I'd like to call somebody to the stage you know as a folk singer But that you met in his other role
is a comedian with a unique point of view and commentary And in this capacity, and gentlemen Please welcome with me to the stage, my good My compatriot, Stookey
That was the of a golf ball Or if you're a ping-pong enthusiast, that was a sound of a ball generally you'll hear
That's the of a match between a golfer and a ping-pong enthusiast
I golf today, 18 holes I played golf, wooo I did pretty too, I think you would have been very proud of me Four. Five. Six
I don't like sports much There's a number of sports that I'm not invlved in. There's skiing In to water ski, really you should swim, right? not gonna stay up there all the time, now And I don't like to swim, You what swimming is to me? Staying alive I'm in the water. I'll do anything to afloat Even swallow Co2
But I didn't out here to talk about sports I really, I came out here, Peter talks status And I cannot think of one material object that has more status in country Than the And it at a very early age now, right? I mean, now at 14, kids want the car, They get cheaters so they can drive You get a learners permit at 15, a cheaters at 14 And it's, I guess really necessary because You a lot of face calling up a girl and asking her If you can right over and pick her up, right?
They don't really go for that any And if you back on all the times you had the automobile Aside from a few saturday evenings You got to admit one of the nicest times of all Was a afternoon, if you could get the car You come down the stairs, 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 they level you with that giant killer, right? HAVE YOU DONE YOUR
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, have I done my Run out the You pick up 3 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 know, whada you wanna do? Hey, been driving for 7 hours 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 they are, but they're all our high school Wait a minute, there's a car load over a place right next to them, lets go get it
Don't at 'em Here's the conversation in the girls car you heard
Here they they are Don't at 'em
the time when drive-ins first opened And the girls used to come out to take order? Now you're lucky you know, if you get a girl in slacks who 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 girl come running up May I take your order Yes, but I don't believe on the menu, ha ha They don't, they don't let you any more now They give you a little green box with a white on it A speaker grill, right
Oh, ok, um, We'd like one deluxe special extra The one you out here with the little white cup With that whatever that's in there, we'll it, whatever it is And uh, we'd 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 chocolate shakes, regular thick, for you know THICK And we'd two strawberry shakes thin Water them down, or milk down a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody here with lips and they'd like it thin Can, you understand what I Are you
Well, could you tell us what we have
And four 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 coffee you got 40 to wait And you get out of your car, right there was a time when drive-ins first opened You to pull in and get out, exchange hellos, greetings Evidentally people were getting out and exchanging Something a little heavier than hellos and have policemen there to keep you in your car You can be 47 years old and drop your credit cards on the Officer, my wallet I don't who you are kid back in the car If you do get out, you be very careful the new resturants have radar now So you have to crawl on belly between the cars You get to the side of the car Psssst here! I can't come up, they'll me Put down your
windows, huh? Whoo, this is a fancy car Hey, you're a fancy broad
If you did manage to get out of the drive-in resturant without maimed There was a sporting event place at the traffic light Remember, all of two characters Mr. Businessman who drove a 4-door family sedan black-wall tires transmission Seated next to him in a 1941 gray primer coated With it's rear end 2 off the ground Tomato for mufflers With his back to the window, his left arm draped over the steering wheel His right hand gripped onto the gearshift A sneer on sat THE KID
Well, Mr. has just had his bands tightened, and Those of you who are not quite what I mean By having your tightened The bands are the rings in an transmission Which actually affect the change Uh huh, give you an example This is an with tight bands
This is an with loose bands
Well, Mr. Businessman has had his bands tightened And he thinks that he show THE KID a thing or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has inched these 2 fingers up over his arm is the universal signlanguage among teenagers for dragging You recall Winston Churchill during the war years everyone assumed meant V for victory Actually if you'll also recall Churchill smokes a cigar, right? He to hold it in here, right? And he would turn to his friends on the stage and say a drag? See, and the kids it up The changes The light changes to amber and Mr. Businessman decides to get daring He pulls the transmission down into low He puts one on the brake Still holding the foot on the brake, in to get that extra fast start He the automatic transmission down into low And down on the accelerator five inches The car is hemorraging He knows, he knows, he knows he's gonna to have another band job not gonna let THE KID show him up The changes to green, Mr. Businessman is off
at the speedometer, 80, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98 miles an hour Looks out the and The Kids not even there You know there?
He looks in the rear view mirror and The Kids still back at the He never anybody He just sits there and the hell out of them