History TearJerker / NotAlwaysRight

*** But you have to wonder... ''why in the world was she in school that day in the first place''? Why didn't the parents keep her home? That's a whole separate ball of TearJerker by itself.

* Ever had your photo used in an "ugliest" something contest? [[https://notalwaysright.com/tie-self-esteem/91729/ This teenager]] had their school photos plastered all over the winning entry in an ugly tie contest.

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* [[https://notalwaysright.com/attending-to-more-important-needs/38924/ One college student]] calls out a teacher, whom she used to respect, for completely ignoring her during a lecture and trying to humiliate her in front of the class because she missed class the day before. As she's finally able to explain to the teacher and class, her daughter had been run over by a truck, so the student had spent the day in her daughter's hospital room instead of coming to class. She had also tried, ''repeatedly'', to contact the teacher and explain her absence. She gives the teacher an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before leaving, never to return again.

* The poor kid in [[https://notalwaysright.com/taking-wild-unruly-to-the-next-level/218827/ this story]] gets to watch his mom go batshit crazy over an airsoft gun, shooting the submitter with it, running off into the woods without him, and then shoot a police dog's eye out, before getting 15 years in prison. ''All'' of this when he's just eleven. One can only hope that his remaining family isn't as criminally insane and will help him move past the trauma the whole incident likely caused.

-->''If I had given her the jail time, she'd be alive today.''

* The Christian principal of a private school in [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-just-discussing-school-affairs/87893/ this story]] calls the entire school into the auditorium to tell them that a teacher will no longer be working there... Because he's having an affair with the married mother of a student who is present. She begins crying as he says this and eventually runs out of the auditorium in tears while the principal obliviously rambles on how much of a sin it is. It turns out that she was so embarrassed by the scandal that she left the school. The kicker? Absolutely ''no one'' in the school, including the student, knew about the affair before the principal told them, claiming he didn't want any rumors going around about it.
* When an elementary school class is asked what they would do with a time machine, [[WiseBeyondTheirYears one kid]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/looking-back-helps-you-realize-what-matters/213207/ says]] they would go back to give George Floyd a real $20 bill. [[labelnote:Explanation]]George Floyd was an African-American man who had the police called on him for allegedly using a counterfeit $20, was killed during the arrest and his death sparked worldwide protests against police brutality.[[/labelnote]]

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/pokemon-go-away/88983/ This mother]] causes a scene on a plane when the [=OP=] lets a kid borrow her old Nintendo [=DS=] to play Pokémon... because she didn't give the kid the newer console that she also had. Worse, she has the gall to lie to the flight attendant, saying the [=OP=] stole it from the kid. Another passenger steps up and reveals that this is not the case, and the [=OP=] was trying to be friendly and let the kid play her game. The flight attendant makes her put away both consoles, which means the kid can no longer play. Towards the end of the flight, the OP apologizes to the kid over what happened, to which he replies, [[OhNoNotAgain "It wasn't your fault. [Mother] ruins everything."]] In other words, it wasn't the first time that poor kid has had to go through something like this.

* The poster of [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-bureaucracy-is-killing-me/124210/ this story]] would reveal in the comments that the patient unfortunately died, making sure to clarify it was due to his injuries being too severe and not the ObstructiveBureaucrat.
* [[https://notalwaysright.com/our-deepest-condolences/127118/ We think we have a winner.]] A longtime member of NAR has had [[https://notalwaysright.com/with-a-mother-like-that-pain-tolerance-is-through-the-roof/118817/ three]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/already-has-a-big-baby-to-look-after/118777/ stories]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-the-formula-for-a-successful-doctor/126319/ posted]], all centering around the birth of her baby at only 29 weeks. The fourth story above is about how, after a month of the premature girl living happy and healthy following 70 days at the hospital, the submitter wakes up to find her baby suddenly struggling to breathe. The rest of the story is pure AdultFear as the parents and paramedics do everything they can to save the slowly dying child, despite the low odds and one doctor telling them that the merciful thing would be to let her go when she suffers brain damage after her heart stops, [[DownerEnding but it all ends up in vain--the child passes away peacefully in her mother's arms.]] The comments are almost nothing but expressions of sympathy, and the story itself is titled "Our Deepest Condolences", implying that even the Editors were heartbroken over the news. It also makes all of those stories ''so'' much HarsherInHindsight.

