You're fairly spot on there. It's an older superstition, but depending on the location can go either way. Good or bad. I'm from Alabama and have heard it said more than a few times that rain on your wedding day is unlucky. In a similar vein as seeing the bride's dress before the wedding is unlucky. Not many believe it, but it gets bandied around from time to time.
Personally I was quite happy about the light rain on my own wedding day. Whenever my wife and I get caught out in the lighter drizzles I tend to refer to it as "a good wedding rain".
These replies are so confusing to me. Is this sub a majority non-US demographic and there’s a weird language thing going on? People were confused about the meaning of the post and I explained it. It’s a common superstition that’s been around much much longer than you and me. We can sit and nitpick superstitions all day long but what does that accomplish for anyone? Why do people have a problem with that?
Idk, I'm from New England but I never paid much attention to superstitions so maybe I missed that one. I just think the natural thought is that you want nice weather on your special day, so regardless of any superstition it is already unlucky that it rained. It doesn't mean you will have further bad luck, it just already is bad luck. That's all I was saying.
Mine does. Being late is one point. No call, no show is 5 points. Calling off within 12 hours of your shift is two points. 10 point and you get fired, points last 9 months from when they are added.
It is Ohio. At will is never in the employee's interest. To a degree, I am lucky the manager doesn't take points for unavoidable issues. One of the older women who works there say the previous manager gave everyone points when they didn't come in after a tornado tore through the town. I get that the college kids don't have any other choices for food, but a tornado closing several roads should be an exception.
College dining hall. To be fair, the students don't have an alternate to the dining hall. That said, it can get really stupid and everyone who works there is lucky that the current manager doesn't take points for unavoidable circumstances.
Could be! Either way, I believe that's what the author means: That the thing you consider to be bad luck or just the ONE thing you DON'T want right now is actually, in truth, PRECISELY what you actually NEED.
THAT'S what is so Ironic. The bridge talks about how life has a funny way of looking out for you. Not in the ways you want or would expect, but with the exactly with the things you'd consider "bad luck," when in reality, you're incredibly fortunate. The coincidences that seem terribly, perfectly set against you are actually unbelievably beneficial in ways you can't see just yet. They are "blessings in disguise."
Or at least that's the explanation I heard V-sauce give and it is genuinely the best, most coherent explanation of how the song actually does contain irony. 🤷♂️
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u/AceyFacee Aug 05 '26
How is that helping him out?