Screaming For Ice Cream Was Never This Loud

I am a new starter at an ice cream and dairy dessert place.

Coworker: “So the new ice cream delivery always comes on a Friday. It always needs two people and a manager.”

Me: “Oh wow, is there always that much?”

Coworker: “Well, no. It’s a policy that was introduced after Mr. Eardrums. Liabilities and all that.”

Me: “Uh, who is that?”

Coworker: “Oh! I thought someone told you. A year or so ago, we had some guy working here who thought it would be a good idea to fill a two-liter bottle with dry ice from the ice cream shipment and water. He sealed the cap in the produce cooler. He just… kinda… stood right beside it when it went off. The cashiers up front thought someone dropped a pallet on the floor in the back.”

Me: “What an idiot! Wait… isn’t the cooler soundproof?”

Coworker: “Yeah.”

Me: “So how did the cashier hear it all the way at the front?”

Coworker: “That’s why we called him Mr. Eardrums… on account of his bursting.”