I'd like to call somebody to the stage that you know as a singer But that you haven't met in his other
is a comedian with a unique point of view and commentary And in capacity, ladies and gentlemen Please welcome with me to the stage, my friend My compatriot, Stookey
was the sound of a golf 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 between a golfer and a ping-pong
I played today, 18 holes I played golf, wooo I did pretty good too, I think you would have been very of me Four. Five. Six
I don't like very much a vast number of sports that I'm not invlved in. There's skiing In order to ski, really you should swim, right? You're not stay up there all the time, now And I don't to swim, really You what swimming is to me? alive when I'm in the water. I'll do to stay afloat Even swallow Co2
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 object that has more status in this country Than the And it starts at a very early age now, I mean, now at 14, kids want the car, They get cheaters permits so can drive You get a learners permit at 15, a cheaters at 14 And it's, I guess it's really because You lose a lot of face calling up a and asking her If you can peddle right and pick her up, right?
They don't go for that any more And if you look back on all the times you had the Aside a few interesting saturday evenings You got to that one of the nicest times of all Was a afternoon, if you could get the car You down the stairs, ker-clunk ker-clunk ker-clunk ker-clunk mom, dad, take the car, ha haaa day for a drive, I think I'll go out Ha haaa haaa ha
And then, and then level you with that giant killer, right? HAVE YOU DONE HOMEWORK?
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, I done my homework? Run out the You pick up 3 other pretenders, 3 oclock in the afternoon The time is now 10 oclock in the The same 4 guys are in the 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, that? Lets go to a drive-in resturant and at the girls, hehehe Oh, ok Well, they are, but they're all from our high school a minute, there's a car load over there There's a place right next to them, go get it
look at 'em Here's the conversation in the girls car you heard
Here they There are look at 'em
Remember the time when first opened And the girls to come out to take 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 drive-in resturants There was a time when the little came running out in short little skirts them? You in And the little would come running up May I your order sir? 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 box with a white button on it A little grill, right
Oh, ok, um, We'd like one cheeseburger deluxe extra The one you have out here with the white cup With that whatever that's in there, we'll it, whatever it is And uh, we'd like two hamburgers medium 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 spoons you THICK And we'd like two strawberry thin them down, or milk them down a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody here with chapped lips and like it thin Can, you what I mean? Are you
Well, could you tell us what we have
And four take it And after you get your food order in, you got at least 40 to wait Even if it's just a cup of you got 40 minutes to wait And you cannot get out of your car, Remember there was a time when drive-ins first You used to pull in and get out, hellos, greetings Evidentally people were getting out and exchanging Something a little heavier than and greetings have policemen there to keep you in your car You can be 47 years old and your credit cards on the ground Officer, my wallet I don't who you are kid back in the car If you do get out, you gotta be careful Because the new resturants have now So you have to crawl on your belly the cars You get to the side of the car Psssst here! I come up, they'll spot me Put down window
Power windows, Whoo, this is a pretty car Hey, you're a pretty broad
If you did manage to get out of the drive-in resturant without being was a sporting event taking place at the traffic light Remember, with all of two Mr. Businessman who drove a 4-door family sedan with tires Automatic next to him in a 1941 gray primer coated Ford With it's end 2 inches off the ground Tomato for mufflers With his back to the drivers window, his arm draped over the steering wheel His right hand gripped onto the lever A sneer on sat THE KID
Well, Mr. has just had his bands tightened, and Those of you who are not quite sure what I By your bands tightened The are the rings in an automatic transmission actually affect the gear change Uh huh, give you an example is an automobile with tight bands
This is an with loose bands
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his bands And he thinks that he show THE KID a thing or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has inched 2 fingers up over his left arm This is the universal signlanguage among teenagers for You probably recall Winston Churchill the war years Which everyone meant V for victory Actually if you'll also recall Churchill smokes a cigar, right? He used to hold it in here, And occationally he turn to his friends on the stage and say a drag? See, and the picked it up The changes The light changes to amber and Mr. Businessman decides to get daring He pulls the automatic transmission down low He puts one foot on the Still holding the foot on the brake, in order to get that extra start He pulls the automatic transmission into low And pushes down on the accelerator inches The car is internally He knows, he knows, he knows he's gonna have to have band job He's not 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 out the window and The Kids not even there You what's there?
He looks in the rear view and The Kids still back at the corner He races anybody He just sits there and the hell out of them