Things are different across the great divide.

Somewhere between the Sturbridge exit and the Palmer exit on the Mass Pike, you pass what we refer kindly to as "the great divide". If you've been out that way, I'm sure you know of what I speak. Anyway, it's a different world out here.

We're having a big carnival at work on the 29th and when my boss was telling me about it, she was like, "Yeah, we're gonna have a Ding Dong Cart here for 45 minutes..."

Wait a minute. A what?

After she mentioned it a few times, I had to ask what it was. She said, "You know, they play music and have ice cream?"

Oh. "An Ice Cream Truck?" I said.

So, in the lunch room, we just had a big debate over which term was correct. A co-worker, Shelly and myself agreed that it is indeed called an Ice Cream Truck because a) it's is a truck and b) it sells ice cream. We could not get one valid argument from the 'others' (meaning those born and raised this side o' the divide) as to why it should be called a Ding Dong Cart because it is neither a) a cart or b) something that 'ding dongs'.

So, I'm taking a poll. Tell me, when you were growing up and you were chillin' in the living room playing Mario or watching some 'toons and you heard "It's A Small World" playing in a slightly off sort of way in the distance, did you jump up and say, "Oooh, the Ice Cream Truck!!!" or did you say, "Oooh, the Ding Dong Cart!!!"?