July 29, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, I pulled brand flakes. Really the best taking cereal
of mom.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, your father says so, and father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Young as father.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
A half hour visit with your neighbor's and Anderson brought
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the time of year when a person begins to think
how nice it would be to get away for a while,
just a couple of days. Of course, it isn't always easy,
but it's worth prime at least. That's the way Jim
Anderson feels this afternoon as he heads the family car
in the general direction of the white frame house on
Maple Street. There he goes up, Grand turns on for it,
and hey, there's Bud stretching home from school.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
But oh, Bud, oh hi Dad?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Going home? Or get in?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Thanks, I'll school go today? Pretty good?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
You coming home early?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (01:30):
I closed up the office this afternoon. I'm going to
take a couple of days off. Got a new suit, huh, yeah,
stopped at the bottle shop, got a shave and a
hair cut.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Good idea, You don't have to shave for a couple
of days.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Now, well, that isn't exactly the idea.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
I thought I'd take your mother and just the two
of us have a little holiday, go away for a
couple of days.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Maybe you are.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I guess Mom will be surprised. Puts in the box.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Here, flowers. Flowers, certainly a dozen red roses.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Only calm.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You learn as you grow older.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
Son, there's nothing pleases a woman quite so much as
to have a husband come home early, all spruced up,
bring her flowers.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Say honey, you look beautiful. Women love that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
You think Mom will be home?
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Of course, by this time in the afternoon, she probably
has her work finished.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I imagine she's lying on the couch, relaxing, reading a book.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
Just tak.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
You're getting soap in my eyes.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Well close your eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I can't get this paint off without soap, mother, I'm.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Out in the service porch. Betty, don't scrub so hard.
You have green paint clear down to your toes.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Mother, do you know where for Pete's sake? What huband
poor Kathy was climbing up the shelves in the garage
and a can of paint fell down.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Stand still, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Why can't I take a bath in a bathtub? Because
I don't want a green bathroom. It's gonna be hard
enough to clean this laundry tub.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Oh, mother, you're a sight. I can't brush the hair
out of my eyes with soap all over my hand.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
No I will, Mommy, No, no, angel Oh murder. Now
you've got a smear of green paint.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Across your face.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh no, I didn't know it was on my hands.
Oh what's the difference. I'm drenched, splattered, and before this happened,
the bag came off the vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Sit down in the tub, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Okay, Oh, Kathy, both beats all over everything.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
What are you trying to do?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Drown us?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Mommy said to sit down on the top.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Oh it doesn't matter. I've given up.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh mother, if father could only see you now, Oh,
you won't be home for another hour or so. Maybe
I'll have a chance to runt door. Mommy, see who
it is, Betty. Oh, I can't go to the door.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
I'm not dressed.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh, I'd stay here with Kathy, I'll go now, wash
your hands. Intent they got paint on him?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
You wash him well?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Sixty Oh, don't touch anything?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
All right?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
All right, I'm coming if I ever get through this day?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yes, why.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Uh is missus Anderson? Margaret?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
What are you doing home?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I thought i'd surprise you?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
You did?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Oh, honey, what happened?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, I'm not quite sure, dear. This has been one
of those days that.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Margaret. What was that for?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
I just saw myself in the mirror. Maybe you're in
the wrong house. Why don't you just go down the
street and pick out another one?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Has something gone wrong today?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, the roof hasn't fallen in.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
See who's at the.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Door, dear?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Oh, bud, I got locked out?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
My mom?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Anything to eat in the icebox?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't know?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
But come look?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
How do you like that pretty sharp huh?
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Sting looks nice, so.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Do you me?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
You look comfortable, Jim.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
I wonder if we should have his eyes examined.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Mother, Yes, it's saying it's clean. Practically, I can't get
any more of the paint off.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
And we'll have to let the rest wear off.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You'll find her clean clothes on the ironing board.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
What happened, honey?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Among other things, Kathy spilled paint all over herself, the
vacuum cleaner blew up, and I've had at least twenty
phone called about the PTA carnival. So you haven't stopped
since eight o'clock this morning.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
How can you stand to look at me?
Speaker 7 (05:58):
You always look fine to me, honey, you know that.
Just to prove it, look here flowers for my best girl.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Ah je.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Red Roses.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
I had a brilliant thought this afternoon. Things are quiet,
so I said to myself, this is a good time
to take a day or two off. I stopped at
the tailor's, picked up my new suit, bought the flowers,
and here we are.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
We have a holiday. Let's get in the car and
go someplace.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
You mean just leave.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
No, you can change your dress if you want to.
Let's just take off.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
We'll go up to the Indian Spring. Oh, go back
tomorrow night. Betty and Butter are old enough to hold
down the house. The Davises are right next door.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, it's a wonderful idea, dear.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Only now, don't try to think of reasons why we
can't go, ah.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Not, there are so many things to do.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
There's nothing that can't wait.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
You let the little things around the house become too important.
