Social DynamicsBafflegab
Adulting
uh-DUL-tingnoun
What it means
The performance of ordinary tasks with the theatrical exhaustion of someone who was never informed they would be required.
What it actually means
I booked a dentist appointment.
How it is used in a sentence
"I did laundry and paid a bill. Adulting is hard."
Filed under
Social Dynamics — The unwritten rules we invented online and now enforce in public without irony.
Bafflegab — The phrase means nothing. We are ridiculing it.
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