You’ve got to hand it to adults. They know how to make a living, pay taxes, and keep their house in order. They know how to cook, clean, and get to their appointments on time. They know how to be responsible and accountable, other than understanding the importance of savings accounts and paying off their debt.
Yeah, no. This would be true if we lived in a perfect world where everything worked as it should, but reality can be so much harder! Adulting means you’ve got to make all those hard choices now, and most of the time, you just want someone else to do them for you, like when you were a kid.
Sometimes the only way to get through growing up is to laugh at it with some adulting humor! So here we’ve collected a list of relatable adulting jokes about the daily challenges of young adults and the struggles of dealing with those responsibilities we’d rather ignore. Can you relate too?
#1
Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the street and then getting hit by an airplane.
#2
You know you’re an adult when the thing you get most excited about is extra sleep.
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#3
Maybe adults aren’t afraid of monsters under the bed anymore because we know that if we get eaten by one we won’t have to go to work the next day.
#4
Used to sneak out my house to go to parties, now I sneak out of parties to go to my house.
#5
Still don’t understand how people my age have children. I’m children.
#6
Being an adult is mostly being exhausted. Wishing you hadn’t made plans, and wondering how you hurt your back.
#7
How do people work 10 hour a day then come home and workout and cook? Adulting is an extreme sport.
#8
Being an adult is mostly going to bed when you don’t want to and waking up when you dont’ want to.
#9
You know you’re an adult when going to bed early with clean sheets is more appealing than going out on a Friday night.
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#10
If replacing a dirty dish sponge with a new one puts you in a good mood, you’re officially an adult.
#11
I used to think that adulthood was one crisis after another. I was wrong. As it turns out, adulthood is multiple crises, concurrently, all the time, forever.
#12
I wish I was still a kid so I could just take a long nap and everyone would be proud of me.
#13
How come everyone my age seems older than me?
#14
The retirement age needs to be lowered to 25. I’ve had enough.
#15
Being an adult is just finally getting why your mom was upset about stuff when you were a kid.
#16
I’m an adult, and I can eat whatever I want whenever I want, and I wish someone would take this power from me.
#17
Being an adult is having the “We have food at home” talk with yourself.
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#18
“I’m just gonna get gas in the morning.” Is one of the worst decisions you make as an adult.
#19
About 33 years ago two people had sex and now I have to work everyday.
#20
I don’t run for my problems. I sit on my couch, play on my phone and ignore them like all other adults.
#21
Birthday at 18: Takes 12 different shots from 12 different bars.
Adult’s birthday: Takes two different pain relievers because I literally hurt myself sleeping.
#22
Me as a kid: I can’t wait until I’m an adult and nobody can tell me what to do.
Me as an adult: Someone please tell me what to do.
#23
Adulthood is like losing your mom in the grocery store for the rest of your life.
#24
The horrifying moment when you’re looking for an adult but then you realize that you are an adult. So you look for and older adult, someone successfully adulting. An adultier adult.
#25
True mark of adulthood: instead of your parents scheduling your doctor’s appointments, you just avoid going to the doctor and hope u don’t die.
#26
The cool thing about being an adult is that you can go to bed at 9.30p.m and still feel completely exhausted the entire next day.
#27
Being an adult is like being a Quentin Tarantino movie: it starts out real cool, there’s lots of cursing, it’s very confusing, everyone dies.
#28
Adulting is soup and I am a fork.
#29
This is not what adulthood looked like in the brochure.
#30
Being an adult is basically a “choose your own adventure” book, but every choice sounds terrible.
#31
Remember when you were little and you fall on the trampoline and everyone would keep jumping so you couldn’t get back up? That’s being an adult.
#32
Adulthood is wanting to cry for 4 days straight but not having the time.
#33
Most adult friendships are just figuring out whose turn it is to cancel plans.
#34
While hanging your duvet cover, remember to use your energy sparingly. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. Make sure you stay hydrated. Don’t panic.
#35
You know you’re becoming an adult when you realize literally nobody feels like an adult.
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