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Understood Isn’t it funny how irony can grab a hold of you and turn you upside-down Actually, irony doesn’t do that to you it does everything else to you and everyone else sees the irony A father owned a bungee-jumping company or operation whatever you want to call it And one day he had his family with him and they wanted him to jump Because, I mean, it’s a safe thing, you know And it was the anniversary of him and his wife and he said Okay I Can Do It And he got up there and he got strapped in and the kids turned the video camera on And yes, he was strapped to the rope and the rope wasn’t strapped to the crane The rope was strapped to nothing And his own children got to videotape their own father struggling for the end of the rope or the end of the ledge or safety or anything And this is a true story, I tell you And he had nothing like this happen before and this is the irony that everyone else saw Because it wasn’t irony that got a hold of him and turned him upside-down it was gravity and mistakes and everything that could go wrong which did It was something that got a hold of you something, I tell you and everyone else after the fact understood Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.