Round where I live there’s an ice-cream man with an ice-cream van.
At least once a day, no matter what the weather, what the season, I will hear the chimes from his ice-cream van ring out. In the past, the ice-cream van’s chimes would see a procession of kids run as fast as their little legs would carry them to buy a 99 and chance their arm to see if they could get an extra flake.
Now I see no kids running, walking, or anything else to the van. Yet every day he patrols the neighbourhood. When it’s freezing cold outside he’s letting everyone know he’s got ice-cream for sale.
A more cynical person might wonder if he’s not selling other things but the life of an ice-cream man is a life of virtue and probity. They don’t simply allow any old Tom, Dick or Harry to drive a van and play that familiar football related tune.
I wonder if business is slow. He’s just like a taxi driver having to work extra hours to try and make his dough. Selling ice-cream in the winter can’t be an easy task.
But he tries. Every day, he tries.
Same around our way.
I reckon he’s selling soup and bovril.
With one of a bread stick – the ones some restaurants seem to think implies sophistication – stuck in it for a 99…
or a small brussel sprout resting at the bottom for a screwball!
Old guy, looks like a retired carny type? Purplish van with the van equivalent of fintails? Used to come round one of my old neighbourhoods in the byegone.
“With one of a ”
* Shakes head in despair *
Could be Conan, I’ve never seen him. But his chimes can be heard for yards around.
BA – “Mister, Mister, a 99 and a bag of crack!”
Our Ice cream man drives in at around 6.30 every evening everyday of the year (bar xmas day)
The Kids still come out to him..
Funny though,one day last summer,a new Ice Cream van came into the estate about 5 mins before him.
He arrived in to see the kids all walking away from the new van.
There was a woman driving it.. He went fucking APE-SHIT on her..called her everything under the son saying she was stealing food from his kids mouths..
It urned out she had been following him about noting the times of his route and just started 20mins before him..stole his customers for that day.. we never saw her again.Id say he had her killed..
Our Ice cream man drives in at around 6.30 every evening everyday of the year (bar xmas day)
The Kids still come out to him..
Funny though,one day last summer,a new Ice Cream van came into the estate about 5 mins before him.
He arrived in to see the kids all walking away from the new van.
There was a woman driving it.. He went fucking APE-SHIT on her..called her everything under the son saying she was stealing food from his kids mouths..
It turned out she had been following him about noting the times of his route and just started 20mins before him..stole his customers for that day.. we never saw her again.Id say he had her killed..
EVER THINK HE MIGHT BE KEEPING THE HEATER FOING TO STAY WARM????
EVER THINK HE MIGHT BE KEEPING THE HEATER GOING TO STAY WARM????
hehe..
Jaysus..where the fuck is everyone,i have work to ignore here!!
Fill3rup… The ice cream van game is nasty. There was a war between two factions in Tallaght last year, vans getting burned out and intimidation going on. I heard they’re often used for money laundering.
Mind that Child!!
They are a dirty crowd of fuckers too, they never wash their hands, where can they? There is a guy round my way who has been an ice-cream man since the sixties, he went in to fruit and veg for a while but gotten beaten up for his efforts and he gave it up.
I’ve seen a local ice cream man in his van around my place recently. also thinking it’s a bit ridiculous.
We had the Bread Man, the Fruit and Veg Man and the Milk Man. The good old days.
What about the rag ‘n’ bone man?
He used to come around on his horse and cart, and if you were able to nick your Mother’s best dress out of the wardrobe he’d give you a balloon for it.
You wouldn’t imagine selling ice creams was a very reliable way to earn a living, would ya?
Yet Iknow an ice cream man who has an apartment in Spain, a big house, 3 kids, a nice car, and lots of other dear stuff!
Business must be better than I ever dreamed!
If he sniffs a lot, is it because of the weather or the product. Those fucken chimes are a pain in the ass and it should be legal to hit the fucker in the head with a bat or an iron bar. Or to shoot him/her.
Aren’t there Yakult women in Ireland?
Gluaistean and Fill3rup…
are ye repeating yourselves or have you the stammers?
Agusto – Yakult: thats a yogurt, isn’t it? Experience taught me to keep away from women using yogurt
stoopid duplicate comments ..d’oh!
he’s probably a paedo.
Who can rob your houses?
Violate your gran?
Sell cocaine from ice cream van..?
the scouse man can……
Worked on an ice-cream van for a couple of years in my teens.
It is a deadly,cut-throat game.Wicked money in it too.
The ice-cream van round our way plays the theme from, ‘The Third Man’. I then end up humming the tune for the rest of the day.
they tend to go around the estates during the winter months and blast their shit music out becuase during the summer months they’ve got cushy patches down on Dollymount Strand etc etc. In summer the business comes to them, but in winter they have to go out looking for it. Hence the loud volume…
Stopped in expecting to find a Michael Longley poem (“The Ice Cream Man”) and found laughs instead. Now I am wondering about the ice cream man who zooms through my southern Californian neighborhood every Sunday afternoon so fast no kid could possibly catch him.
we hav 2 ice cream vans .we sell ice cream sweets etc.and do the city centre in dublin.and only sell scooped ice cream