All you have to do is set them aside for
one day. They'll keep Well, it's simply a matter of
deciding and.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Going all right, But I have to go out and
try to make myself look like a human being.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Do you want to go out and see how Kathy's
getting along?
Speaker 7 (07:09):
I'll handle things down here. You'll go ahead, Kathy, Betty
round here, father.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
I finally got this child dress.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
How do you like my yellow dress? Daddy?
Speaker 7 (07:20):
It goes very nice with your pale green eyebrows.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Excuse me, father, me, I use the phone. Well, certainly, princess,
you're going to the movie with us tonight, daddy.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Well not tonight, kitten. You see your mommy's going.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
She's taking Patty Davis from me.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, but uh, why don't you.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Go with us, daddy? It's Friday night? Hello, Ral Betty,
I found the skate. You wouldn't have to pay for us,
just for your own tickets.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, I'd like to go with you, kitten, But will
all make.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Up, Jenny and then swing by your house?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
What's wrong with that car?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh? Good? What are you bringing in here? Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But take that greasy old piece of machinery. How's the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
I gotta bring it in here.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But what is it?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
It's the motor out of my motor scooter. I've gotta fix.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It, Father making take it out. The whole house smells
of dirty, old oil. Hello, Ralph, Well I'd much rather
go with you. God, don't lean that against the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Look, Bud, can't you fix that out in the garage.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
There's not enough flight out there.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Don't take it out on the back porch.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
It's cold out there.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh, only backwards. That's no good.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Look.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I know my father will drive us over and we'll
pick up Jamie on the No.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Wait, no thanks Dad. It's a lot easier to work
on it in here.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I was talking to baby, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
He was talking to Bud. No, they aren't going out tonight.
I'll see you about seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
By prinches. Listen, I can't drive you any place tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That's all right, do it? How can she do that?
Mommy's going to the movies with it.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
I got one spark out of it dead.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
But you can't work on that motor here in the kitchen.
Take it down to the basement.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Okay, Well help me carry it, will you?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
All right? Get hold of it.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Don't grab the carburetor. It's just tied on with rope.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I'm going up and ask mommy. She said you was
gonna take us.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
To the movies.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Watch it dead. Don't lift it by the timer that's
held on by tape.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
But is there any part of this thing that's securely
fastened to any other part?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Maybe we ought to carry it in a bag.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Just put it in the corner on some newspapers for
the time being.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
But I have to talk to your mother.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Oh that's right, you were gonna go someplace.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
What are you leaving? I don't know bout it, Margaret.
Why don't you just go?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeh?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Will you come downstairs a minute. I'm going in the den, bud.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
That's what I do.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
I just go.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
What do you want him?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Come in the den? Second problems? Uh, Margaret?
Speaker 7 (10:05):
What are all these things going on? Betty going out?
Cathy says you promised to take her to the movies?
What about our plans?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Well, dear, I was telling you there were a lot
of things to be done. You see, the children make plans.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Oh, but I think you and I deserve a little consideration.
How often do we get a chance to take a
little trip.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Just you and me?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Not very often, I'll admit.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
The last time you and I took a trip together
it was nine years ago when the dog ran away
and we went over to Brookdale.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
To bring him back.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Well there, you know, I'd like to go.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
If you can explain to the children you think that
once in nine years we could get away for just
a day.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Well, I'm all for it.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's just that, well Betty had this date for the night.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Oh, couldn't she make it for another night? Ralph isn't
leaving town? Nothing that good would ever happen.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
I suppose she could, but I did tell Kathy heh.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Look, Connie, we don't ask much of the children. They
have it very easy. Couldn't they change their plans for
us just as once?
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Well? Probably?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I sometimes think we put ourselves out too much for
the kids. They begin to take things.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
For granted now and then I think we should put
our foot down, take a firm positive stand.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Why can't they do a little favor for us just once?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
No, I don't know, dar can't you ask them? And see?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Why don't you ask them?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Bebby would carry more weight.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
If you brought it up, We've changed our plans to
accommodate them any number of times.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Well, let's talk it over with.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
That's the way to do it.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Of course, it wouldn't be right to just go out
and slam the door in their faces.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It isn't as easy for the children to give up
something they've planned as it is for us.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I know Kathy's all dressed to go to the movies.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Betty's got her skates and everything for this ice party
or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Well, let's tell them what we'd like to do.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yes, see how they about it?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Betty, Cathy?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
What what do you want coming to? Dan Kitten? We're
going to have a meeting.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Goody, I'll sit over here.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
You call dead. Yes, we're having a little meeting here.
Oh oh, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
It's a meeting. Will it take long? I have a
million things to do.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
No, it'll probably be over very quickly.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
What have we done, Dad?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
You haven't done anything. It's not that kind of a meeting.
