I used to belive my Dad when he told me that if the ice-cream van was playing a tune, it meant that it was empty. When I asked about why people were queueing up, he would reply "well, they're going to be very disappointed". I didn't get an ice-cream for years.
A childhood belief about ice cream vans
others believed things like this
- 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
- 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
- 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 mum used to tell me when the ice-cream truck turned on his jingle, it meant they had run out of ice-cream!Anon