When very little, my mother told me the man driving the Ice Cream Truck was the Music Man. When I heard the music, I needed to run inside, get in bed, and take my nap. If I didn't do that right away, the Music Man wouldn't come around playing tunes to lull me to sleep with anymore.
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
- 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
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon
- I used to believe that the Ice Cream truck would only play music when it was out of ice cream. Thanks, Dad.Anon
- My music teacher once said that music in an electrical piano was made by little tiny men that lived inside it.Anon