# Why no female Icecream Truck drivers?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-female-icecream-truck-drivers/250279>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 14, 2004, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-female-icecream-truck-drivers/250279 "2004-06-14T13:43:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-female-icecream-truck-drivers/250279/21 "2004-06-15T02:52:26Z")

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> [@Mynn](#):
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> I’ll turn tricks first.

How _you_ doin?

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**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-female-icecream-truck-drivers/250279/22 "2004-06-15T19:51:50Z")

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Why does everyone’s head always go to the gutter in my threads…

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-female-icecream-truck-drivers/250279/23 "2004-06-15T20:21:57Z")

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> [@DocCathode](#):
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> Rather than a refrigerator, the carts were cooled by large chunks of ice.

I read somewhere that they used dry ice (frozen CO[sub]2[/sub]) rather than actual (water) ice.

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**Author:** ![arachnidlove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@arachnidlove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnidlove)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-female-icecream-truck-drivers/250279/24 "2004-06-15T20:24:09Z")

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Most of the Ice Cream trucks in my area are owned by Middle Eastern people. I see men and woman driving the “ice cream vans” around. More woman lately though.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-female-icecream-truck-drivers/250279/25 "2004-06-15T20:25:31Z")

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> [@belladonna](#):
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> a stern-sounding woman’s voice shouting “Hello? Hello!”

Oy! We had one of those around here, took us a while to figure out it was coming from an ice cream truck because the music that went with it was barely audible compared to the shouting. We originally thought it was one of the neighbors trying to get our attention!

I don’t remember hearing that “Hello? Hello!” last year and definately haven’t heard it this year. I hope it’s gone.

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