Mother and I have something we wish to discuss with you.
It's about tonight.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Are you going to the movies with this?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
We'll see kit Now, this is what happened. I was
able to get away from the.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Office for a couple of days, so I thought perhaps
mother and I might take a little trip, just the
two of us. It's been a long time since we've
been anywhere together. We're going to leave this afternoon, but
since you children had plans for this evening, we felt
it was only fair to see how you felt about it.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I think it's an utterly beautiful, simply gorgeous I you do.
Can't we go?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Not stilly. They don't want people tagging along.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
We don't want you.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I think it's the most wonderful, romantic thing I've ever heard,
that my mother and father want to go someplace alone together.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
But the Princess, it'll mean that you'll have to my
day tonight.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Who cares? I ten thousand times rather see you and
mother go on this trip. It would be like your
second honeymoon. Can I help you pack?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Of course? Angel?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Do you think Bud?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
I think the trouble is in the carburettor.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
He's still thinking about that dumb old motor.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Look.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'll call Ralph and tell him the day's off. Then
we'll get the suitcases out of the attic. You wear
your tweet suit, mother, and take the Now do you
children think you'll be all right here?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Of course? What are you gonna wear? Father?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well, i'd planned that's what you have on?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Is fine. You'll pack your gray suit and a couple
of sweaters. Come on, but let's go up and get
the suitcases.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Okay, I'll wipe off the car for you.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I'll get your things out of a closet. Mother, Father,
you better call any of springs for reservations.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
All right, Princess, don't pull on my coat.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Hurry good Mommy, get things pie, I will Angel, but
don't pull and move on Dad, Margaret, what do you
think who's thinking?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
We're going?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Who's going we're being thrown out?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
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Speaker 2 (15:54):
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Speaker 3 (16:27):
Well.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Jim and Margaret Anderson fully expected loud cries of protests
from their offspring when they suggested they might take an
overnight trip up to Indian Springs, but the junior residents
of the White Frame House ran through to.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Form and came right back with the unexpected. They were delighted.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
In fact, Jim scarcely had the words out of his mouth.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Before Bud had the suitcases.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Down from the attic, and Betty and Kathy were packed
like this.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Not the overcoat, cafy, that doesn't go in the suitcase.
Where did the shoes go?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
The shoes go in the suitcase.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Then the overcoat has to go on the suitcase. Why,
because I got the shoes wrapping the overcoat. Oh, grown,
take them out. Father has to wear his overcoat. Well,
he has to wear shoes too.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Better wear.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Are the suitcases down here?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Mother? Why are we packing in the living room?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Well, Bud brought the suitcases down here from the attic,
and then he was too tired to take them back
up to your room. So we're packing down here.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Oh, where is Bud?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
He's carrying the clothes down from your room.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well, it's an interesting way to do it. Where am i?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Oh, Bud, I can't see over the stack of clothes.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Put them down on the couch.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Kids. I deeply appreciate this magnificent effort. But we're only
going to be gone one day.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
You know, Well, you might need all this stuff.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Do you suppose we could dispense with the beach umbrella?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Beach umbrella?
Speaker 6 (17:59):
What feather bread? I ain't brought that down.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
They might get caught in the rain.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
You have slippers there.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
I think I saw them disappear into one of those cases.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Yeah, they're in clear down at the bottom of the
big ones.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I brought the slippers down from upstairs.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
That's fine kitting. Which pair did you bring down? The
black ones are the brown ones?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I didn't know which ones you wanted, so I brought
one of each. Oh, you're such a big hell.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
It's all right.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
She's trying, probably both to the left foot.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Well, never mind digging them out, Princess, I'll just walk
in a circle.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
I think we must have everything.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
What's that brown paper bag in there?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Bananas? You might get hungry.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
They're not going into the wilderness, knucklehead.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Well, Indian springs. That sounds pretty wilder. Never see, mother,
I don't think we've forgotten anything. I'm sure there's nothing
we've left out.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Take a look in the kitchen, bud, see if the
stove is still there.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
You wear your coats, and don't forget your flowers.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Mother, I must take the roses.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yes, help me shut these suitcases.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Then if you.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Stand on top, okay, wait till I get the lid down.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
We'll call your princess as soon as we get to
the hotel.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Up there, and you have the phone number at Indian
Spring so you can call us. Oh, don't worry, mother,
we'll get along just peachy. Everything you need in the
way of food is in the refrigerator.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Oh, and get a dozen eggs from the milkman in
the morning.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
I told the davis As we were going, and they're
going to open a window on the side facing our house.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
If anything happens, you just call. We'll be okay.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Don't worry, bet.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
If you and bub want to have some of your friends.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Over, No, after dinner, I'm going to get into my
pajamas and read.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I'm gonna work on my motor. I'm showing my dog clothes.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Well, don't take the car row, Honey, I'll carry the suitcases.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Good bye, good bye till they get.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
To the door.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Stupid gee, I'm so spilled.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
You can go.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Mother, have a simply super devastating time. We'll call you
as soon as we get there and go to the
davis As.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
If you need anything, we will, Mother.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
We'll be back tomorrow evening.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Goodbye, darling, Goodbye mother.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Bye bye old man, Goodbye da.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Bye Angel, Go bye princess, Goodbye bye, goodbye father, Bye, goodbye.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
I will goodbye, darling, have.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
A good time.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Sure to locked all the doors, will.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Be sure you have a good dinner.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
We will. Goodbye, Margaret. They went in the house and
closed the door.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
What did you expect, dear?
