Evil Ice Cream Man

Why I Don’t Take Treats From Ice Cream Trucks:

If you are thinking that it’s because the treats they sell are overpriced and that you can just get more of them for less at the grocery store, you’d be half right. However, I personally have another reason for not ever wanting a treat from them. This experience happened when I was ten years old. I had just gotten through with the last day of school. Which meant I had two months of games, movies, and reading among other things to look forward to. Everything went smoothly for the first couple of weeks. That is until that ice cream truck came into my neighborhood. This ice cream truck’s music was a bit different than what would normally be heard. It sounded a bit slower.

Now, back then I used to really enjoy getting treats from ice cream trucks. I would always get excited every time I heard its music in the distance. And my parents were nice enough to give me money to purchase something from one. Not too often. As it wouldn’t be healthy. But every week or so. My favorite treats were usually the ones that were in the shape of characters’ faces with gumball eyes. I say usually because sometimes they wouldn’t look like the characters they were supposed to resemble. And instead, look like twisted and warped versions of them. They still tasted good, though.

Anyway, the aforementioned ice cream truck didn’t look out of the ordinary. I didn’t get any weird feelings from it. Or anything like that. And everyone else seemed fine after eating food from it. The only thing unusual at the time was the fact that the ice cream man seemed to signal me out from all the other kids. The ice cream man looked a bit young to be working an ice cream truck. But otherwise, he looked fine.

“Psst! Hey kid!” He called out to me as I walked by.

I stopped. And looked over at him. He asked me if I wanted anything from his truck.

“Oh, I really do. But, I don’t have any money on me.”

“You don’t need any kid. I want to give you something on the house.”

“On the house?”

“It means for free.”

“Oh. Why do you want to give me something for free?”

“I like your shirt,” He said, pointing to it.