[ WP ] Humans have forgotten how to smile overnight

That was the headline. Some model photographer found out within a minute of the morning when he could n't move his mouth into a grin when he woke up next to one of his clients. John Alpock found out after his morning coffee when he checked his winning lottery numbers. Joe Peractwitz found out when his wife woke up next to him. They stared at each other normally with a smile but only a blank expression their faces wore. 
 
 The news got out quickly. In a way, it was nice. There was enough smiles not happening that the whole world knew before in the first hour of the morning. 
 
 You'd think in a world without smiles, things would inevitably go downhill. A world without smiles, you might have thought levels of happiness would fall and violence would rise. 
 
 However, because the world was so void of showing happiness through facial expressions and everyone knew it, everyone made the effort to make people happy. More favours were done, more generosity, peace treaties were signed and wars were a thing of the past. Perhaps the world knowing what a horrible thing we were deprived of, we all banded together to fight it. You'd never think it but missing out on smiles really changed the world for the better. 
 
 10 years had passed and the world was truly a better place. In the wake of good deeds, I decided to visit my father. He lived in town, to put it bluntly, in the middle of fucking knowhere. Decided to move away when I was little and we had never spoken since. We wrote, well, I wrote to him and I had a response every year or so. He was always grumpy, I do n't remember him being happy. He always kept to himself, never had a friend. But, people can change, and in this new light that brightened the Earth, I drove to see him. 
 
 We sat down in his local pub. It was a difficult, awkward talk at first, but a conversation soon flowed. I asked him what he thought of the whole lack of smiles in the world, how we now lived in a new age where happiness could n't be shown through facial expression. 
 
 He replied, `` What the fuck you talking about?''
