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Define 'irony':

12 December 2007
i-ro-ny1 [ahy-ruh-nee, ahy-er-]
-noun, plural -nies.
  1. When the fire alarms start blaring at the Nebraska Safety Council, and absolutely no worker knows how to turn them off.
  2. When two fire trucks and one squad car arrive, and still no one knows how to turn off the noise.
  3. Having the "safety" of the 100 people compromised by standing outside in the 15° weather while they try to shut the alarms off.


So what was I doing at the Nebraska Safety Council last night? Well, let's just say that traffic officers on 24th aren't fond of you exceeding the posted speed limit ... even if they don't know the speed limit and they wrote down the wrong posted speed on my ticket!

Talking with a traffic supervisor, and later with my STOP class instructor, the prosecutor's office should have torn up my ticket on the spot for having incorrect information written down.

Well, let's just say that when I went in there, I must've talked to someone that was having a case of the Monday's. So a canceled class due to ice last Saturday, and a ticket I should have had dismissed, landed me outside in the cold last night wondering how "safe" the Nebraska Safety Council really is.

If anything, I found out that if I'm ever in a fire, I want to be in one on 120th and "L". I've never seen fire trucks arrive so fast in my life. It was under 2 minutes from the alarm sounding until they pulled up.