Ice Cream Vans
As a child I was informed by my mother that all ice cream vans only sold cigarettes in the evening,so I was wasting my time asking for one when I heard the tinkling music after tea. I still half believe this to be true.
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
- My mother told me that ice cream vans were ambulances for little children.— Buzz
- I used to believe that if the ice cream truck was playing music, it had sold out of ice cream.— Deprived of ice cream
- 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
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon
- If the ice cream truck is playing music, it means they are out of ice cream.— Virginia