Ice Cream Biker

''User:Serprex 03:59, May 16, 2015 (UTC)

Eight. Rise. Waste time

Nine. Consider waving from path of exile for breakfast. Do so, jam and cheese on bread

Ten. Leave. Lunch: Banana, bread tip, chocolate chip cookie. Water bottle. Return for poncho, fits in pocket. Tilley hat. Bring 3 5 dollar bills. Cold, wear blue gloves

One bike is being loaded upon arrival. Walk in circles. Some guy shows up. Doesn't smoke anymore, vapes, talks about 17 year old room mate joining in. Talks about honesty. Listen, but paying attention to ice cream counts. Talks about not being able to drink non diet pepsi. Talks about sucralose being an order of magnitude more efficient than sugar. Correct miscount: 13 watermelon instead of 12. "There's a guy you keep, he's honest." Don't know why it's so hard to act in the correct rational method of being selfish. Probably an unhealthy dose of idealism: desire that everyone go for the cooperative maximum win strategy rather than the rational selfish strategies. Don't discuss these philosophical points of game theory in business, just point out flawed contests where shouldn't be put up when one can buy the prize for an eigth the earnings. Also avoided bringing up interesting game theory concepts when on the news the day before it had been noted that not having consistent slower maximum speeds around schools could be safer since both drivers & children are less inclined to feel safe (related concepts: bike helmets cause more accidents, adding a road can increase overall congestion)

Granted all of east side. So long as south of Dundas. Given heads up to check out mechanics, motels, construction. Workers wanting ice cream. It's a bit of a rainy day though. Some guy isn't showing up because the day's not profitable enough. Put on X-Box poncho. Mention source being from mother. Have never owned an X-Box. Vape guy doesn't like video games. Don't mention that morning had been spent PC gaming

At one point one ice cream is stacked at bottom, other is stacked at top. Box is reorganized to have them side by side by CFO. Shared chuckling about bad organizational setups

Mostly have 12 of most ice creams. 24 bubble gum bars. Only 3 Moose Tracks. No mega ice cream sandwiches. Am given proper 10 dollar map. Told to return it well

Bike along York. Dead day. Shortly before Rectory a security guard asks for a mega ice cream sandwich. Search around for too long. Inform of deficiency. Order change: Orange Creambar. Fumble change. No tip. Bike along Rectory to train tracks. There's a train. No ice cream sales at train stop. Continue past Rectory, turn right along Egerton. Focus on maneuvering. Left turn onto Trafalgar. Some carpentry is occuring. A man orders 1 orange cream, 1 cherry cream. Can't find cherry cream, order change: 2 orange cream. No tip. Joke: "You think you may have it bad sometimes, but then you remember that there's people out there selling ice cream on a cold day." Construction on Highbury. Push bike up overpass. Walk slowly, ring bells, mistaken movement for interest. No sales. Fear in descent: think "should call for help, stuck in a tree." Walk down pulling bike back the whole way. At one point left pedal meets right leg, left leg hops on one foot, kicking back to prevent the bike from gaining momentum in this moment of weakness. That'll bruise, presumably. Continue along Highbury, some guy asks "You're just going up Highbury?" or something like that, traffic makes it hard to discern, "Yeah", continue on. No sale

Turn right somewhere, pass schools, children in schools don't have money on them, empty soccer fields, corner stores. Keep leaning to meet Dundas. Detour for construction, no sales. Ring bells for motels, no sales. Consider whether to go until Airport road or to try move back. Been needing to piss since Trafalgar. Somewhere in this zig zag someone yells "Ice cream." Pass school again, somewhere pass a bus stop, a car is pulled over in periphereal vision, roll back, window scrolls down to a toddler looking out. Sour cup. No tip. Stand awkwardly for awhile after being asked if it comes with a spoon. It doesn't. Mother says "thank you" to let me know I can leave. Mumble back some pleasantry

