Comments on: If I were the dictator of the world

By: Rahel

Rahel — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:09:16 +0000

When a particularly creative and technically gifted friend of mine got annoyed with the local ice-cream truck bells when he was a kid, he got out his tape recorder, recorded them, and played back the recording at high volume at various times during the day. The neighborhood children ran outside each time to find no ice-cream truck. By the time the truck actually arrived, my friend had achieved the “crying wolf” effect and no children ran outside to meet it. The truck left and hardly ever came back.

By: Elisson

Elisson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:35:41 +0000

I hate those ice cream trucks with the recorded music. I might make an exception for “Mr. Softee” and his recognizable, familiar-from-childhood tune, though.

But the bells, ah, the bells! I was a Good Humor man one summer, and ringing those bells was like achieving a childhood dream.

[Yep. As a child, I dreamed of working in a sub-minimum-wage job for ten hours a day, six days a week, selling fattening treats to obnoxious suburban children.]

I miss those bells.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:45:00 +0000

We have that one too. With really annoying hand clapping and horrid music.

Those trucks would be gathered together into an empty lot and blown up. With a great big sign saying, “Thus perish all who annoy the dictator of the world.”

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:20:55 +0000

Here here, around these parts they play the music and then it says “Hello” in the most annoying way possible. The loop is only about 45 seconds, so you have to here this at least 20 times.