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The speed-racing ice-cream man of Roslindale
By adamg on Sun, 06/25/2017 - 10:07am
According to posters in the Keep Roslindale Quirky Facebook group, there's a guy driving a Good Humor truck around the neighborhood who seems to always be very late for something: As his truck blares "Camptown Races" over and over and over again, he rushes down the neighborhood streets, never actually stopping for the people who hear him and try to race outside to get a SpongeBob ice-cream, only to have their hopes dashed once more by the Too Fast Ice Cream Man.
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I scream. You scream. We all
I scream. You scream. We all scream for ice cream. We all scream "stop!"
I imagine him saying "Nyah
I imagine him saying "Nyah nyah I have ice cream and you don't" as he passes you by.
I'm a kid who heard the truck
I'm a kid who heard the truck
Ice cream, I thought, what luck
I raced to the street
For my special treat
and there he sped off, WTF
possibly very not good humor
Just in terms of some of the meanings attaching here, "quirky" might hold if the operator of the ice cream truck actually connected appropriately with customers.
This sounds more like a mental health concern brewing.
Lesson Learned
It's about the journey to the ice cream truck.....
It's a front.
Not sure exactly what he's selling but it's definitely not ice cream.
Oh we had one of those "ice
Oh we had one of those "ice cream trucks" in Southie when I was growing up. Sold ice cream and lots of other treats.
Why do these trucks still exist?
They seem like such a dated thing from the past. And if I may indulge in first world white whine, there is a truck in my East Boston neighborhood that blares "Turkey In the Straw" interspersed with a recording of an intoxicated sounding female voice saying "helowwwwowww" over and over. It's maddening. But like I said, white whine. There are bigger things to worry about but it doesn't make it any less annoying.
"Helowwwwowww?"
I've googled and apparently that drunken lady ice cream truck interrogative is a nationwide thing. It always makes me think of Ricky's mom in Better Off Dead:
"Helowwwwowww?"
In a related matter, ever notice that the announcer who does the I-will-tell-you-about-this-thing-we're-selling-this-week in Shaws/Star markets sounds just like Lane's mom from the same film? When she's done yammering on about carbonated water from Italy, she's gonna ask him if she can date Beth.
"Raisins from California are on sale this week at Star market... you like raisins. "