Trouble Escapist Mugs

"Please understand I can offer you only the fleeting illusion of happiness."

Woman dreaming about being on vacation.

"Mum! - T.S. Eliot - 'Humankind cannot bear much reality'."

"Water balloons... water balloons..."

Last Chance For Reality

As you like it - One way of catching fish

The sun luring people to the sea

'You're so sophisticated and witty...and muscular...do you work out? Why, yes, I'd love to come back to your place.'

But doc, my tenuous grasp of reality is what gets me through the day!

Zoo Employees

Man opens front door to find he's up in clouds.

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

"I want to climb up mountains without a rope, jump down waterfalls and run through a swamp barefooted to film crocodiles. That's why I need travel insurance - I'm a scaredy-cat."

'If you keep running away, son, you'll never make it through your formative years.'

'Joyce, you've gotta see this! This 3-D large screen HD TV is amazing!'

"I'm determined to beat the traffic, I just need to work out how they fly."

"With this invention...I can finally go to a time where everyday nuisances have been completely eradicated!"

Message in a bottle.

"Hon, I feel like riding out into big-sky country."

"Mr. Cogdill said he won't be in today because it's 'National I Hate My Job Day'."

'A lovely area, but not enough waiters!'

"We outsourced our joyless TV dinners to a delightful couple from next door."

"Yo've got to be more specific, Ed. Wake you when what's over?"

The Hold Dance

"You have to ask yourself, is it even worth finding the cheese anymore!"

"It's like I'm in space with a headache."

Virtual Reality Check

Don Quixote

"I have no problem with reality. It's just the occasional intrusion of gritty realism that I hate."

Sometimes you wanna go where nobody knows your name

A people-meter family out enjoying the calm night breezes while claiming to be inside enjoying a rerun of 'Falcon Crest.'"

'Faster, our past is catching up with us!'

'You made it! How did you get past all that traffic?'