 Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the original stories by Rose Franken brought to you transcribe Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself Have a Coke and now Claudia Hey darling, where are you going? Not finishing breakfast. I just want to get my pocketbook. Look we're eating at home There'll be no check to pay Bodkins Bodkins never heard of him. Who is he and if I know just an expression of amazement that you put something where you could find it What are you peering into that mirror for? There's one side of my face look bigger to you than the other swollen No, it doesn't look swollen. Why got a sort of adult toothache in the rear upper corner of my jaw Since when since I woke up. I must have slept on my face. I guess. What do you usually sleep on a pillow, of course Oh, of course. Does it hurt much darling? No, not much. I don't think it's anything Maybe I bit too hard on something at dinner last night Well, if it doesn't go away or if it gets worse you ought to go see your dentist You ought to see him anyway. I think you sound like an advertisement this little better already hot coffee helps Then put that little mirror away in your bag and have another cup I'll pour But darling call him and say David Did you put a dollar in my pocketbook last night? No, that's clear because there's a dollar in it now Small fortune put it in the savings account. I mean it's a dollar. I shouldn't have no reason why you shouldn't have one providing You don't spend it all at once. How's that for a generous husband? Very generous But you know, I've made up my mind to spend every cent I had and I did and now I find I have a dollar left Did I hear you say you made up your mind to spend every cent you had yesterday afternoon? I don't feel so generous anymore. How much money did you spend all but a dollar all of it including this one? That's the strange part David look darling. I I know I'm not very bright so early in the morning, but I Don't think I've lost my mind completely now start all over again and tell me quietly Exactly what happened? Remember I'm your husband not a mind reader. Well yesterday afternoon You went back to the office after the auction sale and I went shopping buying and selling a $2,500 sofa at the auction sale wasn't enough was too much. I wanted to get the sofa out of my system So I went shopping at the five and ten cents story get some little things around the house What we needed some big things around the house like chairs and tables well as I was saying I went into the five and ten Set store to get some little things You know my up and a pale and stuff and I opened my pocketbook. And what do you think out jump the frog? Frogs are in throats not pocketbooks Well, what did you find five dollars? No, yes So there I was with five dollars in the entire five and ten cents store at my disposal what a wild mad passion must have seized You have no idea how easy this to spend five dollars in a ten cents store practically everything costs a dollar inflation That's what it is worth a dollar. It's what do you want to hear what I'm saying or don't you? Well go on well and be quiet, please anyway I bought a pale for a dollar and a mop and a ringer for a dollar and See six disc claws for a dollar and an iron stand for a dollar and and uh, oh Yes, and every day fountain pen. What's that add up to? Exactly five dollars. That's what I figured so I should have come home without a cent stony broke And now I find I have a dollar right here in my change purse Where do you suppose I got it? I don't know but the sort of thing has possibilities I'll give you a hundred dollars. See what you can do with that. They did not be serious. I'm serious I think that dollar isn't yours not mine. And who's the five and ten cents stores the stores They're not selling dollars there exactly You mean maybe I didn't pay for one of the things I bought. Is that it? No, so at last you admit it admit what? Walking out with an unpaid for purchase. I don't see how it Let me see. I remember paying for the pale and the mop And they put the disc flowers in a bag with the iron stand and and what about the fountain pen fountain pen Oh, David. I must have put it right in my pocket. Nobody saw you I guess nobody did because nobody asked me to pay for it You filched that fountain pen, but I didn't mean to the fact remains you filched it a fine thing I married two months suddenly without any warning one fine day. I wake up to learn that my wife is a kleptomaniac That's not the other thing is it it's a nice upper-class word for shoplifting It's not when you don't do it on purpose besides it. It's the first time tell it to the judge Think how to go back there today and return the dollar. That's an admission of guilt Monace is admitting something makes it all right. All right with your conscience, maybe but not with the 10 cent store There'll be mighty suspicious that you don't owe them a little more. Oh, you make it so complicated The simple thing for you to do is never cross that dime store's doors again. Are you serious? Absolutely You want me to be don't you never go in there again in such a wonderful store? They have all sorts of things for a dollar. I love that 10 cent store. I know what I'll do I'll send them back their dollar and post these stamps. How about that? They wouldn't appreciate it. It would mess up their bookkeeping system. I feel awful about keeping it. You should Centers should suffer for their sin, but I'll have to keep it. There's nothing else I can do And I've suffered enough. I'm gonna put it out of my mind. Put it out of your mind this minute Oh such a fuss about a dollar Well, I think you must have a latent leaning towards petty crime or this would prey on your conscience I've decided not to let it I am profoundly shocked can't help it the 10 cent store can get along without my dollar Oh What's the matter the words sticking your throat? No, it's my cheek and now I mean my tooth a tooth for a tooth I have a pain right through the side of my face. I can hardly talk David, you don't think it's a twinge of