when i was about 3, i can remember an ice cream van coming down our road ever so often... it used to play greensleeves, and it scared me silly! i used to hide in the house and cry. it still sends shivers down my back.
A childhood belief about ice cream vans

others believed things like this
- My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have run out of ice cream. Anon
- I used to believe that the Ice Cream truck would only play music when it was out of ice cream. Thanks, Dad.Anon
- "Yooce cream, ice bean, we all scream for ice cream!"
This song was always stupid to me.— Shirley B. - My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon
- 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
- 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