I'd to call somebody to the stage that you know as a folk singer But that you met in his other role
Paul is a 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, Paul
That was the sound of a golf Or if a ping-pong 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 golf 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 sports very There's a vast of sports that I'm not invlved in. There's water In order to ski, really you should swim, right? You're not stay up there all the time, now And I don't like to swim, You know what 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 talks status And I cannot think of one material object has more status in this country the automobile And it starts at a early age now, right? I mean, now at 14, kids want the car, They get permits so they can drive You get a learners permit at 15, a permit at 14 And it's, I guess it's really necessary You lose a lot of face up a girl 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 on all the times you had the automobile Aside from a few interesting evenings You got to admit that one of the nicest of all Was a afternoon, if you could get the car You come down the stairs, ker-clunk ker-clunk ker-clunk mom, dad, gonna the car, ha haaa Beautiful day for a drive, I think go out Ha haaa ha huuu
And then, and then they level you with giant killer, right? HAVE YOU DONE HOMEWORK?
If you fast, you'd say, mom, dad, have I done my homework? Run out the You pick up 3 other pretenders, 3 oclock in the afternoon The is now 10 oclock in the evening 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, that? Lets go to a drive-in and look at the girls, hehehe Oh, ok Well, here they are, but they're all from our high Wait a minute, there's a car load over There's a right next to them, lets go get it
Don't at 'em Here's the conversation in the girls car you heard
Here they There are look at 'em
Remember the time when drive-ins first And the girls used to come out to take your Now lucky 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 Remember You in And the little girl come running up May I your order sir? Yes, but I believe it's on the menu, ha ha They don't, they don't let you flirt any now They give you a little box with a white button on it A speaker grill, right
Oh, ok, um, We'd like one cheeseburger deluxe special The one you have out here with the white cup With that that's in there, we'll take it, whatever it is And uh, we'd like two hamburgers 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 spoons you know And we'd like two strawberry shakes them down, or milk them down a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody with chapped lips and they'd like it thin Can, you what I mean? Are you
Well, you tell us what we have please?
And four We'll it And you get your food 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 cannot get out of your car, Remember there was a when drive-ins first opened You used to pull in and get out, hellos, greetings Evidentally people were getting out and exchanging Something a little heavier hellos and greetings They have policemen there to keep you in 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 gotta be very the new resturants have radar now So you have to crawl on your between the cars You get over to the of the car Psssst here! I can't up, they'll spot me Put down window
Power windows, Whoo, this is a fancy car Hey, you're a pretty broad
If you did manage to get out of the drive-in without being maimed There was a sporting event taking place at the traffic Remember, with all of two Mr. who drove a 4-door family sedan with black-wall tires Automatic Seated next to him in a 1941 primer coated Ford With it's rear end 2 off the ground cans for mufflers With his back to the drivers window, his left arm draped over the wheel His right hand gripped onto the lever A sneer on sat THE KID
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his tightened, and Those of you who are not quite what I mean By having your tightened The bands are the in an automatic transmission Which affect the gear change Uh huh, I'll you an example is an automobile with tight bands
This is an automobile loose bands
Well, Mr. has just had his bands tightened And he thinks that he will show THE KID a or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has these 2 fingers up over his left arm This is the universal signlanguage among for dragging You probably Winston Churchill during the war years Which assumed meant V for victory Actually if you'll also recall Winston Churchill smokes a cigar, He used to it in here, right? And occationally he would turn to his on the stage and say Want a See, and the picked it up The light The changes to amber and Mr. Businessman decides to get very daring He the automatic transmission down into low He puts one foot on the Still holding the foot on the brake, in order to get that extra fast He pulls the automatic transmission into low And pushes down on the five inches The car is hemorraging He knows, he knows, he knows he's gonna have to have another 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 miles an Looks out the window and The Kids not there You what's there?
He looks in the rear view and The Kids still back at the corner He never races He just there and scares the hell out of them