Speaker 7 (20:36):
I thought maybe they'd wait till we got in the car.
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Nice night to drive.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yes, the paper said, clear tonight tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
The showers in the northern part of the state in
the morning and clearing in the afternoon.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Certainly seems good. Get away, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yes, certainly seems good. Been a long time.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Yes, it's been a long time.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I'm enjoying it already, aren't you. Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yes, it feels like we're on a trip now, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
We are on a trip, that's right.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I haven't even thought about the office or the house
or anything, have you.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
No, I'm just enjoying the trip.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
The uh children have probably finished dinner getting ready for
bed now.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I hope they'll be warm enough.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
How long have we been gone?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Seven minutes?
Speaker 7 (22:28):
The papers had showers in the northern part of the state,
could get some rain.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
In Springfield, it looked a little like rain when we.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Left, Margaret, did you closed the window in our room?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Was it open?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I believe it was. I believe I remember opening it.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Oh, I didn't close it.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Betty doesn't know it's open, and it could rain in.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
What do you think, Well, we're only a few minutes
away from home. Go back and tell the kids about
the window.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Wouldn't take for a few minutes.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
We don't want it to rain in on the rud.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
No, we'd better go back. I guess the children are
all right. Lights out in the living room.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
In the kitchen, I can see the windows in our
room are closed.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Oh well, I suppose everything else is all right.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Yeah, it looks all right.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
It might be fun to kind of look in see
how they're getting along.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Well, it is the first time we've left them.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
They tried to be brave about it when we left.
Didn't want us to think they'd miss us. You know,
there we go.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I I guess we could just take a peek in
the kitchen window.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
There's Kathy going through the dining room. Look at that.
She's got her big raggedy and dog.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
How she's growing.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
M there's Betty in the kitchen, she's peeling potatoes.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
I guess she has, but making a salad.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Kathy's going to set the table.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Looks warm and comfortable in there, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
That's a cold night. You uh wanna put your hands
in my pockets.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I suppose we should go, shouldn't we?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Hm?
Speaker 7 (24:41):
You know, it's boomed, Margaret. Looking at Butt in there,
he seems to have kind of a sad, lonely look
on his face.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Betty doesn't seem to be smiling.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Over there, she lie, brave girl, keeping up the spirits
of the other two. You're getting cold here, yeah, little,
I feel so sorry for those poor kids in there.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Honey, Yes, had enough?
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Mm hmm, Kathy, Beatty Bud put two more plates on
the table.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
We're home well, Margaret and Jim. Time is perfectly hust
in time for dinner.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Now let's look in on the happy family all together
around the table.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Thank Cathy. You must have expected me back making this
big pot.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
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Speaker 3 (26:25):
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Speaker 7 (26:27):
How about treating your family to instant post them often
it's caffeine free. Well, this is.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Truly an age of speed.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Looked at Jim and Margaret Anders, they completed a twenty
four hour holiday in just fourteen minutes. But at any rate,
quiet and contempment rain again.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
In the white frame house on Maple Street.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Kathy has gone to the movie with Patty Day of
Us and her mother Betty is going to we skating party,
and Jim and Margaret second honeymooners have the living room
to themselves like this.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I don't think the children will ever understand why we
came back.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Someday they will.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
I wonder if we're getting stuffy.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Stuffy just because we like our home and our children.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
No, I don't mean that.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
They say it's a sign that you're getting stuffy when
you start liking things peaceful and quiet.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Where'd you hear that?
Speaker 6 (27:29):
I read it in a magazine somewhere.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Getting stuffy if you like peace and quiet, huh.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
And you can understand how there might be some truth
to it.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I suppose he did. I got it running. That's fine time.
