It must be spring because we officially turned the furnace thermostat to zero (it was at 61 because, you know 60 would be COLD and 62 is just too wild and crazy hedonistic), the sprinklers were reprogrammed and yesterday the ice-cream man came out of hibernation and began once more trolling for sugar-fiends through the streets.
I listened to the 8 bars of tinkly, Doppler-shifted music as it cruised mournfully up our street, over a block, down the next, up again for about two hours - fading now and then but always present. And first I wondered why there haven't been any famous cases of ice-cream van drivers turning sociopathic mass-murderer. Then I decided that the sociopathic tendencies were clearly already expressed simply by being an ice-cream van driver with an 8 bar musical kiddy-lure. Then I thought of the real question as that refrain continued to drill through my brain:
Why haven't there been any famous cases of mass murderers OF ice cream van drivers?
Now, would that go under "hobbies" or "public service" on a CV?
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This is for Kirk von Ackermann, missing in Iraq since October 9, 2003.
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Puppies, kittens, baby panda bears, blowing bubbles, sparklers, and daisies. Just to lighten things up a little...
Yes... well, I loathe and despise the heat of summer and the darn ice cream man is rubbing it in my face! So... um... I do like puppies!
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