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Ice Cream Man: Goes Pee In The Back Of His Truck
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults)
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 1 2021
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.08 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Everyone loves ice cream when it comes on a truck. Everyone knows that tune. Everyone runs to the curb. This book is about what happens in the truck between the times when people are running to the curb, which is information that the ice cream industry has not been forthcoming about and which this book addresses in illustrated cartoon form with the matter-of-fact tone of a documentary that decided the public had a right to know. The ice cream man goes pee in the back of his truck. He has been going pee in the back of his truck for longer than the ice cream man will confirm and shorter than the back of the truck suggests. This is the information. This is the book.
This adult parody book is gross-out humor with a realistic basis, which is the specific combination that makes people laugh and then think actually wait and then laugh harder. The ice cream is still delicious. That's the part that makes this funny. The ice cream is also still available. That's the part that makes this uncomfortable. Both things are true and the book is honest about both of them while being cheerful about neither. That's the experience. Buy accordingly.
This Book IS For:- Adults who have thought too much about the operational logistics of the ice cream truck and arrived somewhere they can't return from
- Fans of gross-out humor with plausible real-world foundations that make the joke landing with actual body weight
- Anyone who has ever eaten street food from a truck and decided not to think too carefully about the journey
- Gift-givers who want to ruin something innocent for someone they care about in a way they'll laugh about for years
- Ice cream truck operators who feel this is a PR problem for their industry and would prefer a retraction
- People who are currently holding an ice cream from a truck and have not thought this book description through
- Readers who need their food delivery systems to remain unexamined and cheerful from beginning to end
- Children who still trust the ice cream man completely and whose parents have decided this summer is not the summer for context
- Summer parties where someone's eating ice cream and you want to produce a specific reaction at a specific moment
- White elephant exchanges where the chaos-to-cost ratio is one of the selection criteria
- Gag gifts for the friend who has a weak stomach but a strong enough sense of humor to get through this
- Anyone who works in the food service industry and has stories that make this book feel modest by comparison
The ice cream truck will return this summer. The tune will play. Someone you know will run toward it. That moment can now have a context it previously lacked. This book costs less than three scoops from the truck and provides information that the three scoops do not. Whether that information improves or complicates the experience of the next truck encounter is a personal matter. The book just provides it. What you do with the ice cream after is up to you.
Gross-out humor is an ancient and underappreciated tradition. It works because it locates something real and presents it with the cartoon cheerfulness that makes the real thing suddenly visible and funny instead of just real. The ice cream man goes pee in the back of his truck. You know that. You've always known that, somewhere. The book just confirms it with illustrations and very little sugar coating.
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