Routine Enjoyer Gifts

'Sarah and her all-day muffin'

'Twenty years ago I began jogging five miles a day - could you tell me where I am?'

"You look great. One problem though: I'm the one who goes to work."

"It's kind of sweet when they're all settled in like this."

'Everything is automatic. The coffee turns on at 7:00...They go to work at 7:25 and we go up and get in their bed.'

Waking Up With Rooster.

'Where my balls go?'

"No matter the weather or what's on my plate, I'm here at five. That's discipline."

"I'd like to see you every Tuesday, forever."

'When the poor dear retired, he found that he missed his little cubicle.'

"You've become very predictable, Jack - home every night!"

'My husband does everything religiously except going to church.'

'And now for the (Yawn!) morning report....'

Clock in, Clock out.

"I love you, Ethan, bit I floss alone."

"As long as there's coffee, life will find a way."

Wall Street-Os...contains Marshmallow Shaped Bears & Bulls

For Greg, it was just another predictable day at Kraft,

"He misses his commute ."

"Oh, are you attacking from home today?"

'Our dog's been dead two years but he can't break the habit!'

"I don't want a New Year, I want a comfortable, familiar, used year."

Mountaineers milk.

"What's so funny? She had to go!!"

"Well, come to think of it, we are creatures of habit: Always migrating to the same place and stopping at the same spots on the way..."

Plain ol' me.

"I don't think coffee's gonna do it. You need batteries or something."

"Sundays we like to walk around being insufferable about our routine."

Are we a bunch of losers? Who are you talking about? Me, Randy, Sadie, even you Uncle Mort – all of us cafe regulars. We've been hanging out at this place for years. I've been working here two decades. Do we have nowhere else to go? More powerful even than inertia: Any momentum killed by an uncompromising nap regimen. Zzzz.

"You didn't have to do that, Simon. It tells you on the box if there's a free gift inside!"

"We're out of chrysanthemum." "I ordered chrysanthemum tea. This is not chrysanthemum tea. This is chamomile." "I've had a chrysanthemum tea every day for the last 80 years, and I'm still alive and well." "Are you trying to kill me?" "Are all old folks this superstitious?" "Superstition's always worked in the past."

To Do List: Wake Up/Smell the Coffee/Drink the Coffee/Now What?

"I think I've taken my morning routine too far."

"It doesn't get any more low-maintenance than this!"

"Sir, are you sure you don't want to try anything else besides the fish for once?"