Comments on: Proof The Ice Cream Man Is The Fifth Horseman Of The Apocolypse

By: Dispatches from the Parenting Wars Against the Ice Cream Man | Con Games

Dispatches from the Parenting Wars Against the Ice Cream Man | Con Games — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:06:59 +0000

[...] Proof The Ice Cream Man Is The Fifth Horseman Of The Apocolypse (July 2009, BlondeMomBlog) It’s just the ice cream man, our ice cream man, has horrific timing. He always drives by blaring his annoying cheerful ice cream man van music just as we are sitting down for dinner, and I have a difficult enough time achieving dinnertime Zen, thank you very much (shakes fist in the air). Either that or he cruises through our subdivision when literally the only money I have on me is 72 sticky cents, usually with a pony tail holder thrown in for good measure, in the cup holder of my car. This is a guaranteed formula for a whine fest since I have to deny the girls ice cream. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve actually shut our front door if I so much as hear the cheerful carnival type music in the distance, not that our front door and storm door really seal out the noise that much. Plus there’s something in me that just can’t quite fork over a couple of dollars for an orange push up out on our front lawn when I can turn around, walk into my house, open the freezer, and raid an entire box that cost less. [...]

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Year In Review: Turning 40, Losing Teeth (The 7-Year-Old, Not Me), And More — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:25:12 +0000

[...] my childhood cheerleading costume in July and looked flat out adorable in it. I kvetch about our local ice cream man. Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair was murdered and I recalled the first time we saw the [...]

By: Melissa in Seattle

Melissa in Seattle — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:19:27 +0000

I’m so sorry for those of you who have had a negative experience with your Ice Cream man/woman.
I have recently been introduced to Cool Cycles Ice Cream, The Ice Cream Person is clean, well dressed and always professional….and….on a motorcycle. The Cool Cycles Ice Cream is a motorcycle with a freezer, umbrella and a tow behind freezer.
I get this big smile everytime I see them….I know the individual has great selection. reasonable prices and best of all…..a professional selling the Ice Cream…(not a creepy, crusty person that I feel uneasy with being around my children).
My Ice Cream person…..helps me feel at ease in my neighborhood, hopefully you can have a Cool Cycles Ice Cream bike in your neighborhood too.
Good luck
Cool in Seattle
Melissa

By: Joel Semanko

Joel Semanko — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:49:20 +0000

Wow, I’ve read all these responses and see that once again, the Ice Cream Man/Woman has an image problem they’ve created and continue to develop with lack of uniformity, obnoxious music and no sense of community. Would it interest you to know that our company has purposely developed a Ice Cream Sidecar Motorcycle that is a franchise business. We are specifically in the business to change the image and operations of the traditional Ice Cream Truck. By using a motorcycle, we can keep our prices lower than the vans and jeeps. We don’t want people shutting there doors because they have to pay to much for that Neighborhood Ice Cream Experience. We have people here in Seattle that use the word “Creepy” in the same sentence as the Ice Cream man. “Creepy and Ice Cream shouldn’t be in the same sentence”.
Because we’re a franchise business, we have people that are paying money to be a part of our image and operations. We have our own custom sound so parents know that it’s us coming down the street. We’re changing the image of the Ice Cream Man as we enter new markets. “I believe people really don’t want to hate the Ice Cream Man, they just hate what he’s become, we’re going to change that”.
I tell people that we’re not in the Ice Cream Business, we’re in the Memory Business. Parents come out to our Cool Cycles and say you come back, we’ll send our kids out. Moms will let other mothers know about us and tell the neighbors they’ll support us but not the other guy.
I hope your readers haven’t lost the Romance of a Nostalgic Experience and Memory such as the Ice Cream Man/Woman. We’re working hard to change the image with our Cool Cycles and have listened to the common complaints and done something about them. Our next goal is to work with the large manufactures and dealers of the Novelty Ice Cream and have them set standards of their distributors. They should expect them to conform to an image other than the one they have today. They need to protect their Brand(s) by raising the Bar on who can distribute their products and what type of vehicles they use to present a positive image in the neighborhoods. I hope you readers continue to expect a change in the industry,
I do!

By: nuckingfutsmama

nuckingfutsmama — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:42:49 +0000

I can totally relate to your ice cream man hesitancy! I realize the economy sucks right now, but the ice cream man’s prices have definitely skyrocketed! Plus, our ice cream man looks very much like he could be on America’s Most Wanted for some horrendous crime or another. Good for you for staying strong!
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By: Baby Pushchairs

Baby Pushchairs — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:53:47 +0000

Hey- nice commentary on those nasty ice cream men who work the streets.. they’re out to get our children, or should I say parents’ small change. You’re right, it makes little cents to buy icecream when you’re already stocked to the hilt with 12 flavors in the ice box!
Kay