For many years I believed that if the ice cream man was playing music it meant that there was nothing left! Thats what mum told us!!
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
- I used to believe that when the ice cream man was playing his music, he had run out of ice cream— Katie