Earlier today I was leaving my mom's house and I heard the song of an ice cream truck, it was stupidly loud, and it turned onto my street. I can't even remember the last time I saw one. Well it was really more of an ice cream van. Mind you my mom lives in an HOA where all the houses look the same and I have never seen kids playing outside because the houses have no yards. No one was outside at the moment. Of course no one came outside to buy ice cream.
So this van slowly goes down to the end, bellowing its repetitive song to beckon the children that may or may not exist on this street. The song is so familiar yet I have no idea what it's called. And the street is a dead end so the van has to turn around and witness its failure to summon the children. There's just some guy trying to make a living driving in there, and I wonder how they are doing. I can't imagine many kids are buying ice cream from them.
I waited until it was gone to pull out of the driveway.
I'm not a good enough writer to really paint this picture but it was so odd and striking. It was a scene you'd see in a cheap asset flip video game where there is an open world but no NPCs and one music clip that repeats. idk