"I mean funny like something that's out of the way, and you wonder how it ever happened to happen.

I mean it seems funny I'd ever be sittin' there on a bench with that ole girl I never spoke to in my life or had anything to do with, and talkin' about the United States goin' to war.

What we were talkin' about, why, that seems just as funny as the rest of it.

Lookin' back to our class picnic, f'r instance, second year of high school, that day I jumped in the creek after-- Well, you know, it was when I started makin' a fool of myself over a girl.

Thank goodness, I got _that_ out o' my system; it makes me just sick to look back on those days and think of the fool things I did, and all I thought about that girl.