# It's Like  Rain on Your Wedding Day

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-like-rain-on-your-wedding-day/829741>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 17, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-like-rain-on-your-wedding-day/829741 "2019-02-17T23:29:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-like-rain-on-your-wedding-day/829741/1 "2019-02-17T23:29:42Z")

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Here’s the story: [Fire heavily damages warehouse where items damaged in fires were kept](https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/fire-heavily-damages-warehouse-where-items-damaged-in-fires-were-kept/63-3afda13a-d7bd-4b65-87c2-510cd36fffd7).

It’s one of those companies that does “disaster restoration” after fires, floods, etc. How do you figure an insurance claim for something that was already damaged?

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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-like-rain-on-your-wedding-day/829741/2 "2019-02-17T23:52:36Z")

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This _is_ a fabulous example of irony.

And not, therefore, anything like “rain on your wedding day”, which is famously (along with many other items in Alanis’s song) _not_ an example of irony. But perhaps you were being ironic in citing that as the archetype of irony?