Puzzle of the year 2

The spoon in the ice cream trick ... how was it done? Leave a 20 year old lad alone in the house for a while. He will NEED and so take the ice cream from the freezer and being completely unable to scoop out what he needs, he will take the entire container into the living room and loll by the fire. As he is entranced by whatever is on the television, he will leave the spoon in the ice cream and will leave the ice cream in front of the fire. After a while he MIGHT appreciate that the ice cream really needs to be back in the freezer. He MIGHT have seen the spoon at the bottom of the container and will probably raise an eyebrow at the very idea of such a thing having happened. He will then be totally unable either to dirty his hands by removing the spoon; or to work out how to remove the spoon A perfectly true story with the answer written with an air of impudence on my part and a massive amount of truth on the other part! DW