Read this passage: Melted ice cream, children, is a fluid that is eternally sticky.
One drop of it on a car-door handle spreads to the seat
covers, to trousers, to hands, and thence to the steering
wheel, the gearshift, the rearview mirror, all the knobs of
the dashboard-spreads everywhere and lasts forever,
spreads from a nice old car like this, which might have to
be abandoned because of stickiness, right into a nasty new
car, in secret ways that even scientists don't understand.
What is the author's purpose for including this portion of "How to Eat an Ice-
Cream Cone"?
O A. To encourage the audience to eat ice cream carefully
B. To use humor in order to entertain the audience
C. To inform the audience what can happen to a car
D. To persuade the audience not to eat ice cream