Miss Sunshine

I once had an office job sitting next to Miss Sunshine day in and day out. She and her 7th Day Adventist Jesus were always so positive and jolly about everything, it was hard not to smack her. One day with syrupy sweet intonation she asked why I was so cynical and wasn't I an unhappy person. I said, "Only a sociopath could be happy about the truth of things, but I'm just a realistic observer not hiding behind cheerful nonsense; there's no correlation to happy or unhappy. Look at you for instance. You are smiling and upbeat all the time. And I don't believe I've ever met an unhappier person." She was stunned, momentarily silent, mouth hanging open. Then she burst into terrible wracking sobs of anguish.