With irony meaning the contrast between what is expected and what actually happens, this contrast first

involves the character 'Silky Bob,' who tells the patrolman who walks his beat that he is just waiting in the doorway of a darkened hardware store for his old friend with whom he is going to have a promised reunion of twenty years. For, ironically, he is, in fact, speaking to his old friend, who does not reveal his identity because he now is a policeman while his old friend is a wanted man. It is also situationally ironic that in talking to the officer, 'Silky Bob' lights a cigar, an act which provides enough light for the patrolman to see his "little white scar near his right eyebrow" and recognize him as a man wanted in Chicago. For, he meant only to arrive at his twenty-year appointment to meet his friend, but, ironically, discovers that time has changed this friend from "a good man into a bad man."

Situational Irony Situational Irony takes place when the end result of a situation is the exact opposite of what was expected. This is also known as the irony of fate or cosmic irony. The turn of events that follow an expected result are the opposite. Like buying a woolen scarf for your boss on Christmas only to find that he's allergic to wool. This form of irony was used brilliantly by O. Henry. In After Twenty Years, two friends who had made a pact with the other to meet after twenty years, find that one of them is a robber and the other a cop. So in spite of being friends, the cop has to arrest the robber that night, there is situational irony.