Finding a Contractor
Claudia · February 23, 1948 · 14 min · 2,437 words
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Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the 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 I must say Mr. McKenzie could have been a lot nicer. You think everybody needs cookies like him?
Here you are. Careful of these stairs, darling. Nice and the system what count when you're picking out a general contractor. Besides, Miss Mackenzie's nice and out these. Simply too busy. You were nice during wouldn't be too busy.
You were completely sure of that. Wouldn't be so greedy. He'd let somebody else eat some of the buildings. Then he'd be able to do ours. Of course he'd be able to. You heard him say he'd rather work for an architect, by God.
Us. Of course, us. I've heard so much about building houses since we bought the farm and I'm ready to sit right down and design small cathedral by myself. You mean I can retire? I still don't see why we can't make all the changes ourselves.
I think I thought it was going to be like buying a house and moving into it. You think I married you for a pioneer woman? I can just see you Mrs. Norton chopping down trees with a double headed axe and plowing fields with a double headed ox.
Well, one tad not, so two heads, I didn't care for them at all. What was wrong, did he have more brains than you? Never mind me. If you're so happy with the brains you've got, why can't we build the changes ourselves?
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