History TearJerker / NotAlwaysRight

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/literally-no-room-table This poor guy]]. Being invited to dinner with your high school friends, only for them to forget about you and then completely blank you has got to sting.

* [[http://notalwaysright.com/never-say-no-to-la-novia/21638 This poor girl]]. Her birthday was supposed to be celebrated together with her divorced parents but her mother shown her hateful homophobia after learning her new friend's older sister is a lesbian and storms out, ruining the kid's birthday wishes. On the bright side (well sort of) the father subsequently got full custody and now the little girl is allowed to play with her friend and learn Spanish as well.
* [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-dragon-cannot-be-killed-by-fire-or-bad-parenting/36270 This poor girl]] just wants a dragon toy, but her mother won't let her. Then she tries to get a toy dog, but her mother won't get her that either because it's not pink. Then her mother tells her that she can't get a toy unless it's pink and 'girly', and ''then'' her mother tells the stunned cashier that [[InsaneTrollLogic girls who don't play with pink toys will be gay]] and that her daughter needs to 'learn her place'. Jesus ''Christ''.
* [[http://notalwaysright.com/stick-a-pin-in-my-heart/49600 An otherwise normal tech support call]] about an elderly man trying to access his voicemail takes a depressing turn when he admits that the reason why was because his wife passed away recently and he wanted to hear her voice again via an old voicemail message.

* [[http://notalwaysright.com/mini-golf-vs-beer-pong/27915 This]] is just depressing. You'd expect underage drinking from 17- or 18-year-olds, but ''ten-year-olds?!''

* [[http://notalwaysright.com/mans-best-friend-from-beginning-to-end/28373 This.]] Unlike most things on this list, it's also a HeartwarmingMoment: After a family's dog had to be euthanized, an Air Force lieutenant who lost his brother to cancer cheers the 10-year old son by telling him that if he did his best to make the dog's life worth living, the dog would be proud.
* [[http://notalwaysright.com/gift-carded-and-dearly-departed/31904 This one]], which is also a HeartwarmingMoment -- for some people, the last thing a close person ever gave them is ''very'' important.
* [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-hole-in-one/32216 This homeowner]] who had to deal with asshole golfers who think they can go wherever they want is bad enough, but it gets worse when he lists all the trouble they've put him through--not only have they broken into and wrecked his property, they ''killed his dog''. When people value a damn golf game over life, you know you're dealing with some really scummy folks.
* [[http://notalwaysright.com/santa-will-know-whos-nicer-than-nice/34130 This story]] which is also {{heartwarming|Moments}} -- an eight-year old kid goes above and beyond what is expected for a kid his age to make sure his neighbor, who recently suffered a tragedy, has a Christmas, and moves everyone else to help any way they can.

* [[http://notalwaysright.com/self-serving-stupidity-will-not-be-served/22559 This one]] features rude customers, awesome customers... and a 70-year-old cashier who has to work to afford chemotherapy.

** Similarly, there's [[http://notalwaysright.com/went-on-a-jurassic-lark/34361 this poor little boy]] whose mother left him at the museum and had driven more than ''three hours'' before the museum called to tell her - and her major concern was her ''[[SkewedPriorities coat]]''.

* [[http://notalwaysromantic.com/forget-the-announcements-here-come-the-pronouncements/ This]] narrator's friend received condolences rather than congratulations on his wedding.
* Hard not to feel sorry for [[http://notalwaysromantic.com/in-brightest-wedding-day/ this]] [[TheWoobie poor guy]] for his failed proposal attempt.

* [[http://notalwaysromantic.com/darth-nauseous/ This]] is a strong case of TheEndingChangesEverything. By the time the writer had uploaded the anecdote, her husband had died.

