Owwww, The Irony!

1) Traffic jams when you're already late
2) A 'no smoking' sign on your cigarette break

These are NOT ironic - even if the song IS called 'Ironic'. Silly cow. The only way those two examples would be a good use of irony would be if

1) You were a town roads planner and you were stuck in a traffic jam when you were already late going to a meeting where you were talking about what good improvements you'd made to cut traffic jams

2) If you worked in the smokiest bar/club in the world and then when you went for your cigarette break and there suddenly appeared a 'no smoking' sign

And I'm not even sure if number 2 would even be classed as irony!

Anyway, to my point. The perfect example of irony is this:

I work for a fairly large pharmaceuticals company and, all morning, have been nursing the mother of all headaches... Owwwww, the irony! Owwww, my head!

MaFt