Sorta NSFW joke 🙄
An optimist by every account, Joe was sitting in the bar when his friends come to him and say, "Joe, how can you call yourself an optimist when bad things are always happening ?" To which Joe replied, "there's always a good side to every situation, you just have to know it."
So, they tell Joe, "Farmer Bill's crops were all just washed away by the heavy rain and it's too late in the season to replant, how could that be good." Joe then says, "This was Bill's first year at harvest attempt, and he hated it. The only reason he tried it in the first place is because his Pa wanted him to continue the family farm, but now Bill can do whatever he wants."
Then one tells him, "Joe, Two of Farmer Chuck's sheep were killed by a wolf before Chuck's dog managed to kill the wolf, but died in the process, what could be so good about that?" Joe replies, "Well, Chuck had a lot of extra sheep this year, so he should be good with his sellings and thankful the wolf only got two, and his dog was just diagnosed with a fatal illness that would slowly drain his strength, it's probably best he went down right now defending his masters land before having to be put away."
Astonished that they never thought like that, the men leave the bar determined to find a situation that Joe couldn't have an optimistic answer to.
The next day the friends think they've heard a story that event Joe can't answer. They go to the bar and say, "Joe, last night Farmer Jim came home to find his wife in bed with another man. He pulled out his gun and tried to shoot the stranger but missed and shot his wife before watching the man escape through the window. Then, after clutching his dead wife, he took the gun and killed himself." They then looked at Joe thinking that they finally shut him up, before he said, "Thank God Jim has bad aim"
So, they tell Joe, "Farmer Bill's crops were all just washed away by the heavy rain and it's too late in the season to replant, how could that be good." Joe then says, "This was Bill's first year at harvest attempt, and he hated it. The only reason he tried it in the first place is because his Pa wanted him to continue the family farm, but now Bill can do whatever he wants."
Then one tells him, "Joe, Two of Farmer Chuck's sheep were killed by a wolf before Chuck's dog managed to kill the wolf, but died in the process, what could be so good about that?" Joe replies, "Well, Chuck had a lot of extra sheep this year, so he should be good with his sellings and thankful the wolf only got two, and his dog was just diagnosed with a fatal illness that would slowly drain his strength, it's probably best he went down right now defending his masters land before having to be put away."
Astonished that they never thought like that, the men leave the bar determined to find a situation that Joe couldn't have an optimistic answer to.
The next day the friends think they've heard a story that event Joe can't answer. They go to the bar and say, "Joe, last night Farmer Jim came home to find his wife in bed with another man. He pulled out his gun and tried to shoot the stranger but missed and shot his wife before watching the man escape through the window. Then, after clutching his dead wife, he took the gun and killed himself." They then looked at Joe thinking that they finally shut him up, before he said, "Thank God Jim has bad aim"
