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

I don't think 8pm is late. I was hopefully waiting for the ice cream van I could hear in the distance to show up last night but it never did. A magnum from the freezer just isn't the same.

Anyway I'm off to start my own cheese and wine truck business, let me know if you have theme music ideas 🤣

Of course I can - I was seeking clarification and trying to work out how the term was being applied in the context of this thread.
Really not seeing the need for all the vitrol and ridiculous extrapolations of my motivation - it was just a question.

I have explained several times - don't accuse me of lying.

Oh you weren’t being snide about an Americanism? Sure. It was clear what you meant even before another poster posted your previous thread about being annoyed by Americanisms!

I used to love the fish n chip van coming round back in the late 80s/early 90s. Mum would send us with the mixing bowl to get it filled with chips every Friday with the instruction that we needed to ask for plenty of the scratchings (teeny tiny, super crispy bits of chips).

Well played

Nice try yourself, Sherlock. So I'm not a fan of creeping US cultural imperialism. I was still asking about an Ice Cream truck in the context of this thread.
I just asked, I didn't moan, wasn't rude, didn't pass judgement.

I just asked.

Just asked, and then a load of people decided on my life story and accused me of a huge range of imaginary offences.

How was I being rude, exactly?

Very well said. And props (😅) to the PP who spotted a trend!

OP in some areas the icecream van/truck comes around late because its delivering drugs. This of course may not be the case on your road.

Come on now.
You absolutely knew what an Ice Cream Truck is. Your previous thread about your annoyance of Americanisms reveals quite clearly you have a decent command of language and it's meaning. To expect us to believe that you genuinely didn't know what an Ice Cream Truck is would be to suspend belief completely.

You just fancied a bit of a pile on.

I actually learned something from this - that it's (apparently) UK regional.

It wasn't a mistake. That's what loads of areas call it. You are very rude.

I never said it was a mistake - please explain how I am "very rude"

You just fancied a bit of a pile on.

Utter bollocks.

I used to live somewhere that had a visiting ice-cream van that blasted out the St Trinian's theme at vol.11. 'Twas loud! Sadly Flash Harry never emerged from the bushes.

Ask him if he'll turn the volume down a tad and park further away from your house.

Their demographic is children and to come around when children are likely getting ready for bed

The demographic is 'people who like ice cream'. It's not age-specific. My mum and I can't resist a 99 from the ice cream van and we're 46 and 78 respectively.

Also, small children might be getting ready for bed between 7-8pm but older ones aren't - and all families are different, anyway. Once I got to primary school age I was eating dinner with the rest of my family at 7pm, not getting ready for bed.

Joining in with the truck v van discussion.

I would assume a truck to be larger, like a lorry. A van I would assume to be a smaller vehicle. I would understand what OP meant, although I'm not sure whether the ice cream vehicles are larger in other countries and maybe it is more truck like?

OP in some areas the icecream van/truck comes around late because its delivering drugs. This of course may not be the case on your road.

This is a bit of an urban myth.

Ours always comes around half five. This is useless to me as I want it after I eat not before.
If he came between 7 and 8 I'd be a regular customer 😂

Who appointed you and the other pile-ons as arbiters of what I did and didn't know about anything?
I have "owned" my dislike of creeping US cultural imperialism - on this thread an elsewhere, but I was asking about the use of Truck in relation to Ice Cream.
You all welcome to keep on piling on and accusing me of being disingenuous in asking, but I've genuinely not heard it called a truck before and I was curious - and that is all. The various inferences drawn from the question are yours, not mine.

No it isn’t.

The one who comes to our street literally does just that 🤢

It really isn't. I have video evidence of it happening in very plain sight.

I’ve voted YABU purely because we no longer have an ice cream man - he lived in the town and has sold his van, so that’s it, no more 99s for us. No ice cream man could be found to attend the jubilee events. I think it’s really sad and do miss it.

Off topic but we have a fish and chip van that comes three times a week to our village. It's brilliant! We also have a wood-fired pizza van and at special events in the village there's a prosecco van. We are all about the vans1

Our ice cream van comes about 7 and parks just across from our house (and yes I am a grown adult who goes to get an ice cream at 7pm because ice cream is good) but thankfully DD sleeps through anything.

I think 8pm isate for an ice-cream van. Would expect 7pm really as the latest.

I'm not sure what you could do. Your DD sounds like quite a light-sleeper, I'm wondering if she would accept some comfy ear muffs or plugs to sleep in? Or could you move her bed away from the window maybe?

That being said I'm used to a deep-sleeper. Mine slept through smoke alarm (no fire but someone triggered it in communal hallway with a cigarette!!), that was going off in our bedsit! Woke up to say it's noisy and ask what it was, then managed to go back to sleep to the tune of the alarm. Blew my mind

Tbh I don't think they are meant to be making that noise at 8pm so maybe could get them to stop by reporting them to someone

Be thankful you don't live where I do! We have cars going past with thumping music and base so loud it sets off car alarms gone 10-11pm.