Now THIS Is Ironic

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about the upcoming Cokeville miracle movie and I started it with a paragraph about how Alanis Morissette has ruined the definition of irony for a generation of people.  Well, last night as we walked out of the church building after the missionary farewell fireside, I came face to face with a sign that hovers closer to the realm of irony than coincidence.    I didn’t want to lump this in with yesterday’s post because it would have taken away from the spirit of what I was writing, but it’s too good to not mention.

We were some of the last members to leave the chapel yesterday because of the three missionaries we ended up talking to and because we saw Elder Keller, who is now an AP.  When we saw him as we were headed toward the foyer, we had to stop and talk to him as well.  As we exited the building, a red, neon sign across the street to the northwest of the church building caught my eye.  I looked ... and looked again.  What I saw was this:

The irony of the sign made me laugh and point it out to my family.  On one lot stands a church building housing adherents who practice not drinking coffee and keeping our language clean and across the street is this coffee shop named Bad Ass Coffee!  The ultimate in irony would be for members of the wards who meet in this building to immediately patronize this coffee shop after hearing sermons preached against such conduct, but the situational irony was enough for me. J