My mother told me that ice cream vans were ambulances for little children.
A childhood belief about ice cream vans

others believed things like this
- 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
- Our mum told us that the ice-cream van noise was a children's ambulance— moonpants & sausage
- When I was little my mother told me that the chocolate sprinkles you put on ice-cream were ants.Anon
- 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 think that fire trucks and ambulances drove all the way back to the station backwards.— Tim