Exaggerated Escapee Gifts

The Cartoon Islands

"Why don't we switch off the news and give Brexit up for Lent?"

"My husband is taking me on a cruise, so I’m looking for a book that will help me forget that I’m on a cruise with my husband."

Tired executive going into gym coming out gleaming

'Do you have to be so melodramatic?'

'On to the office again?' - 'No, my pro.'

Life is simpler in the sticks.

'Is your verdict unanimous?'

Elevator/Open Range

"I took the road less traveled. Now I have no bars."

"Keep in mind that it was put there by the sharks."

'What do you mean you lost the keys?'

"You and your lists! You're missing out on life."

Johnnie Ponderous - Part Three

"I've had to leave the city: the noise pollution was making it difficult for me to fly safely..."

"Ah, its great to get away from the rat race!"

Wilderness - City.

"Someday I'll buy a little place in the country and take my finger off the Zeitgeist."

"Yes, yes, but it’s only an hour from Manhattan."

"Your mind is not in your work...you're probably having one of your little tropical fantasies."

"Hi, J.B. Guess where I am."

"There goes our attorney, headed for Florida."

Hi, dear, I'm working from work today.

'Sorry Darling, I'll be late home: There's a strong head wind...'

"Dad, there's nothing good on TV. We're bored.

… and then I got laid off from my law job and I've been just … hanging out. It's been interesting. Being outside the type A machine, I realize just how dependent I was on the judgment of bosses, and, before them, teachers. Some days, I can go whole hours without feeling like I'm letting someone down. No kidding. More like half-hours. Minutes, really. I exaggerated. Do you still like me? Careful, something strange afoot.

If we were at work we'd be at lunch now.

'We'd like to get away from reality TV.'

'So you're leaving LA! Well, good riddance, ya pantiwaist!'

Man stranded in the desert comes across a hot tub.

An asylum seeker draws a door on a fence that keeps her in.

"I said it was INSPIRED by a true story."

'I'm sorry, he's not in - He's flown to Texas for the winter.'

As a teleworker Colin sometimes struggled against feelings of isolation.

"One day Merle decided he had enough of politics."