You're right, Margaret, I'm stuffy, but shut.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
That thing up.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
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the time of year when a person begins to think
how nice it would be to get away for a while,
just a couple of days. Of course, it isn't always easy,
but it's worth prime at least. That's the way Jim
Anderson feels this afternoon as he heads the family car
in the general direction of the white frame house on
Maple Street. There he goes up, Grand turns on for it,
and hey, there's Bud stretching home from school.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
But oh, Bud, oh hi Dad?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Going home? Or get in?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Thanks, I'll school go today? Pretty good?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
You coming home early?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (01:30):
I closed up the office this afternoon. I'm going to
take a couple of days off. Got a new suit, huh, yeah,
stopped at the bottle shop, got a shave and a
hair cut.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Good idea, You don't have to shave for a couple
of days.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Now, well, that isn't exactly the idea.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
I thought I'd take your mother and just the two
of us have a little holiday, go away for a
couple of days.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Maybe you are.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I guess Mom will be surprised. Puts in the box.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Here, flowers. Flowers, certainly a dozen red roses.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Only calm.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You learn as you grow older.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
Son, there's nothing pleases a woman quite so much as
to have a husband come home early, all spruced up,
bring her flowers.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Say honey, you look beautiful. Women love that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
You think Mom will be home?
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Of course, by this time in the afternoon, she probably
has her work finished.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I imagine she's lying on the couch, relaxing, reading a book.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
Just tak.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
You're getting soap in my eyes.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Well close your eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I can't get this paint off without soap, mother, I'm.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Out in the service porch. Betty, don't scrub so hard.
You have green paint clear down to your toes.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Mother, do you know where for Pete's sake? What huband
poor Kathy was climbing up the shelves in the garage
and a can of paint fell down.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Stand still, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Why can't I take a bath in a bathtub? Because
I don't want a green bathroom. It's gonna be hard
enough to clean this laundry tub.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Oh, mother, you're a sight. I can't brush the hair
out of my eyes with soap all over my hand.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
No I will, Mommy, No, no, angel Oh murder. Now
you've got a smear of green paint.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Across your face.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh no, I didn't know it was on my hands.
Oh what's the difference. I'm drenched, splattered, and before this happened,
the bag came off the vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Sit down in the tub, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Okay, Oh, Kathy, both beats all over everything.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
What are you trying to do?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Drown us?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Mommy said to sit down on the top.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Oh it doesn't matter. I've given up.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh mother, if father could only see you now, Oh,
you won't be home for another hour or so. Maybe
I'll have a chance to runt door. Mommy, see who
it is, Betty. Oh, I can't go to the door.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
I'm not dressed.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh, I'd stay here with Kathy, I'll go now, wash
your hands. Intent they got paint on him?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
You wash him well?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Sixty Oh, don't touch anything?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
All right?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
All right, I'm coming if I ever get through this day?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yes, why.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Uh is missus Anderson? Margaret?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
What are you doing home?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I thought i'd surprise you?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
You did?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Oh, honey, what happened?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, I'm not quite sure, dear. This has been one
of those days that.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Margaret. What was that for?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
I just saw myself in the mirror. Maybe you're in
the wrong house. Why don't you just go down the
street and pick out another one?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Has something gone wrong today?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, the roof hasn't fallen in.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
See who's at the.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Door, dear?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Oh, bud, I got locked out?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
My mom?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Anything to eat in the icebox?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't know?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
But come look?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
How do you like that pretty sharp huh?
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Sting looks nice, so.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Do you me?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
You look comfortable, Jim.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
I wonder if we should have his eyes examined.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Mother, Yes, it's saying it's clean. Practically, I can't get
any more of the paint off.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
And we'll have to let the rest wear off.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You'll find her clean clothes on the ironing board.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
What happened, honey?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Among other things, Kathy spilled paint all over herself, the
vacuum cleaner blew up, and I've had at least twenty
phone called about the PTA carnival. So you haven't stopped
since eight o'clock this morning.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
How can you stand to look at me?
Speaker 7 (05:58):
You always look fine to me, honey, you know that.
Just to prove it, look here flowers for my best girl.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Ah je.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Red Roses.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
I had a brilliant thought this afternoon. Things are quiet,
so I said to myself, this is a good time
to take a day or two off. I stopped at
the tailor's, picked up my new suit, bought the flowers,
and here we are.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
We have a holiday. Let's get in the car and
go someplace.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
You mean just leave.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
No, you can change your dress if you want to.
Let's just take off.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
We'll go up to the Indian Spring. Oh, go back
tomorrow night. Betty and Butter are old enough to hold
down the house. The Davises are right next door.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, it's a wonderful idea, dear.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Only now, don't try to think of reasons why we
can't go, ah.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Not, there are so many things to do.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
There's nothing that can't wait.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
You let the little things around the house become too important.
All you have to do is set them aside for
one day. They'll keep Well, it's simply a matter of
deciding and.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Going all right, But I have to go out and
try to make myself look like a human being.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Do you want to go out and see how Kathy's
getting along?
Speaker 7 (07:09):
I'll handle things down here. You'll go ahead, Kathy, Betty
round here, father.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
I finally got this child dress.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
How do you like my yellow dress? Daddy?
