Snarling at the ice cream van through my net curtains.

Screenshot ted to use next time people moan about PTAs 😂

We had an ice cream van do this, his ice creams were £6 a pop. So the PTFA went and got a bunch of lollies and ice creams from Aldi and sold them at £1 before the kids got out of the gates.

It’s the worst feeling when someone or something wakes up your baby. I used to begrudge sirens, loud teenagers and trucks daring to be in earshot of the pram when out walking with a napping baby. It’s irrational but can’t be helped!

I think it might have been a thing in the dim and distant past but now they have kids on bikes/mopeds doing the work it’s died out. An Ice Cream van doesn’t make for a good getaway vehicle chased by a Police BMW does it ?

My dad used to buy cigs from them 🤷‍♀️

All these tired old ‘they selling drugs’ urban myths. Do you think drug dealers make themselves known and play music to alert themselves to authorities? As someone who used to regularly order and take drugs - they’re ALL on mopeds because you don’t need a licence. The exact opposite of a bloody ice cream van. Engage brains

It sounds like you need an organised group to turn up even earlier than him, to take all the parking spaces, @Asuperblyfeauturedroomandexcellentboiledpotatoes. Yes, I am that petty!

9pm might be late in the stage of life you’re in right now but in the grand scheme of things it really isn’t late, especially in the summer with warm, light evenings.

As shown on this thread no matter what time and where an ice van comes is going to piss someone off. 3pm - hyped up sugar rushed kids right after school, 5pm - now my kids won’t eat their dinner, 7pm - now my teens want ice cream instead of dinner, 10am on a Saturday - too hungover from Friday night and the noise is annoying etc etc etc

You’re sleep deprived and that sucks. Feel free to snarl away privately and have a moan on here. Just don’t be one of those U people who thinks the whole world must revolve around their kids and the stage of life they’re in right now.

One of the few things I dislike about living somewhere rural is the fact we don't have an ice cream van. God I'd love one. Maybe just not at 9pm though..m

They don't come down my street. Instead the ice cream man parks up outside my daughter's primary school. The absolute bastard.

He gets there nice and early to secure a prime spot and then sits there, taking a large and valuable space from parents trying to pick up their kids, and he pisses off somewhere, leaving his van parked up until 3:20 when the school kicks out and he magically respawns, rubbing his hands with glee and ready to take the money of harassed parents.

The queue is always a mile long, the ice cream needs you to remortgage just to pay for it, and you are left with a sticky, sugar-rushed child at the end of it all.

Fuck you Mr Ice Cream. Stick your flake up your arse.

Meh, post dinner ice cream I the summer when it's almost the school holidays and boiling hot is most children's dream! Unclench.
Their music is annoying though.

I hate the ice cream van too. The Mr whippy is horrible now..like solid bland tasteless nothing. It doesn't melt? It used to be pumped full of air bit gawd knows what's in it now. Cement?

I saw my local one feeding the pigeons with the toppings and letting them flutter and land on the counter and peck the toppings?!

I asked him once if his slush had sweetners in it as I'm allergic to some and he just said I don't know really angrily and turned away.

9pm is a dodgy time to chime your ice-cream van. Unless he's selling some extras?!

I don’t think 9 pm is too late. Many people are eating or finishing their evening meal at that time - it’s probably the only time of day that might tempt me to buy from an ice cream van.

I'd just be glad it's too late for me to feel obliged to buy the kids an ice cream at £6 a pop when we've got lollies in the freezer! The ice cream van comes at 6ish on a Monday and last week it was so hot that I lost my mind and bought them for the kids and me and DH too. 24 quid on sodding ice cream.

I dont have kids so i agree.

Really? Mine were all very light sleepers, like me. Ice cream vans are very loud, we can hear them from several streets away.

Is the possibility that they're selling something other than ice cream supposed to make it more acceptable that they're playing music loudly in the street at 9pm? If anything, that would make me more inclined to want to boot them out.

Check on your local authority website. There's all kinds of restrictions. How long they can play the sound for, that they can only play It when moving not parked. How often they can come about. operating hours limits. Our came at least hourly and parked in front of our house playing the music till 9pm all summer, drove me insane. When my sisters called me they even asked why there was constant ice cream van music in the background. Was weird as I also never once saw a customer. We live in a cul de sac.
Anyway I printed out the rules then walked out to his van to show him. He scarpered and hasn't been back this year yet.
Now I'm seeing people saying they sell drugs I'm actually wondering if that was his deal.

Well can't they do it quietly?!

Our ice cream van comes around even in Winter. I should imagine he doesn’t sell many ice creams at that time of year 🤔

Ours comes around just before lunch every weekend...er no

Sorry but the kids can get their own; it’s every woman for herself in this heat!

The local ice-cream van, in my old area, came around very late because they also sold fags and other drugs.

God, that is far too late!! I’d check with the council whether their license allows that?

Sadly I live in a posh bit of Surrey where we haven’t had an icecream van call into the street in more than 15 years. Am gutted. Sunday afternoons as a kid involved waiting for the out of tune jangle and the frenzied rush to get out for a strawberry mivvi or a 99 if mum was feeling generous.

The law says they can’t play chimes before 12 noon or after 7pm. Not sure who is meant to enforce this though.
Must be waking a lot of children and making dogs bark.