isn't it ironic? actually, no

When Alanis Morissette came out with the song Ironic it always seemed to me that the real irony was how almost nothing she mentioned in the song was actually ironic, so much as it was bad luck. I mean, under more specific circumstances, some of the situations could have been ironic. But the only one I really thought was an example of irony was when the guy waited his whole life to fly and when he finally did, he crashed. This makes me think of one of my favorite real life examples of irony. A couple of years ago, we had a big party for my father's 50th birthday. (I flew home from school for the weekend so I could go. What a hectic weekend that was.) One of the gifts my father got was a nice pair of jumper cables. They were really long (so they could reach to the battery of the car from a car pulled up behind it). My brother Jonathan was laughing at the gift. He couldn't believe someone would give those cables as a gift. He made a comment to my father about it, which my father dismissed. After the party my brother went to start his car, but his battery was dead. And wouldn't you know it, he was parked in a particular way where the only way he could get a jump was if someone had a long pair of cables. Thinking about that still makes me laugh. Now that's irony. Rain on your wedding day...not so much.