Nov 11
This image got me to thinking about ironic and embarrassing moments in my life. How often have you been the victim of irony? Would love to hear about some of your experiences. Like the day I quit drinking Coke only to have some redneck in a truck bed drive by and slam a full 44oz Chevron cup full of the stuff into the back of my unsuspecting head. Or that time in elementary school when my then 10 year old adopted Korean brother pooped in the urinal on only his forth day in the country. Well, that’s not really irony, but you get the drift.
Any stories you feel like sharing with the ExtraLife community?
Are we talking about the popular useage of Irony (an amusing coincidence) or the proper term (an outcome which is the opposite of what you’d expect)?
I recall seeing on the daily show a picture of the riots in paris. some guy got his car torched by the rioters. When the police came by to control the situation, They wrote him a parking ticket and stuck it on the burnt out car.
Crap, I’ve used up my laughing at work quota for the month. Gonna hafta add that picture to my collection.
At least you didn’t tell your brother that the urinal was a toilet. Hope it’s not a huge memory for him.
Well, I like to think it’s much better to be ironic, than moronic. However, I fear that sometimes the seem to be closely related.
If you’ve seen the toilets in Korea, you may understand. I’ll try to send a picture of one.
Not so much as ironic, but I had a moment. My brother got in a wreck in my car, 30MPH fender where my hood was bent out of shape and one headlight was gone. On the way taking him home, what song was on? The Wallflower’s “One Headlight”.
My brother wasn’t happy about the experience, but I just kept the humor to myself.
Don’t know if this qualifies as irony or not. My wife and I wanted to have 3 kids but she had to have a hysterectomy at age 32. :-/
Yeah, irony is the opposite of what you’d expect. You would think a writer would know that.
oops, forgot to add. Maybe Scott will start using the word “irregardless”
I once trapped my fingers in a car door, and upon driving home after the incident the first song on the radio was Simply red’s ‘I feel it in my fingers, i feel it in my toes…..’
And what garfunkle was trying to say is are we using Irony or dramatic irony. The above would be an example of the latter.
dont be a smartass online, you will only be out assed
Interestingly enough I too had an idiot in a truck drive by and slam a cup full of soda in my car window, as I was driving. I pulled over to clean it up and he thought I wanted to fight. (No irony or amusing coincidence, but I think the guy was high.)
You may want to get your Korean brother this T-shirt for Christmas:
http://www.splitreason.com/productdetail.php?id=396
(from explosm, a rather twisted daily comic)
I got hit in the front quarter panel (above the front wheel on the driver’s side) by a deer a few years ago. I took it to the insurance and they said that it would be a higher deductible because it was considered an ‘uninsured motorist’ by the insurance company. Not ironic, and I pushed the issue and they relented. I had an answer if they used act of God too. Deer have free will.
It was funny in a insurance companies experience a little too much groupthink kind of way.
I recently purchased a 65 mustang to restore. I took the car over to the insurance agent to get pictures taken for my policy and I had not yet driven 2 miles away from the insurance office when someone hit my car. This was especially funny because I had planned to stop by and pick up a part from my mechanic after I left the insurance agent. Luckily 45 year old sheet metal wins vs. 2 year old plastic
(to the folks being picky about usage of the term irony, this isn’t ironic but it fits the theme of the post)
This is kinda long but here gos.
When I was 17 I bought a motorcycle to ride to work, I had lost my drivers license for points so I bought a motorcycle for cheap insurance so I could get it back. A week after I bought it I was showing off for some girls and a cop tried to pull me over. Still without a license I tried to run. Went off a low bridge and into the water. Motorcycle got swamped and so did I but no one was hurt really. My leg was wrapped up in part of the bike and I couldn’t get it off me but my head was above water so I wasn’t going to drown. The cops see me and are like, “are you ok?” I was so they didn’t want to get wet pulling me out so they waited. Ambulance pulls up and those guys don’t want to get wet either, “it’s cold” they say and I’m like yeah no shit it’s cold get me out of this water! So we wait a little longer and here comes the big red fire truck, not a word do they say as they all jump off, run and grab the backboard from the ambulance guys and like 4 of them jump in and pull me out while the other 3 or 4 get my bike out. They load me up into the ambulance and one comes up and says “Hey man the bike looks alright and we went down stream and found your helmet”, amazed I say “Thanks”. Went to the hospital where they took all my cloths cause they where wet, checked me out and sent me on my way to jail with 2 hospital gowns on, one on backwards cause the back doesn’t really close. In jail for a few hours before my brother bailed me out. Went to court a few weeks later and the Judge makes me get my license back and dropps it all to a failure to produce ID. Dried the bike out and road it for years after, I was very lucky. Got a bill from Ambulance, the Hospital and the State but the guys that did the heavy lifting that night didn’t bill me a thing. Every year they do those boot drives where they hold the boot out as you stop at a light or a sign, I give those guys every bit of change I can dig out of my car.