Speaker 7 (07:20):
It goes very nice with your pale green eyebrows.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Excuse me, father, me, I use the phone. Well, certainly, princess,
you're going to the movie with us tonight, daddy.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Well not tonight, kitten. You see your mommy's going.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
She's taking Patty Davis from me.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, but uh, why don't you.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Go with us, daddy? It's Friday night? Hello, Ral Betty,
I found the skate. You wouldn't have to pay for us,
just for your own tickets.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, I'd like to go with you, kitten, But will
all make.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Up, Jenny and then swing by your house?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
What's wrong with that car?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh? Good? What are you bringing in here? Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But take that greasy old piece of machinery. How's the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
I gotta bring it in here.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But what is it?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
It's the motor out of my motor scooter. I've gotta fix.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It, Father making take it out. The whole house smells
of dirty, old oil. Hello, Ralph, Well I'd much rather
go with you. God, don't lean that against the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Look, Bud, can't you fix that out in the garage.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
There's not enough flight out there.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Don't take it out on the back porch.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
It's cold out there.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh, only backwards. That's no good.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Look.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I know my father will drive us over and we'll
pick up Jamie on the No.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Wait, no thanks Dad. It's a lot easier to work
on it in here.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I was talking to baby, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
He was talking to Bud. No, they aren't going out tonight.
I'll see you about seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
By prinches. Listen, I can't drive you any place tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That's all right, do it? How can she do that?
Mommy's going to the movies with it.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
I got one spark out of it dead.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
But you can't work on that motor here in the kitchen.
Take it down to the basement.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Okay, Well help me carry it, will you?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
All right? Get hold of it.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Don't grab the carburetor. It's just tied on with rope.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I'm going up and ask mommy. She said you was
gonna take us.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
To the movies.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Watch it dead. Don't lift it by the timer that's
held on by tape.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
But is there any part of this thing that's securely
fastened to any other part?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Maybe we ought to carry it in a bag.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Just put it in the corner on some newspapers for
the time being.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
But I have to talk to your mother.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Oh that's right, you were gonna go someplace.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
What are you leaving? I don't know bout it, Margaret.
Why don't you just go?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeh?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Will you come downstairs a minute. I'm going in the den, bud.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
That's what I do.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
I just go.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
What do you want him?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Come in the den? Second problems? Uh, Margaret?
Speaker 7 (10:05):
What are all these things going on? Betty going out?
Cathy says you promised to take her to the movies?
What about our plans?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Well, dear, I was telling you there were a lot
of things to be done. You see, the children make plans.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Oh, but I think you and I deserve a little consideration.
How often do we get a chance to take a
little trip.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Just you and me?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Not very often, I'll admit.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
The last time you and I took a trip together
it was nine years ago when the dog ran away
and we went over to Brookdale.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
To bring him back.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Well there, you know, I'd like to go.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
If you can explain to the children you think that
once in nine years we could get away for just
a day.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Well, I'm all for it.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's just that, well Betty had this date for the night.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Oh, couldn't she make it for another night? Ralph isn't
leaving town? Nothing that good would ever happen.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
I suppose she could, but I did tell Kathy heh.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Look, Connie, we don't ask much of the children. They
have it very easy. Couldn't they change their plans for
us just as once?
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Well? Probably?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I sometimes think we put ourselves out too much for
the kids. They begin to take things.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
For granted now and then I think we should put
our foot down, take a firm positive stand.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Why can't they do a little favor for us just once?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
No, I don't know, dar can't you ask them? And see?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Why don't you ask them?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Bebby would carry more weight.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
If you brought it up, We've changed our plans to
accommodate them any number of times.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Well, let's talk it over with.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
That's the way to do it.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Of course, it wouldn't be right to just go out
and slam the door in their faces.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It isn't as easy for the children to give up
something they've planned as it is for us.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I know Kathy's all dressed to go to the movies.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Betty's got her skates and everything for this ice party
or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Well, let's tell them what we'd like to do.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yes, see how they about it?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Betty, Cathy?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
What what do you want coming to? Dan Kitten? We're
going to have a meeting.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Goody, I'll sit over here.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
You call dead. Yes, we're having a little meeting here.
Oh oh, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
It's a meeting. Will it take long? I have a
million things to do.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
No, it'll probably be over very quickly.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
What have we done, Dad?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
You haven't done anything. It's not that kind of a meeting.
Mother and I have something we wish to discuss with you.
It's about tonight.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Are you going to the movies with this?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
We'll see kit Now, this is what happened. I was
able to get away from the.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Office for a couple of days, so I thought perhaps
mother and I might take a little trip, just the
two of us. It's been a long time since we've
been anywhere together. We're going to leave this afternoon, but
since you children had plans for this evening, we felt
it was only fair to see how you felt about it.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I think it's an utterly beautiful, simply gorgeous I you do.