* When an elementary school class is asked what they would do with a time machine, [[WiseBeyondTheirYears one kid]] says they would go back to give George Floyd a real $20 bill. [[labelnote:Explanation]]George Floyd was an African-American man who had the police called on him for allegedly using a counterfeit $20, was killed during the arrest and his death sparked worldwide protests against police brutality.[[/labelnote]]

* When an elementary school class is asked what they would do with a time machine, [[WiseBeyondTheirYears one kid]] says they would go back to give George Floyd a real $20 bill. [[labelnote:Explanation]]George Floyd was an African-American man who had the police called on him for using a counterfeit $20, was killed during the arrest and his death sparked worldwide protests against police brutality.[[/labelnote]]

* [[Administrivia.RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Whatever can be said about the Afghanistan conflict]], people coming home from it only to deal with [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-war-unwon/14873 bigots]] who think having Asian soldiers is good because it's "Better [losing] you than losing some American boys" is depressing.

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/out-shopping-for-a-new-friend/18838/ This story]] of a teenager befriending a racist elderly neighbor is downright depressing. She's been abandoned by her own family, has no friends or caretakers, and can no longer keep up with her own housework.

** Unless the first boy was just parroting his elder relatives' or friends' opinions - which seems likely since he doesn't know the difference between beer and rum.
* [[http://notalwaysright.com/mans-best-friend-from-beginning-to-end/76482 This.]] Unlike most things on this list, it's also a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}: 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/never-say-no-to-la-novia/74493 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.

* You have to feel sorry for the student in [[https://notalwaysright.com/unable-to-mathematically-compensate-for-discrimination/133362/ this story]], his mother exploits his disability for her own gain and the reason he's working so hard on his studies is so that he can go to a college far away from her.

* The Christian principal of a private school in [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-just-discussing-school-affairs/87893/ this story]] calls the entire school into the auditorium to tell them that a teacher will no longer be working there... Because he's having an affair with the married mother of a student who is present. She begins crying as he says this and eventually runs out of the auditorium in tears while the principal obliviously rambles on how much of a sin it is. It turns out that she was so embarrassed by the scandal that she left the school. The kicker? Absolutely no one in the school, including the student, knew about the affair before the principal told them, claiming he didn't want any rumors going around about it.

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/drawing-on-hidden-talents/29930/ 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/pokemon-go-away/88983/ One mother]] who causes a scene on a plane when the [=OP=] lets a kid borrow her old Nintendo [=DS=] to play Pokémon because she didn't give the kid the newer console that she also had, and has the gall to lie to the flight attendant saying the [=OP=] stole it from the kid. Another passenger steps up and reveals that this is not the case, and the [=OP=] was trying to be friendly and let the kid play her game. The flight attendant makes her put away both consoles which means the kid can no longer play. Towards the end of the flight, she apologizes to the kid over what happens, to which he replies, [[OhNoNotAgain "It wasn't your fault. [Mother] ruins everything."]] In other words, it wasn't the first time that poor kid has had to go through something like this.

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/out-shopping-for-a-new-friend/18838/ This story]] of befriending a racist elderly neighbor is downright depressing. She's been abandoned by her own family, has no friends or caretakers, and can no longer keep up with her own housework.

