Mabel works at a roadside diner on the inland California highway, where truck drivers stop on their runs. Fred, a driver who hauls oil, arrives and speaks to her with a provocative manner, and she resents his cutting remarks about her. Steve, a dynamite driver she has been seeing, is later killed when his truck blows up on the road. Fred then takes a dynamite run, and his conversation with Mabel grows more intense as she begins to reveal her restless longing to escape the diner.
With Mabel, Fred, Steve, Nick.
Listen for: Mabel's tense, teasing exchanges with Fred at the counter, and the sound of the truck drivers and the highway traffic outside the diner.
First aired in 1950.
Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.
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Nov 4 202630 min