I was seriously sick a little over a year ago.  I almost died and happily was well on my road to recovery.  Unfortunately I was taking a whole slew of pills that all had emotional side effects.  The only good part of this was that it made me cry at the drop of a hat and not bite someone’s head off at the slightest provocation.  This turned out to be thoroughly entertaining for my kids.

Watching American Idol or Biggest Loser was just too much for me to bear and the tears would pour down my face.  There was nothing funny about it but the first time Sara saw this, she was absolutely stunned.  I was a blubbering wreck.  She stared.  I cried and did my best to stop it.  She stared with her mouth agape.  I wept like I never did before and she gawked at me with a growing need to mock me.

Thank God those pills and their emotional side effect only lasted about a couple of weeks.  Still, it was amusing for others (not so much for me).  Even though a year has passed, Sara especially has been wanting to trigger another crying episode so that she can have something to laugh at.

It is not coming from me.

It came from someone else.

The Walking Dead is a series on TV that is well produced, well, acted, well written, well liked but millions of people.  It is currently the top show on cable television.  I hate it.  I hate the whole idea of zombies and the whole idea and reasoning of this stupid zombie craze that is happening.  It is just moronic.  Zombies are essentially immortal and can live without eating yet there is a huge drive to eat people.  They only die if their dead brain is destroyed.  Chopping off the head keeps the zombie still alive and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.  Just makes no sense at all and every time I see a zombie it just angers me.  Cannot stand watching the show.  Maybe if it was an infection like rabies and then just maybe I could tolerate watching something that can never possibly happen.

Corey loves the show.  He thinks it is the best thing since the last time he liked another show.  He watched the entire third season in just two days.  He is like Sara in trying to mock me about emotional scenes on the TV.  Apparently I look away when these things happen.  It took me a while to realize that I do indeed do this.  But it is not because I am getting emotional myself.  Firstly, if I feel the emotions are real, I am not one to stare and looking away I do out of respect so that person can have some privacy.  Secondly, if I feel the emotions are just pandering, I look away because it is annoying and fake.  I get bored and have to see something else that is not so boring and look at the stuff on the walls, or the dog, or the kids.

So Sara and I are noticing Corey planted in front of the computer and he has head down low and refusing to look up.  Sara quips loudly in her usual mocking voice accusing Corey of not being able to look at the screen like I apparently do in emotional moments.  Seconds later we notice Corey is crying.  Both of us cannot help but to allow a laugh or a dozen out at this part.  Corey is crying to someone he really liked getting killed in The Walking Dead.

Corey is kind of a neat person in his own right.  When he was younger he honestly thought that death scenes in movies really had the person die.  This was not confusing until he saw the same actor die in a different movie.  This is impossible in the real world and he could not grasp the concept of acting.  Movies for him were as real as the news.  There was some movie that we saw London get destroyed by fire and he really thought London was destroyed by fire.  It took a surprisingly long time to get him to come to the idea that people are pretending in movies and that none of it is real.

Still he gets emotional at what he sees.  We watched a pleasant little movie called Hidago and at the end the horse is put to pasture, or something like that – I cannot remember entirely.  Corey was bawling to that.  He really connected to the horse and its plight.  It unsettled him.  Just like recently as he shed tears watching a zombie destroy a character he really liked.  And then he does it again in the last episode.

We laughed.

Corey didn’t.

We laughed more.

Hopefully if I am ever put on pills that make me a blubbering wreck Corey will be a little more sympathetic.

Now I just need to get Sara crying at something on the screen so I can make fun of her like she did of me.  Not sure how, but I will.  Somehow.

Maybe put a tack on her seat?  Would that make her cry or get her angry?  Or get her to peel onions.