Thursday, May 04, 2006

Summer's Approaching

I just saw my first Ice Cream Truck of the season :) Why do they drive around at 5:10pm? Doesn't seem like ice cream time.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why 5pm? Your neighborhood is on the way home.

Howard said...

As if 4pm is ice cream time :)

Maybe it's the early part of the after dinner shift, on the way to the route.

Anonymous said...

The thing about 5pm is that kids are at home playing in the yard. Its almost dinner time, so they are hungry, and once one kid in the neighborhood gets ice cream then all the kids must have it, so parnts cant say no.

Howard said...

hehe, yeah I guess I can remember that happening :)

The Dad said...

That's because back when you were getting ice cream from the ice cream wagon, it had to be delivered early in the day. Since, refridgeration hadn't been invented yet, all the ice cream would spoil, and therefore the ice cream man wouldn't be able to make the money he needed to keep his horse and wagon (yes, I realize that I've missed a point about being able to make ice cream without refridgeration to begin with, but the point is simply to make fun of Howard and his gray hair).

Richard said...

Mehmet has it right. You want the ice cream there before the kids eat dinner at the peak of hunger, otherwise they might already be full. In my neighborhood, in the city, they drive around and play that ice cream man music incessantly. It is enough to drive you mad. Our guy plays a lot of classical but it is still in a high pitched calliopesque yet electronic tooting. I am losing my sanity just recalling it.

Howard said...

Well this might be my most commented thread. Who'd a guessed? Hmmm, too full after for ice cream....things have changed.