Yesterday morning I dreamed that I had moved a wine glass from the coffee table to the counter by the sink. The next day, Tom told me that he broke it (this would not have been the first time), and I was pissed. I wanted to know what he was doing when it broke and he said he’d washed it (this is how it always happens). I started to laugh, and Tom wanted to know what was so funny. I said, “It’s just ironic. The reason I moved the wine glass is so that it wouldn’t get knocked over and break.”
When I woke, I was very pleased with myself that I could use irony appropriately even in my dreams.
4 Comments
May 4, 2009 at 12:37 pm
And yet most people can’t seem to wrap their head around it when they’re awake. I applaud you.
May 4, 2009 at 4:15 pm
It’s like a black fly in your Chardonnay, right?
May 5, 2009 at 3:17 am
Good work, but I would’ve expected nothing less.
May 5, 2009 at 6:56 am
I’ve always found it ironic that song did not demonstrate examples of irony — unfortunate circumstances (rain on wedding day) but not irony.