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“Ice Cream” Questions Are Brilliant

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“Whenever I asked a question that was hard to answer or if I demanded an answer to an awkward question in public [my dad would] say, “That’s an ice cream question.” The rule with ice cream questions was that 1) it meant I asked a really good question, 2) I couldn’t ask the question again or I wouldn’t get ice cream, and 3) he would explain it that day over ice cream.

This worked amazingly because he shut down awkward questions immediately and explained them on his terms, but bad because I had so much ice cream.” —u/octnoir