- A sailor home from the sea sets off on a road trip to pick up his girlfriend from work. Unfortunately, he's a better sailor than he is a driver. Complications ensue.
- On his shore leave Billy rents a Ford which he intends to drive according to the instructions he has learned from his little book. First he starts the Ford in reverse, wrecking homes, etc. Then comes the wildest, dizziest ride not even equaled by the one which made Paul Revere famous. He of course loses control and misses streetcars, buses, pedestrians, by a fraction of a second. He knocks down pushcarts, fences, etc., by the dozen. He finally arrives at Vera's home but almost runs over Vera in his excitement. They go for a ride. As they start, the back of the Ford drops off with Vera in it and Billy, unconscious of this, as he is of most everything else, keeps right on going. This ride duplicates the previous one, only it is much worse. This time he knocks down a policeman and so the cop gets a few of his blue-coated friends and they go after Billy. Vera, very angry at Billy, has returned to her home. She is a stenog and had played sick so she could get the afternoon off to go riding with her sweetie. Billy is chased into a building on the top of which a flagpole sitter is just to begin a sitting. The cops force Billy to the very top of the building and he even starts going up the pole. The flagpole sitter has gotten cold feet and come down. As he is fighting it out with his manager, they see Billy climbing up the pole and ask him if he wants to stay up there. As he wants to put as much distance between the cops and himself, he says yes and they put him on the seat and hoist him up just as the cops arrive. They start to pull him down but the manager tells the cops that he is going to stay up there for 30 days. The cop says all right but if he comes down before then he will have to spend 90 days in the cooler. Billy nearly falls down on to the big crowd which is watching him. He starts to show off, doing acrobatic stunts, much to the crowd's amusement. At night, a heavy rain drenches him, and he doesn't feel so funny. In the morning the manager sends him up a coffee pot and as he is about to drink he catches sight of Vera thru a window of an office building. Her employer is trying to make her prove that she is as fast a stenographer as she had told him, when applying for the job. Billy throws the heavy coffee pot in thru the window and it hits the boss on the head, knocking him out. In the meantime, the original flagpole sitter and his manager, a couple of crooks, have taken advantage of being in the office building by drilling a big hole in the roof of one of the vaults. They drop down into it and fill a grip with valuables. The owner comes in and is immediately knocked out. By now Vera has gone to Billy and tries to release the rope which holds him up on his perch. She finally manages to get him down and as they run across the roof they fall into the same vault where the crooks are at work. Billy happens to land on one of them. The police arrive, and when the owner comes to, he gives Billy a reward for saving the valuables. Billy and Vera go for a boat ride and Billy tells her he may not be able to drive a Ford but, boy, he sure can handle a boat, whereupon he proceeds to tip the canoe and they both get a ducking as we fade out.—Copyright Description from Library of Congress
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