Retro, firemen are the best people you’ll ever meet, and I’m glad to know several.
As for my own story, when on ELR, or was it Infendo, I don’t remember, Scott first told about how he dropped the stylus while playing DS on the toilet I was also on the pooper listening to the episode, with the MP3 player in my pocket, and playing DS (I think it was Meteos). For the rest of the time on the toilet I was holding the stylus so hard, my hand hurt when I was done.
Apologies in advance. IT’S LIKE RAY-HEE-AAAAAAIN ON YOUR WEDDINGGG DAYYY!!!
@Garfunkle – Thank you so much that you cleared that up for everyone; I’m overjoyed that you were the first post.
Please watch this:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg
We were driving on a long trip and my 3-year-old son woke up from a car seat nap crying and sweating. When we asked what was wrong all we could get out of him was that he had a nightmare about a spider.
We thought we’d stop to get a meal and calm everyone down so we went to McDonald’s and got him a Happy Meal.
We got back in the car to continue our trip only to find that the Happy Meal toy that week was Venom from Spider Man 3.
Ah pooping in the urinal….that’s status quo over here.
Bet you still have fun ribbing him with that one.
I missed a class on advanced website design because…
I was working on a website.
I gave a STD to a hooker once.
She didn’t appreciate the irony.
I’ve seen this pic a couple of times and the first thought that goes through my head is:
“Did some showoff squealing his tires get what was coming to him?”
I don’t know. Anybody know if that truck model is front- or rear-wheel drive?
@Eric – that is great!
My mom was once in a very bad car wreck when there was an ice storm in Georgia (we rarely get them so nobody down here learns to drive when it’s snowy.) The lady hit a bridge going way too fast, slammed on her brakes, and started spinning out of control because the bridge was iced over. My mom saw her, pulled into the e-lane, & watched as she kept spinning until she hit my mom’s car. The paramedics said that my mom probably saved her life because if she had hit the guard rail instead of my mom, she would have gone off the side of the bridge.
Anyway, the irony was that the driver was a nurse who was driving too fast because she was late for her shift at the hospital.
@c0dem0nkey I don’t believe anyone makes a front wheel drive truck. I know for a fact that ford doesn’t so there is no way the truck in the picture is a front wheel drive.
This is a minor issue I’ve had…
So everytime I have P.E at school I bring an extra t-shirt and shorts and everything else that goes along wtih it. Anyway! This happens to me about every lesson; I bring a shirt that’s always in the back of the closet – the reason being that the ones in the back aren’t fit for normal use – and it’s usually too small.
What happens is that I have to wear the t-shirt that I’ve been wearing all day, which is usually a bit sweaty – since I’m that kind of person (?). I don’t want everyone to see my AMAZING six-pack (not!). And let’s face it: Deodorant doesn’t cover up everything.
My initial intention of not smelling too horrible after the P.E lesson is over, is ruined, due to my lack of attentiveness when I’m looking through my closet in the morning, drowsy and running late.
Don’t know if that’s irony, but it’s definitely annoying. Don’t know if I’m going to do anything about it.
-joakim
No one makes a front wheel drive truck.
If I had to venture a guess at what happened….Either he had an amp hooked up incorrectly and it blew up the battery, or a fuel line broke and sprayed fuel all over and caught fire.
Its a 2000+ Ford Ranger
A friend of mine was writing an essay during an English class a few years ago under the heading ‘Mad and Glad’. The basic premise was half the essay was about things that we liked the other was the opposite. As you may have guessed this wasn’t a degree course.
Anyways half through writing the sentence “I also hate it when things don’t work” his pen ran out. I chuckled merrily.
@DBoy: That Ed Byrne clip is genius.
Actually, the old VW pickups were front-wheel drive. And yes, that’s probably why you don’t see many of them on the road anymore. It was a gutless wonder with little hauling capacity. They were like a VW Rabbit-sized El Camino (Car/Truck = Cuck?).
I have a real example this time. I was in WAWA yesterday around 6:30pm waiting for my sandwich to be made. The place was swamped with sandwich orders, and the guy behind the counter was working his butt off to keep people from becoming too irate. Suddenly, the in-store radio started playing “Celebration” by Kool & The Gang. I don’t think anyone else appreciated the situation though
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