I love fall weather! During this season, I can open my windows and feel the cool breeze as it blows through my house. The downside to opening my house is that you hear every single sound emitted outside.
Everyday around four o'clock a familiar sound fills my house. It starts off as a distant whisper and soon becomes so loud you feel as though whatever is making the noise is there, right beside you, in the house! What is that sound you ask?
The ice cream man!
The music that is blared from his loudspeakers is so horrendous, it cause small animals and children to hide. The screeching, grating "da-dah, dum, dee, dum" that is repeated over and over and over makes the listener wish their ears would fall off! Then as the music takes a pause there is an automated voice that calls out, "Hello!" And then we listeners are off on another round of, for lack of better terms, a musical serenade.
Not only does he play this music, driving 5 miles an hour through our neighborhood, oh no my friend...he stops right in front of my house and sits for 4 or 5 minutes. It's like he knows the torment I experience as he parks himself in front of my house. Honestly, I know he's hoping Emma and Abbie will purchase an ice cream. And as they stop playing (for how can one play with such racket attacking the ears?) to stare at his truck, then glance at me, then back at the truck, then back at me. I know they are wishing and hoping, that today will be the day mom says "yes" to ice cream. I can feel their unified thought as it crosses the yard and encircles me, "Come on mom, it's only $3.00 an ice cream cone! Don't you love us? The other kids are doing it!"
I just shake my head and walk back into the house. Not on your life ice cream man!
Not on your life.
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