"wry amusement". Look up "wry" and then get back to us on tryin to paint that portrait you are once again failing to create.
How many strikes is this that you've made trying to show you are smart, and then failing?
I've lost count.
Examples of situational irony. Notice that many of them are not "ha ha" amusing:
everyday examples of situational irony include:
- A fire station burns down.
This is unexpected because one would assume the fire chief would keep his own building safe.
- A marriage counselor files for divorce.
This is ironic because the expectation is that a professional who coaches couples through rough patches would herself have a strong marriage.
- The police station gets robbed.
Again, the expectation is that professional crime fighters would be able to help themselves; in this case, by securing their own station.
- A post on Facebook complains about how useless Facebook is.
This is ironic because one would expect someone who dislikes Facebook to stay away from it instead of using it to make their point.
- A traffic cop gets his license suspended because of unpaid parking tickets.
Because the traffic cop is usually the one issuing tickets, most people would assume he always followed the rules.
- A pilot has a fear of heights.
This situation is ironic because airplane pilots spend most of their time at work high in the air.
- A member of PETA wears leather shoes.
Because PETA members work to protect animal rights, one would assume they would avoid products made from animal skins.
- An English teacher has poor grammar.
You'd expect an English teacher to be an expert in grammar. It would be quite ironic if they couldn't actually use proper grammar.
- A man who needs medical assistance is run over by the ambulance sent to help him.
In this case, the man got the exact opposite of what he needed from the medical help on the scene.
- An anti-technology group sets up a website to recruit new club members.
People who dislike technology aren't likely to be looking for clubs on the internet, so using technology to recruit is unexpected.
- A student passes a class with a well-written essay about how bad the class is.
The class couldn't have been that bad if the student can write so well. Plus, it's pretty ironic if complaining about the class is what gets them to pass in the end.
- A child runs away from someone throwing a water balloon at him and falls into the pool.
This is ironic because the child ends up wetter than he would have been, thwarting his expectations of what would happen when he ran away from the water balloon.
- The cobbler's children have no shoes.
A cobbler is a professional shoemaker, so the expectation is that her own children would have many shoes, not zero.
