To want the ice cream van to stop his bloody chimes and fuck off?

[ripsishere]

We live in a really quiet area, some children but not many. I have no problem with my DD having an ice cream every day if she wants one.
The ice cream van circles, it seems like I hear the them to Barney the dinosaur every 8 or 9 minutes.

[Prelude]

Oops, nope, telling us off for hating the chimy fuckers. Ah well, YABU OP, wherever you are.

[reni1]

So thrilling for me I went back to check if anybody else voiced an opinion on ice cream vans at 2am.

[Charlesroi]

I'm curious as to how you go about buying drugs from the ice cream man. Do you say "I'll have a 99, please" whilst furiously winking and tapping your nose, or do you just say "I'll have a 99 and a tenners worth of weed, please" and hope they are that kind of ice cream van?

[Prelude]

I meant to tell OP she was NOT BU but missed out a letter. Like it matters.

I'll get a right shock if she turns up. Hopefully she is living the dream somewhere van-free...

[HMSmostleaky]

Yes!

If I wanted to hear "Its a small world" over and over and over I'd go to Disneyland. I don't want to hear it there either actually.

I wish my neighbour would stop buying from them so they would go away.

[reni1]

I have a Pavlovian response to them, I just think oooh how lovely ice cream, so I love the tunes. Would use one as an alarm clock, lovely way to wake up!

[reni1]

You need to try shuffling around without ordering, frequently looking over your shoulder, Charlesroy. If it is the drug kind of van they'll offer, otherwise they will speed off or call the police.

[reni1]

charlesroi

[mimishimmi]

It's the middle of winter her (Australia). During a particularly freezing day DH and I were walking with shopping and heard the icecream van playing it's tune in a fairly isolated area. DH thought it might be a front for drugs too

[MillionToOneChances]

Video him and submit the evidence to EH? If they have an email address you could send them as it happens, sharing the irritation. Or collate into a daily report.

[TheBobbinIsWound]

Well, a positive thing to come of this Fred revival is that I never knew the rules and I have now shared them with a colleague. Her local van is so insanely loud that recently when we were both working from home and I popped over (we live locally) her van showed up and we had to stop talking. It was SO loud I couldn't hear her.
Again this miserable sod refused to turn down volume (apparently she's been asking him for years)

[TTWK]

You're lucky to have an ice cream van. We used to have one but he died! It was awful. He was found lying on the floor of his van covered in strawberry sauce, nut sprinkles and hundreds & thousands.

Police think he topped himself!

[RachelRagged]

God what a load of miseries.

Ice cream man is making a living. Ours plays Greensleeves .

[RachelRagged]

TTWK



Oldie but a goody

[elfycat]

My DF told us that the music from an ice cream van was warning. It indicated that it had finished and was about to drive away.

I learned a lot of my parenting techniques from DF

[cocobean2805]

We lived on a main road so never had an ice cream van stop. The estate down the back has one who comes round, we could never get to it. Now that's torture! (It played the football song, match of the day theme??) It still goes round, and I STILL can't have an ice cream! (DH and I live in my childhood home).

I eventually got past my disgust at my parents for choosing such an impractical home by working on a non-chiming stationary ice cream van as a Saturday job.

Report to EH, it sounds like a nuisance!

[Brunhildafair]

Someone I know told their children that the Ice Cream Man only turned his music on to let everyone know he has sold out.!!

[lunalelle]

I, too, heard that it was a front for drugs. Apparently, the chimes gave warning of a police drug raid. Or something.

Ours played Oh, Oh, Antonio back in the 80's, and they sold the delicious red Dracula lollies.