So the other day a UPS driver in New Hampshire was on his way to the Cheshire Medical Center in Keene to deliver some much-needed parts for a piece of medical equipment when he got into a crash. He suffered a head injury and was taken by ambulance to the very same hospital he was headed to, but they weren't able to do any of the tests they needed because the brain scan machine was broken—and the parts needed to fix it were sitting in his wrecked truck on the highway. If only there were some word to describe situations like these…
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Brian Behrend @ Dec 21st 2004 12:57PM
Shitty?
Huw @ Dec 21st 2004 1:02PM
Ironic?
Brian Jones @ Dec 21st 2004 1:06PM
I guess brown couldn't deliver. Should have used FedEx.
Brian.
Camron Johnson @ Dec 21st 2004 1:07PM
shittles
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AJ @ Dec 21st 2004 1:22PM
Friggin' unbeleievable? (ooops, too many words).
AJ
Casey @ Dec 21st 2004 1:35PM
Ironic just doesn't seem to cut it.
Norm @ Dec 21st 2004 1:45PM
That's KEENE, not keane.
"What can brown do for you?"
The Truth @ Dec 21st 2004 1:47PM
how bout Scrumptrulescent?
fdisk @ Dec 21st 2004 1:50PM
clusterfuck
Liam @ Dec 21st 2004 1:53PM
Fucked
TheZodiac @ Dec 21st 2004 2:10PM
PORKED.
David @ Dec 21st 2004 2:21PM
lamentably misfortunate
Jerry Curl @ Dec 21st 2004 2:23PM
One word... FedEx.
Anonymous Coward @ Dec 21st 2004 2:24PM
I believe the word would be recursive.
The man was stuck in the hospital because the scan machine was broken.
The scan machine was broken because the necessary parts were missing.
The necessary parts were missing because the man supposed deliver the parts couldn't be there.
The man couldn't be there because the man was stuck in the hospital.
The man was stuck in the hospital because...
Nay @ Dec 21st 2004 2:26PM
Oh the IRONING is strong with this one
barney @ Dec 21st 2004 2:32PM
catch-22
Rod Scher @ Dec 21st 2004 2:32PM
There's already a perfectly fine word for this. It's "irony."
Big Dog @ Dec 21st 2004 2:41PM
Owned.
Brian @ Dec 21st 2004 2:42PM
If I may quote from Alanis ...
"It's like meeting the man of your dreams, then meeting his beautiful wife."
Don't you think?
jb @ Dec 21st 2004 2:45PM
murphy's law?