Balancing The Budget

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 Four and two and six.

Oh, six, Gloria. Shmama, you'll mix me up. Four and two and six, seven and three is R, 10, carry one. Which finger do you carry one on? What one, David? The one left over from the seven and three and 10.

Oh, that one. I carry that in my head. Congratulations. Now, both of you, I'll add this column of figures all wrong. We merely interrupted you, so you'd have an excuse for your errors, Mrs. Naughton.

Thanks, Mr. Naughton. Now, let's see. Born to a six, seven, three, or ten, carry one. Four and one or five and the carried one are six. Oh dear, you'll get wrinkles adding so many numbers.

Don't distract your mother. We'll have to go through it all again. Please don't even suggest that. That makes six, 14, 42. I better check that just make sure. Why don't you just go on to the next page?

I'm tired of that one. David says check books must be balanced. So I'm balanced, the empty end. Go right ahead, darling. Don't let mama side track you. I won't, David. Can't I turn on the radio or something?

Since when do you listen to the radio? Anything to brown out the browning of your brains. Oh! Can you hear them too? David, you're tired. Are you ready to go back to bed yet? No. What should I be tired from?