Can't we go?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Not stilly. They don't want people tagging along.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
We don't want you.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I think it's the most wonderful, romantic thing I've ever heard,
that my mother and father want to go someplace alone together.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
But the Princess, it'll mean that you'll have to my
day tonight.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Who cares? I ten thousand times rather see you and
mother go on this trip. It would be like your
second honeymoon. Can I help you pack?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Of course? Angel?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Do you think Bud?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
I think the trouble is in the carburettor.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
He's still thinking about that dumb old motor.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Look.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'll call Ralph and tell him the day's off. Then
we'll get the suitcases out of the attic. You wear
your tweet suit, mother, and take the Now do you
children think you'll be all right here?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Of course? What are you gonna wear? Father?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well, i'd planned that's what you have on?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Is fine. You'll pack your gray suit and a couple
of sweaters. Come on, but let's go up and get
the suitcases.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Okay, I'll wipe off the car for you.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I'll get your things out of a closet. Mother, Father,
you better call any of springs for reservations.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
All right, Princess, don't pull on my coat.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Hurry good Mommy, get things pie, I will Angel, but
don't pull and move on Dad, Margaret, what do you
think who's thinking?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
We're going?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Who's going we're being thrown out?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Well, it looks like this day is going to be
full of surprises for the surprising Anderson. And if you
mother's listening in, want to surprise your family for breakfast?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Just listen to this.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
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Speaker 3 (15:09):
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Speaker 3 (15:27):
The fact is they taste so good.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
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Speaker 2 (15:54):
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Speaker 7 (16:05):
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You'll find out that they're so good and so good
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Speaker 3 (16:27):
Well.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Jim and Margaret Anderson fully expected loud cries of protests
from their offspring when they suggested they might take an
overnight trip up to Indian Springs, but the junior residents
of the White Frame House ran through to.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Form and came right back with the unexpected. They were delighted.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
In fact, Jim scarcely had the words out of his mouth.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Before Bud had the suitcases.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Down from the attic, and Betty and Kathy were packed
like this.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Not the overcoat, cafy, that doesn't go in the suitcase.
Where did the shoes go?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
The shoes go in the suitcase.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Then the overcoat has to go on the suitcase. Why,
because I got the shoes wrapping the overcoat. Oh, grown,
take them out. Father has to wear his overcoat. Well,
he has to wear shoes too.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Better wear.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Are the suitcases down here?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Mother? Why are we packing in the living room?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Well, Bud brought the suitcases down here from the attic,
and then he was too tired to take them back
up to your room. So we're packing down here.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Oh, where is Bud?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
He's carrying the clothes down from your room.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well, it's an interesting way to do it. Where am i?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Oh, Bud, I can't see over the stack of clothes.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Put them down on the couch.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Kids. I deeply appreciate this magnificent effort. But we're only
going to be gone one day.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
You know, Well, you might need all this stuff.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Do you suppose we could dispense with the beach umbrella?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Beach umbrella?
Speaker 6 (17:59):
What feather bread? I ain't brought that down.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
They might get caught in the rain.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
You have slippers there.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
I think I saw them disappear into one of those cases.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Yeah, they're in clear down at the bottom of the
big ones.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I brought the slippers down from upstairs.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
That's fine kitting. Which pair did you bring down? The
black ones are the brown ones?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I didn't know which ones you wanted, so I brought
one of each. Oh, you're such a big hell.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
It's all right.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
She's trying, probably both to the left foot.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Well, never mind digging them out, Princess, I'll just walk
in a circle.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
I think we must have everything.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
What's that brown paper bag in there?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Bananas? You might get hungry.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
They're not going into the wilderness, knucklehead.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Well, Indian springs. That sounds pretty wilder. Never see, mother,
I don't think we've forgotten anything. I'm sure there's nothing
we've left out.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Take a look in the kitchen, bud, see if the
stove is still there.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
You wear your coats, and don't forget your flowers.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Mother, I must take the roses.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yes, help me shut these suitcases.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Then if you.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Stand on top, okay, wait till I get the lid down.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
We'll call your princess as soon as we get to
the hotel.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Up there, and you have the phone number at Indian
Spring so you can call us. Oh, don't worry, mother,
we'll get along just peachy. Everything you need in the
way of food is in the refrigerator.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Oh, and get a dozen eggs from the milkman in
the morning.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
I told the davis As we were going, and they're
going to open a window on the side facing our house.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
If anything happens, you just call. We'll be okay.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Don't worry, bet.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
If you and bub want to have some of your friends.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Over, No, after dinner, I'm going to get into my
pajamas and read.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I'm gonna work on my motor. I'm showing my dog clothes.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Well, don't take the car row, Honey, I'll carry the suitcases.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Good bye, good bye till they get.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
To the door.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Stupid gee, I'm so spilled.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
You can go.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Mother, have a simply super devastating time. We'll call you
as soon as we get there and go to the
davis As.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
If you need anything, we will, Mother.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
We'll be back tomorrow evening.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Goodbye, darling, Goodbye mother.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Bye bye old man, Goodbye da.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Bye Angel, Go bye princess, Goodbye bye, goodbye father, Bye, goodbye.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
I will goodbye, darling, have.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
A good time.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Sure to locked all the doors, will.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Be sure you have a good dinner.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
We will. Goodbye, Margaret. They went in the house and
closed the door.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
What did you expect, dear?
