What journalists call a 'sob story,' or is it meant to be humorous?
As I said I didn't start out to tell a sob story, but in this business we see quite a few cases like that.
It's about a feller vot takes anodder feller's place and gits his head cut off; and say, dere's a sob story in it vot's a vunder.
noun phrase
A very affecting tale, esp an account of one's disabling troubles; a story that disingenuously appeals to one's charitable nature: Do not weep crocodile tears over media sob stories (1913+)
