A family had twin boys whose only resemblance to each
other was their looks. If one felt it was too hot, the
other thought it was too cold. If one said the TV was
too loud, the other claimed the volume needed to be
turned up. Opposite in every way, one was an eternal
optimist, the other a doom and gloom pessimist.
Just to see what would happen, on Christmas,
their father loaded the pessimist's room with every
imaginable toy and game. The optimist's room he
loaded with horse manure.
That night the father passed by the pessimist's room
and found him sitting amid his new gifts crying
bitterly.
"Why are you crying?" the father asked.
"Because my friends will be jealous, I'll have to read
all these instructions before I can do anything with
this stuff, I'll constantly need batteries, and my
toys will eventually get broken" answered the
pessimist twin.
Passing the optimist twin's room, the father found
him dancing for joy in the pile of manure. "What are
you so happy about?" he asked.