Coping Mechanisms Gifts

How I learned to stop worrying and start hammering

'Reality. It's been my one terrible blind spot for years.'

'You know, it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.'

"I just don't have it in me today..." "Well, aren't you the lucky one."

'They're my presentation trousers.'

'Son, you can always do what I used to do, during times of financial stress - have an anxiety attack.'

'I'm having a mental break down because my car broke down.'

"Fidget spinners, bubble poppers... I'm old school. I just bite my nails."

"I whistle while I work. Beats screaming."

"Brian's fine. He`s got his own coping mechanism."

"Lenny?" "Darrell?"

'Why, I don't exactly know -- how long HAVE we been here, Bobo?'

A sturdy hand-hold against the vicissitudes of life: $1.00 per minute.

I have to get the Positive Thinker...

A bird that is also the helmet from a suit of armour (or is it a bird inside a helmet?). Notice the very small flying bird/helmet in the background.

Run, Mike, Run!

"Omg, bird and squirrel are here."

Luck is when good classroom management skills meets a day when distruptice students are absent.

When the going gets tough the tough gets going...and the rest hide in the washroom and cry.

Bring Your Child To Work Day While You Work From Home

'Got to give it to him - He knows how to leave gracefully.'

Mel puts on his best friend's thunder vest, crawls into a bathtub and tries to keep it together while democracy explodes all around him.

Somebody needs a hug.

"Has it occurred to you that you occasionally feign a lack of understanding?" "What the hell does that mean?"

Test Therapy

"Could be worse..." "Could be worse..." "Could be worse..." "Could be... oh, never mind."

"It's nice, but how do you adjust the sleep number?''

"The secret is to make climate change work for your."

"It's the perfect cure for the corona virus blues."

Soldier trying to catch bomb with a cushion

4 steps to tantrum.

"I have a recurring nightmare where the paradigm keeps shifting without me."

"You're saying that an only child having an imaginary friend is perfectly normal, doctor?"

"Going to the dining room is included in the ban on non-essential travel."

Solemn Seasons