I'd to call somebody to the stage that 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 friend My compatriot, Paul
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 between a golfer and a ping-pong enthusiast
I played golf today, 18 holes I golf, wooo I did pretty good too, I you would have been very proud of me Four. Five. Six
I don't like sports much There's a vast number of sports I'm not invlved in. There's water In order to water ski, really you should swim, You're not gonna up there all the time, now And I don't like to swim, You know swimming is to me? alive when I'm in the water. I'll do anything to afloat swallow Co2 cartriges
But I didn't come out here to talk sports I really, I came out here, Peter talks about And I cannot think of one material object that has more status in country the automobile And it starts at a early age now, right? I mean, now at 14, kids the car, right? They get cheaters so they can drive You get a permit at 15, a cheaters permit at 14 And it's, I guess really necessary because You lose a lot of calling 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 back on all the you had the automobile Aside from a few interesting evenings You got to admit that one of the times 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 I'll go out Ha haaa ha huuu
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 pick up 3 other great pretenders, 3 in the afternoon The time is now 10 in the evening The same 4 are in the same car Well, you wanna do? I know, whada you wanna do? Hey, we've driving for 7 hours Hey, I got an idea, he he Yeah, what's Lets go to a resturant and look at the girls, hehehe Oh, ok Well, here they are, but they're all 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 car you never heard
Here come they are Don't at 'em
Remember the time when drive-ins first And the girls used to come out to take your Now you're lucky you know, if you get a in slacks who delivers it I understand even putting in conveyor belts in some drive-in resturants There was a time when the little girls came running out in short little them? You in And the girl would come running up May I your order sir? Yes, but I don't believe on the menu, ha ha don't, they don't let you flirt any more now They give you a little green box with a button on it A little 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 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 you know THICK And we'd like two shakes thin Water them down, or them down a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody here with chapped lips and they'd like it Can, you understand I mean? Are you
Well, could you tell us what we please?
And six-packs We'll it And after you get your food order in, you got at least 40 minutes to Even if just a cup of coffee you got 40 minutes to wait And you cannot get out of car, right Remember there was a time drive-ins first opened You used to pull in and get out, hellos, greetings Evidentally some 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 credit cards on the ground Officer, my wallet I don't care who you are kid in the car If you do get out, you gotta be careful Because the new resturants radar now So you to crawl on your belly between the cars You get to the side of the car Psssst here! I can't come up, spot me Put down your
Power windows, Whoo, this is a fancy car Hey, a pretty fancy broad
If you did manage to get out of the drive-in without being maimed There was a sporting event taking place at the light Remember, with all of two Mr. who drove a 4-door family sedan with black-wall tires transmission Seated next to him in a 1941 gray primer coated it's rear end 2 inches off the ground Tomato cans for With his back to the drivers window, his left arm over the steering wheel His right gripped onto the gearshift lever A sneer on sat THE KID
Well, Mr. has just had his bands tightened, and Those of you who are not quite sure I mean By having bands tightened The bands are the in an automatic transmission Which actually affect the change Uh huh, I'll give you an This is an with tight bands
This is an automobile with loose
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his bands And he thinks that he will THE KID a thing or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has inched these 2 fingers up his left arm This is the universal signlanguage teenagers for dragging You probably recall Churchill during the war years everyone assumed meant V for victory Actually if also recall Winston Churchill smokes a cigar, right? He used to hold it in here, And occationally he would turn to his friends on the and say Want a See, and the kids it up The changes The light to amber and Mr. Businessman decides to get very daring He pulls the transmission down into low He one foot on the brake 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 to have another 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 know what's
He looks in the rear view mirror and The Kids still at the corner He never anybody He just sits there and the hell out of them