Working at an ice cream shop, it's a fact of life: ice cream falls out of cones. Whether it be an ignorant child looking for a more convenient angle to lick at it and turning it completely on its side, or a distracted adult trying to use the debit machine and hold their cone at the same time, it happens quite often that a scoop (or several) tumbles from the safety of a cone onto the floors that I mop daily. It is something that I have come to accept.
Another situation, however, took me completely by surprise.
I scooped a small of Peanut Butter Chocolate Mudpuddle and set it on the top of the freezer as usual. The customer smiled in anticipation and grabbed a spoon from the arrangement on the counter. She was in her 20's, with a mouth coated in lipstick and a face that showed excitement. She placed her spoon in her left hand and reached forward with the right to grab the bowl of Peanut Butter Chocolate Mudpuddle.
Unfortunately for her, her hand missed the clasping motion that is ordinary, and pummeled straight towards the dish. Essentially, she punched it right off the counter and the entire thing fell with a plop into the still open freezer, resting in the tub of Orange Pineapple below.
So now, my dear friends, I am left with the responsibility to accept the fact that ice cream can also fall from bowls. There are no limits to the frightening possibilities of ice cream irresponsibility.
Watch yourselves.
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