and she was never heard from again

[some_stars]

Do I have issues, or should ice cream trucks not be allowed to play anything in a minor key? Especially if the music, which already sounds like a haunted music box or the tune floating out of that tent at the shady carnival that the creepy fortuneteller tried to warn you away from, also has a creepy grinding percussion section that sounds like putting your ear up to one of those clockwork cymbal-banging monkey toys right before it breaks down? Especially if it's blaringly loud and the sound, growing fainter and almost ghostlike but still audible, follows me into the house and upstairs? And especially if it's a grey and silent afternoon with no one around outside except a small stream of children converging--quietly, without running--on the truck, which has a badly-drawn animal mascot mural on one side with writing that appears to have been done freehand? It's not just me, right?

Comments

[darchildre]

...from that description, I would not be at all surprised if the ice cream truck was driven by Satan.

Or at least a being on the order of Mssrs Coogar and Dark from Something Wicked This Way Comes.

[some_stars]

I am frankly shocked not to have been devoured yet by any otherworldly horrors. As soon as I turned onto my block, I felt like I'd been dropped into one of those survival horror games that I refuse to play because they are TOO SCARY.

[aris_tgd]

It's not just you at all, but now I want to steal this entire description and put it in a movie.

[some_stars]

I feel like it might almost be too much! The creepiest part was how all the ridiculously over-the-top creepy elements were actually happening, completely by chance.

[sohotrightnow]

D:

[some_stars]

INORITE. They actually only started allowing ice cream trucks in this neighborhood (technically its own city with its own weird laws) about a year ago, which I thought was awesome and long overdue since there's like fifty small children to every block around here, but I may have to change my opinion.

[cyprinella]

I just with the one that hit our neighborhood didn't play medleys of nursery rhymes and Christmas tunes that sound like they were culled from a midi library 10 years ago. It's creepy AND irritating, and I almost always get earwormed with music I hate.

[some_stars]

Oh, it's always so unsettling when they sound like MIDIs, especially when it's almost recognizable.

[lilacsigil]

Most of the ones here play Greensleeves, which is definitely creepy.

[vass]

The one near where I live isn't in a minor key, but the melody ends on scale degree 3, and that makes it sound really unresolved, and drives me out of my mind. I keep waiting for them to come back and finish the damn tune. #musicmajorproblems

[lilacsigil]

Just...one...more...note!

[vive]

The ice cream truck scene from Legion has ruined "Turkey in the Straw" for me.

[thingswithwings]

at the very least it's you, me, Stephen King, and Ray Bradbury.

[azurelunatic]

Oh wow, that's creepy.