need a good description of an old man driving an ice cream truck?

Answer 1

Come on...you can do this. Remember that you don't have to describe him from head to toe...you can describe his hair, his eyes, his hands, his voice. Give just enough description to give the reader a general idea of what he looks like, but don't belabor it.

Answer 2

Think of that old man driving the ice cream truck by the swimming pool on a hot summers day and let your imagination
run with it. I would start something like this:
Old Cappy was like everybodys grandfather and grandmother
rolled into one bundle. Every day, rain or shine,( well actually only shine or shine) Cappy tooled by the city park in his shiny rainbow colored ice cream mobile with its music box jingling.
He would stop and walk to the side of the truck in his bright white suit and cap which emphasized his ruddy complexion and rosy cheeks, and would smile as all the kids flocked around the ice cream freezer. He knew them all by name, and you got the feeling that many of the kids came as much for Cappy's stories and silly knock-knock jokes as for the ice cream...

The idea is to use as much colorful description as possible to describe the old man. But also try and capture the feeling of what kind of a person this old man is , and what makes him special. He cannot be ordinary or why would we be writing about him. It might help if you think of an older person you know (not necessarily an ice cream truck driver), who you could model your ice cream truck driver after.

Answer 3

The ice cream truck was all white with bright pictures of delicious ice creams of various flavours - strawberry, vanilla, chocolate, caramel, and so on. The old man wore a 'Quality' marked red cap wich suited his long sharp face. His greying beard was long er than anything I have seen. He glared at the kids through his thick-rimmed glasses. This scared them.