Irony

The song includes some great examples:
• a traffic jam when you're already late
• a no smoking sign on your cigarette break
• 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife
• meeting the man of your dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife

My case of irony begins with my most recent profession. I work in the paint department.

We had scheduled our engagement pictures for a Friday afternoon on our weekend off.

I had forewarned my boss that I would be wearing gloves for the week prior to my pictures so that I would not have paint - or worse yet - stain all over my hands.

Typically, it isn't a big deal for me. However, in our particular instance of engagement pictures, I had requested that they take a photo of our hands.

Our plan is to have a hands portrait framed at our ceremony for everyone to sign the matte in lieu of a guestbook. Hence, the hands picture.

So, all week long, I had been using extra caution so I would not mess up my hands.

Irony comes into play when all I thought about for a week was my hands – and I wake up on the day of the engagement pictures with a cold sore on my lip!

I had apparently not taken the proper precautions to care about my lips. I had over-worked my tired body and drank nearly no water or fluids. My dry, chapped lips took revenge.

I was assured that if I smiled, you couldn't really see it. So, my goal was just to keep smiling.

I think this is why they say "Make lemonade when life hands you lemons."





(And with that as my closing, I think I'll go drink some fluids.)