Both first and second. Both scenes from TV. Wish I could remember my third.

The first time I can remember was when I was three or four years old. My mother and I were at the college movie theater watching Brigadoon. Toward the end, there's a scene where Gene Kelly chokes up, and I remember being extremely focused on that moment. Even now, thinking about it, I find myself leaning forward in my chair. After that, men's tears. and more honestly, actors' tears have intrigued me. For some reason, "real" tears are harder for me to get involved in -- I think the raw emotion is just too much.

my earliest dac memories are mostly movies and tv to my recollection, alice in wonderland in particular was a fixation i didn't really understand but couldn't shake.

for real life, i don't know if it was my first time, but i clearly remember being at a neighborhood/community pool and one of the other kids was crying while wearing swim goggles. i could see the tears collecting and visibly pooling inside her goggles. i don't even know why she was crying, i didn't know her, but i couldn't help staring at her and the obvious volume of tears she'd been crying. it makes sense that's the kind of thing that stuck with me, given my tastes in crying as an adult.