Originally Posted By pecos bill Where I live, there is an ice cream truck that must make about ten passes a day through the neighborhood. The problem is that it plays this glaringly loud and repulsive music that sounds like Slim Whitman in the movie, "Mars Attacks!" Remember the song that made the Martians's heads burst? I hear this all weekend long, and when the truck stops for kids, the music continues. I dont want to be a grinch or anything, and have said nothing, but this is really starting to bug me. And to top it off, there is a competing truck making rounds now, and the song is, I kid you not, "Its A Small World!" I guess the question would be, is it socially taboo to go give the ice cream truck hell for being too loud?
Originally Posted By Mary Poppins This is a tricky situation. You don't want to make the driver mad as then, goodness knows, how loud he will play the music! I would handle it with kid gloves. Good luck. Maybe someone here has experience with this.
Originally Posted By beamerdog Wow, I thought that you were going to complain of the lack of ice cream trucks in your neighborhood! They've stopped coming to ours :- (
Originally Posted By alexbook >>I guess the question would be, is it socially taboo to go give the ice cream truck hell for being too loud? << I don't think there's any way to do this that won't have you looking like the kind of old geezer who yells at kids to get off his lawn. My sympathies.
Originally Posted By LuLu This sounds like an inspiration for a great comedy skit! I have no suggestions, other than to get earplugs! Sorry... (I may have to watch Mars Attacks tonight, now! :-D)
Originally Posted By pecos bill You see what I mean? How do you tell the ice cream truck that their music is driving you bonkers without coming across like the neighborhood Scrooge?
Originally Posted By Kira your post made me giggle because we have the SAME thing here around where I live. The only difference is for the past year and a half, on a daily basis, the truck has been playing an odd techno version of "It's A Small World". And somehow I still don't find myself sick of the song...only sick of the ice cream man that refuses to play any song OTHER than that one version of the song we all know and LOVE so well. =)
Originally Posted By LadyKluck I would give anything to hear "It's A Small World", the Ice Cream Truck in Casey's neighborhood plays - I kid you not - JINGLE BELLS!! In the middle of summer!!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Well, Jingle Bells makes sense. I mean, you want to invoke images of a frosty wintery wonderland with ice cream, and Jingle Bells does it a lot better than "Turkey in the Straw" -- which is the preferred blaring tune by our ice cream man.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Kira, I think I've seen and heard that Ice cream truck at my grandma's!! HAHA He sure makes his rounds, doesn't he? I wish we had an ice cream truck around here..I have to walk my butt to Circle K (Like a 7-11) or go to the grocery store.
Originally Posted By alexbook Here's what they should play: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B000002GYR001009/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_009" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/gp/music..._001_009</a>
Originally Posted By fkurucz Buy a giant box of popscicles and ice cream bars at Sams or Costco. Tell the kids that whenever the icecream truck comes by you will give them free ice cream. After a few days of no sales perhaps he will move on.
