another summer disappointment

it is a well-known fact that ice cream is the best thing in the whole wide world (with the exception of toilet paper and brain waves). of course, it's best in it's pure form, but sometimes one just wants an ice cream treat. i, however, am notoriously cheap, so i don't get them very often.
last week i was at the store, though, and i had to spend $25 to get cheap pop, so i figured why not? this was the time to treat myself. then i faced the dilemma of pudding pops or chocolate malt cups. pudding pops aren't what they used to be, but they're still good, and come on a stick. malt cups are scrumptious, but as far as treats go, they're not that different from just buying a carton of chocolate malt ice cream and scooping it up yourself (except that they're in nifty little cups, which makes them quite novel). finally i decided that since i got malt cups last time, i'd go with the pudding pops.
yeah. great move.
apparently, on the way home, it was hot enough in my non-airconditioned car that they melted some (i need to learn to eat only crackers i guess). so far i've had two of them, both of which have seemingly not had sticks because the pudding melted, ran down the sticks, and refroze all the way around them. slightly inconvenient and very messy.
they still taste good, i suppose, but the joy of eating them has been sorely diminished. yet another reason why ice cream, straight up ice cream, is the best thing in the world.