I don't know why you feel the need to suddenly swoop into my neighborhood around 9:45 at night. I don't think the type of kids your enterprise is targeted at are listening for the faint strains of your music at that time of day. Night. Evening. In fact, I'm willing to bet a great majority of them may be asleep. So why are you swinging into my neighborhood with the music blasting from the speaker attached to your roof? I tell you now, it is unnecessary and leads people to wonder about your motives. Like what else are you selling? After dark are the peak business hours yet to come?
You have done the above mentioned not once, not twice, but all week. Tonight when you came breezing around corner, you were silent. your music only came on after you had turned onto my street. Then you parked at the curb and your music stayed on for a few minutes. Getting used to your patterns as I am, I expected this. But then the car alarm of the vehicle next to you started going off. Then a few dogs started barking. Then you started beeping your horn.
After squinting out my window I determined that a child of around 7 had commandeered your keys and had locked all those of adult influence out of the truck and himself in the truck. A group of people had gathered a little ways away and seemed to be avidly watching two youngish men who were positioned on either side of the truck, at different times yelling and banging on the passenger and driver door/windows. The ice cream truck's music continued to provide the proper soundtrack material. Then, it seemed as if one of the young men had a novel idea. He disappeared behind the back of the truck and a moment later the little demon child was snatched out of the front seat and deposited out a door. The music shut off. I don't know what happened to the car alarm. I lost interest.
As momentarily entertaining as that was, will this sort of spectacle be happening a lot? Should I prepare a camcorder next time? Are you trying to give us all diabetes by inducing massive sugar cravings after 9 o'clock at night? Will you be doing this all summer and do you carry Hagen-Daz?
Sincerely,
Anonymous Neighbor
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Hmmm...seems like this could be turned into the intro of a horror novel (for some reason, I had images of "IT" in my mind as I read about the ice cream truck's song playing in the dark). So many bizarre and angering things around us that can turn into writing influences.
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