25 Baffling Ways People Reacted To Major Events In Your Life
There’s awkward, there’s unexpected, and then there are these weird reactions.
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Major life events affect your life in big ways, everyone expects that. What nobody is expecting are the weird ways people around us will react to those same events. It's particularly dramatic in the life of QuintonDarby, who suggested this contest.
For example ...
![Can I wake him? That was the first question a surprising number of people felt it was ok to ask when I told them my son was taking a nap. CRACKEDCON](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/3/4/671034.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDCO I proudly texted my best friend that I was on my first day of college and his reply was: Have you found a girlfriend yet?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/7/2/671072.jpg?v=2)
![I had to get a liver operation because of an infection.yet when I told people I had a liver disease the only thing they asked was: Wait, you're an alc](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/6/9/671069.jpg?v=2)
![GRACKEDO When my grandmother passed away I asked my work supervisor on Monday if I could have Saturday off to attend her funeral. Her response? Ugh,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/6/8/671068.jpg?v=2)
![After five long years, I've finally obtained my Masters degree. And what does my mother have to say about that? Yeah, says the guy who doesn't clean](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/6/4/671064.jpg?v=2)
![Cool scar! was the first thing a friend said to me after my spinal disc replacement surgery.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/6/6/671066.jpg?v=2)
![Which one is the girl? is a question we often get when we introduce ourselves as a couple. Obviously, neither of us is a girl. (Okay, we do get wh](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/6/5/671065.jpg?v=2)
![SUNBLOCK Are you okay? was the first thing my mother said after I finally shaved my head bald. The next day she brought me a generous supply Of suns](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/6/3/671063.jpg?v=2)
![BUT YOU'RE A mAn! Da': WAS MY FATHER'S FIRST REAGTION WHeN SAID TO HIm THAT I'VE BECOME A VEGETARIAN. GRAUN](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/6/1/671061.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED.COM My boyfriend in high school died in a motocross accident. The most common response I get when people find out is, Well, it's not like you](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/6/0/671060.jpg?v=2)
![My country is going through some really tough times right now, famines and plagues included. Yet when I tell people on the internet about it, the most](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/5/9/671059.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED It's amazing to me how many people think Can't you get a new one? is an acceptable response to the announcement that my pet died.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/5/7/671057.jpg?v=2)
![BA CRACKEDCO COM All right! Root canal! What kind of drugs did they give yOu? Valium and nitrous. It was rad. But I don't know why you're excited, use](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/5/6/671056.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDcO C-Section?! How could you let them do that? If you had waited just a little longer you could have had your baby naturally. survived. My ba](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/5/3/671053.jpg?v=2)
![When I came out as bisexual a lot of people asked Are you sure? AINTnous BI BIR BI Worse yet, a handful of people told me No you're not! (pick a s](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/5/1/671051.jpg?v=2)
![I just recently got my dentures, and my roommate drove me to go pick them up. When she saw me with them in, her first response was So, they've got to](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/4/8/671048.jpg?v=2)
![After every certification and degree, was told it was a waste of time. Then, 0 was told 0 got lucky after each promotion. CRACKEDOON](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/4/5/671045.jpg?v=2)
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![YoU're getling research work published? Can you shout me out in I1? CRACKEDCON](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/4/4/671044.jpg?v=2)
![My daughter was born at 28 weeks and weighed only 3 lbs. Be glad she's in the NICU. When you get home you won't be able to sleep through the night.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/6/2/671062.jpg?v=2)
![So guess you'll have to have your cats put to sleep, then, won't you?? was my coworker's first reaction when I said that I was going to be moving out](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/3/5/671035.jpg?v=2)
![Upon learning that I was pregnant with my first son, a relative insisted on buying him a blue bathtub, so that he wouldn't be subjected to the pink on](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/9/5/671195.jpg?v=2)
![After posting our honeymoon pics on Facebook, a high school classmate of mine I hardly knew clicked like on all 50+ photos. He then proceeded to mes](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/5/2/671052.jpg?v=2)
![Thanks to a healthy diet and an effective workout plan, I finally managed to lose weight. 7 One day, my girlfriend tearfully asked if me I was cheatin](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/3/8/671038.jpg?v=2)
![When my husband told my mother-in-law that we were getting married and he was moving out, she answered: OLD SON Ok, but I get to keep your dog. NEW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/7/4/671074.jpg?v=2)