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05-20-2008, 07:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: PR of Greenbelt, MD | | | Are you/have you ever been an Ice Cream Man?
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The ice cream man in our neighborhood is coming back on nice evenings. Jolly young West African guy, drives a decrepit white Chevy van. He plays Christmas songs over the speaker along with the bells. Probably has no idea whatthey are, just that they sound happy.
Only thing I wish he wouldn't do is come at sunset; here you have finally got the kid calmed down from playing and she is finally halfway ready to go to bed...and the bells go off. ICE CREAM MAN!!!!!
Scramble around for change, beg Dad for two dollars. Run downstairs and out the door at top speed to the end of the court, along with most of the other kids on the block, some in pajamas. You want to say 'No', and you cannot, because after all it is a nice late spring evening. Besides, a Red White and Blue Bomb Pop would taste pretty good right about now.
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05-20-2008, 08:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Iowa | | | I never really thought about it. Do they have ice cream trucks in other countries? That would be a shame to grow up without one. |
05-20-2008, 08:26 AM
| | | | For two years it's been my job to give candies to kids I don't really know. |
05-20-2008, 08:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pacific Northwest | | | That's actually a pretty good source of extra cash. My mom bought a gut truck several years ago and hired a guy $5/hour cash to drive it and sell stuff. She allowed him like two or three sodas and candy bars per day. She typically cleard about $100 a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I've thought about doing the same thing.
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05-20-2008, 08:45 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | | My first full time job was making gourmet ice cream for restaurant delivery, as well as at the counter. Lot's of booze flavors.
cherry nut amaretto.
vodka.
peachtree schnapps.
bluesberry schapps.
sex on the beach....
Oh my, I was an Ice Cream man, AND a bartender. Hahahaha.
Memories of how it was I got fat....
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05-20-2008, 09:36 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Funny this thread should pop up today. My son bought his first ice cream from the ice cream man yesterday.  |
05-20-2008, 09:41 AM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | I drove a Dickie Dee bike for a while. Not a hard job, but not very lucrative.
I've never seen an ice cream truck, they where always bikes. |
05-20-2008, 09:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | | go to the southside of san antonio and you'll see the ice cream truck going about 50mph down residential streets... they ain't selling any ice cream LOL
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05-21-2008, 06:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | Never |
05-21-2008, 06:45 AM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | I spent a year, delivering, and merchandising Ice Cream to stores, and superstores, for an agent of the top brand in Europe, but never the kind of Ice Cream Man your talking about.
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05-21-2008, 07:06 AM
| | Thor's Hammer 2.1.3beta | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Houston, TX | | | I spent about a month and a half as an Ice Cream Man.
That's the happiest I've ever seen any kids to date.
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05-21-2008, 07:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norway | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkstrike I spent a year, delivering, and merchandising Ice Cream to stores, and superstores, for an agent of the top brand in Europe, but never the kind of Ice Cream Man your talking about. | I'm curious. What is the top brand in Europe? |
05-21-2008, 07:36 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | My brother has driven an Ice Cream truck the last few years in St. Louis. It won't make you rich but you'll make some extra cash and all the kids in the neighborhood will love you! |
05-21-2008, 07:42 AM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | I have played Santa Claus on ocassion.
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05-21-2008, 08:16 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: hudson valley | | The Good Humor Man in the late 60s had a cool truck (with an open cabin) and a snappy para-military uniform. His sam browne belt held a cool change dispenser.
I greqw up in a very quiet neighborhood in NYC (out in Queens it was quite suburban)....we'd hear the trucks bells from blocks away. Stirred us into a Pavlovian frenzy. Good to be a kid.  
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05-21-2008, 08:24 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cincinnati | | | No I never have been an icecream man. I do like that they come around in the summertime...sort of like Rite Of Summer.
If I was an icecream man the dark side of me would like to have a tinkly bell arrangement playing of the last movement of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder..... just stupid dark humor.
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05-21-2008, 08:44 AM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | |
05-21-2008, 08:46 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | I've never driven an ice cream truck, but I do like puddin on my navel, and Dixie cups. Pretty much all flavors, and pushups too.
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05-21-2008, 08:49 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lalabadie For two years it's been my job to give candies to kids I don't really know. | |
05-21-2008, 08:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Monroe NY/ Geneseo NY | | Almost had an Ice Cream man fantasy come true a couple years ago...Im sitting in my living room (im in high school at this point)...and the ice cream truck is making its rounds..and then Breaks down...in front of my house...the music even slowed and faded...I was waiting for him to come up and ask if anyone wanted to eat the ice cream before it melted....
too bad he had a mechanic there is about 10 minutes...  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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