Ironic

This Alanis song contains the line 'it's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife'.

You feel as if you're in the wrong film, when, for once, you prepare this really wonderful salad for your lunch (instead of buying a sandwich) - pasta, dried tomatoes, spinach, olive oil and garlic, lovely! - and then you open your lunchbox and realise...

... you've left the fork at home.