I used to believe that the "music truck" came to our neighborhood to play tinny little tunes over its loudspeaker. This isn't my fault, it's what my parents told me. I was pretty upset and amused when I later found out that while all the other kids were getting ice cream, I was just getting music.
A childhood belief about ice cream vans

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the Ice Cream truck would only play music when it was out of ice cream. Thanks, Dad.Anon
- I used to believe that if the ice cream truck was playing music, it had sold out of ice cream.— Deprived of ice cream
- If the ice cream truck is playing music, it means they are out of ice cream.— Virginia
- My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have run out of ice cream. Anon
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(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