Excerpt from “Eternal optimist” Ad

How to survive six hours trapped in a lift with an eternal optimist.

Hell could be like this: Given the choice of demons inserting red hot pokers into one’s more squidgy bits for eternity, or an afternoon in close proximity with a die-hard optimist, and most people will opt for the kindness of demons.

Everyone knows that life isn’t fair. And since ‘life’ encompasses just about everything that happens on the planet, it doesn’t leave much room for optimism does it?

Unless you include a whole lot of really contented rocks.

But no. The eternal optimist will tell you that even at the Heart of Darkness there glows a light so bright that God can’t pay the electricity bill; that all people are basically good; and that, yes, there are crabs that can walk in a straight line, and sweet-talk a policeman when they’re pulled-over for drunk-driving.