 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by rose franken Brought to you transcribed 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 You Like the way I sing all right, you think you can do better go ahead Now you admit it you can't I must say I don't blame loss at all. I can't hear myself think do you want to I'm balancing my budget need help Are you siding with that dog against my boy, I am Here how'd you like a glass of milk that'll keep you quiet. No, thanks. We just finished dinner an hour ago That's not just finished Sure, you don't want to know your habit. No go away with it. I wouldn't dream of depriving you of it Well, if you insist I drink it all Down to the last drop. I don't know why I have to drink all the milk when half our future child is yours Mine is the half that doesn't need milk David what there? Nothing Anything wrong you look serious. Do I finished with the checkbook? I'm finished. All right Put that book you're reading move over. I'll read it with you. You wouldn't like it move over Let me see I said you wouldn't like it. What's it about? How do you know I wouldn't like it light weight aggregates? Oh Fascinating. Who are they? Nobody you'd know. Oh Lightweight aggregates are building material. How nice of them. Now, let's see their various kinds Way like the haydike and cinders But they each have certain natural qualities that make them Are you you're still fascinated move over anyway? All right, I moved over. I do know you don't want to read anymore. You couldn't be wrong. Oh But since you are not interested in lightweight aggregates, I'll postpone them till the train tomorrow morning Don't do me any favors. There's one you can do for me. What? Stop frowning. Who's frowning you frowned all through dinner. Oh, I didn't know this darling Are you sure you're feeling all right? Of course? I never felt better. You're being honest. I am only dishonest when it doesn't matter You have no moral sense, Mrs. No, I know isn't it wonderful David there's one now one what a frown. Oh, I didn't mean to interrupt darling. What are you going to say? How's the freight terminal coming? Come clean now, what's on your mind? Oh Nothing seems to me you'd better start sharing that burden. That's what the husbands are for you know there for a great many things All of them nice like sugar and spice Now don't change the set. All right since you're so nosy I spent all day as well as all evening adding what? What does one usually add? Oh? Many number of number of things is right. I added lots of bills David, I don't think you have any idea how much our lots of bills add up to I have a reasonably good idea Do you realize that right now our income is smaller than our outcome? Out go What'd you say? Skip it. Yes, I realize it Trouble is it doesn't seem to be anywhere around it, but David is all wrong That is a masterpiece of understatement. I look I was figuring out how much money we have left. It's only eleven hundred and Thirty-three dollars and the carpenters are crossing twice as much as they estimated twice as much. Well, that's what they said to me today Hey, I certainly hope they take twice as long with a new wing as they plan to take I thought you were in such a hurry to get them out of the house Well, you see the longer they take the longer it'll be before we have to pay them and the longer they take the more money It'll cost oh But are you sure darling that we only have eleven hundred dollars left in the bank positive? I added it three times Because of the carpenters extra cost. I'm afraid we won't have half that much when we get through darling Sounds less every time you mention it is less every time we met where where did it all go? house 80 acres cost 10,000 that used to sound so much Now it sounds like the cheapest thing about it still it was more than I wanted to spend no wonder that after buying the house We didn't have any money left for the alterations David no matter what let's not buy any more mortgage. No one mortgage is enough. Thank you certainly Besides the interest on the forty five hundred dollar mortgage. We have is as much as we can carry I don't think we can even carry that at least not very far 3900 on alteration We've got eleven hundred dollars left in the bank counting the carpenters only six plus two sticks of furniture in the house empty barn feels the plow and a baby on the way I've really managed very well haven't I David what do you mean? I spent all of our capital in one fell swoop Got ourselves obligated with the interest payments on a mortgage put everything we had into a house Which is getting to be more than we can really afford who says we can't afford it Cheaper than renting. I mean we can't afford to do it justice You just can't furnish a house like this with six hundred dollars. This house has been standing since 1760 David it can wait a little longer for us to furnish it correctly But there's no reason why you should spend your days in the living room with two chairs and a Lamp and I'm not spending my days in the living room. I'm spending them all outdoors Outdoors is beautifully furnished. Thank you more trees than I can lean on in a whole afternoon I don't know. I'd hope that the alterations could have been completed for about $2,000. Then we'd have a couple of thousand left but with prices these days. Oh who wants a couple of thousand dollars? We do we do for a rainy