Ironic events

[SVD]

We use one of those side by side utility vehicles on the ranch.

This morning, when Grandpa and I were using it to show some steers that we have to his nephew and the nephew's daughter, they ask us if we'd ever got it stuck in the fields. We told them no.

This evening at twilight, late to change the irrigation setting, Grandpa gets it stuck following me as I'm grabbing a marker off of the fence in a very swampy area near our irrigation pond.


Anyone else ever experience such irony?

 

[propita]

I was a kid riding my bike and a car came close really close. I said that I hope he got a flat tire. Literally within seconds, my bike got a flat tire. After that happened, I thought that maybe it was me who came too close to the car, and that the car had the right of way. 35 years and I still remember it.

 

[Captain Ice]

I was in college and walking to dinner with a friend after a snowstorm. He asked me how often I fell on the ice, and I told him that I really never fell on the ice. Thirty seconds later I was picking myself up off the ice.

 

[trekkiedane]

We use one of those side by side utility vehicles on the ranch.

This morning, when Grandpa and I were using it to show some steers that we have to his nephew and the nephew's daughter, they ask us if we'd ever got it stuck in the fields. We told them no.

This evening at twilight, late to change the irrigation setting, Grandpa gets it stuck following me as I'm grabbing a marker off of the fence in a very swampy area near our irrigation pond.

Knocking on wood three times would have saved you!

 

[SVD]

Knocking on wood three times would have saved you!

We didn't have any wood on or about us.

 

[trekkiedane]

Knocking on wood three times would have saved you!

We didn't have any wood on or about us.

In a pinch the skull of someone 'woody' would do!

 

[sojourner]

Irony is just Murphy's way of telling you to STFU.

 

[Amaris]

Irony is just Murphy's way of telling you to STFU.

This!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes...

 

[trekkiedane]

I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes...

And yet... other times it's just co-incidental

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Yeah, this isn't really ironic, just bad luck.

 

[SVD]

Yeah, this isn't really ironic, just bad luck.

Telling the story today, the person I told it to said "You jinxed it! "

 

[STR]

I overheard a man talk about how "we need to do something" about the federal budget deficeit. He then switched topics to his ongoing bankruptcy.

There was a LGBT rally at my campus to fight intolerance and stereotyping. One of the leaders of the group, a man, yelled out in almost cartoonishly effeminate way how "fabulous" the turnout was.

A couple years back, I was watching a program on the crash of TWA Flight 800. It was sponsored, in part, by Delta Air Lines.

I haven't gained a pound since high school, when I wore large-sized clothing. In the 7 years since (because clothing companies nudge up sizes each year to keep up with America's expanding girth) I've found that I'm now a medium. Except at Wal-Mart, where I'm a small.

I just went to a coffee shop on Friday. I bought a frozen hot chocolate.

I then went to a bookshop to pick up a mystery novel, the whole mystery section was missing.

"Misspelled" is one of the 10 most common misspelled words.

 

[Showdown]

The city closed down a street my family use. I followed my mom through a detour, and we got to our destination.

Going back home, she followed me, so I would not get lost. After we got home, she said she thought I made a wrong turn. She followed me anyway. It turned out I kept her from getting lost.

 

[Spot's Meow]

Once when my family was on a long road trip we were all very hungry and couldn't find any place to eat. Finally we come across an Arby's and we go in and make a huge order (I have a big family). After everyone has finished listing off what they want the woman behind the counter tells us, "we're out of roast beef."

This was back when they had a simpler menu, so the only item they really had available to order that didn't include roast beef was mozzarella sticks.

 

[sojourner]

^That's not irony. That's a fail moment for Arby's.