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Ice cream van outside school

118 replies

Yamyoid · 01/05/2013 20:04

Aibu to be pissed off about the ice cream van parking right outside the school gates?
Would it bu to complain to the council?

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FinallyMrsFC · 02/05/2013 11:44

I still just don't get why you need all the tactics of no money, 'music means they've run out' or ice cream at home.

Don't bargain, just say NO.

DialsMavis · 02/05/2013 12:05

I don't mind the one outside school, sometimes I'm not overly keen on the one that stops outside my house every evening just as I am trying to pack the DC away for the night Grin

DialsMavis · 02/05/2013 12:07

When I see an ice cream van, I buy some if I have the £ and can feel like it, if I don't or I can't then I say no.

Xmasbaby11 · 02/05/2013 12:13

YABU. There is food temptation everywhere and kids need to be trained not to notice it.

mrsjay · 02/05/2013 12:18

'music means they've run out

TBF the dds were not daft it is a silly family joke I still say it and they are 15 and 20 Wink

Scholes34 · 02/05/2013 12:20

I buy one, and the DCs know that I'll say no thereafter, and they can't come back with "but you never buy us one".

Flobbadobs · 02/05/2013 12:22

DS doesn't believe me anymore and it started off as a joke but DD believes it Blush

soontobeslendergirl · 02/05/2013 12:37

My kids were scared of the ice-cream van Hmm

tried to treat them once and they were howling :(

Think it was the noise of the motor.

Mintyy · 02/05/2013 12:50

I'm really surprised at the number of posters who would never buy their child an ice cream from the ice cream van. Seems a bit joyless.

HopeForTheBest · 02/05/2013 13:00

YABU

During summer, or indeed as soon as it gets sunny, we will have an ice-cream pretty much every day, either from a van, or we'll go to the ice-cream parlour (don't actually know what they are properly called in the UK, it's "Eiscafe" in German), or from any of the shops or cafes that sell ice-cream around here.

I don't really think of it as a special treat as such - it's just part of nice weather.
But then, I do think that ice-cream is a necessary foodstuff, so maybe I'm just weird :o

YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar · 02/05/2013 13:06

I buy my 3 one of whatever they want once a week. However if they kick up a fuss or have a tantrum for one on one of the other days and I have to say no more than once then they go without on the next ice cream day. I never buy on a Friday though, the queue is horrendous. Always a Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday.

5Foot5 · 02/05/2013 13:10

YABU. The ice cream man (or woman) is just being an astute business person and parking where they think they will get the most trade.

notso · 02/05/2013 13:15

YANBU I think all shops, parks and general places of interest should also be shut down. I'm fed up of walking past them with my DC and them asking me to buy them things or if they can go to the park.
I can't say no to them obviously, they might explode or something. I once heard a woman say no to her son and he got in a bit of a mood, and who knows he might never get over it poor boy.

Sallystyle · 02/05/2013 13:16

The head teacher was annoyed by the van outside my kids school because the school had made a lot of changes to their menu and were heavily promoting healthy eating etc etc She thought that having an ice-cream van outside the school was sending the younger ones mixed messages and they didn't want the children to think the school was promoting healthier living while condoning having an ice-cream/ sweet van outside.

I can kind of see her point and with all of the other complaints the parents put in she certainly wasn't alone in her thinking.

mrsjay · 02/05/2013 13:17

oh notso I was just away to give you the waggy finger and tutting Grin

notso · 02/05/2013 13:18

Wink mrsjay

JenaiMorris · 02/05/2013 13:20

Ofsted? Someone mentioned Ofsted?

Hahahaha!

Fakebook · 02/05/2013 13:23

They're just trying to earn a living! Where else will they find hoards of little children to sell overpriced diarrhoea on a cone to? YABU!

FinallyMrsFC · 02/05/2013 14:35

notso Grin

FoundAChopinLizt · 02/05/2013 14:46

If the ice cream is made with non gm organic grass fed jersey cow's milk, free range eggs, fair trade sugar and locally sourced flavourings, and the cones are Duchy originals, with Green and Black flakes then YABVVU

notso · 02/05/2013 14:58

I really want a 99 special now
I might consider enduring the park after school if the ice-cream man is there.

notso · 02/05/2013 15:08

Yes, we can say No, but it's very hard when they see all their friends getting one.

So when they roll out the old 'all my friends are allowed to go to the pub' at 15 you are going to do what exactly?
Give in because it's hard when their friends are all allowed? Ban all pubs in your area?

PatPig · 02/05/2013 15:16

We tell the kids that the ice cream van ice creams are too expensive and they are only allowed ones from the supermarket.

valiumredhead · 02/05/2013 16:04

Ds loves the ice cream van, takes money in once a week to get one on the way home. It's exciting deciding which day will be 'ice cream day!' Grin

melika · 02/05/2013 16:17

Make it a once week treat if they have been good at school. That's what I used to tell my Dsons. If they got a certificate they got 50p extra!

Yes, you can say No!