* [[http://notalwaysrelated.com/not-a-gifted-father/28558 This writer]]. Her father forgot her own birthday, but instead gives a birthday present to her stepsister, whose own birthday is ''a week away''. And then, when the submitter doesn't wish ''him'' a happy birthday a few months later, [[EntitledBastard he calls her an "awful selfish daughter"]].
* [[https://notalwaysrelated.com/the-lawnmower-ban/43211 An elderly mother of two]] works herself into an early grave because she's too stubborn to hire someone to help her with mowing the lawn (the lawn is on a steep incline and has to be kept short per HA rules). While the OP has some excuse to have not been able to help, her brother only says that he shouldn't be expected to do any work just because he's a man when asked why he never helped despite being fit enough to do so. Let this sink in: His mother died early because he was too lazy to help her with the yard work and he doesn't seem to care.

* [[http://notalwayslearning.com/not-a-shred-of-intelligence/30167 One story]] on this section of the site takes place during finals week. A girl comes up to the storyteller complaining that the copy machine hasn't printed her things. A tech goes with her to look, and the girl runs by in tears because she'd accidentally put her report ''through the shredder''.
* Not really a TearJerker, but kinda depressing: [[http://notalwayslearning.com/parlez-snooze-francais/30746 This one student]] in an advanced French class is always late, and when she does come, she sleeps through most of the class. However, her homework is always done, and she does very well on exams. Then one day, the student has had enough of this, and says, in French, [[SurroundedByIdiots "I hate all my classmates."]]. The teacher is surprised that she would blatantly insult everyone in class, but the student is confident that nobody actually understood her. The teacher confirmed that NOBODY in the class understood that fairly-basic-French sentence, and were only there because EVERYONE had cheated for the entire term by using translators. The student was then moved into a class where people were actually interested in learning French.

* Nobody should have to go to [[http://notalwayslearning.com/their-vocabulary-is-intolerable/32051 a school]] with this learning environment.
** [[http://notalwayslearning.com/how-to-combat-the-bullying-a-gender/32065 Here's another]] which is arguably worse. The submitter left the school because she couldn't take it.
* [[http://notalwayslearning.com/a-victory-in-tragedy-part-2/32454 A teacher puts a student in detention]] for being ''a few seconds late'' to school... because the student's brother died the previous night, and she was up all night grieving.

* [[https://notalwaysfriendly.com/literally-no-room-table/44088 This poor guy]]. Being invited to dinner with your high school friends, only for them to forget about you and then completely blank you has got to sting.

* [[http://notalwaysromantic.com/forget-the-announcements-here-come-the-pronouncements/18820 This]] narrator's friend received condolences rather than congratulations on his wedding.
* Hard not to feel sorry for [[http://notalwaysromantic.com/in-brightest-wedding-day/21550 this]] [[TheWoobie poor guy]] for his failed proposal attempt.

* [[http://notalwaysromantic.com/darth-nauseous/25592 This]] is a strong case of TheEndingChangesEverything. By the time the writer had uploaded the anecdote, her husband had died.

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/some-stories-chopstick-with-you/90874/ This sad story]] here. A young Chinese girl used to be a brat at a Chinese restaurant despite attempts by her mother telling her daughter to behave and be a proper lady. Then one day, the little girl and her parents stop coming to the restaurant. Three months later, the little girl returns to the restaurant with her father and much to the staff's surprise, the little is behaving well and is polite to them. But then comes the WhamLine on why the sudden change of behavior: the mother was killed in car accident three months ago. The little girl, not understanding that her mother is gone, thought her mother left her because she was naughty which the little girl changed her behavior and became a proper lady which she hoped would make her mother come back.

* You really gotta feel bad for [[http://notalwaysright.com/ah-fathers-part-2/954 this guy.]] He has to buy several copies of the same ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' DVD for his [[SpoiledBrat 10 year old son]], costing him 550 dollars.

* [[http://notalwaysright.com/i-junk-mailed-to-say-i-love-you/2316 This customer]] is so lonely he wants to recieve ads from a company just so he can get something through the mail.

* [[http://notalwaysrelated.com/not-a-gifted-father/28558 This writer]]. Her father forgot her own birthday, but instead gives a birthday present to her step-sister, whose own birthday is ''a week away''. And then, when the submitter doesn't wish ''him'' a happy birthday a few months later, [[EntitledBastard he calls her an "awful selfish daughter"]].

