Optimist Joe 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 harve…