My parents encouraged us to call sun cream/ sun screen - 'SunSHINE cream!'.
Adorable when you're 4 but I didn't realise they'd added the ' shine' part until university.
Even now its really hard for me to just say sun cream... the other way is ingrained.
A childhood belief about weather
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
- "Yooce cream, ice bean, we all scream for ice cream!"
This song was always stupid to me.— Shirley B. - My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have run out of ice cream. Anon
- 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
- 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 mum used to tell me when the ice-cream truck turned on his jingle, it meant they had run out of ice-cream!Anon