I'd like to call somebody to the stage that you know as a folk But that you met in his other role
Paul is a comedian with a point of view and commentary And in capacity, ladies and gentlemen welcome with me to the stage, my good friend My compatriot, Stookey
That was the sound of a ball Or if you're a enthusiast, that was a sound of a ping-pong ball Except generally you'll
That's the sound of a match a golfer and a ping-pong enthusiast
I golf today, 18 holes I played golf, wooo I did pretty good too, I think you have been very proud of me Four. Five. Six
I like sports very much There's a vast number of sports I'm not invlved in. There's skiing In order to ski, really you should swim, right? not gonna stay up there all the time, now And I don't to swim, really You know what is to me? alive when I'm in the water. I'll do anything to stay swallow Co2 cartriges
But I didn't come out here to talk sports I really, I came out here, Peter about status And I cannot think of one material object has more status in this country the automobile And it starts at a very early age now, I mean, now at 14, kids the car, right? They get permits so they can drive You get a permit at 15, a cheaters permit at 14 And it's, I it's really necessary because You lose a lot of face calling up a girl and her If you can peddle right over and pick her up,
They don't really go for any more And if you look back on all the times you had the Aside a few interesting saturday evenings You got to admit one of the nicest times of all Was a afternoon, if you could get the car You come the stairs, ker-clunk ker-clunk ker-clunk ker-clunk mom, dad, take the car, ha haaa Beautiful day for a drive, I I'll go out Ha haaa haaa ha
And then, and then level you with that giant killer, right? YOU DONE YOUR HOMEWORK?
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, have I done my Run out the You up 3 other great pretenders, 3 oclock in the afternoon The time is now 10 oclock in the The 4 guys are in the same car Well, whata you do? I don't know, you wanna do? Hey, we've been driving for 7 Hey, I got an idea, he he Yeah, what's Lets go to a drive-in resturant and at the girls, hehehe Oh, ok Well, here are, but they're all from our high school Wait a minute, there's a car load over There's a place right next to them, go get it
Don't at 'em the conversation in the girls car you never heard
Here they they are Don't at 'em
the time when drive-ins first opened And the girls used to come out to your order? Now you're you know, if you get a girl in slacks who delivers it I understand they're even putting in conveyor belts in some resturants There was a time when the girls came running out in short little skirts Remember You in And the little would come running up May I take order sir? Yes, but I believe it's on the menu, ha ha They don't, don't let you flirt any more now They you a little green box with a white button on it A little grill, right
Oh, ok, um, We'd like one cheeseburger special extra The one you out here with the little white cup With that whatever that's in there, we'll take it, it is And uh, like two hamburgers medium rare with everything on 'em And one hamburger, no, one hamburger, meat, no One frank, and chiliburgers, ok? Alright, and we'd like two shakes, regular thick, for spoons you know THICK And we'd like two strawberry thin Water down, or milk them down a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody here with chapped and they'd like it thin Can, you what I mean? Are you
Well, you tell us what we have please?
And six-packs take it And after you get your order in, you got at least 40 minutes to wait Even if it's just a cup of you got 40 minutes to wait And you cannot get out of car, right Remember there was a time drive-ins first opened You to pull in and get out, exchange hellos, greetings Evidentally people were getting out and exchanging Something a little than hellos and greetings They have there to keep you in your car You can be 47 years old and drop your cards on the ground Officer, my wallet I don't who you are kid back in the car If you do get out, you be very careful Because the new resturants radar now So you have to on your belly between the cars You get to the side of the car Psssst here! I come up, they'll spot me Put your window
Power windows, Whoo, is a pretty fancy car Hey, you're a fancy broad
If you did manage to get out of the drive-in resturant being maimed There was a sporting event taking place at the light Remember, all of two characters Mr. Businessman who drove a 4-door family sedan with black-wall transmission Seated to him in a 1941 gray primer coated Ford it's rear end 2 inches off the ground Tomato cans for With his back to the drivers window, his left arm draped over the wheel His right hand gripped the gearshift lever A sneer on sat THE KID
Well, Mr. Businessman has had his bands tightened, and Those of you who are not quite sure what I By having your bands The bands are the rings in an automatic Which actually affect the gear Uh huh, give you an example This is an automobile with tight
This is an with loose bands
Well, Mr. Businessman has had his bands tightened And he thinks he will show THE KID a thing or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has inched 2 fingers up over his left arm This is the universal signlanguage teenagers for dragging You probably Winston Churchill during the war years Which assumed meant V for victory if you'll also recall Winston Churchill smokes a cigar, right? He to hold it in here, right? And occationally he would to his friends on the stage and say Want a See, and the kids it up The light The light changes to and Mr. Businessman decides to get very daring He the automatic transmission down into low He puts one foot on the Still the foot on the brake, in order to get that extra fast start He pulls the transmission down into low And down on the accelerator five inches The car is internally He knows, he knows, he knows gonna have to have another band job not gonna let THE KID show him up The changes to green, Mr. Businessman is off
Looks at the speedometer, 80, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98 an hour Looks out the and The Kids not even there You know there?
He looks in the rear view and The Kids still back at the corner He never anybody He just sits there and scares the out of them