Anyone remember the ice cream truck? I do, at least when I
lived in town, for some reason they didn’t come by my house when we lived five
miles out. I was too cheap to buy anything from them usually; I got a lot more
for my money at a store. But occasionally, I’d splurge.
In later years, once I had kids, I learned that being cheap
was not an option. When the ice cream truck came by, it was a requirement that
we buy something EVERY TIME! These days, my grandkids make sure to keep that
rule firmly in place. Needless to say, the ice cream truck makes the drive down
my street quite often—all summer long.
This past weekend however, there were no grandkids visiting,
no one was home except me. I was using the occasion to work on our floor and
after several hours of bending over, working on my hands and knees, my bones
were complaining that they weren’t as young as they used to be. They seemed to
think I should consider a different weekend activity. I ignored them for the
most part but every so often, (usually when I stood back up) I thought about
how much easier this kind of work was when I was younger. I used to work
non-stop all weekend with no ill effects. “I need a time machine,” I told
myself.
And that’s when I heard the music. The familiar
merry-go-round type music announcing the soon arrival of the ice cream truck!
My first thought was that the ice cream man was going to be disappointed since
no kids were at my house. But then another thought occurred to me. Maybe the
jingly music was the sound of my time machine coming!
In need of a break anyway, I dropped what I was doing and went
outside to wait. In just a few a minutes, I was scarfing down my ice cream. The
first ice cream I’d bought for myself—from an ice cream truck—in years.
Sadly, I discovered there were no anti-aging effects
associated with said ice cream. But it did bring back a few memories of a time
long past. So, for a brief moment, I was a kid again.
Oh, and by the way, at $3.00 for one ice cream, I can still
get a lot more for my money at a grocery store. ~
Bruce
A. Borders is the author of more than a dozen books, including: Inside Room 913, Over My Dead Body, The Journey,
Miscarriage Of Justice, The Lana Denae Mysteries, and The Wynn Garrett Series. Available in ebook at www.amazon.com/Bruce-A.-Borders/e/B006SOLWQS
and
paperback on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million. Bruce A. Borders
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