conscience. Do you the way you look? I'm pretty sure it's a twinge of tooth Where does it hurt? Here show me. What about my finger? I mean, how can I see you? How can I see if you got your finger in your mouth right out there? In the right hand corner Hmm You haven't got a tooth in the upper right hand corner. I must have it hurts Could it be god paying me back because of the dollar god's too busy. He's got too many other things to worry about Does it hurt much darling? Not much. I just can't eat or talk Come on. We'll go see the dentist. I should say not Maybe it'll go away just the way it came. I'm not taking any chances We're going to see that dentist right away. David you're always rushing into things I am taking you to that dentist personally before I go to the office You have a way of putting things off that you don't like to do It came over suddenly at breakfast doctor one minute. She was talking and the next her mouth was just open. I see Well, it doesn't sound very serious. I don't think it is but I thought she'd better come over right away That's some very wise Besides I welcome this opportunity of meeting claudia's husband What have you been telling dr. Martin? Nothing dear just telling him how you got your toothache this morning. I don't know how I got it. That's the point Now getting to the chair claudia. Let's have a look. I'll uh go into the waiting room dr. David don't go Oh, it's perfectly all right for you to stay in here mr. Noten. Well, if you don't mind Now claudia put your head back Now how's this comfortable wonderful? I could go right to sleep go right ahead darling dr. Martin will appreciate it Tell me where it hurts in the upper right hand corner Up where my tongue is Uh-huh See anything now open wide You follow our eyes dr. Martin open wide Uh-huh. I see the trouble. You mean I really have something rock david. You see it wasn't a twinge of conscience I never said it was your conscience did young leading you're cutting a wisdom tooth David you're here with dr. Martin said I could already believe it. She's a little retarded Oh, it varies Some people cut their wisdom teeth young and some cut them late Yeah, it looks impacted I'll have to take x-rays of it and see what's what But I may have to pull it pull it my one and only wisdom tooth Will you uh take the x-rays now doctor? I'd like to I'll come back some other day You stay here and you do what dr. Martin says uh doctor Uh, could I call my office, please? Yes, go right ahead the phones in the other room. Thank you. Thank you very much. You won't have to pull it will you? I'm just getting it. Well, we'll see Open wide Have you had any other trouble with your teeth? Oh Not at all since I'm married seems to agree with me. I'd say it does You're looking very well I'd say you've even gained a little weight. Have I? Yes You look very pleased about it all Are you going to have a baby claudia? Of course, we're going to have a baby. What's a marriage without a baby? Well, I'm glad to hear it Congratulations, my dear put four is only natural and normal congratulations nevertheless You know too many young people wait too long for their first baby. We're very lucky Our new apartment has an extra room. So we don't have to wait Besides, I think I'd like to manage it. So I'll be a grandmother while I'm still young You're very ambitious. Anyway, it'll be more fun that way By the time I'm 60, I expect I can first things first young woman And I want you to be coming in here to see me regularly You know having a baby is a lot of wear and tear on your teeth. That's the last place you'd expect I'll give you a prescription of calcium Calcium what for for the baby's teeth? I see Oh, hello, david the office. All right. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes, fine And what's your diet? After all, you don't want to put on too much weight. Oh, of course not. No, claudia claudia put on weight Well, it's unavoidable mr. Norton But if she's careful the mother's weight goes back to normal once the baby is born baby It's fascinating. Isn't it david? I'll get the x-ray plates prepared and we'll get some pictures of this so-called wisdom Not not not not not not darling darling Quickly quickly explain everything to me explain you what david what's the matter? You're shaking all over did I understand? Dr. Martin to say that we're going to have a Baby, of course, we're gonna you know, we're going to have a baby. I told him we were going to use anything wrong here Not not look darling There is one thing only one thing I I want to know. All right. I'd be glad to tell you. What is it david? Why? Why on earth didn't I know before why did you know what before about the baby you pluck david? I don't know what all this fuss is about. You know, we're gonna have one but when After all claudia. I mean, I think you should have come to me about this after all those the one thing I I am the father. How should I know when I'm not a fortune teller darling? Oh Look claudia Sit down there. Take it easy. What is the matter with you david? I'm gonna see you in such a state Do you have the slightest idea what you've done? For the moment, we'll forget what you've just put me through. I'll live I think But you you've misled dr. Martin into believing you were in the process of having a baby I did no such thing. He brought up the subject of babies himself. I didn't say one thing He just jumped to conclusions and so did you This broadcast of claudia was supervised and directed by william brown meloni Many is the housewife who eats sketchy leftovers for lunch because it's too much trouble to prepare anything just for herself If you fall into that habit, here's a tip that'll make the tidbit taste better When you take leftovers from the refrigerator reach for a nice cold coke at the same time For coca-cola makes even a skimpy lunch a refreshing repast Every day monday through friday claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is joe king saying olivar and remember Whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola For ice cold coca-cola makes any pause The pause that refreshes