My husband's family used to go hill walking a lot when he was a very small boy. In order to encourage him up the slopes his father used to tell him that there was an icecream van at the top of the hill. Needless to say when they did get to the top they had always just missed the van, luckily his dad could always see it at the top of the next peak... He was a teenager before he finally realised that he never was going to get that icecream.
A childhood belief about ice cream vans
others believed things like this
- My mother told me that when the icecream man played music that meant he was OUT of icecream.— B. Jones
- My Mum told me that when the icecream man played his music it meant that he had run out of icecream!Anon
- i thought that if the icecream van had its chimes going, it meant it was out of ice cream— Gracie
- i asked my step dad why i never see icecream trucks in cali and he said there iligel— brittany
- When i was about 5 I used to believe that Broken Hill was a broken hill. — Saad
- I use to think that there were HILL COWS!— Erin