When I was little, my Mom would not let me get ice cream from the ice cream man, because it would inevitably come around when we were getting ready for dinner. So, to keep me from bugging her, she would tell me that he was really a music man who drove a truck around with people playing a song in the back. When I saw other little kids running up to it and asked her what they were doing, she said that his song had hypnotized them so he could kidnap the one he liked the best, then proceeded to describe his favorite child as one that looked exactly like me. I was so frightened, I didn't get ice cream from the truck unless she took me out there and held me. Still have odd feelings about little children going up to the truck alone, and I'm 22!!!
A childhood belief about ice cream vans
others believed things like this
- 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
- I used to believe that the Ice Cream truck would only play music when it was out of ice cream. Thanks, Dad.Anon
- My mum used to tell me when the ice-cream truck turned on his jingle, it meant they had 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