The past few weeks, i have tried to catch this new ice cream man that cruises 10 MPH down my street. Every time i have booked it outside, he's already all the way down the street. This guy doesn't understand that he has to go so slow that when his song is heard, The ice-cream loving child has to run to find his parents, then he has to beg them for money, then his parents have to find their wallet, then they have to give the money to the kid, then the kid has to book it out side to catch him. And no way in the world can that all be achieved if the ice-cream man is going a constant speed of 10 MPH down the street. I was so fed up at one point i went to Costco and bought a huge box of skinny cows, and a huge box of 100 calorie fudge pops.
I grabbed my wallet and took off toward the door. A comrade of mine was the one who had successfully stopped the ice-cream man (she too was upset and the both of us walked down to McDonalds so she could get an ice cream after yet another failed attempt). I greeted her and laid everything out to him as i just had in the previous paragraph. His argument, he was "going in neutral". I go neutral when i drive as well. I go neutral at 40 mph. The nerve of this guy. So he said he is going to stop in front of our houses every time he comes by (after talking back to a potentially loyal customer). Too bad I bought my own ice cream, so i don't need you any more ice-cream man who doesn't fit the criteria of ice-cream man in the first place.
