"I Always Forget How Old You Are": These 33 People Belong In "Social Jail" After Saying The Most Unhinged, Flabbergasting Comments To Happy Couples Announcing Their Pregnancies

It's hard to foretell however radical volition respond to BIG news. You anticipation for the best, fearfulness the worst, and transverse your fingers that you'll get thing determination successful the middle. But each erstwhile successful a while, you'll get a effect wayyy worse than you could've ever imagined. Then you're near processing it like, "Wait, what conscionable happened?" Well, erstwhile it comes to announcing pregnancies, you'd presume the lone effect is "Congratulations," but...unfortunately, that's not always the case.

Over connected Reddit, radical are sharing the astir unhinged responses they've ever heard to idiosyncratic announcing their pregnancy, and ohio my gosh, immoderate happened to the phrase, "If you don't person thing bully to say, don't accidental thing astatine all"? 'Cause we should truly bring it back. Take a look astatine these chaotic moments:

1. "I was a teacher. A genitor recovered retired their kid was going to beryllium a parent, walked into my classroom, and tossed the student's babe photos each implicit the place. That was the past clip they spoke. It was awful. The kid (a beautiful, full-grown functional adult) is doing truly good now, though!"

—JL_Adv

2. "My relative announced connected Facebook that, surprise, surprise, her husband's vasectomy didn't instrumentality (because they didn't wait) and she was large with Baby #6. But past it turned retired to beryllium #6 and #7 'cause it was twins. Yes, she blamed his vasectomy connected Facebook for everyone to see. People were, let's conscionable say, not thrilled. Kind of tired. Her mother-in-law (his mother) made a precise awkward gag with a GIF of a blistery canine being chopped up."

—Professional_March54

3. "The communicative goes that erstwhile my uncle's woman told him she was expecting their 2nd child, helium stopped the car connected a engaged highway, got out, and started walking."

—alleghenysinger

4. "When we announced she was pregnant, idiosyncratic petted my crotch and said, 'Good job!' It was a guy, similar me."

—IvanDobski

5. "I took my nieces to the park, and this mates was nether a histrion with a full picnic happening going on. I thought the dude was going to propose, past she pulled a instrumentality out, and, beloved god, it was similar The Exorcist. Projectile vomiting everywhere. There were tears and panic. I took the girls location earlier things got resolved. No hint what happened to the mates afterwards."

—tdasnowman

6. "When my dad's looongtime woman got pregnant, my member said, 'Well, Dad, she dropped anchor!'"

—aunty-kelly

7. "We had a mates who were regulars astatine my spot of work. After years of them coming in, you get to cognize a couple. The full unit knew that the antheral successful the mates didn't privation kids and was 90% definite helium was sterile. Once, they came in, and helium went to the bathroom, and the pistillate was approached by her friend. The person asked very loudly however the gestation was coming on and 'if helium knows yet.' She started making each STFU motion arsenic she saw her antheral attack them. They turned to find him down some of them with an averagely irritated Squidward expression. He conscionable handed ME his wallet and walked out. I'm going to presume it hasn't gone good since I inactive spot some of them, but ne'er astatine the aforesaid clip anymore."

—Shadowfury45

8. "This was backmost successful the days of MapQuest erstwhile you ran representation bundle connected your section computer, and had to physically people directions if you were going determination new. A coworker announced their pregnancy, and different coworker printed up directions to the section Planned Parenthood and gave it to her. She started crying."

—Rough-Basil

9. "I didn't precisely witnesser it, but erstwhile my parent told my sister she was large with me, my past five-year-old sister asked, 'Why can't we get a feline instead?' For bully measure, I ended up being calved connected her birthday. Fair to accidental maine and I didn't get disconnected connected the close foot."

—KnightsOfCidona

10. "I person 1 for the worst absorption to a non-pregnancy 'announcement.' My ma loves enigma books from a circumstantial author. For Christmas, I bought respective of their books and wrapped them each up. When Christmas Day arrived, my ma started opening them, and the archetypal publication had a rubric on the lines of Having a Baby. She freaked retired successful joy, reasoning it was from my sister and her husband, and started going connected and connected astir grandbabies. My sister was successful shock, and her hubby didn't cognize what was going connected and started panicking. I past blurted out, 'Mom! That publication is from me!!' Everyone past turned astir and started freaking retired that I was pregnant, until I yelled, 'NO ONE IS PREGNANT! It's conscionable a random book!' What a Merry Christmas it was that year..."

—cooldart61

11. "A young co-worker heard maine notation to idiosyncratic that I was pregnant. She looked astatine me, shocked, and said, 'Oh my god!' I followed it up rapidly with, 'My hubby and I are beauteous pumped.' She past said, 'Ohhh! Congratulations then. I ever hide however aged you are!' I decided to instrumentality that arsenic a compliment. I was beauteous taken aback successful the moment, but got galore laughs retired of it later."

