Nick Baxter is a tall, gangly and goofy teen (puberty seems to be taking its sweet time on Nick) who is smitten with his foxy neighbor Kay. Nick’s friend Jeff suggests that he ask Kay to help fix up the scavenger sale and they can make it a double date. But Nick is horrified at the suggestion–you don’t take a swell girl like Kay to fix up a scavenger sale on first date! Nick is convinced that Kay will want to see Wagon Train. And he is right, sort of, she has already seen it. But golly, she would love to help fix up the scavenger sale. It’s a date!

Cut to the aforementioned scavenger sale where your typical snowy-white 1950's teens are getting piles of junk ready to unload on some unsuspecting yahoo. Hail, hail, the gang’s all here! And you know they are having a rollicking good time with the streamers, the elephant-shaped signs, moldy books and the ancient electric lamp that Thomas Edison probably had in his den. Kay is actually having a good time and Nick is beside himself. How does Jeff get such great ideas for dates? Is there any way that Nick himself could dream up such a great date idea?

When Nick goes to get more tacks he spies something–a list of upcoming activities. Is this where Jeff gets his fantabulous date ideas? Just look at all the events! A bike trip! Is that something a swell girl like Kay would like to do? Or would she rather go to the weenie roast? How about a baseball game? Or a swim meet? They could even double date! The possibilities are endless!

After Nick tries to absorb all these dating possibilities, he rips Jeff a new one about where he gets all his date ideas. Then he whines about how on Earth you figure out a certain girl would like to do. Jeff drops this bombshell–he could, you know, ask her. Duh! In the meantime, Kay is yammering away to some unnamed gal. Yes, Nick is kind of quite and shy, but golly, this scavenger sale thing was such a good idea. Will he ask her on a second date?

When the gang takes a break Kay says she having such a good time. Nick says he likes to do things like this, and bicycle trips too! And Kay likes miniature golf! And Nick likes weenie roasts and square dancing! And Kay likes baseball games! Wow, they have so much in common! They make a date to go to next weeks weenie roast. Isn’t life grand? The End.

This was a time when the makers of these short films seemed to believe that the average person couldn’t put on a pair of socks without first watching a film that assured it was okay to put the left sock on first. For the most part it’s pretty much harmless–Nick just wants to do something that Kay enjoys. Also, it presents some ideas that cost little money and can be done with a group. On the flip side it seems to imply that people are utterly and completely clueless and need a list of ideas presented to them on a silver platter because they can’t possibly come up with anything on their own. So remember, unless there is an activity list tacked on the bulletin board there is absolutely positively no hope for you. Just watch Kay from afar and play tennis with your best pal and hope that she hasn’t seen the next picture that’s playing at the local movie theater.