AIBU ice cream truck

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So we live on a quiet residential road.
My daughter goes to bed at 7pm every night.
3-4 nights a week an ice cream van drives and parks down our road blaring his ice cream truck music. This varies in timing but can be as late as 8pm. Usually between 7-8pm.
This wakes my daughter every time and she takes ages to resettle. She’s genuinely scared.

AIBU to talk to the ice cream man about this?
My husband thinks I’m ridiculous. I think it’s a mickey take to be blaring loud music at 8pm.

We have her window closed and white noise in her room but it still wakes her. I know I could put her to bed once he’s been but he doesn’t come every night so it’s hard to know and she is tired by 7pm.

Fir example tonight dd went to bed at 7pm, I sat down to eat at 7.45 and by 7.50pm he had woken her up. Just got her back down 30mins later.

YABU - Put up with it he’s just earning his living
YANBU - This would annoy me too

Could be worse. I hear some people have music blaring in their gardens until 10:30.

What is an Ice Cream Truck?

Like an ice cream van that sells ice cream@daimbarsatemydogsbone

It annoys me when they go out late. Their demographic is children and to come around when children are likely getting ready for bed just pisses parents off and will probably refuse to buy from the van out of spite 🤣

I find this frustrating as well but our ice cream man is really nice and gave my kids free ice cream once so now I feel guilty if I ever get a bit annoyed about the time again!

YANBU, one does it around here too pretty late and it drives me mad.

IMO, ice cream vans should stop at 6.30 and wine and snack vans should take over from there.

If you're in the Uk, they're not supposed to make noise after 7pm assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/245699/pb14030-ice-cream-vans.pdf

I had this when my son was a toddler. Every night at 8pm it stopped outside my house and woke him up.
I reported him to the environmental health dept at the council and it stopped.
About 12 years on I still can't decide if I was reasonable or not but he was horrendous with sleep and I couldn't take it anymore!

YANBU we have one at 9pm. Little kids play out that late here and blokes run their lawnmowers after 10. And next door HAVE to peep their car horns whenever anyone comes or goes at any time of the day/night. Arrrgh. Nothing worse than putting a toddler with precarious sleep in his bed then hearing crying a few seconds after a racket outside. Can't wait to get back to UK.

I don’t think either of you are being unreasonable. 8 isn’t kate, and he doesn’t know it’s bothering you. But you reasonably would prefer him not to park outside your daughters room.
a friendly word will solve this very easily, surely?

So what is an ice cream truck and how is it different from a van? Is it bigger?

We’ve got one round here that comes at about 7.30pm on weeknights.

The problem is not waking DD up but that she starts pestering me for one when she’s had her tea, teeth brushed and ready for bed.

At weekends he comes round at a more reasonable hour, so I always say no during the week and yes at weekends.

😂

@daimbarsatemydogsbone she obviously means an ice cream van, why on earth are you being weird about it?

Yanbu, ours comes round at 8pm when a lot of the children are just going to sleep. I tell my DD that after 6pm he turns into a milkman, she still believes me at 5.

I'm not being weird about it - just wondering what I'd missed and why it was getting called a truck. I am interested in language and words, that's all.

Its just another name for the same thing

Who pissed on your '99 @Gubatoka?

An ice cream truck is the one with the drugs in.

I think the answer is to print out the sheet from DoverWrights link with the key bit at the end highlighted and hand it over (or ask a mate who lives in a different area to hand it over to minimise aggro).

Ice cream trucks are a pain. In our area there's some kind of war on between two rivals and the tunes are constant. They also park outside school at home time which is annoying. I guess they have to make a living and all that though....

I'd politely ask. No harm in doing that.

Are you sure he’s selling ice cream and not something else? Seems late to come round at 8 pm.

If you decide to make something about it, let us know how it went. The track on our street is ridiculously loud too, but it's around 6-6.30PM. Annoying as hell though. The music they play is like from the dying radio.