The timing ain't right.

[franceslievens]

Since the official start of spring on the 21st of March, an ice cream van has stopped at the roundabout at the end of the street every evening between 9:30 and 10pm. Most of the time it has been too cold for ice cream. Every evening it's been dark when I heard its song. And ice cream eating kids are usually in bed by that hour. This leaves me wondering if the ice cream man will be able to survive in these hard times of crisis?

Comments

[comava.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, that's depressing. I'm crossing my fingers for him!

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

And actually I didn't even check if it might possibly be an ice cream woman.

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

It's never too cold for ice cream. Well, if it's below freezing, then possibly it's too cold, but at any other time? In summer, ice cream becomes one of the major foodgroups nearly replacing chocolate, but that's just me, who according to family legend learnt to walk in an ice cream parlour.

It's probably that guy's last ditch attempt at selling the left-over ice cream of the day...

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

It's quite common in Summer for ice cream cans to do their rounds late in the evening, and on hot days they can lure a lot of folks out of their houses, but in they rain and cold?

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Are you sure he is a real ice cream man?

Okay maybe I read too many crime novels.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

I checked from my window. But maybe it's a way for the Brussels mob to communicate and transport messages?

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

I've read at least one crime novel where the ice cream van was actually selling drugs, so that's a possibility...

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

But this is such a nice neighbourhood!

To be honest, when I checked there was no-one buying anything, so I guess that the market for the local drug dealer isn't that great either. :-)