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

Oh the innocence. 😁

Where I grew up their target audience was adults wanting drugs and kids wanting fags.

I was asking a question for clarity. The OP has kindly answered without resorting to personal abuse unlike you.

Apologies @daimbarsatemydogsbone , if I hurt your feelings. Because the OP said it was an "ice cream van" that was "blaring ice cream truck music", I thought most people would understand what she was talking about.

Some people can very snide on Mumsnet and it seems more likely that it would be a dig at OP's choice of language than genuinely not being able to follow that the "ice cream truck" in the title and the "ice cream van" in the post are one and the same.

We all make silly mistakes sometimes but yours was a bit of a whopper that would have been solved for most people be rereading the first post more closely, so you understand why some might think you were being disingenuous.

OP has kindly explained without the need to pretend to be some kind of master sleuth seeking out and vilifying people who dare to ask a question and exposing their vicious motivation, unlike you.

Well you are right about people being snide - I've been on the receiving end of plenty of that since I asked a straightforward couple of questions.
Luckily the OP was kind enough to just answer without getting all judgy about the question and extrapolating it to mean I must be Hitler.

My husband is from The US, my daughter says truck because of him. Sorry the use of truck/American language is so upsetting to some people 😂 Embarrassing

Perhaps all the people being nasty to you are American.

Good to see Godwin popping up.

There you go. You can call me pompous again now, like you did last time we met on a thread where you were doing the "ghastly Americans" snobbery.

Weegie, @IncompleteSenten ?

I used to work on an ice cream van, after 7 we used to blow a whistle instead of the chimes so maybe suggest that to him?

We were out from 4-10 because we sold fags, tea bags, coffee, juice, crisps, sweets, milk and bread. So maybe they aren't just selling ice cream.

And we had a little sink to wash our hands

I'm with daimbars - I have learned on this thread that some areas call an ice-cream van a truck. (I have never heard it in my area.) I thought a truck would be massive and delivering to, say, a supermarket, while an ice-cream van is a small business, with the owner selling their products direct from the van. Some people like me (and possibly daimbars?) feel an actual physical feeling in the stomach when things differ from the way we were told or are spelt wrongly or sentences are ambiguous.

I think in this case I would complain to Environmental Health about the noise but I'm a wuss about confrontation and wouldn't want to complain to the ice cream van owner as they would know where I live

I would feel especially nervous if the apostrophes were all wrong on the side of the van. 😁🍦

@daimbarsatemydogsbone as if you just claimed that you’ve been compared to hitler ffs. aren’t you embarrassed?

so wait, what was your confusion about? are you trying to say you couldn’t make the connection that OP’s use of both van and truck means she was using them interchangeably? DID you think she was talking about 2 different vehicles?

So wish I was eating an ice cream reading these posts 😂😂 this is usually weekend kind of arguing 🙈🙈

The thread definitely has 8pm on a Saturday vibes

Reading back on @daimbarsatemydogsbone post history they started a whole thread about American English encroaching on 'British English' (their words) so the van/truck comment was 100% a dig at op

The link to that thread was posted hours ago. There is also another thread lamenting worse and worst.
They are firmly at home in pedants corner.

My grandad had an ice cream van for 40 odd years. I always thought they weren't supposed to play the chimes after 7 but that might just have been him

There's one that parks outside school every day. Now that's really annoying

Completely unreasonable. The world does not revolve around your child's bedtime.

@Rosehugger was it the Corona man? If so, we had one too!

The irony of this, upset that a version of the ENGLISH language that was spread through much of the world due to colonialism should find itself back on the shores from which the 'mother tongue' first set sail 😂

@StrychnineInTheSandwiches Definitely 😂😂 it's made my shift at work more entertaining 😂😂

When we were kids the ice cream van used to come down our street as we were heading to bed every night, my Mam told us it was The Angelus bells😂She got away with it for years till one afternoon we were at our cousins house and all the other kids came running in looking for money when the van came down the street and myself and my brother were confused and said it ment it was time to say our prayers.

So you literally had no idea what "ice cream truck" meant in the context of the OP?

You genuinely couldn't figure out for yourself that the OP was using van and truck interchangeably when everyone else could?

Not sure that's much better tbf...

I hate these fuckers!!!!

There's 2 guys that come onto our road and for some reason they always park outside my house, one guy actually sits on the window /hatch ledge waiting for people, with his donkey music blaring. He can be sitting there for 10 minutes.

One time the 2 guys arrived at the same time and actually had a shouting match. Big feckin eejits!!

They always arrive at 1.30pm 3.30pm , 5.30pm, and 7.30pm. All the eating and sleeping times here.

I'd love to say something but I'm sure I'd look deranged telling off an ice cream man.

We had Ray the Lemonade man.

(Although someone would have conniptions if I mentioned he soldall different types of drinks, not just Lemonade )