When you hear an ice-cream truck on your street, “it means that someone thinks you deserve something good in the world, and you don’t have to imagine that for yourself all by yourself,” Souvankham Thammavongsa writes.
Not a lot of good sounds could be heard on our street. Police sirens and ambulances. Next door, a man often yelled, his shouts sometimes quickly followed by a soft thump. On our television, a movie played: a building being blown up, gunfire, and flames. We weren’t supposed to watch things like that, but my brother and I were home alone. I was ten years old and he was eight.
When you hear an ice-cream truck on your street, it means that someone has thought of you. It means that someone thinks you deserve something good in the world, and you don’t have to imagine that for yourself all by yourself.I slid the chain off the door and unlocked it. I grabbed my brother and we ran outside to the curb. The sound of the ice-cream truck was so loud, so close. My brother and I waved it down.
We promised each other that we wouldn’t tell our parents. We wouldn’t tell them that we’d gone outside. That we’d eaten ice cream. That we hadn’t paid. We spent the rest of the afternoon watching cartoons about small blue people who lived inside mushrooms.
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