Ice Cream Truck Turf War

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This is a very funny topic for me because I was once caught up in an ice-cream truck turf war in Las Vegas. One summer I took a job driving an ice-cream truck. Vegas is very hot, and therefore very competitive in the ice-cream business.

There was another guy called "Dan the candy man" who was driving in my areas. At one point we found ourselves not only in the same neighborhood, but on the same street. We leapfrogged each other and it started getting ugly. He was an old guy with bars on his window and he drove a crappy truck. I drove a clean white truck with an open window. My truck also had lights so I could come by as late as 9pm which some parents didn't like too much. The only time the music got to be a problem was when you were going through a Cul-de-sac and it would echo off the houses. I ended up just telling the parents in the area that you can't trust a guy who has to hide behind bars on his window, and that he was selling more than just ice-cream (which he was).

Sorry, but my thoughts just got de-railed. As I was writing this, I saw something extremely disturbing on the television. I just saw Paul Anka singing a Nirvana song.