This year went by fast, didn’t it? Well, for some of us it was a long year for different reasons. Oh, the failing.
One of the best parts of starting a new year is you get a fresh start. No one is more ready for a fresh start than the folks in the popular subreddit “Well, That Sucks.”
Here’s to a new year with fewer unfortunate events that make you say, “Well, that sucks.”
And here’s the best funny fails 2022 had to offer us.
1. “My 5 year old, independently read 50 books. Took all year. i present to you the “50 book reward” from his primary school…”
2. “Went to Costco to grab a rotisserie chicken for the weekend, but this lady beat everyone to it”
3. “When it’s your stop and the doors open to this”
4. “Japan’s ‘Killing Stone’ breaks in half after 1,000 years. Legend has it that the demonic spirit trapped inside is now free to wreak havoc on the land.”
5. “After a grueling day at work without food where I had to wait 4 hours for a sample to arrive which got canceled, I come home at 7pm to find all my shit in garbage bags cause the cleaners my landlord sent cleared the wrong apartment.”
6. “Got laid off today with zero notice, found all my stuff already in a box when I got to work”
7. “Moving across the country in a few weeks, invited my friends to a farewell bbq. All canceled or just didn’t show”
8. “The only path back to my room blocked by cute but incredibly angry sea lions.”
9. “Sold my iPad in public space at night in Minnesotan -10F temperature, turned out it’s fake.”
10. “Bought a PS5 for my son’s birthday. Someone at UPS swapped it out with a rock”
11. “Had an air purifier running for over a year with the filter covered in plastic the whole time”
12. “Just bought a minivan from a friend a few weeks ago, kept getting spiderwebs in the car and decided to bug bomb it. Found these”
13. “This is my view from the bathroom floor, looking at the hole in the ceiling I just fell through.”
14. “Drove my 17 year old son to visit my childhood home”
15. “What it looks like to win a standard weekend day”
16. “My boyfriend told me this was just the top of his canoe when he was on his trip this weekend”
17. “Landscapers trimmed my plastic plant.”
18. “Honey, have you seen my other AirPod?”
19. “My mom held a graduation party today and no one came.”
20. “I was cruising about 50mph, then the plastic snapped”
21. “Central Michigan University sent out stickers ‘for your keyboard'”
22. “Forgot I was heating oil for French fries.”
23. “This is how I caught my ex wife cheating”
24. “My essay got a 0 because the person thought I copied from the internet. Turns out it was MY OWN POST which I posted some hours later.”
25. “Bought one of those ear cleaners with a camera and just pulled out a contact lens. I have no idea how long it was in there.”
26. “My car this morning..”
27. “I accidentally ripped out my eyelashes an hour before I got married”
28. “Guy dropped a $40,000 pallet of glass on his first day.”
29. “My wife said she had something crazy to show me after we ate lunch.”
30. “Bought Fried Chicken at airport then as I was boarding, the bag ripped from bottom side and the box landed upright at first but ripped in the same manner when I picked it up”
When he's not doomscrolling Twitter or writing for Pleated-Jeans, Nate Armbruster writes jokes—and then tells them on stage as a stand-up comedian, where he can watch audiences (hopefully) laugh in real-time.