Some reasons to have a good cry

• if you are a frightened tot sobbing in the lap of a strange fat man in a bright red suit.

• if you're mother of the bride, dabbing tears away with a white hankie.

• if you're the father of the bride, blubbering during a toast to the new couple.

• if you just hauled your flabby, middle-aged carcass across the finish line after jogging 26.2 miles in 7.2 hours.

• if you are a burly athlete discussing your family -- either a tragedy that has befallen them or the support your wife has shown over the years.

• if you're a fearless industry whistleblower telling your story on "60 Minutes."

• if you are a woman in the driver's seat responding to the officer holding a ticket pad.

• if you are a woman seen by only one other woman crying in the lavatory after being dressed down by your boss in a meeting.

• if you are a man walking out of a midnight screening of "Schindler's List."

• if you're a retiring CEO/military general/beloved coach making an appreciative speech to your troops on your way out the door.

• if you're an environmentalist making an impassioned speech from atop the tree where you've barricaded yourself for several months.

• if you're the ex-boyfriend of the bride weeping in the back pew.

• if you're a burly athlete crying after your team loses.

• if more than one other person sees you crying at work after a boss dresses you down.

• if you're a child seen crying on the playground after a bully's taunts.

• if you make a YouTube video of yourself crying on behalf of some drug-addled celebrity.

• if you are the weeping half of a couple arguing in a restaurant.

• if you are seen drunk and crying in a bar when Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" comes on the jukebox.