Easy-going Escapist Gifts

"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and he can avoid work his whole life."

"Fishing and doing nothing are not incompatible."

"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."

Woman dreaming about being on vacation.

'I love our hideaway. I only wish we could find it.'

Ice fisher.

"And then, when I feel like a rum punch and breaded shrimp, I can just swim to Tony’s Trattoria."

A tourist watches a television on the back of a donkey

Crowded Ice Fishing

He can lean back in contentment on cowslip banks and let everything wash over him.

Fish swimming by fishermen's feet - 'This looks like a safe place.'

Cake Escape

"We should have done more to bring all the things we were trying to get away from."

"Yes dear, I know lots of people have a second honeymoon. But we only got back from our first one last week."

"To think—this meeting, which turned into the perfect day, filled with spontaneous adventures that will become priceless memories, could have been an e-mail."

Man fishing while aliens invade.

"So why do I feel like we're being watched?"

'The marvelous thing about a Singles cruise is, if you don't find an interesting man, you can drown your sorrows with interesting food.'

'You said you were going to put gas in the RV, and then come right back. You've been gone for a year. Care to explain?'

Blowing up the camping mattress.

As you like it - One way of catching fish

Occational lovers - "Let's see...work,work,work,time to recuperate.." "How about Friday."

'Now don't forget, polar bears can be sneaky buggers.'

"The jury's still out on whether you should whisk me away to Paris."

'It's times like this I miss the business channel.'

'Remember Machu Picchu, darling? We sat watching that fabulous sunset and suddenly you turned to me and asked me for a pre-nuptial agreement?'

The Wet Fly Man is a more active creature.

'Henceforth, nurse Blum will be the nurse to take your blood pressure.'

"It's a trashy, unrealistic romance novel about a beautiful maiden and an equally handsome prince who fall instantly and passionately in love...naturally it's a New York Times Bestseller!"

'Come back and get me about noon.'

"This is highly confidential, so, yes, we built a little fort."

A woman reads a romance novel.

"He went that-a-way." (snail escapes).

'This is kind of a bad time - could we have an affair AFTER tax day'

'There she is, dreaming about Zorro again.'