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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
anywho...yeah those ice cream trucks are creepy. we don't have them here, just the kids on the bikes like you mentioned. there is one guy around here though that drives around in a truck like that offering to sharpen people's knives and axes and such...i can't imagine he gets much business...
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I had a friend that started a sharpening business like that. He bought a van and he'd go to construction sites and offer to sharpen saw blades and stuff. When he first told us his plan we thought he was crazy but his idea took off in a big way. Construction was booming and there was a need for his service. He was also the only one doing it that way and cornered the market. Soon he got a second van and then a third and eventually got a brick and mortar store to work out of and sold new blades and fasteners and other construction supplies as well. He had a vision for something we never saw and it worked out very well for him
I used to love it as a kid when the ice cream man would come walking around with his push cart but like many have said, today's ice cream man gives me the creeps and I have little trust for them.
My favorite memory comes from when I worked construction and on one particular site a girl would come with her catering truck for break time. It looked like the one pictured above with the two girls and the guy looking out the window.
Her truck was set up so she would bend down and look out the window to take your order and then she would stand up inside to make it. When she did that all you saw of her in the window was from her thighs up to her chest and she would face out because everything she had was on a shelf above the window.
So you would stand there waiting for your order all the while staring at one of the best camel toes I've ever seen. It wasn't by accident as she would come every day wearing something different that would show her camel toe off and she knew exactly what she was doing. It was like looking at a camel toe aquarium. When she pulled up to the job site it would come to a grinding halt and everyone would buy something. Sure wish they had cell phone cameras back then.