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/our-deepest-condolences/127118/ We think we have a winner.]] A long time member of NAR has had [[https://notalwaysright.com/with-a-mother-like-that-pain-tolerance-is-through-the-roof/118817/ three]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/already-has-a-big-baby-to-look-after/118777/ stories]] [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-the-formula-for-a-successful-doctor/126319/ posted]], all centering around the birth of her baby at only 29 weeks. The fourth story above is about how, after a month of the premature girl living happy and healthy following 70 days at the hospital, the submitter wakes up to find her baby suddenly struggling to breathe. The rest of the story is pure AdultFear as the parents and paramedics do everything they can to save the slowly dying child, despite the low odds and one doctor telling them that the merciful thing would be to let her go after she suffers brain damage after her heart stops, [[DownerEnding but it all ends up in vain--the child passes away peacefully in her mother's arms.]] The comments are almost nothing but condolences and sympathy, and the story itself is even titled "Our Deepest Condolences", implying that even the Editors were heartbroken over the news. It also makes all of those stories ''so'' much HarsherInHindsight.

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/jail-for-life/113740/ This person]] accompanies a friend to traffic court and has a conversation with the judge afterwards. The judge says that his biggest regret was not sending a repeat offender, a sixteen-year-old girl, to jail for her latest moving violation. On her way home, she tried to [[RacingTheTrain beat a train to the crossing]].

-->''If I had given her the jail time, she'd be alive today.''
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* Not really a TearJerker, but kinda depressing: [[http://notalwaysright.com/parlez-snooze-francais 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.

* Not really a TearJerker, but kinda depressing: [[http://notalwaysright.com/parlez-snooze-francais 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.

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/pokemon-go-away/88983/ One mother]] who causes a scene on a plane when the [=OP=] lets a kid borrow her old Nintendo [=DS=] to play Pokémon because she didn't give the kid the newer console that she also had, and has the gall to lie to the flight attendant saying the [=OP=] stole it from the kid. Another passenger steps up and reveals that this is not the case, and the [=OP=] was trying to be friendly and let the kid play her game. The flight attendant makes her put away both consoles which means the kid can no longer play. Towards the end of the flight, she apologizes to the kid over what happens, to which he replies, [[OhNoNotAgain "It wasn't your fault. [Mother] ruins everything."]] Revealing that it wasn't the first time that poor kid has had to go through something like this.

* [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Whatever can be said about the Afghanistan conflict]], people coming home from it only to deal with [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-war-unwon/14873 bigots]] who think having Asian soldiers is good because it's "Better [losing] you than losing some American boys" is depressing.

** The implied calm way he says that makes it sound like he's given up on life (literally) and is about to commit suicide.

* The submitter of [[https://notalwaysright.com/pet-owners-are-barking-mad/118292/ this story]] tries in vain to convince the owners of a dog suffering from heatstroke from the summer 2018 heatwave to get it to the vet. Unfortunately, [[TheyJustDontGetIt they're too stupid to realise it's suffering heatstroke]] and think it's just tired from the coastal walk it just took, no matter how many times it drinks water too quickly and pukes it back up, and in their response to any help - namely, refusing it or misinterpreting the gesture - drive the submitter, who is increasingly worried about the dog and desperately hoping they listen to reason, into an autistic meltdown. By the time the morons realise the poor little dog isn't simply tired, [[DownerEnding it's too late]].

** Unless the first boy was just parroting his elder relatives' or friends' opinions. Which seems likely since he doesn't know the difference between beer and rum.

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/attending-to-more-important-needs/38924/ One college student]] calls out 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 the day before. As she's finally able to explain to the teacher and class, her daughter had been run over by a truck, so the student had spent the day near her daughter instead of coming to class. She gives the teacher an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before leaving, never to return again.

* [[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, she 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, and became a proper lady which she hoped would make her mother come back.

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/fight-fire-kindness/102188/ This poor kid]] had his house burned down along with everything he owned, including his [[TearJerker Christmas presents.]]

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/jail-for-life/113740/ This person]] accompanies a friend to court and has a conversation with the judge afterwards. The judge says that his biggest regret was not sending a repeat offender, a sixteen year old girl, to jail for her latest moving violation. On her way home, she tried to [[RacingTheTrain beat a train to the crossing]].

* [[http://notalwaysright.com/santa-will-know-whos-nicer-than-nice/78532 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/mans-best-friend-from-beginning-to-end/76482 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/77771 This one]], which is also a HeartwarmingMoment -- for some people, the last thing a close person ever gave them is ''very'' important.