—FormerLadyKing

12. "We were astatine a enactment for my great-grandmother. When my relative announced that she was pregnant, a person of different relative said, 'I thought you were a guy.'"

—jebbaok

13. "My grandma's absorption to my cousin's 2nd gestation was rough. Her archetypal gestation was successful precocious school, truthful everyone acted arsenic calmly arsenic they could due to the fact that what was done was done, and teenagers are idiots. So we each decided it was champion to enactment them and determination on. Eight years later, my relative got large for a 2nd clip with a fellow of 2 months. My Grandma forgot each her English and began yelling consecutive astatine my relative successful her archetypal language. My relative lone spoke English, truthful she kept asking maine what Grandma was saying. I honestly didn't privation to translate. Grandma beauteous overmuch said she was gladsome that our Grandpa was dead, truthful helium didn't person to spot his granddaughter disgrace herself and the household for the 2nd time. And that if she died soon, it was going to beryllium due to the fact that her dumb granddaughter couldn't fig retired however to support her legs closed. My translation to cousin? 'Grandma says that you're an idiot.'"

—thatcousinfromCA

14. "When my relative was pregnant, she sent a representation of an ultrasound successful a elephantine radical substance and astatine first, I was confused due to the fact that she’s sent retired radical texts saying, 'It’s a boy!!!!' My archetypal presumption was that she was getting different canine due to the fact that I could not judge she was really pregnant. The babe successful the ultrasound looked similar a frog, truthful I replied, 'Congratulations connected your tiny frog child.'"

—emmerhoop

15. "My sister announced her gestation during our 30-people christmastide household dinner...with her babe daddy that she was dating for lone 2 months. The spot went dormant silent. I awkwardly congratulated them. My ma went to drawback a changeable of thing beardown capable to assistance her swallow the news. My relative and her fellow went extracurricular for a smoke. I wanted to eject myself from that concern ASAP."

—Youre_late_for_tea

16. "When my hubby and I recovered retired we were expecting, we couldn’t hold to archer family. My parents were distant for the weekend, truthful we wanted to get to my grandparents first. My grandma wasn’t home, but my Gramps was. We couldn’t wait. We fto him unfastened the container with a binky successful it that said, 'Please clasp connected to this for me, knowing my mom, she’ll hide it. See you successful 7 months.' My gramps opened it, looked astatine it, past astatine us, and said nothing. After waiting a bit, helium said, 'So is this expected to beryllium a bully thing?' The precise archetypal idiosyncratic we told, and helium said that. After that, our motto was, 'It couldn’t person gone worse than Gramps.'"

—estau329

17. "When my ma got large aft 18 years of trying, she called my dada to travel home. He did, and my ma told him the news. He looked astatine her arsenic though she was pranking him, and said 'Don't beryllium an idiot!' and walked out. My ma got pissed and called him a clump of times to travel back. Since they had tried for truthful long, it took him different coagulated fractional an hr to judge her."

—worthless_01

18. "When my ma was large with me, she broke the quality successful her workplace. One of her nasty coworkers, an aged woman conscionable earlier retirement, retorted with, 'Oh, you are going to miscarry it anyway, and if not, you cognize however galore young children get cancer?' My ma was excessively shocked to react, but their communal boss, a precise no-nonsense lady, was not. She really sped up her status process aft that."

—DefenestrationPraha

19. "Well, my father-in-law waited until each 30-some guests were gathered astir the highchair to sing Happy Birthday to my 1-year-old girl to denote that my sister-in-law was pregnant. It took everything successful maine to politely grin and hold for everyone to halt congratulating my brother-in-law and sister-in-law. My champion person conscionable looked astatine me, got up, and brought maine a solid of vino with the bottle. Here's the kicker: My parent had virtually gotten MARRIED the time earlier and waited until after the enactment to archer me. She said they didn't privation to instrumentality the attraction distant from their granddaughter. I DID springiness her and my step-dad hellhole for not adjacent giving america a hint that they mightiness get married. I emotion and miss my step-dad truthful much. He hated my in-laws from the time helium met them to the time helium died."

—EasilyLuredWithCandy

20. "And for our 2nd daughter, my hubby said, 'I knew it! Now halt showing maine this happening afloat of pee!'"

—ClaireMoon36281

21. "When my dada recovered retired my teenage sister was pregnant, helium pulled over, got retired of the car, and gave a $100 measure to an unhoused guy. It was immoderate benignant of accent reaction. Like, helium cracked and conscionable wanted to marque an interaction connected idiosyncratic to regain immoderate power implicit the world."

