Car Crying

With Radiohead

I don’t drive and so don’t have a car, but I do remember having a great sobbing cry in the library van (when I worked for a London Borough library). It was a very grey afternoon, I just got the news that my childhood dog had died, and on came Radiohead’s Paranoid Android, or was it Let Down (either would do really). I remember the pattern of the rain running down the windshield, as tears rolled down my face, as I looked out to a rather industrial London scene outside.

It went from a silent cry, to a big sobbing ugly cry pretty quickly, as the music took me on an emotional journey. Before I knew it I wasn’t just crying for Benjie, I was crying for every other thing that should have had tears but didn’t. I was crying for people I didn’t even know, in towns and villages I’d never visited.

That my car crying story, or library van sobbing.

I don’t know the film but Nicolae Kidmans doing a good job of crying in her car

Anon Redit post:

Anyone else drive to the middle of nowhere and cry in their car?

- Frank ocean and Lana del Rey are the only reason I don’t go off the road

- I live by some mountains so I’ll go the the scenic out looks in the middle of the night and cry until my cheeks hurt from my ugly sobbing face.

Kids are good about crying in the cary, maybe we should take their lead, just no falling sleep afterwards

Is crying in the car self-care?

You’re alone, you’re safe, you’re in a space where you get to feel whatever you need to and you get to feel whatever you need to feel - a cathartic journey with your own soundtrack .

Do you cry in the car?

Let the howling begin ……