Pre-empting my nephews entry in 20 or so years time:
I was at my brothers house and his three year old son was playing quietly with his toys. We heard the chimes of the ice cream van and William froze, my brother asked him what the chimes meant and he replied 'its the child catcher'!
'That's right,' said my brother, 'best you stay here where its nice and safe.'
- Fantastic!
A childhood belief about ice cream vans
others believed things like this
- i thought that if the icecream van had its chimes going, it meant it was out of ice cream— Gracie
- My dad would tell me that if the ice cream van was playing a tune it meant that he had no ice cream left. Duh!Anon
- i used to think that if i froze milk it would turn into ice cream, it wasnt so tasty when i tried it!— joey.k
- when i was a child i beleived that i can earn some money just playing with toys:)— Mário Rui
- i thought that we were all toys in a dolls house and giants playing with us was why we did what we did— Sarah
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon