Blog Writing, Atai Isaev

5, 16, 30

There’s this Carvel in my neighborhood. It’s an ice-cream place I go to once in a while. The store itself is the size of an average apartment, but their parking lot is pretty big (probably about 4 times as big as the store itself; do they NEED a parking lot this big?) I still do not know if it’s pronounced CARvel or carVEL. I heard people say both, so I’m quite confused. They serve soft ice-cream, ice-cream shakes, ice-cream cakes, and stuff of that sort (wonder how often they change their menu). Outside they have poster advertising deals they have (do these deals attract a lot of customers? are they effective?). They have one for every day of the week. So for example, 50% for a Sundae on Sunday. 

Their walls are decorated with ice-cream themed wall-paintings (wonder when they were painted?). They also have one of those very run-down claw machines with plushy toys inside of it. There’s also an ice-cream shaped trash can. Most workers there are very relaxed 20-25-ish year olds (one of these guys once invited me to work there). The demographic of the customers is mostly typical local Russian people (no Asian Americans;( ). The store has a very long, rich history starting in 1929 from some dude in New York borrowing money from his grilfriend to buy an ice-cream truck. A public affairs major might wonder how Carvel might take leadership in our Sheepshead Bay community helping us withstand ever-increasing global-warming heat summers (?).

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I got bad RNG with the numbers so it was a little awkward writing. Otherwise, pretty nice experience.