 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 and I do not like ready-made baby foods for baby, but it's supposed to be good when I cook it myself It's better. It's cheaper and I know what is in it You just don't want to let us make life easier for you do your birthday. It's easy enough Hey, you'll be cold out here without a coat but they go on it go on go on go on Hey, listen on your way you call mr. Norton tell him he'll be late for his training. He doesn't stop on it He's coming. He was right in the hall putting on his head and coat Just think for once. I'm waiting for him instead of vice versa a little change does everyone good You want me to start the car? Mr.. Norton mrs. Norton wants to know should she start the car Mrs.. Norton mr.. Norton says to start the car Getting him off the station every morning is like shooting the shot that was hurt around the world Great, I bet you 20 cents a minute. I start the car. He'll be running out here I don't know somehow a man can't stand seeing anybody else start a car let alone drive it I suppose it has something to do with why they're men I'm already see Bertha. They had all the same different all the same push over darling What's the matter? Am I not good enough to drive you downtown push over right? I'm pushed over Your woman hasn't got a chance around here. Goodbye Bertha. Goodbye, Mrs. Norton. Bye Bertha. Bye carefully when you come home. Yep Well considering how you respect my ability with cars David I'm surprised you're allowing me to buy the battery for the truck all by myself I am not allowing you to buy the battery for the truck all by yourself coming with me I'm dropping you off the station so you won't miss your train. Oh, I'm not coming with you But what do you suppose has just held me up? I don't know. I don't suppose anything. What held you up? I was calling up the garage What for to tell them that you were coming along and what kind of battery to give you now I am insulted Do you mean you don't trust me to drive into a garage and buy a battery? No, I don't trust you No other woman would stand for this kind of treatment. I'm only trying to make it easier for you Now you don't have to think about a thing. Well, it's not such an effort All you have to do is drive me to the station driving yourself. I'll drive with me to the station Then take over the wheel and drive over to the garage and say Battery pick up the battery and bring it home and then give it to Fritz and he'll put it in the truck I wonder if I can manage all that, but I'll try David. I'll do my best Well, your best will be good enough. I trust now. Yes, it'll have to be thank you It's all right Then will the truck work David when Fritz has put in the battery you think work like new good Then you can drive yourself to the station tomorrow. Won't that be nice all alone again? Oh, I don't mind your company so much. Well, that's that's very decent of you. Oh boy. Very decent. I'm a very decent old boy They're all other men like you very few very few of course I realize they're not half as good as you are But I mean are they like you about cars and letting their wives drive and that respect. We're identical and proud of it I failed to see why because women are notoriously Unmechanically inclined my my my what a big sentence notoriously Unmechanically inclined Well, I don't see how you can say that when you don't even give me a chance to be mechanically inclined Well, I don't have to experiment with you darling. I know it's a law of nature now Listen, there are exceptions to every rule as what makes rules not this one not this one Do you honestly think David that you drive better than I do? Hmm. I don't think I know I Have never been given a ticket Somebody I know has that's because when a policeman sees a pretty girl driving a car where he Looks the other way. Oh David that's sweet. You really think I'm pretty Not bad. Well, that's not so sweet, but it'll satisfy some of the things you do when you're driving a car You deserve to be locked up in jail for for instance. You don't pay attention. What's the difference? Nothing happens There is no point in discussing this you don't even want to learn well I drive a car perfectly well enough for me and if it doesn't suit you I'll drive for myself. Yes Well, I can't for the life of me see the difference the way you drive Except you make more of a fuss about it. I Would have driven down this road the same way as you staying right down the middle You're not supposed to drive down the middle. You're supposed to stay on the right Why are you driving down the middle because they're Puddles on the right and I wouldn't be wrong driving down the middle you'd be wrong because you don't know why you're doing it That makes no sense at all Well, I suppose you can't help this attitude darling Bertha says it's because you're a man David listen don't go so fast. You have plenty of time for your training going friends. I Were going for it. You say it was fast. It is fast for you and the double standard again Women vote now and smoke too remember Hey, I guess the car must have heard me tell you to go slower Listen to it. It's coughing to death poor thing Wonder what's got into it Sounds like it cold has gotten into it a bronchial code. I better pull over Gosh, it's dead cars dead not even breathing. It's funny. I wonder what got into it Certainly not the gas is plenty of gas Well, I guess I better get out and see where you're going for a look