Thursday, June 21, 2007

The Ice Cream Truck

How many ice cream tucks are there in Toronto? There would have to be hundreds, because the mobile soft-serve ice cream people always show up at dinner, with that infernal music that scrapes against my brain. Years of planning with Euler graphs and computer simulations must have taken place for this to happen in such an orchestrated manner. But, if the mobile soft-serve ice cream people are always at someone's house at dinner, where are the mobile soft-serve ice cream people just before they arrive and where do the mobile soft-serve ice cream people go right after? Does this mean that the mobile soft-serve ice cream people know when everyone eats, and can, therefore, time arrivals accordingly? Where did the mobile soft-serve ice cream people acquire this knowledge? Why is it that when we eat later, the mobile soft-serve ice cream people still manage to arrive when we are eating?

What do the mobile soft-serve ice cream people do in winter? It makes me wonder what the profit margin is in this business.

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12 comments:

running42k said...

We never get those bike ice cream guys any more, you know the Dickee Dee men. I just see them at festivals downtown.

zydeco fish said...

I've always felt sorry for the Dickee Dee men. It's such an emasculating title.

tshsmom said...

Our town is too small for ice cream trucks, so I don't have to deal with that problem. WHEW!

Anonymous said...

Oh man, how many times can you say mobile soft-served ice cream?

What kind of pisses me off is that there are no more disheveled teenaged boys biking around town anymore... they've been replaced by trucks! When did that happen?!

mister anchovy said...

We haven't seen the truck called mmm mmm good Johnny Jr since he had a run in with King of Cones last year on our street. Meanwhile a truck called Delicious Desserts has muscled in on the territory.

tweetey30 said...

Tshsmom they have a guy or used to when I was a kid that would ride this bike type thing down the streets jingling bells every few feet. But no big trucks like we have here. But ZF is right they seem to know when its dinner time and enticing the children with ice cream instead of dinner.

Super Happy Jen said...

You don't like the ice cream man? The good humour man? His magical musical truck doesn't fill your heart with childish gladness? How sad for you.

Anonymous said...

Neh, personally speaking, am glad their isn't any ice-cream-mobile sales people in my town, I hate that stupid cow bell they try and entice you with. I hate active..ice creams sales..yes...

Anna May Won't said...

great, now i can't get the mr. softee jingle out of my head.

Anonymous said...

mobile soft-served ice cream - that sounds like a NAICS classification code.

Despite the annoying music, a truck full of ice cream can't be that bad.

zydeco fish said...

Anna May: That's it! That's the infernal jingle. G-d, I hate it.

zydeco fish said...

Oh, and anon - only a librarian would mention the NAICS classification code, but let's not forget the SIC codes. After all, NAFTA hasn't killed our codes yet.