Overachieving Planter Gifts

'If all goes according to plan, this garden should reach crisis proportions by midsummer.'

Overjumpers

"Doing your homework may lead to a job that has homework."

'You wouldn't happen to be sitting on my entry to the straightest runner bean competition?'

Award Winning Gardener

'I told you hard work would pay off in the third grade, Cate...You've had three job offers.'

"Could you please downgrade this to a C? High expectations bring out the worst in my parents."

Garden seeds - giant varieties

'They're a very successful family.'

Workaholics Anonymous meeting: 'No one showed up. Everyone is working.'

"Stop applying! You've been accepted to three universities!"

'No ulcers shows me you haven't reached your full potential.'

'That's your report card and might I add you need to try a little harder.'

Farmer planting the next crop of PC's.

"Looks like a storm ahead, Captain." "I think you're being over dramatic."

Ladder of success"...Perhaps, you'd like our economy model."

'As much time and effort as he puts into this job, you'd think there was some money in it.'

Still a Disappointment to his Mother

"You promised to stop bringing your work home."

"I might let the window box lay fallow, this season."

Office Task Map

"This is your portfolio. Fill it."

A woodpecker fashions a statue of a woodpecker.

"Your internship is finally over. You're now required to work longer hours with no extra pay."

"Lord, who or what is strewing my path to success with obstacles!"

'Ten 'A's? Frankly son, I'm disappointed that you're not more of a disappointment to me.'

'Martin occasionally suffered nagging worries that he had been promoted beyond his abilities.'

"Virtual gardener."

'I'm really worried about all the hours you've been putting in...the papers are full of articles about the dangers of overwork, of how stress can kill you.'

"I've finished my New Year's resolutions, and now I'm going to get a running start on yours."

'Getting here on time every morning, and never have a day off sick, just isn't good enough Moulding! How are you ever going to get through all the stuff I keep piling on top of you if you don't work through your lunch-break as well?'

'The numbers on my report card aren't good, but I question the school's methodology.'