I was told that the ice-cream man fills his ice-cream pushcarts with boys who were caught being naughty.
Until i mustered enough courage and sufficient height to steal a look into one of these boxes, i avoided him with great tact (or so i thought!)
A childhood belief about ice cream vans

others believed things like this
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon
- My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have 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
- "Yooce cream, ice bean, we all scream for ice cream!"
This song was always stupid to me.— Shirley B. - 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 mum used to tell me when the ice-cream truck turned on his jingle, it meant they had run out of ice-cream!Anon