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"I put a booger in your root beer..."
All aboard!
This lost hit was about some folks driving a broken-down Rambler up the California coast. Evidently, the outing described in this song went about as well as some of our vacations in the Horizon. Gaskets got blown, money got wasted on repairs, and about the only thing missing was the obligatory rain or arguing about who has to go to the bathroom or acting up at Druther's and being sent back to the car.
All in all, a disaster of a trip!
Suitably enough, the record charted in 1981 - the same year as our Chicago trip in which the Horizon broke down on the median of a busy highway and a group of people had to push it out of the way. (This is not to be confused with the famous Par-King trip of 1997.)
The song also contained a line that brang amusement to 8-year-olds everywhere: "I'll have a burger and a root beer." New lyrics were inevitably conjured by all 3rd graders within earshot: "I put a booger in your root beer." It's one thing to put mucus in someone's root beer, but it's another to brag about it.
Maybe that's why so many kids got sent out of Druther's.
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