Independence Dreamer Gifts

"The time will come, son, when you will move out of the basement and into a basement apartment of your own."

What else is there to wish for?

"I wanted to plant my own food, but I couldn't find bacon seeds!"

"Yeah, you could say I've got mother issues....she told me I have to move out!"

Nails pinning down the hammer that usually strikes them.

"Follow that dream!" (man boarding taxi)

"My parents said that until I find a job and move out they will not recognize me as a sentient being."

"Your mother and I think it's time you got a place of your own. We'd like a little time alone before we die."

"See what you get for thinking outside the fishbowl!"

The Idea of America.

"Where am I going to college? I thought this was college."

Free ticket to heaven... details inside

"All I ask is a chance to ruin my life in my own way."

'I'm sorry Timmy, but if I keep going for help, you'll never learn to take care of yourself,'

DACA

Having installed a hydraulically operated wall in their 25-year-old's bedroom...

"Someday we will escape from this prison."

Whatever!

Ethanol and foreign oil.

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

"Have a career, and then if you want to try acting, you'll have my blessing."

"You have to let me make my own mistakes."

"Why be a princess...when I can be a queen?"

"It's lonely at the top...But it beats being depressed at the bottom."

'I'm 85 to 90 percent sure that I've got it!'

Inbox and Outbox

Rebel without a cause. Poet without a war.

"To heck with a husband... just help me find a dependable electrician."

'I want to go out of town so that I can become a fully independent person, but near enough so that I can bring my laundry home.'

"And since when does being twenty-five and married and living in Dallas excuse you from a family meeting?"

'When I grow up, I want to destroy Tokyo!'

"If you work hard enough, and find the right reality show, you can grow up to be anything you want."

The end of boardroom table establishes independence

Man with a Plan

'Better make the most of the garden before the summer finally ends.'