Summer remains the most popular season, but it’s not as comprehensive a victory as you might think. During childhood, many of us develop positive associations with the hottest months of the year, but when we reach adulthood, the season can have a few drawbacks that make it a little more difficult to love.
Spotted outside the Natural History Museum in London this past August, a flamboyantly pink Mr. Whippy ice cream truck was doing the Lord’s work on the hottest day of the year (a broiling 92°F!) for a place that shuns the modern miracle of air conditioning. Ugh! Gleaming under the sun, museum-goers abandoned dinosaur bones and gemstones to worship at its soft-serve altar.
With tourists melting faster than their cones, this truck appeared like a frosty pink oasis, its soft hum whispering sweet promises of salvation. If Barbie drove a food truck, this would be it.