at the motor. Oh, I'll come with you stay Where you are why can't I look at the motor to all you breathe down the back of my neck a little breathing down the back Of your neck won't hurt you here I come queer how something always happens to the car when I'm not driving nothing has happened to the car Oh, no, no, it just stopped for no reason. I'll have it adjusted in a moment All I can say is I'm certainly glad I wasn't driving this car. I never hear the end of this You drove it yesterday, didn't you You probably mal-treated it so it broke down today I might have known you'd find a way to blame this on me, but I know you didn't mean much. I don't What do you see in the motor David the engine? No, what do you know? What he's supposed to matter with the engine nothing probably the gas line is clogged up How could anything get into the gas line for heaven's sake dirt? I know dirt hard to get in there Get me the tools out of the back of the car darling. You don't want the jack. No, I don't want the jack. I just want the range Oh, it's certainly wonderful to be married to a mechanical genius to a man who knows his way around an engine You know, you really look your best David with your head in the motor. I guess you're right about man after all I guess they're more mechanically inclined. I never would have thought of that gas thing never I'm certainly lucky to Lucky I'm a woman. I'm a lucky woman, too Well, here's your wrench. No, I'll have this thing all fixed up in one minute. I'm not in any hurry darling. I love watching you David What's a little wire thing sticking up? What little wire the one that goes from the who dinky to the putsis there? That's the wire from the distributor. Maybe it's broken. Get your head out of the way Give that wire a little push. I'll give you a little push. Oh, please move over You still think it's something in the gas line You're just like a surgeon now now you get inside and try to try starting the car Do you mean you are really going to let me do something? Yeah, that'd be sure you have it out of gear David, maybe you better stand back. I'm all right. If you just keep it out of gear. Well, here we go. Watch out I guess that's not it. You want me to do anything else? No, I'm coming out again. I love kibitzing Say darling if you tested that that little wire, it's all right. Looks loose. It's supposed to look loose It's funny. I never think of anything supposing to look loose inside a car I might have a car towed in and the gas line blown out. Oh, no, no, no, that's not so radical try other things first Batteries all right. How do you know cause the starter worked? Well, what a hard-working starter Fascinating the insides of the car plenty of water the motor's not overheated the carburetor. What about it? Well, every car has one David. Maybe it's something to matter with ours. Oh go away. What are you doing now? David that that loose wire looks awfully loose Even for a loose wire You don't think so Give it a little push or pull for the last time Claudia. Will you all right? I suppose each soup should only have one cook. You do know your way in an engine. I must admit So it looks like such fun Maybe it's one of these spark plug darling. You'll hurt your hand putting it there in the motor. Hey, what was that? Maybe that little loose wire spot at me. Hmm. Now show me what you did go on. It won't hurt Well Maybe I guess that wire could be a little looser than it needs to be do you mean I Found out what the matter was. I'm not saying yet. Oh, no, no, I guess you're right I guess I couldn't have being a woman. You see it. It wouldn't do it all No, I could find a way to keep it tight. It could be Could be this wire and that beginner's luck here David. Here's a bobby pin What for keep the wire tight here? He fixed it just like this Claudia. You don't know what you're doing I know I don't but it's fun what the wire up against that little thing. I'm a jig like this It won't stay like that. Probably not. We better let it try you'll miss your train Come on the whole car probably blow up when I started if it starts at all And wait and see Putting bobby pins and motors pulling little wires silly, isn't it? Well, how off we go. I hope Is it going? Let's see now. See if it keeps going. It's going David it's going. Are you proud of me? Well, no, I must say you you did oh No, oh, no, what a hideous thought has just crossed my mind now What is going to happen with all the copper pennies that you put in the fuses at home and when all of the Bobby pins you've put between thingamajigs and whoo-dinkies and Buck cuckles and so forth are worn down our house will probably collapse a Mechanical idiot. That's what I get for marrying a woman who is a mechanical idiot This broadcast of Claudio was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney a Foreign visitor was taken to one of our larger movie theaters the other day Coca-Cola he exclaimed when he entered the lobby Imagine being able to buy Coca-Cola right in the movie theater Whereupon he insisted upon having a nice cold coke then and there It is nice to be able to enjoy coke before or after the show for coke adds to the pleasure of good entertainment And the pause that refreshes is always welcome 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 or a war and Remember whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of Coca-Cola Or Coca-Cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and Ice-cold Coca-Cola is everywhere