Ice cream vendors have become a nuisance for the locals as they take rounds of the streets with loudspeakers turned up on full volume late in the night. Music from their tricycle-trolleys not only disturbs the sick and elderly, it also lures children who then force their parents to buy them ice-creams.
“It’s OK if I get my children ice cream once a day, but they insist on buying more ice-cream every time a vendor comes to our street with his cycle and his music,” a father complained. He said authorities must restrict the timing of street vendors and they should not be allowed to come late in the night. “It is a problem for salaried parents, who have limited incomes. The luxury of having ice-creams thrice a day is not possible,” said a housewife.
She said ice-cream vendors were creating social and domestic problems for parents. “Children are children and they do not understand how household budgets are maintained,” she added. The parents, she said, face a dilemma as children of affluent families have no issues buying multiple ice-creams a day. She said denying children such luxuries was not good as it could create complexes in them, while them more often would disturb the household spending on other important things like utility bills, school fees and books.
