Acting and Miscellaneous: Gene Cusano

Gene Cusano

By dramateach11 - 03/04/2009 00:37 - United States

Today, I was trying to get drama students to attempt to make themselves cry. I was not having any luck, until suddenly a girl burst into tears, sobbing uncontrollably. I jumped up to applaud, saying what a wonderful thing it is to have such expressive kids. Turns out her grandma just died. FML

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By Anonymous - 13/05/2009 17:46 - Canada

Today, a parent came into my class and told one of my 6 year-old students that their grandma died. Then the parent left. The kid started crying from the news, which then got all the other students crying. I spent the rest of the day comforting a class of kids crying over someone else's grandma. FML

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By Anonymous - 17/07/2020 02:01

Today, I was doing my job and trying to teach a lazy bunch of 16-year-olds. A girl entered the room just 15 minutes before class ended, so I snapped, "Someone had better have died for you to be this late!" She immediately burst into tears. Turns out, someone had. FML

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By Anonymous - 02/10/2009 21:07 - United States

Today, my English teacher asked me why I didn't have my project completed. Thinking quick on my feet, I told her it was because my grandmother had just passed away. Apparently they go to the same country club and have known each other for years. My teacher started crying and ran out of the room. FML

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By Mitch - 19/07/2012 17:36 - Puerto Rico - Bayamon

Today, while I was working my shift at the store, my girlfriend appeared and asked to talk to me. Once we were alone, she burst into tears and started sobbing. Turns out someone's dad died in her favorite TV show and she wanted some comfort. FML

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By thechad_144 - 01/06/2009 23:42 - United States

Today, at an elementary school a girl showed me her grandma's obituary in the paper and started crying. To stop her from crying I made things out of the rest of the paper, later she asked me where her grandma's obituary was. I accidentally made it into a hat, with lots of tape. FML

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By bad mom? lol - 22/04/2022 06:00

Today, I got a call from my daughter’s school. They found her on the roof, threatening to kill herself. I had to pretend to sound scared and sad over the phone, but in reality, the only emotion I could feel was extreme joy. FML

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By mk - 14/06/2011 06:08 - United States

Today, I had to be the one to break it to my daughter that WWE fighting was staged. She began crying. However, last month she didn't shed a single tear at her grandmother's funeral. FML

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By ... - 05/02/2010 03:12 - France

Today, I was at a school rally I was talking to my friends when I noticed the entire gym had gotten quiet. Not knowing why I thought it would be funny to yell out "it's too quiet!" apparently it was a moment of silence for a teacher that had recently died. FML

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By pinecones - 02/02/2015 14:25 - United Kingdom

Today, my coworker said that she suddenly got the shivers. I jokingly told her that it meant she must be being watched by a dead person and made stupid ghost noises. She then told me it was the anniversary of her dad's death and burst into tears. FML

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By myanmarkaviar - 27/08/2015 16:34 - Norway - Fl?

Today, at work, I served a customer who looked so much like my grandma that I thought it actually was her. Then I remembered she died 6 months ago. I had to serve customers with a smile on my face while choking back tears for the rest of the day. FML

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ecrw 0

Friday 3 April 2009 11:04

Actually that's an excellent way to approach drama, by conjuring up personal emotions actors can put themselves closer to their characters. You should considering giving her some extra marks for that. I remember in drama class the best actor of the whole class would remember real life situations in order to cry and get closer to her character.

sufan106 0

Friday 3 April 2009 9:56

wow that must have been really awkward for the students watching haha ur life does suck

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hcolovex0x 0

Sunday 14 June 2009 20:01

Wow that sucks. YDI in a way. I mean let's face it, no one can cry that good if it's fake.

junefairy_fml 10

Wednesday 23 January 2013 17:29

i can. for real...i can try to cry and produce fake tears and end up actually grieving for... nothing

xshinexbrite96xx 0

Monday 18 January 2010 12:58

wow FML but why would you make the kids make themselves cry!? horrible.

areveillonen 4

Tuesday 2 February 2010 23:19

yeah!!!

Itstopsecret 0

Friday 19 March 2010 17:10

Nothing for you to be sorry about.How could you have known?You thought she had just done a great job on the assigment,so why not apploud?

bigfatunderwear 0

Friday 25 June 2010 9:03

this sounds so fake, OP, you fail at making this fml .

MyScrewedUpLifeS 0

Wednesday 27 April 2011 0:53

soooooo maybe when u said fake cry u might've prompted ppl and coached them to maybe think of sad things and the first thought into her head reminded her of her recently deceased gma.

Swiko 11

Friday 16 September 2011 0:03

@33 In the world of Theatre there are a lot of times when your character will need to burst out in tears, so drama students need to learn to be able to try on command. That's why. It's not really horrible.