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To wish the Ice-Cream man would fuck right off?

62 replies

LeEasterBunny · 07/04/2009 18:06

I'm on the phone this morning and the fucking ice-cream van comes blasting down the street. My hard of hearing mother shouts down the phone "WHO'S THAT SINGING IN THE BACKGROUND???" and I couldn't speak to her because she couldn't hear me over the siren thing. I had to call her back.

Then tonight, I'm watching the news and the fucking thing comes creeping down the road again, FULL BLAST, I miss the news, go to the window to see gormless fucker hanging out of the van window with his stupid white suit on and crap hat, grubby little hands all over. It pisses me right off. I think they should be banned. Or at least have their tires slashed.

And don't even get me started on the ones that park up outside school gates at 3pm.

OP posts:
Gorionine · 07/04/2009 18:51

I would go for the second choice. Far to "dary" for a first post IMO!

MrsMagooo · 07/04/2009 18:51

Poopscoop we tell DD that when the Ice-cream van plays music it means he's run out of ice-cream

Showofhands Oooo no I love Feasts - especially the choc in the middle

HecAteTheEasterBunny · 07/04/2009 18:53

oh Jack - it's confusion over Hecate The Easter Bunny (I am a bunny) or Hec Ate The Easter Bunny (play on Hecate to Hec-Ate)

It's meant to be the latter, btw.

ShowOfHands · 07/04/2009 18:53

The chocolate in the middle is the worst bit. It's like eating a sand brick with a vague chocolate cardboard taste to it. Yeuch. YABU.

seeker · 07/04/2009 18:55

Oh my god - he wasn't trying to sell....ice-cream....to children was he? How terrifying - it's SOOO dangerous - my MIL tried to give my los some once. Obviously I haven't spoken to her since. And there's the awful problem of the ice cream man talking to children too - I REALLY don't want anyone I don't know talking to my children - you can't be too careful, can you? And when he squirts that sauce-y stuff onto the ice cream he tries to write their names and he ALWAYS spells them wrong - that really winds me up..... As for the ice cream van outside the school - I heard that the PTFA arranged that. Their children get free ice creams of course....

poopscoop · 07/04/2009 18:55

lol mrs magoo

oysters are the biz, with a flake of course

MrsMagooo · 07/04/2009 18:55

Best bit of the Feast for me

LuluisgoingtobeanAunty · 07/04/2009 18:56

yeh seeker, they is probably all peeeedos, innit?

nappyzonecannotcycleuphill · 07/04/2009 18:56

Mrs Magoo we say the same to ours especially as the twatting twat used to come along at 7.30 right on bedtime (using language only in support of OP as i was like this last year though not publicly

nappyzonecannotcycleuphill · 07/04/2009 18:58

i thought it was all about hecate being the easter bunny and jack bauer has killed the easter bunny but hecattae being the easter bunny means jack baeur killed hectate......

LadyOfScoffleTheEasterEggs · 07/04/2009 18:59

"gormless fucker hanging out of the van window with his stupid white suit on and crap hat, grubby little hands all over"

Ours comes all year round. Odd hearing Greensleeves blaring in December

Grumpyoldcaaaaaaaa · 07/04/2009 19:02

randomrabbit

The ice-cream van that stops near DD's school sells fags too Seriously, how many does he sell, I wonder, they're proper cheap shit tabs too.

Still cackling at OTT reaction by OP to ice-cream man 'creeping down the road' was it?

I really want an oyster now - with the marshmallowey gunge at the hinge and dipped in cheap Supacook cooking chocolate.

pointydog · 07/04/2009 19:04

I don't like my local ice cream van. Tis durty.

seeker · 07/04/2009 19:04

lulu - well, obviously. They should be reported to the police at once. Not that tehy'll do anything, they're too busy giving innocent motorists speeding tickets...

FattipuffsandThinnifers · 07/04/2009 19:18

Ours plays I love to go a'wandering and 76 Trombones. Most strange.

Aren't they all just drug dealers really though?

MrsMagooo · 07/04/2009 19:23

Not all of them seeker!

seeker · 07/04/2009 19:27

No, all of them. You can't be too careful.

pointydog · 07/04/2009 19:27

drug dealers or cig dealers

MrsMagooo · 07/04/2009 19:29

Definately not all of them

AnyFuckerStealsHerKidsEggs · 07/04/2009 19:32

aww, I love the Ice cream van, its the sound of summer

you miserable lot !

FattipuffsandThinnifers · 07/04/2009 19:36

Does anyone remember those Imps you used to get? Tiny, sour black sweets. They were blinking horrible but if you could eat a packet you got nuff 'spect.

FattipuffsandThinnifers · 07/04/2009 19:37

Should probably have said , I think you could only get them from Ice Cream Vans!

pointydog · 07/04/2009 19:38

do you think it was a type of drug, fattipuff?

randomrabbit · 07/04/2009 19:41

Its quite handy really 2 99s for the grandkids and 10 bensons for me just wish he sold dodgy bottles of vodka

juneybean · 07/04/2009 19:48

aww i aint had an ice cream off the ice cream man for years.

his jingle isn't that loud is it?!