Speaker 7 (20:36):
I thought maybe they'd wait till we got in the car.
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Nice night to drive.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yes, the paper said, clear tonight tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
The showers in the northern part of the state in
the morning and clearing in the afternoon.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Certainly seems good. Get away, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yes, certainly seems good. Been a long time.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Yes, it's been a long time.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I'm enjoying it already, aren't you. Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yes, it feels like we're on a trip now, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
We are on a trip, that's right.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I haven't even thought about the office or the house
or anything, have you.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
No, I'm just enjoying the trip.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
The uh children have probably finished dinner getting ready for
bed now.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I hope they'll be warm enough.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
How long have we been gone?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Seven minutes?
Speaker 7 (22:28):
The papers had showers in the northern part of the state,
could get some rain.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
In Springfield, it looked a little like rain when we.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Left, Margaret, did you closed the window in our room?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Was it open?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I believe it was. I believe I remember opening it.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Oh, I didn't close it.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Betty doesn't know it's open, and it could rain in.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
What do you think, Well, we're only a few minutes
away from home. Go back and tell the kids about
the window.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Wouldn't take for a few minutes.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
We don't want it to rain in on the rud.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
No, we'd better go back. I guess the children are
all right. Lights out in the living room.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
In the kitchen, I can see the windows in our
room are closed.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Oh well, I suppose everything else is all right.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Yeah, it looks all right.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
It might be fun to kind of look in see
how they're getting along.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Well, it is the first time we've left them.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
They tried to be brave about it when we left.
Didn't want us to think they'd miss us. You know,
there we go.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I I guess we could just take a peek in
the kitchen window.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
There's Kathy going through the dining room. Look at that.
She's got her big raggedy and dog.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
How she's growing.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
M there's Betty in the kitchen, she's peeling potatoes.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
I guess she has, but making a salad.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Kathy's going to set the table.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Looks warm and comfortable in there, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
That's a cold night. You uh wanna put your hands
in my pockets.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I suppose we should go, shouldn't we?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Hm?
Speaker 7 (24:41):
You know, it's boomed, Margaret. Looking at Butt in there,
he seems to have kind of a sad, lonely look
on his face.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Betty doesn't seem to be smiling.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Over there, she lie, brave girl, keeping up the spirits
of the other two. You're getting cold here, yeah, little,
I feel so sorry for those poor kids in there.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Honey, Yes, had enough?
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Mm hmm, Kathy, Beatty Bud put two more plates on
the table.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
We're home well, Margaret and Jim. Time is perfectly hust
in time for dinner.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Now let's look in on the happy family all together
around the table.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Thank Cathy. You must have expected me back making this
big pot.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
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Speaker 3 (26:25):
Your nerves or your sleep.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
How about treating your family to instant post them often
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Speaker 3 (26:45):
Truly an age of speed.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Looked at Jim and Margaret Anders, they completed a twenty
four hour holiday in just fourteen minutes. But at any rate,
quiet and contempment rain again.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
In the white frame house on Maple Street.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Kathy has gone to the movie with Patty Day of
Us and her mother Betty is going to we skating party,
and Jim and Margaret second honeymooners have the living room
to themselves like this.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I don't think the children will ever understand why we
came back.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Someday they will.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
I wonder if we're getting stuffy.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Stuffy just because we like our home and our children.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
No, I don't mean that.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
They say it's a sign that you're getting stuffy when
you start liking things peaceful and quiet.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Where'd you hear that?
Speaker 6 (27:29):
I read it in a magazine somewhere.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Getting stuffy if you like peace and quiet, huh.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
And you can understand how there might be some truth
to it.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I suppose he did. I got it running. That's fine time.
You're right, Margaret, I'm stuffy, but shut.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
That thing up.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Join us again next week and we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson. Until then,
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Speaker 2 (28:27):
Mom, I think you're beautiful.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
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the whole world. Thank you, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
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Speaker 3 (28:39):
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Speaker 3 (29:08):
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Speaker 8 (29:14):
NBC interrupts this program to repeat a special bulletin. Moscow
Radio has announced the death of Joseph Stalin. Death was
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