Which are you?

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 & gloom pessimist.

Just to see what would happen,
on the twins' birthday 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.

To which his optimist twin
replied,

"There's got to be a pony in here
somewhere!"



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