Broke But Hopeful Mugs

'Financial suicide hotline. How may I help you?'

'Are you sure that's the right map?'

"Follow that dream!" (man boarding taxi)

"Sorry, but there aren't enough life jackets to go around."

"How am I supposed to unleash my full potential when I'm always on one?"

"One day she'll be a wonderful architect."

Inbox and Outbox

“I’m not out of shape — I’m just not used to running so much.”

Cup half full

'I've pinpointed our problem. There's too much month left at the end of my salary!'

A marooned man builds a swing set from his lone palm tree.

'Don't give up hope, Steve -- they may decided to relocate a football franchise here!'

'I'm sorry, but I don't know where 'this is'. I, too, am a stranger here.'

Employment Office.

Joe was so poor, his dog was a tumbleweed.

Graduation Day 2020

Japanese disaster

"We will rebuild!"

'She's waiting for her ship to come in, and I'm waiting for the cows to come home!'

Vending machines at work: Snacks, Coffee, Glimmer of Hope

"Keep your eyes open, something will come along"

'I know it's a long shot but wouldn't it be worth hanging on until after the wednesday lottery draw?'

Man using lotto ticket as motivation.

"I think next year things will really be different."

"I can help you with stock downturns. I'm the blueprint of irrational exuberance."

"Star light star bright please let me wake up tomorrow and be a cat so I can sleep more and won't get my heart broken so much."

The end is not nigh!

"Me? I'm really scared and sad these days..."

Hospital Checkout: Have a Guardedly Optimistic Day.

Snorting lines of the road on the way to rehab.

'Do you believe in a parallel universe?' 'I'm COUNTING on a parallel universe.'

"I'd like 13,983,816 lottery tickets please..."

"Well, at least things can't get any worse..."

A rare Sadie Cohen rhyme. Each fall, hope springs eternal: All children will be fed. No nukes will ever fall, lies no longer said. No illness, hunger, tragedy, and the mother wish of all … Please, please let this be the year the Giants win it all.

"For what it's worth, I don't have sore feet anymore."