The wandering salesman

So in downtown Bamako, you can purchase just about anything you need from the comfort of your porch.  Wedding gifts, shoes, food items of all kinds...its really quite convenient.

Why is it here that the only thing, from time to time, that works like this is the ice cream truck?  Can't you just imagine if the ice cream truck carried other things?  Some of my favorites would be:

Coffee

Convenience store items

Diapers

Pharmaceuticals

High protein snacks

Flip flops