Message for Lifetime Movie Executives

I think there should be ratings for tv movies, just like real movies. But, not real ratings like we are accustom to, but ratings for us sappy women on how hard we might cry when we watch this movie. Let me back up and explain...

This weekend Derek was out of town bowling in a PBA Regional and I was dog sitting for a friend so I was home by myself most of the weekend just hanging out with two crazy puppies. I was flipping through channels Saturday night watching various TV movies when I came across a movie on Lifetime that sounded interesting and it was based on a true story and I love true story movies. Though looking back I wish the movie would have had a rating of a cry factor so I could have completely avoided it.
This movie was great. It was about a single mother with four kids and her kids are great, supportive and helpful. The mother gets sick and her kids help her get well and pick up the pieces of her life, she falls in love, blah blah blah. It was really a great movie, very uplifting, I was loving it....until about 30 min. left in the movie. The mother drops her youngest daugther off at high school for the day and drives away and when she pulls away they flash to the school sign which read Columbine. The movie cuts to a commercial break.
So, here I am sitting on my couch thinking to myself, I watched this entire movie only to be depressed at the very end b/c her daughter is going to end up getting killed in the Columbine shooting. I contemplated turning it off but held out hope that it would prove me wrong and end up the uplifting movie I was liking to begin with.

Not...so...much

The daughter is one of the students shot and killed in the library that day. How awful, so here this poor mother who went through hell with her own health and fought back to have a great life was not faced with the death of her baby girl. Ugh! I was bawling on the couch.

So, next time Lifetime execs...could you warn me on the cry factor so I don't have to sit home by myself on a Saturday night and end up bawling my eyes out because of one of your frickin' "based on a true story" Lifetime movies.

Thanks.