The epitome of optimism?

DanaC · 08-19-2006, 12:31 PM

Here I am, sitting in my tiny living room listening to the patter of raindrops. I look out of the window at a grey Yorkshire sky, cloud troubled and missing any sign of the sun. I wonder if the weather will clear up any time soon, or if I need to bite the bullet and walk my dog in the constant downpour. And then......

I hear an entirely incongruous sound: the tinkling tune of an Ice-cream van, touting for trade, calling out with its music to the local children in the hope they'll buy Iced creams and lollies.

Is that the epitome of optimism? Or merely desperation?

Trilby · 08-19-2006, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

Is that the epitome of optimism? Or merely desperation?

Well, that depends. Is it a hot sort of rain?

edit to add: we have hot rain in Ohio all the time, so...I was thinking maybe other peoples are subjected to this unnatural atmospheric conundrum

footfootfoot · 08-19-2006, 01:03 PM

...Yes, but it's a hot rain...

Trilby · 08-19-2006, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

...Yes, but it's a hot rain...

Are you being sexual????

*shakes fist*

'Coz if you are...

DanaC · 08-19-2006, 01:36 PM

umm....Not hot rain......just rainy rain. Not freezing...but definately coat and hat weather. Mind you, I shouldn't be surprised. I've known our Icecream vans venture out when in sleet.

footfootfoot · 08-19-2006, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Brianna

Are you being sexual????

*shakes fist*

'Coz if you are...

When am I ever not being sexual?

Trilby · 08-19-2006, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

When am I ever not being sexual?

One likes to hope one can relate without resorting to...

...well, you know.

*ahem* BASE human Need!

croquet, anyone?*

*said in deference of our Brit superiors..tut, tut.

dar512 · 08-19-2006, 02:40 PM

I guess if Seattleites can have "dry" rain, Ohio can have "hot" rain.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-19-2006, 05:14 PM

What better time to drive the tinkling bells than when the grubby little urchins are housebound?

If you ever get a chance to talk to the sugar pusher, ask him how he makes out in nasty weather.
I've a feeling that the bells erase any weather thoughts in the kids heads. After all, they're programmed to crave at the sound of the bells, like Pavlov's dogs.
That coupled with Mom, being couped up in the house with the darlings, might be quicker to relent to their whining, than if they were begging from the yard.

footfootfoot · 08-19-2006, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Brianna

One likes to hope one can relate without resorting to...

...well, you know.

*ahem* BASE human Need!

croquet, anyone?*

*said in deference of our Brit superiors..tut, tut.

Well thank god I'm being scolded for that and not for being flippant and incessantly making jokes about things important to other people.

But if you really must know I was making an oblique reference to the oft quoted "but it's a dry heat"

So, how *are* things in the gutter?

footfootfoot · 08-19-2006, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

What better time to drive the tinkling bells than when the grubby little urchins are housebound?

If you ever get a chance to talk to the sugar pusher, ask him how he makes out in nasty weather.
I've a feeling that the bells erase any weather thoughts in the kids heads. After all, they're programmed to crave at the sound of the bells, like Pavlov's dogs.
That coupled with Mom, being couped up in the house with the darlings, might be quicker to relent to their whining, than if they were begging from the yard.

Despite his extraordinary vocabulary and language skills, the inchling has yet to put 2 and 2 together vis a vis the ice cream truck.

The facts:
He's had ice cream at home and once from the shop.
He knows that the vehicle which drives around mutilating various melodies is called an "ice cream truck"
He has a little "ice cream truck" truck
He does not know that the ice cream truck actually has any ice cream aboard
I'd prefer to keep it that way.

DanaC · 08-19-2006, 05:45 PM

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*said in deference of our Brit superiors..tut, tut.

Quite right too.

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He does not know that the ice cream truck actually has any ice cream aboard
I'd prefer to keep it that way.

If he ever catches on, just tell him what my Mum used to tell me: When they play the tune, that means they've run out of icecream!

footfootfoot · 08-19-2006, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

Quite right too.

If he ever catches on, just tell him what my Mum used to tell me: When they play the tune, that means they've run out of icecream!

your mom is a genius

DanaC · 08-19-2006, 06:21 PM

Yep. That she is. We also used to have a little bottle of Holy water that gran brought back from Lourdes....Mum used to say she'd be able to tell if I was lying because the water would bubble :P

footfootfoot · 08-19-2006, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

Yep. That she is. We also used to have a little bottle of Holy water that gran brought back from Lourdes....Mum used to say she'd be able to tell if I was lying because the water would bubble :P

Did she keep it on the stove then?

08-19-2006, 12:31 PM	#1
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	The epitome of optimism? Here I am, sitting in my tiny living room listening to the patter of raindrops. I look out of the window at a grey Yorkshire sky, cloud troubled and missing any sign of the sun. I wonder if the weather will clear up any time soon, or if I need to bite the bullet and walk my dog in the constant downpour. And then...... I hear an entirely incongruous sound: the tinkling tune of an Ice-cream van, touting for trade, calling out with its music to the local children in the hope they'll buy Iced creams and lollies. Is that the epitome of optimism? Or merely desperation?

08-19-2006, 01:03 PM	#3
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	...Yes, but it's a hot rain... __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

08-19-2006, 02:40 PM	#8
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	I guess if Seattleites can have "dry" rain, Ohio can have "hot" rain. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

08-19-2006, 05:14 PM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	What better time to drive the tinkling bells than when the grubby little urchins are housebound? If you ever get a chance to talk to the sugar pusher, ask him how he makes out in nasty weather. I've a feeling that the bells erase any weather thoughts in the kids heads. After all, they're programmed to crave at the sound of the bells, like Pavlov's dogs. That coupled with Mom, being couped up in the house with the darlings, might be quicker to relent to their whining, than if they were begging from the yard. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-19-2006, 01:36 PM	#5
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	umm....Not hot rain......just rainy rain. Not freezing...but definately coat and hat weather. Mind you, I shouldn't be surprised. I've known our Icecream vans venture out when in sleet.

08-19-2006, 06:21 PM	#14
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Yep. That she is. We also used to have a little bottle of Holy water that gran brought back from Lourdes....Mum used to say she'd be able to tell if I was lying because the water would bubble :P

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