ice cream guy

You know how some people have an inexplicable fear of clowns? Well, I have just discovered that I have some sort of visceral aversion to those ice cream vans that play tinny carnival music and tool around neighborhoods.

I grew up in a rural village, so the only place I ever saw these ice cream vans was on TV. And in my old neighborhood in Bearden, we must not have been on a route. But in our new neighborhood near downtown, we are visited daily by these ice cream guys.

I start feeling freaked out as soon as I hear the music ever so faintly, off in the distance. If my children are playing outside, I find myself going out to the yard and ushering them into the house as I hear the guy getting closer.

Of course they think I am totally weird...

I can't figure out where this aversion is coming from. Maybe I had a really bad past life experience with an ice cream van guy.