To thing the icecream man is up to something?

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It's January. It's 4c and it's raining.
Surely no one is buying enough icecream to make it worthwhile?
Yet the van is still slogging on, Yankeedoodling his way up and down the street.
We live in a village, there's no events nearby.

Have you tried asking for a 99 flake and winking not-so-subtly at him? I bet he'll give you some drugs.

I heard a lot of them sold drugs.
Always on the phone.
Dealing.

Perhaps we have all been watching The Sweeney or New Tricks too much!

We have just got back form our local icecream farm and it was packed full of people queuing for icecream!

Everyone knows that selling icecream in winter is actually a brilliant idea. Most people are at home cosy and when they hear the music they want a nice icecream and can pop out in their pyjamas and grab it for a wee treat. Or the children hear and torture the parents for one and parents give in because they want the easy life

Probably for those people who wear shorts every single day, even when it's snowing.

Or Geordies

I want an icecream now

They are always up to something

Has anyone actually bought drugs from an ice cream van? Because I'm thinking that dealing from a readily identifiable vehicle that loudly plays a tune may not be the act of a criminal mastermind.

We lived in a town once where we were out and about a lot at all times during the day and only heard the ice cream van tinge-linging around in a) dead of winter, b) bucketing down, c) hail and/or sleet, or d) force 8 gales. Never when it was sunny and hot. Make of that what you will.

I think it's likely a CIA or MI5 surveillance van tbh. Or possibly a police stake out.

Flake out.

As other have said; drugs. More common that you'd think!

Than.....

There's one near me who takes bookings via FB - you can request him to come down your street.

Surely the ice-cream man selling drugs story is an urban myth?

Our old ice cream man (25+ years ago) used to sell single cigarettes and items for the more discerning smoker.
This made me smile, it made me think of the stories from my mum, she said he used to sell "loosies" which were single cigarettes

Just for our amusement can you sidle up to it and ask what specials are on offer. Wear a festival type hat or something. The one and only time in my life I have been offered drugs I was wearing a festival hat. And it was hash fudge 😁 at a storytelling festival.

It think it may be going off big time with the sprinkles

Perhaps he just loves his job and selling ice cream is his life and single passion?

Yeah, 11.15AM every day, the son of our downstairs drug-dealing neighbour is sent to the regular ice-cream van to hand over his Dad's takings. He's the only "customer". He's 5. :-(

Surely the ice-cream man selling drugs story is an urban myth?

Oh I dunno. After all, why deal from a safely anonymous cuckoo-ed flat/car using a burner phone when you can instead use a very conspicuous vehicle that plays a tune and that will be surrounded by witnesses as soon as it stops?

Pre internet our ice cream van used to sell knock off videos and porn, individual cigarettes to school kids and fruit of the loom jumpers. An eclectic offering

I was never allowed to get ice-cream from the ice-cream truck. My mum usually said something about hygiene though as an adult I think it was a tad more nefarious thought process than that.

Wow I'm glad to know I'm not the only one suspicious of the ice cream man.

Where we used to live we referred to it as the "ice crack van"

I thought ice-cream sellers hibernated over winter? As takings decrease as the weather gets colder during autumn they eat more and more of their excess stock until they have an insulating layer for warmth and are able to sleep safely curled in their vans for the winter.

As the weather improves in March/April they are woken by the warmth and the gentle knocking of potential customers on their closed vans. And so they emerge blinking in spring, in rumpled and slightly overlarge uniforms, and the dulcet chimes of the icecream van are heard across the land again….