I'd like to call somebody to the stage that you know as a folk 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, Paul
was the sound of a golf ball Or if you're a ping-pong enthusiast, was a sound of a ping-pong ball Except generally you'll
the sound of a match between a golfer and a ping-pong enthusiast
I played today, 18 holes I played golf, wooo I did pretty good too, I think you would been very proud of me Four. Five. Six
I don't like sports very a vast number of sports that I'm not invlved in. There's water In order to water ski, you should swim, right? You're not gonna up there all the time, now And I don't to swim, really You what swimming is to me? Staying when I'm in the water. I'll do anything to stay swallow Co2 cartriges
But I didn't out here to talk about sports I really, I came out here, Peter about status And I cannot think of one material object that has more status in this Than the And it at a very early age now, right? I mean, now at 14, want the car, right? get cheaters permits so they can drive You get a learners permit at 15, a permit at 14 And it's, I guess it's necessary because You lose a lot of calling up a girl and asking her If you can peddle over and pick her up, right?
They don't really go for any more And if you look on all the times you had the automobile Aside from a few interesting saturday You got to admit that one of the nicest of all Was a sunday afternoon, if you 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 YOUR HOMEWORK?
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, have I done my Run out the You pick up 3 other great pretenders, 3 in the afternoon The time is now 10 in the evening The same 4 guys are in the car Well, whata you do? I don't know, whada you do? Hey, been driving for 7 hours Hey, I got an idea, he he Yeah, that? Lets go to a drive-in resturant and look at the girls, Oh, ok Well, they are, but they're all from our high school Wait a minute, a car load over there There's a place right to them, lets go get it
look at 'em Here's the conversation in the car you never 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 in some drive-in resturants There was a when the little girls came running out in short little skirts Remember You in And the little girl would come up May I your order sir? Yes, but I don't it's on the menu, ha ha don't, they don't let you flirt any more now They give you a little green box a white button on it A little grill, right
Oh, ok, um, We'd like one cheeseburger deluxe special The one you have out here the little 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 shakes thin Water them down, or milk them a little, ok we got somebody here with chapped lips and they'd like it thin Can, you understand what I Are you
Well, could you tell us we have please?
And six-packs 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 car, right Remember there was a when drive-ins first opened You used to pull in and get out, hellos, greetings some people were getting out and exchanging Something a little heavier hellos and greetings They have policemen to keep you in your car You can be 47 years old and drop 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 very Because the new resturants 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 come up, spot me Put down window
windows, huh? Whoo, this is a pretty car Hey, you're a pretty fancy
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 with black-wall transmission Seated next to him in a 1941 primer coated Ford With it's rear end 2 inches off the 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 on lips sat THE KID
Well, Mr. has just had his bands tightened, and Those of you who are not quite what I mean By your bands tightened The are the rings in an automatic transmission Which affect the gear change Uh huh, give you an example This is an automobile with tight
is an automobile with loose bands
Well, Mr. Businessman has had his bands tightened And he that 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 among teenagers for You probably recall Winston during the war years everyone assumed meant V for victory Actually if you'll also recall Churchill smokes a cigar, right? He used to it in here, right? And occationally he would turn to his friends on the and say a drag? See, and the kids it up The changes The light changes to amber and Mr. Businessman decides to get very 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 the automatic transmission down into low And pushes down on the accelerator inches The car is internally He knows, he knows, he knows he's 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 miles an Looks out the window and The Kids not there You know what's
He looks in the view mirror and The Kids still back at the corner He never races He just sits and scares the hell out of them