day. Summer's coming. I told you I like having no furniture makes the rooms feel big You like it. I know you're just itching to dig your fingers into some of these Connecticut antique stores This is well, I can't I'm not supposed to drive around a lot You'll be good to itch another two months. I know it feels so good when you stop As a matter of fact David, I'm I'm glad we aren't getting everything all at once I mean furniture house all the rations Mortgage and everything this way I can get used to them one at a time much better you You forgot something what the baby Just like everything else one at a time. I think we've bitten off more than we can chew That's a fine way to talk about the future heir of the Norton fortune I am talking about the present pop of the future heir to the Norton debt We haven't any debts at least none we can't afford. We will have it our present rate of speed darling Do you realize how much it costs to have a baby? I think it's an outrage. So do I when you consider that everybody gets born at one time or another $300 seems like an awful lot of money. That's only the beginning. That's that's merely dr. Rollinsby There'll be the hospital and the nurses. I'm not going to have any nurses. I hope not after the first five days And that's all I'm going to be in the hospital five days. You're awfully sure of yourself, aren't you? Am I? I wish I were sure it'd be a simple So here we are clever young Norton's be especially clever David Norton With $600 in the bag don't go through that depressing list again I've been going through it all day and one thing I have decided we are not going to have a maid That's the one thing I've decided we are going to have why do I have a name because you called up the agency And she's coming tomorrow. Oh, we'll be able to afford her. You don't have to worry Then of course there's a freight terminal you and Roger are designing will be ripped when it's all done How's it coming as well as can be expected? Oh Those things take time Of course they do enormous undertaking can't expect it have it work out overnight. Well, don't you worry about it? Darling you're being a successful architect is the last thing I worry about then you have your maid and I'll go on being a Successful architect without having to worry about you up here alone all day. I'll bet you don't worry at all You're just saying that that's right. Just trying to be polite. Oh you first you're nice then you're nasty So undependent everything's independent Well, it looks like we won't be buying that cow this year planning the field We will stop the barn the first thing after we stop the nursery That's the money saved up and the furniture bought no first the cow. No, no, I don't want a cow I decided I don't want who are you fooling? I see a cow in your eye Farm is not a farm without a cow Farm is what we bought. I hope so. I know so. No, this isn't getting us any place Next time I won't try to do so much with so little. Oh Goodness, I'm sleepy Talking about money always makes me sleepy Come on up to bed. I'll turn out the light. I'll lock the front door. Oh, you got your pipe Then my pocket that is in yours. Oh There went the light Wonder if it's warm off look and see Is one Guys off the bed. Don't do it. Don't step on the steps They listen to all the frogs Hey, don't they ever sleep? They surely sleep. They sleep all day You know, it's a funny thing David Today when I realized how strapped we were I was worried Now after talking to you Not the least bit worried anymore Not even about the baby Darling It's dark and I can't see your eyes, but Tell me honestly You want all of this? What do you mean, baby? well, you're Only 19 you're going to have a baby. You're living in the country You're alone all day and We're pretty broke maybe Maybe we rushed too much What do you mean? Maybe you'd rather be back in New York With an easy apartment to keep going to the theater. Oh David. No That isn't what I want Being together is important That's all you're not just saying that but just add up all the things we have. We have a beautiful house Henson great day silly old cat a walnut tree with acres and acres of land Don't forget our brook the barn We have a baby coming and a room ready for him where the sun shines in the morning We have starlight Years of time ahead David we have each other Darling, we have no money in the band, but we're millionaires When you're at the grocers placing your order, you'll hear one woman say a carton of coke Please while another will say a carton of coca-cola, please Coke or coca-cola. It doesn't matter ask for it either way Both names mean the same thing and identify the product of the coca-cola company Both are registered trademarks of the coca-cola company. Well, I guess money isn't everything after all Joe It better not be that's all I can say. How well I know what you mean. Oh, by the way I hope that new mate of yours works out tomorrow David Man, I hope so too. I'd like to get settled with one. Do you have any idea of what she's going to be like? Oh, I wish I knew even that's not important though Now the important thing is for her to like the job and stay right you are keep your fingers crossed Joe Bye David As I was about to say 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 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 This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola