 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the famous play and novels 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 Everybody else in your office gone slightly It's only ten after six and you're a half hour late I am you know going out to dinner in New York has to be started earlier else. You don't get it Ready to just say still would be slightly more accurate one half hour late. It is not a half hour late Look at your watch. I haven't done One half hour late, anyway 25 minutes. I supposed to be here a quarter of six And it's ten after that's 25 minutes and not a half an hour. It's bad enough Well, what's the matter? Don't you like being left alone together not when we expect you bursting in any minutes? Well, that's telling your mother's sides if we're in such a hurry to be going someplace my being a little bit late One half hour late 25 minutes late if it makes such an enormous difference Let's get going stop talking around so much. Come on. Whatever you may do to it David I'll never blame you. Thank you mother. Oh now look you too just because a girl's a little bit late 25 minutes no reason to stand around and try and make her feel as if she Pulled the wings off a butterfly. I'm sorry. I apologize. I feel simply awful about it I couldn't feel worse and that is that well you don't look sorry And I happen if I have a face that never looks sorry my heart is bleeding bleeding come on Let's go. I haven't all night. Yeah, she hasn't all night Oh, we might as well go David a royal highness doesn't like to be kept waiting. You both ready Why this sudden rush all of a sudden royal highness, you don't want me to get a ticket. Do you know I don't want you to get a ticket Did you say get a ticket course ticket and if I get one? I will know whom to blame go on now David You know as well as I do that people get tickets for parking on express streets Now do you or do you not want a ticket do I want to well? I'm not going to take the responsibility on my own my own shoulders Policemen told me it was all right for me to leave the car park for two minutes two minutes That's all I'd have needed to come up and get you but if you and mom are going to stand around making Mountains out of molehills the ticket will be your glory of ability Claudia what did you drive the car downtown? Well, how do you think it got parked outside the building? Why do you think I was 25 minutes late? You didn't have an accident did you David? Of course not. I might not be here at all if I've had an accident We thought of that but I was late because I was going round and round looking for a parking space And it wasn't until I told the officer you would be wild with me for being so late Even though it wasn't my fault that he let me park the car in front of the building Nice of him. He said he was married too So don't blame me, but if we get a ticket I thought I told you never to drive the car downtown. That was a year ago That was Monday when we came into town Huh hot time flies Hot time flies. Well, why did you drive the car downtown? Do you want to kill people? Yes, no, I mean I drove the car downtown so we Have it but we don't want it. We don't need the car to go out to dinner Oh, well, you never know when it'll come in handy We won't eat all night. I hope you ready mama put your hat on. Let's go. Come on. My hat's on What are we waiting for before I move one inch, Claudia? Why did you bring the car downtown? You knew we were meeting at the office merely to go out to dinner. Yes, then why David you'll get a ticket if you keep asking me questions like this asking me in the car You just felt like driving the car around in traffic. I suppose that's not a good enough reason is it? No Well, then that's not it Mother mother you lived with her 18 years. I've lived her only one and a half now What do I do now exactly what she says let's go down to the car david Claudia Claudia you left the motor running. Why certainly david. What do you mean certainly david? Now david, don't get excited. I'm not getting excited not yet. You sound as if you're going to Why on top of everything else? Did you leave the motor running because it was the only way I could convince the officer? I'd only be two minutes Personally, I think it was very clever of me to suggest it Don't you whether you think so or not? I do I figured that the price of the gas for those two minutes is a lot less than you're paying a fine on a ticket You'd receive we'd better just get in the car david. You see mama agrees with me I'm driving so you both get in from this side, please. I will drive. Oh, no, you won't After all the car was my idea against your better judge. Look, I don't want to argue I know you must have a reason for all of this because even you are more sensible But I will not allow myself to be Careered through new york traffic with you at the wheel. I don't want to argue either david, but I am driving I have a reason. Yes. I was afraid so what is it? Just get in david Stop looking if you lost your last friend. I have Mama, you are a traitor. I am the wiser part of valour. I give in first argue later It saves time. I promise to keep both hands on the wheel one foot on the clutch one on the brake One on the gas and I'll lend you one of mine. Thanks. I'll need it won't I I promise not to talk to the passengers while the vehicle is in motion And I will love honor and obey all traffic signals. So help me now get in and shut up You win I will go down in history as being the most maligned Persecuted man who ever lived He's sweet. He's me mama. He's more than sweet. He's remarkable. I like him too. That's why that's why we'll go on Get in the car mama. Don't ask any questions david's right. You're impossible. Oh, you don't know how impossible I am david you in the car And praying well here I come Got enough room david. Yeah, I'm fine. I lean in and I'll