I was taking a nap the other day. I was having the strangest dreams. I heard this music in my sleep. Familiar music. Where have I heard that song before? As I slowly emerged from my stupor the music stopped and I thought I must have just imagined it. Then it started again... the digital low quality tinkling musical chimes of THE FREAKING ICE CREAM TRUCK!

The world is coming to an end. Global warming will destroy us all. NOT because of the melting polar caps, not because of flooding coast lines or the destruction of ecosystems. NO! None of these things will destroy us. It will be the aggravation of putting up with THE FREAKING ICE CREAM TRUCK 12 months out of the year. I couldn't believe it. February and the ice cream truck is making his rounds again.

There are many many reasons I love winter; The holidays, getting together with family, being able to wear multiple layers of clothes to hide your misshapened and flabby pale body, but for me, the MAIN reason I love winter, number UNO on MY list of top 11 things I like about winter.... THE FREAKING ICE CREAM TRUCK goes into hibernation. I don't have to listen to that annoying, insanity inducing trinkling of that same obnoxious tune over and over and over... fading away down one street... getting stronger as it comes back up the next... on and on for at least... 20 minutes or even MORE! AAAAHHHGGGG! I hate THE FREAKING ICE CREAM TRUCK.

I do NOT scream for ice cream... not in February.

p.s. I want to create a company with a fleet of ice cream trucks and call it iScream!. I will obey the EXISTING LAWS that protect ice cream truck drivers but the music played will be the terrifying screams of small animals being murdered.

My neighbors just had a new baby. The dog is gone now, vanished completely before the child arrived... now I'm waiting for the sounds of screaming baby to annoy me. They aren't nearly as loud as a dog though... they can smell just as bad but not as loud.

-vern

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That's me.. waving goodbye to sanity for you..

Anyway, you need cold, I've got plenty for you here.. Hell, you want me to ship you the foot of snow we got in the last two or three days?

Oh.. and you have some kind of super hearing or something? To be able to hear the ice cream truck two blocks away?

No super hearing... super loud ice cream truck. I actually walked past it once... it was so loud it hurt my ears. I can't hear the radio in my car if I drive past it with the window down. For some reason they don't have to obey sound ordinances. It is mind numbingly loud. I hope the driver wears ear plugs. He is probably deaf by now.

I remember years ago reading about an ice cream truck driver who was attacked and shot on the street. I was absolutely sure it had something to do with the annoying musical chimes. Of course in some areas ice cream trucks are used as a front for distributing drugs. Some of the characters who chase the ice cream truck in my neighborhood... it wouldn't surprise me. Big hairy guys with tattoos, chains and leather vests huffing down the street to buy... ice cream?

-vern

Well, in a hundred years, when we actually see the 1-2 degree temperature change predicted by scientists, (note I said scientists, not fear-mongers,) perhaps it will be even worse - technology will be developed that will allow the irritating chimes of the ice cream truck to be ...
...PROJECTED INTO YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS!!!

Future generations, oh how they will weep, and wish they could cover their ears - but alas - it will be to no avail.

That future sucks.

yeah the ones here are loud too, iif i do goto it, i alway stand a bit of a distance away before completely walking up to it cause its so loud! eventually she started turning it down when the kids came up to it . \
i don't think that the companies tell them to have it that loud....they just want theh moneh!

maybe if you walked up to it(with ear muffs) and freaked out on the ice cream man(or woman) he might just turn it down . when my mom does stuff like that it ALWAYS goes her way...

No global warming here in Michigan...cold cold cold....no Ice-cream trucks or naps either. Our economy blows... 4 laid-off at work this week, homes everywhere are for sale cheep as foreclosures fill the want ads. Our governors and mayors are inept and corrupt and our water supply is for sale.

Yikes! I just realized there are no ice cream trucks here. Can't remember the last time I saw one. There might be trucks that come around in some neighborhoods, but not in Cupertino. And the weather is certainly good enough to support them all year.

There must be ordinances in place.

I grew up in Brooklyn, NY and Long Island - so I definitely remember ice cream trucks. Maybe that's why I might loose my hearing someday.

Oh the good old days of ice cream trucks. Anyway, Tom Delay said it is arrogant of man to believe he could cause global climate change, oh that's right, he's a repube, can't believe a word they say.

Oh yeah? Well then how come all the ice cream trucks have melted here ?? That's enough proof for me!

As a kid I lived within walking distance of the icecream factory, so icecream trucks were definitely a part of our neighborhood (Franklin, Massachusetts).

Here in Stone Mountain, Georgia my wife and I encountered an icecream truck selling icecream in December! Not a single truck all summer, but once December rolled in, there he was. Maybe his refridgerator wasn't working so he could only sell icecream in cold weather?



I can imagine the icecream truck parked at the driver's home going off at 3am in the morning like so many car alarms you hear going off at odd hours of the night.

When I was a kid we all loved the ice cream truck. Young children have GREAT hearing. We heard that truck a long way off... it had no music, no electronic chime, all it had was a bell, like a bicycle bell but a little louder. You could just barely hear it down the street from your house.

Ice cream trucks DO NOT need to be so loud. I don't understand how they get around the sound ordinances. I know for a fact that stupid truck is well above the legal decibel level. This summer I plan to measure it somehow and file a complaint. If they don't stop it, I am going to take my HUGE speakers and point them out the window to drown it out when it goes by (I've got my "Luscious Jackson" CD ready to go. )

I will end up the guy who shut down the ice cream truck. Of course the children won't even notice a difference... only the old farts going out there who need it loud because they are deaf from all the years of loud concerts and stereos.

p.s. Shut those dang kids up, I'm trying to watch Matlock!

Vernon "Grumpy old Fart" Zehr

This is stirring-up memories... OHNO!

When I was a kid...Royal Oak Michigan... the truck would be heard but my parents had us all (6) conditioned to ignore it. No matter how hot it was, if you lifted an eyebrow and looked at Mom you would get that 'there's ice-cream in the fridge' look...and don't even bother with Dad (tho he would always buy us ice-cream at the ball games...)

So to this day, no matter how loud or corny the music (POP goes the weasel!) I simply do not hear it, unless a niece or nephew starts jumping around and points it out to me.

I DO wish there were Beer Trucks tho.