When I had first moved out to California in the 70s, two guys who became my best friends at the time were two other Chevron kids who had moved from Kentucky the same time we had.
They had a couple Bill Cosby LPs, and I got my first real introduction to that comedian beyond the Saturday morning cartoon. And one of the bits that he did was on Street Football.
It’s all about the planning stages that kids go through for playing football in the street. There are so many lines from that one that can stand alone. One of my favorites is:
“Okay now, Shorty, you’ll be the Coke bottle top.”
“I don’t wanna be the bottle cap, coach.”
“Okay, what do you wanna be?”
“I wanna be the piece of glass.”
But then this morning as I’m coming out of Emeryville, and getting on the freeway, I’m behind an AC Transit bus. I look at the designation and I see it’s the J bus.
“Cosby, you go down to 3rd street. Catch the J bus. Have them open the doors at 19th… I’ll fake it to you.”
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