‘What is all this ice cream for?’: Mom pushes out ice cream truck man for stiffing her kid, accidentally starts a lovely shared snack society amongst the local families

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Sep 6, 2023 7:00 AM EDT

It takes a village, so the saying goes. But honestly, it's true. Whether that village is just your family, your friend group, or your neighborhood block, sometimes it takes more than just you to help raise your kids right. 

Recently, a mom let pettiness get the best of her, but instead of it backfiring, justice was on her side and it not only worked, it unintentionally created a beautiful neighborly bound with her families and the other families living around her. You see, what happened was a very inconsiderate ice cream truck man. 

Her kid went to the ice cream truck to get some ice cream. But instead of her little treat, she got a lollipop and stiffed in change. This kid is very numbers savvy, so knew exactly what she was supposed to get in change, but the driver pulled away before she could even say anything. Defeated, she went back homer and when her mother saw how sad she was, she became livid. No one puts baby in the corner. So the mom drove to Costco, bought a giant box of ice cream sandwiches and gave them away to the neighborhood kids for free. Her kid made new friends around the neighborhood and now nobody had a need to purchase anything from the ice cream truck. 

The ice cream truck stopped coming and by pleasant happenstance, when they ran out of treats, the other families started buying treats to pass out to the kids and a cute little shared snack society blossomed. It's beautiful what being petty can do sometimes. 

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    Font - Posted by u/SlyLady Fox 4 days ago 20 Ice Cream Man Stiffed My Kid. ^ My kid ran outside to get an ice cream from the ice cream man.
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    Font - Kiddo returned a little ... sad. I asked what was wrong. She said, "I asked the ice cream man for my change. He gave me this lollipop and drove off before I could say anything."
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    Font - My kid doesn't like lollipops. Even if she did, it wouldn't have been a fair trade (not by a longshot).
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    Font - ANYWAY. I drove over to Costco and bought a few boxes of ice cream bars. For the next few weeks, my kid shared ice cream with all of the kids on our side of the neighborhood.
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    Font - My kid made some new friends, and no one on our side of the neighborhood bought from the ice cream man during that time.
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    Font - Unintended side effect: When we ran out, other parents started chipping in and provided snacks. for the kids who played outside.
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    Font - Chee-shep 4 days ago ● Yikes, that guy's a jerk. But it sounds like you've made some friends in the neighbor pitching in on treats and sharing with each other.
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    Font - GavsAus 1 day ago ● I sincerely hope ur kid takes the box of icecream and gives it to anyone lining up for the van. Rippof a kid, lose the whole street, love it
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    Gesture - Mysterious FeetInc 4 days ago A lollipop for change? Yeah no, I would be hot! How do lollipops and ice cream go together?
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    Font - SlyLadyFox OP. 4 days ago Yeah. I was pretty upset. My husband said, "What is all this ice cream for?!" Edit: Rage purchase.
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    Font - UndertaleFan1996. 3 days ago They say revenge is a dish best served cold but it's also sweet, so is revenge ice cream?
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    Font - Electrical-Pie-8192. 4 days ago edited 3 days ago I understand the rage purchase! With me it was books. Nieces bio dad told her she couldn't read the type of books she likes because they had a few pictures in them and no chapters. I was passed
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    Font - so I took her to the book store and let her spend $200 on any books she wanted. That was more than I planned, but my coworkers pitched in. I also took her cousins to get books. My coworkers were so very supportive of my rage buying!
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    Font - ● _Internet_Hugs_ 4 days ago My husband said, "What is all this ice cream for?!" Vendetta against the Ice Cream Man, are you with us or against us?
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    Font - neochimaphaeton. 4 days ago That was a rage purchase with a great return! You have my respect.
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    Font - Packers no_name_ia · 4 days ago Nah for the ultimate revenge, while giving the neighborhood children ice cream hire a band to play ice cream truck music to drown out the trucks actual music
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    Font - ngbyreasonofinsanity 4 days ago My uncle gave me $20 for the ice cream truck once and I didn't understand change. I just handed it to the ice cream man, got my ice cream and went home. A minute later there was a knock on the door and it was the ice cream man with the change 6 year old me didn't know I needed
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    Font - _dead_and_broken Man, that's nice of him! ● 4 days ago My ice cream man when I was a kid was a prik. I was about 4 or 5, I took my change down to the corner, a lot of dimes and nickels, some pennies. I had enough for two ice creams.
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    Font - But when I got to the corner and the truck pulled up, I dropped a lot of it in the gutter. As I bent down to pick it up, the man said he "didn't have time for this" and drove away, almost nearly hitting me. I picked up my
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    Font - change and ran home crying. My dad wanted to chase him down with a baseball bat, but my mom talked him down and had him just walk me to the corner deli to get ice cream instead.
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