Painted into a Corner

Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the original stories 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 mean the flood waters have receded you wouldn't know anything it happened

almost. The only real casualty is mama's double boiler. Chalk up one double boiler we owe to mama. Half of us are right. I mean there's only a hole in one pot. It ought a single boil pretty well.

That sounds on the complicated side. David. Yes darling? It really is nice to be an architect. What do you mean nice? I mean it is fun. An architect must have a good time being an architect.

Come on in darling I can't hear you. out. Knicked myself with this confounded razor. I forgot to bring a new blade with me when we came over to mothers last night. You knicked yourself badly? I live. Sure an architect has a good time with his ouch. Now what's happened? I just knicked myself

again with this confounded razor. Oh, yes, I'm not used to talking while I shave. Why talk then? It wasn't until you started. No, but you were singing. That's different. Mm-hmm. I don't know what I'm so happy about. It's contagious. You caught it from me. I just uncaught it.

I just remembered that we have to have dinner with your Aunt Louise tonight. Well, we have to eat somewhere. Might as well be at Aunt Louise's. On the theory that if you're going to be shot, you might as well be hung. We wouldn't be settled enough to eat at home anyway. We can leave early.