I cried last month buying 3 airplane tickets in the summer to SIN. As much as I've paid before for Biz tickets! :(

Sadly enough I cried this very day at Aarhus Airport (AAR)
The girl I hoped to be my future wife was not to be.
I`m still sad.
And if someone saw me...big deal. I don`t care.

I have you beat here... back in 2001 I sat next to a sobbing teenage girl the ENTIRE way from Europe at the end of the summer, apparently she met the boy of her dreams and had to leave him....:rolleyes::rolleyes:

This actually made me well up when I read it. I'm sorry this happened to you and am sending good vibes your way.

The New Yorker had a very funny story on this subject. Yes, I said funny. :D

Journey Into Night:
Business-class emotions

Never Ever be ashamed of crying if you need to.
And also-If you need to unload and someone asks-are you alright,please respond.
Airports can be scenes of very emotional moments,goodbyes and reunions are often releases of pent up emotion as well as having their own tugs at our hearts.
I cry when I must=regardless of location or company.Tears of sadness or tears of joy.

I've cried my eyes out quite a few times in airports, though in my case it's because I was in an LDR (Florida-UK) and it was the last time I'd see them for months and I knew it. I could care less what the eejits at security thought, though I did try and not disturb my seatmates. I did have some wonderful seatmates though, who usually talked to me the first half hour of the flight before I passed out from sheer exhaustion. I'm forever grateful to them for trying to make me smile and cheer me up.

Not something I have to worry about now as we live in the same country, but I've always remembered the kindness of people who tried to help a young girl smile through her tears. :)

Thanks for this! Not what I expected. :)

It happens
 

I'm sure it's happened to many of us... Not a big deal. I've gotten a little teary-eyed twice.

The first time was during a flight back to the states after an amazing trip to the UK, which ended up being the catalyst for some major changes in my life (thereafter turned around a lackluster academic career, dropped 60+ pounds, and matured a lot as a result).

The second time was returning from my grandmother's funeral. I spent most of the time I spent with my family trying to console people and take care of things that needed to be done. The flight home was the first time I was able to absorb what had happened, and think about what it meant for me.

I pretended to cry once - I was stuck in the XIY (Xi'an) airport in western China and had a flight that evening to Taipei from HKG on a different ticket and presto-changeo my flight to CAN on HU (Hainan Airlines) went from a 10.30 a.m. departure to a 2 p.m., then a few minutes later a departure the next day. Using bad Chinese (or worse than normal), I was able to get someone to help me refund my ticket, pass the cash to the ticket clerk next to her and help me recheck my bag for a flight to SZX on CZ (China Southern).

I'm sure they saw through it... but it worked.

I get teary eyed every time I leave Taipei for someplace to the east. My heart and head feel heavy when I'm back home in the US.

I recall a few years back waiting to board a flight from LHR to KUL. A young woman walked past me and she had the most depressed look. I pittied the poor sould who had to put up with such grumpyness for the next 12 hours.

I boarded the flight and found myself sitting next to said woman, who promptly on take-off burst in to tears. I asked her if she was okay. She went onto explain that she had been travelling for a month and had met a man in the UK and fallen in love with him and was very sad to be leaving, and was now flying back to Perth........ to her husband, who hadn't been able to take a month off work.

Anyway, once the crying was done with, she turned out to be one of the best seat companions I have had and we spent most of the next 12 hours chatting and drinking our way through the plane's alcohol supply.

I can't say that I've ever cried myself in airports, but I've seen plenty of heartwrenching farewells among families, ones that you just know will be very lengthy absences from one another, or worse even, "last goodbyes"; I've often had lumps in my throat and done a lot of blinking.

Now, walking out to the car parks after dropping someone off, is another story.

I was watching "City of Angels" on a plane one time...and there was this scene right after Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan could finally be together. She was riding her bike on a back road and a truck hit her. Didn't see it coming (me or Meg). Starting sobbing.

Of course not. Yet if a TSA has an issue with an underwire bra, for example, I won't put up with it and strip in public because some guy tells me to do so. I would ask for a female supervisor and a private room. Yes, this has happened and yes, when you escalate a problem, you get the results you require. For further discussion, feel free to go that thread.

I almost cry when I found out the price of 3 tickets to SIN this summer! I just can't afford close to 6 grand. Guess the kids will have to visit grandma next year. :(