time (yep... commercial... this isn't even about a movie!) - queue up an old, like old old, person... reading to their grandchild. It's for recordable storybooks. Then the narrator says something like "capture their voice before their long journey"... insert me and Nieceamine looking at each other and crying for 20 SECONDS OF NO WORDS - because they're old and they're going to die - then these ones: "to Cleveland". Plain old mean tactics. They were obviously alluding to more, but didn't want to absolutely unhinge people. Crazy Hallmark. You know what though? This is not the first time one of their commercials have bested me. Years and years ago (like a decade - its weird being able to class time as a decade) I was with all my sisters when one such commercial came up in conversation. I decided I could describe the one, because there were many going around - I totally failed - bawled my face off... laughing at their victory the whole time - seriously I couldn't even tell it! I stand by the idea that everyone would cry. It's the one with the old lady who can't really walk - you know... she struggles all the way to the mailbox everyday and is so sad because she gets nothing - then her neighbours family sends her a card and she WALKS ALL THE WAY OVER TO THANK THEM! You'd have to be nuts not to be a wee bit emotional... okay I'm crying now... Hallmark (half yelling at my once again defeat)!!! I'm defending myself quite nicely here, but in truth I cried yesterday because I saw a baby raccoon that was going to die... I may just have to accept Hallmark as a continual victor, instead of only giving them credit for the two instances (which in fairness have been thought over way more than two 'in the moment' viewings). Here's to a day of happy!