close the door. Oh go ahead Come over I feel like a piece of corned beef and I'm the pickle off we go You can breathe now mama. They say the takeoff is the most dangerous And what was the matter with that? You're not supposed to speak while the vehicle is in motion remember david You certainly don't think I'm going to just sit here and not talk. No. No, you are now mrs. Brown Where do you wish the driver to take us to dinner as nearby as possible? Now you see what you mean? gloria gloria I saw the car david You'd never know you saw the car david You do me the favor of not pushing your foot into the floor like that There's no break there. You only wear out the floorboards Besides it's insulting and it makes me nervous Makes you nervous Woman driver it happened to be a man Well, he drove like a woman so that proves you can't criticize Why don't we have dinner at that french restaurant on 48th street and first avenue perfect with me and you claudia No, she's not talking. That's so bliss Turn right here darling. We want to go east Turn claudia. You didn't turn. I know No, yes, you're going west instead of east. Why didn't you turn because I'm going west I can't go east at the same time. You know sometimes she makes sense david Yeah, sometimes why are we going west why oh why just like going west my man To the west lies gold and riches in the hopes of the red light I see it david claudia Do you have a restaurant all picked up? Yes. Yes, I see. Let me see. Is it nearby? An hour or so, but an hour these days is no distance at all Is it across the state line in the connecticut could be green light? I see it Is it very home cooking very just for us. What's going on here with somebody mind telling a poor old woman and the dog tell her david Yeah, I think uh Mrs brown that your daughter thinks she's going to drive us up to the farm for dinner all the way up to the farm It's only an hour mama for dinner out of a clear blue sky We're expected. I called fritz and bertha earlier for what on earth for oh, I thought it'd be nice for a change We haven't been home all week Babies mistis and majesty and the heifer all the animals. They're mistis So I thought we'd go back to dinner with them very thoughtful of you You think so david and what are we going to do drive all the way back after dinner? Not especially. Uh, you didn't forget my razor. Did you I hope? You mean we're claudia You're planning to stay at the farm. Mama. It's home. You needn't sound so horrified David did you know about this? We're staying to mama so stop worrying about a late train back to new york, but I can't stay I haven't any things up there. Oh, yes, you have there in the back of the car I hope I brought the right things for you, but that I you packed my things certainly But I'm not going with you. Why not because I have other plans. Oh nonsense your other plans were us We're going so you can go too David just thinking and all will be back on the farm. I haven't dared think about it all week You missed it too, huh? I've had all the new york in my system. I want I know we had to be here for a while because of your work I know too that half of it was for me. So I'm giving my half back to you. Let's go home. It's all decided We're going not I and I'll stop that car. Let me out. Mommy your bags are packed. I packed them all afternoon I don't care what you did all afternoon. I'm not going with you. You may not like new york, but I do Listen to her david. She just feels she hasn't been properly inviting. Well, that's the case. I'll invite her probably Why don't you stop the car and I'll drive I can do it. We'll get there faster. We will all right She's all yours I will get out run around Then all you have to do is slide over. It's yours Don't go away without me though Enough self discipline mrs. Brown. You're coming with us look david I made the break a few months ago. I don't want to starve everything all over again Now now now there's nothing to start claudia's not a mama's baby She's a woman And she can take you or She can leave you So I think you'd better take my advice and Come along with us when you were I know david But you know, she's always hell so tight. I'll tell you what you do. You trust me I will I invite you for the weekend like any other guest and you can leave like any other guest There are absolutely no barriers. She coming david You bet she's coming I told her I told her that I wouldn't waste any time driving her home and that settles it. That's all lazy, isn't she? No, lazy Good squashed is good. I don't know why I let myself get tied up with you too good for nothing scatterbrains You want to know mama? Yes, the reason for that is because you are One of those scattered brains that make it three Scatterbrains and another reason most important mama. What's that because you love us well because we have a farm and because that's where we're going Home We have been shagging hide mama. So hold on to your hat Macnaughton had a car The parents of claudia and david on this program were played by catherine bard and paul crab tree And the entire production is supervised and directed by william brown maloney When you're shopping when you're walking down the street with a friend when you're driving along the highway or going to the movies The sight of that familiar red cooler reminds you to pause and refresh with ice cold coca-cola Come to think of it. You have a white cooler for coke standing right in your own kitchen. It's the family refrigerator Keep coke on ice and you can stop at the white cooler whenever you're ready for the pause that refreshes 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 monday at the same time And now this is joe king saying au revoir And remember whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola For coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and ice cold coca-cola is everywhere