Mobile Ice Cream Man

After dinner today, it was time for ice cream when my friend and I chanced upon the mobile ice cream man at Clarke Quay. The lady in front of us wanted a type of ice cream that was not available today. The ice cream man uncle made an lengthy elaborate effort to explain its unavailability .....something to do with dry ice and the manufacturer. I was suitably impressed he made the effort even though the lady looked disinterested.

Yeah, my turn! *Uncle, 2 mint choc chip ice cream, one in a cup and one with biscuits.*

First the uncle took his cloth and cleaned the knife of any remaining ice cream from the previous order. Then he took the King's ice cream cube left from the previous order and put it back into the cold storage. With that, he brought up the King's Mint flavor ice cream cube and started to cut it. Once cut, he took 2 biscuits out from his biscuit tin and put them at the exposed sides of the ice icream and then placed a clean clear plastic over the biscuits. Then he peeled the cupboard wrapping from the covered side of the ice cream while also scooping ice cream remnants stuck at the cupboard wrapping and placed it back to my ice cream cube. Finishing mine, he continued to work on my friend's order of ice cream in a cup.

His speed and dedication so impressed me. He effort to gave his customer their deserved portion including the remnants stuck at the cupboard is out of the world.

Indeed the ice cream costed me $1 each, but the dedication, pride and effort the uncle put in certainly made me feel the ice cream was worth so much more. Definitely much more than the $5.80 ice cream I had yesterday in a restaurant. (Yes I have been eating too much ice cream this week. Will ration for the whole of this month.) In fact, we passed by a ice cream palor selling expensive ice cream on the way home. The ice cream in the palor may be costly but the ice cream that I just had, beats it anyday!

From the uncle, I learnt is not about how much one earns in one's job or how much something is worth, is about the respect, pride, dedication and passion that are put in or felt that make the real difference.

Thank you Ice Cream Man Uncle, You make my day! :)