—RainWindowCoffee

22. "When I told my estranged begetter I was pregnant, I hadn’t talked to him successful a fewer years. He asked to instrumentality maine for lunch, we went to a Thai place, and astatine 4 weeks pregnant, I couldn’t support thing down. I had to excuse myself from the array to propulsion up, and erstwhile I came back, I refused immoderate much food. He consecutive up conscionable said, 'Are you large oregon something?' And assuming his reaction, I started to outcry and said yes, adjacent though it was a planned pregnancy, and I was very excited astir it. He went connected a immense rant successful this edifice astir however I’m a disappointment and a failure. He hadn’t met my fiancé, truthful helium didn’t cognize who the begetter was, and erstwhile helium did conscionable him, helium didn’t similar him for getting his girl pregnant. Well, present I person 2 kids, and he’s ne'er met the second, truthful I’ll instrumentality it arsenic a win."

—sharkweekiseveryweek

23. "Imagine my grandma with a very heavy German accent. With my first: 'Ach mensch, wherefore would you bash that? What astir your job?' With my second: 'What, again? How volition you work? No more, yes?' With my third: *angry, disappointed muttering successful German portion I’m connected the phone.* She loved them erstwhile they were here, but was truthful disappointed each clip I got pregnant, contempt each kid being planned and wanted."

—Sockfullofsheep

24. "I was the 1 who said the incorrect thing. My person told maine she was pregnant, and I responded with a batch of concern, saying thing like, 'Oh my god! What are you going to do?!' As successful asking if she was going to support it. She, successful a precise confused and somewhat aggravated voice, went 'What bash you mean by that?? I’m married!' I’m lone 24, unmarried, and not reasoning astir babies. But she got joined young, and she and her hubby had been trying for a while...whoops."

—zoomzoomresume

25. "My person told her household that she and her hubby were expecting. Her sister was jealous and told her to 'not number connected it, cause, ya know, thing could happen.' It was truly awkward. To marque matters worse, my person mislaid the gestation 1 period later. It was each truthful horrible."

—cool_mom17

26. "When I told my hubby I was large with our 2nd child, helium said, 'Shut the f*ck up!' and past didn't speech to maine for astir 2 hours. To beryllium fair, our archetypal 2 kids are lone 19 months apart. We were some terrified and rightfully so. We're inactive unneurotic aft 15 years, truthful I conjecture it turned retired OK."

—Latetogetup

27. "When my ma was large and told my dad, his effect was asking her if pizza was OK for dinner."

—genericwhiteguy123

28. "When I told my ma that my 2nd was besides a boy, she responded, 'Ugh, well, we wanted a girl.' I responded that 'we' conscionable wanted a steadfast baby!"

—wildlikewildflowers

29. "My ma called my grandma (her mom) from a payphone erstwhile she recovered retired she was large with me. My grandma hung up connected her."

—ellie2113

30. "My co-worker casually told maine she had conscionable recovered retired she was pregnant, and my knee-jerk absorption was, 'That sucks.' I instantly realized my mistake and said, 'I'm sorry! Congratulations! I hide that immoderate radical really privation kids.' I was hardly retired of precocious schoolhouse astatine the time, truthful I was inactive utilized to the thought of gestation being a bad, scary happening that meant you'd f*cked up."

—H0lyThr0wawayBatman

31. "We invited my now-husband's parents and younger sister retired for meal to denote our engagement and inquire his sister to beryllium a bridesmaid. We were thrilled to stock our quality with them. Well, my sister-in-law shows up to meal fractional an hr precocious (not antithetic for her) and fundamentally says, 'Sorry I'm late. I conscionable recovered retired that I'm pregnant!" I virtually said, 'Wow! Congratulations, Sis! Let's speech astir that present and bash my happening different time.' When she recovered retired aboriginal what the meal had been for, she felt truly atrocious astir stealing my thunder. I admit to being mildly annoyed astatine the time, but honestly, she's an astonishing mom, and my niece is the coolest kid ever."

—Netflix_and_backrubs

32. "My mother, erstwhile she heard she was going to beryllium a grandma for the archetypal time, said, 'I’m not acceptable to beryllium a grandma yet.' Mind you, she was successful her mid 50s. But she couldn’t fake the decency to springiness a congratulations."

—gozba

33. And finally: "When my sister told maine she was pregnant, my archetypal question was, 'It's your fiancé's...right?'"

—Memegod1207

Now it's your turn. What's the worst absorption you've ever witnessed to a gestation announcement? Whether you were the 1 who was pregnant, the 1 who made the awkward comment, oregon conscionable an guiltless bystander, I privation to perceive allll astir it. Drop your stories successful the comments — or, if you privation immoderate privacy, that's what the super-easy anonymous signifier is for. I can't hold to perceive your stories.

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