I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream

The ice cream truck, besides that annoying, repetitious, tinkling racket that passes for music, periodically emits an uncannily parrot-like "Hello!"

Yesterday the AGP and I were out on the deck when it came up the block behind us. She came to rigid attention the first time she heard it 'speak,' and after the third time she started answering it.

Weird, listening to the truck driving around the neighborhood saying "hello" and the parrot answering back.