I was 10 before I found out that ice cream vans played music to get you to come out and buy one: my mum and dad told me they only played the music when they had run out!

Philippa

My dad told me that whenever the ice cream van played the familiar tune, it signified that they were out of the frozen goodies. I spent my childhood waiting for a van that had some.

Phtxx

I believed my farther when he told me that the ice cream van only played music when it had sold out!

Anna

When I was a wee nipper my parents insisted that when the ice cream man played his funky tune, he was actually out of ice cream. :-(

Anon

My folks told me when Mr Whippy played his music he was compleletly out of ice-cream.

Anon

my mum used to say that when the music was playing on the ice cream truck, it meant he had run out of ice cream.

Anon

My father used to tell me that when the ice cream van played music, it ment it had run out of ice cream!!

uk

My friends mum used to tell him that when the ice cream van had the music playing it meant he had run out of ice cream!

caroline

When i was young my mom told me that when the ice cream man played his bells and songs it ment the ice cream was all gone. I believed it.

Lauren

When I was young, upon hearing the ice cream van music my mum would tell me that it meant they had run out of ice cream. I didnt have an ice cream van ice cream for years.

Ben

My mother and father told me that when I heard the ice cream van ring his bell, it meant that he had run out of ice cream

Matt G

When I was a young child my parents told me that when the ice-cream van played music, they had run out of ice cream!

John

my friends dad told her little brother( he's 8)that when the icecream van has its music on, then its run out of ice cream. her brother beleived it for about 2 years until he saw an ice cream van with music playing giving out ice creams

k8 (GO LIVERPOOL)

I was hanging out with a friend 1 day and i heard the ice cream van come round the corner. I had some cash and asked if she wanted an ice cream and she could pay me back later. My friend laughed and said the van music was on. Confused, my reply came as "so what?" in which my friend replied "well, when the musics on there isnt any ice cream left!" i then had to prove it and caused my friends mum a lot of hassle.

jay

My mother told me that when the icecream man played music that meant he was OUT of icecream.

B. Jones

Not mine, but did hear recently about someone being told as a kid that the ice-cream van only played its music when it had run out of ice-cream. Maybe its a Scottish thing!

VC

when i was a kid my mother told me that when the ice cream man was playing his music he was out of ice cream

Lynnzea

Well this is not mine! But one of my friends told her son that if the bell rings on the ice-cream van then it meant that he had no ice-cream! Can you imagine what he thought when he seen all the other kids getting some. He must be scared for life!!!

justine beresford

i thought that if the icecream van had its chimes going, it meant it was out of ice cream

Gracie

A friend of mine tells a great story about how when she was little her dad had told her that when the Ice cream van came round and rang his bell, that it meant that he had run out of ice cream. She belived this for quite a while apparently.

Mad Marx