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/some-stories-chopstick-with-you/90874/ This sad story]] here. A young Chinese girl used to be a brat at a Chinese restaurant despite attempts by her mother telling her daughter to behave and be a proper lady. Then one day, the little girl and her parents stop coming to the restaurant. Three months later, the little girl returns to the restaurant with her father and much to the staff's surprise, the little is behaving well and is polite to them. But then comes the WhamLine on why the sudden change of behavior: the mother was killed in car accident three months ago. The little girl, not understanding that her mother is gone, thought her mother left her because she was naugthy which the little girl changed her behavior and became a proper lady which she hoped would make her mother come back.

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/attending-to-more-important-needs/38924/ One college student]] calls out on a teacher who she used to respect for completely ignoring her during a lecture and trying to humiliate her in front of the class for not coming to her class yesterday as she was trying to explain her daughter was run over by a truck and was spending day near her daughter hence why she didn't have time to email to explain to the teacher. She gives the teacher TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before leaving, never to return again.

* [[http://notalwayslearning.com/a-pterrible-teacher/34505 It's bad]] when other students telling you what you're saying is correct is wrong. But when a teacher does the same thing, it's even worse.
* [[http://notalwayslearning.com/heartbreak-high/35667 "You're like my mom, only you actually care about me."]] That poor kid...

* [[http://notalwaysfriendly.com/drawing-on-hidden-talents/37430 You have to feel bad for this poor boy]], he gets inspired to draw a lot more by an artist's pep talk, but his mother ruins it completely by telling him that he has no talent and that since no one else in the family can draw, he can't either.

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/some-stories-chopstick-with-you/90874/ This sad story]] here. A young Chinese girl used to be a brat at a Chinese restaurant despite attempts by her mother telling her daughter to behave and be a proper lady. Then one day, the little girl and her parents stop coming to the restaurant. Three months later, the little girl returns to the restaurant with her father and much to the staff's surprise, the little is behaving well and is polite to them. But then comes the WhamLine on why the sudden change of behavior: the mother was killed in car accident three months ago. The little girl, not understanding that her mother is gone, though her mother left her because she was naugthy which the little girl changed her behavior and became a proper lady which she hoped would make her mother come back.

* [[https://notalwaysrelated.com/the-lawnmower-ban/43211 An elderly mother of two]] works herself into an early grave because she's too stubborn to hire someone to help her with mowing the lawn(the lawn is on a steep incline and has to be kept short per HA rules). While the OP has some excuse to have not been able to help, her brother only says that he shouldn't be expected to do any work just because he's a man when asked why he never helped despite being fit enough to do so. Let this sink in: His mother died early because he was too lazy to help her with the yard work and he doesn't seem to care.

** Similarly, there's [[http://notalwaysright.com/went-on-a-jurassic-lark/34361 this poor little boy]] whose mother left him at the museum and had driven more than ''three hours'' before the museum called to tell her - [[SkewedPriorities and her major concern was her ''coat'']].

* You really gotta feel bad for [[http://notalwaysright.com/ah-fathers-part-2/954 this guy.]] He has to buy several copies of the same ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' DVD for his 10 year old son, costing him 550 dollars.

** Similarly, there's [[http://notalwaysright.com/went-on-a-jurassic-lark/34361 this poor little boy]] whose mother left him at the museum and had driven more than ''three hours'' before the museum called to tell her - and her major concern was her ''coat''.

* [[http://notalwaysfriendly.com/drawing-on-hidden-talents/37430 You have to feel bad for this poor boy]], he gets inspired to draw a lot more by an artist's pep talk, but his mother ruins it completely by telling him that he has no talent and that since no one else in the family draws, he can't either.

* One story on this section of the site takes place during finals week. A girl comes up to the storyteller complaining that the copy machine hasn't printed her things. A tech goes with her to look, and the girl runs by in tears because she'd accidentally put her report ''through the shredder''.