Continue until Hale. Push bike up to turn about. Bus signals yield. Let bike roll down. Gaining too much speed. Nearly falls down a ditch. Front flap opens, garbage comes out. Hat falls off into the background. Stop bike. Move onto grass by street. No glasses. Sight of hat several meters behind. Retrieve hat. See garbage while returning to bike, stuff back into front flap. Close front flap. Adrenaline is fun. Resume riding Hale Street with intent to work back to Rectory to piss. Quiet bells while passing old neighbor. Parents are out. Walk bike down steep hill. At parking lot of plaza black truck pulls over. Been watching every black truck that passes. Don't notice where CEO is. CFO asks how much has been sold. Four fingers up to clarify what's being said. Nods knowingly, issues: too fast, not loud, main streets. Demonstrates ringing. CEO loves when CFO rings the bells. Sent away, ringing bells harder now. Again alone in urban home territory. Turn off Hamilton to try less main street territory. Following an old lady & her middle aged son. Ringing bells behind them. Wondering how annoyed they are. Continue deeper into residential zones which seem unfamiliar, having always lived on main roads, or at least roads connecting to main roads. A mother & her daughter are standing. She buys polar bar. Didn't know ice cream bikes were out, been years. Mention things started again last year. First tip. From here on tips will become more standard. Label her: unit 5. Continue winding the road, a man comes out, takes awhile on his order, ends up going with orange cream. Unit 6. Up the street a child is looking expectantly, roll towards them, their father goes for red white blue. Use to be called space rocket. Nobody will be calling them space rocket today. Unit 7. Circuit seems to be returning, cresecent descends, hit Highbury. Consider whether to cross. Decide to. This will be regretted. Try to maneuver gracefully on small triangle for pedestrians to wait on. Drag bike backwards along 4 lane crossing. Nearly have bike run astray into car. Turn off onto non main streets whenever. Ride quickly to dead ends, then slowly return. Car stops, remarks on ice cream bikes not having been around for awhile. A child chases after on scooter, sister behind, out of breath, sour cup, ice cream sandwich. Unit 9, unit 10. Somewhere unit counts increment until unit 14. Along one street there are no buyers, only talkers, saying it's too cold, remark on having sold 14 units. Another talks of having been a vendor in the past. No ice cream, moving on. Hit Egerton. Take it across the river. Really need to piss, oh well. Lots of cars passing while crossing bridge, causes anxiety

Want to hit Comissioners. Get into suburbia. Remember foolish times from tenth grade. Notice corner store. Don't compete with corner stores. Turn off, had seen apartments while going up hill. Continue past a bit. Auto workshop from years before seems to be run down. Most of parking lot is pitted, dirty. Phone booth that offered warmth one night still there. Ride bike past woman with children. Children screaming for ice cream. She tells them no. Children chase after. Increase speed. A child on a green bike comes up. They want ice cream. Other children have already gotten freezies from somewhere else. They don't have any money. They begin asking about free ice cream. Math is explained, based on concept of five dollar ice cream, how much will be being cost to self. Start leaving, child wants to come along. They think they'll get ice cream out of that. Explain distances being travelled, mention their mother. Somewhere GPS tracking gets brought up, don't know where button is, consider red flasher, kid presses it. Somewhere escape is made. A female child comes up to look at menu. No money. Orders that return be made in future. Mention that a whole summer awaits. Come upon apartments passed earlier. Ring along them, no sales, at intersection a woman asks from a red car whether moose tracks is on sale. Confirm with price. The car turns left, stops. Light takes awhile, eventually cross, sell moose tracks. There are many people in the car. Many orders later 22 dollars has been spent on 21 dollars worth of product. Up to unit 22 now

From here unit counts will begin to blur, even at that present state, where everything should be clear. The path becomes too winding, cresents are found inside cresents. A rough push is made through an alley. Stop for short break here to eat bread, half of cookie, take two swigs from water bottle as bookends of meal. Continue on before body notices, once it realizes it can relax it won't resume this pace. Somewhere pushing up a hill a man begins asking about the season, talk is had of rough morning, of wearing poncho, first day, asked if the work is after school. Explain that school was dropped, that instead work had been done in software development for 3 years. Nodding. Wants a drink. No drinks; such things would melt cooler. Suggest sour cup. He decides on ice cream sandwich, sustenance for yard work. Tells "Consider it your lucky day" in rejecting change, thus causing an 18 dollar tip, thus causing a 920 percent commision rate. Continue on pushing up hills, strike upon Pond Mills. Recognize the town houses. Stop to orient with map

Coming along a girl orders along curve, nearly 360 degrees later children swarm & a man takes charge. Bubble gum for children not his own. Suggests order be done with a calculator. Reads off numbers, price is agreed, down sell from fudgsical to polar bar. Daughter has polar bar too. Had lost track of fudgsicals, they were underneath space rockets. During time 2 children had ordered something or another while daughter had been getting father. Informing him that all prices were below 5 dollars

Shortly down are more children. Girl leaves to get money from her mother.A man pulls in, gives boys some money. Enough for a polar bar & an ice cream sandwich. Girl returns with her mother & sister. Her sister has been crying over wanting to see her father. Don't care about circumstances enough to recall

Things forgotten: randomly nodding at strangers, wondering if they will buy, but mostly they seem to just be being polite. Dogs always barking from whereever