On Christmas Eve, a father puts a gold watch into one son’s stocking, and horse manure into the other son’s.

The following day, the first boy comes to his father and glumly says, “Dad, I ust don’t know what I’ll do with this watch. It’s so fragile. It could break.”

The other boy runs to him and says, “Daddy! Daddy! Santa left me a pony, if only I can just find it!”

[Via the excellent What Makes Us Happy?].