Do you have an ice cream man that comes down your street tinkling a little tune? And does he ever stop?
Me and my daughter have tried to flag down the I-may-be-doing-10-mph-but-I'm-not-gonna-stop guy for a whole week. I'm beginning to wonder if he doesn't actually sell ice cream but has a van with ice cream cones painted on it and gets some sort of perverse pleasure out of doing it. evil
This would be in a rant forum if we had one. Seeing as how it's food related and would end up here anyway, I decided to cut out the middle man (maczippy)
No we don't here, but we used to and we had to chase him down too most of the time.
Makes you wonder sometimes how they ever make any money.
Maybe you could try putting a big sign in front of your house for him to stop.
Yes, but we have the opposite problem. If we're even outside they stop across the bottom of the drive and refuse to budge playing that nasty tune and giving us the look that says "you're outside playing therefore you are contracted to buy ice cream"
Which reminds me..... (guilty parent moment)
Before we moved here, We heard a Radio One breakfast show segement on "lies your parents told you/lies you tell your children". Someone said how their parents had told them that the ice cream van played music to tell you it had run out of ice cream. Last year Hebe (then aged 5) asked why the ice cream van always played music. We couldn't resist. We never thought she'd believe us -she was very young when she learned that we're the biggest bullshitters on earth. A few weeks ago, she cornered me and said "Why has the ice cream van always run out by the time he gets to us, it's not fair!". oops
Yes, but we have the opposite problem. If we're even outside they stop across the bottom of the drive and refuse to budge playing that nasty tune and giving us the look that says "you're outside playing therefore you are contracted to buy ice cream"
Which reminds me..... (guilty parent moment)
Before we moved here, We heard a Radio One breakfast show segement on "lies your parents told you/lies you tell your children". Someone said how their parents had told them that the ice cream van played music to tell you it had run out of ice cream. Last year Hebe (then aged 5) asked why the ice cream van always played music. We couldn't resist. We never thought she'd believe us -she was very young when she learned that we're the biggest bullshitters on earth. A few weeks ago, she cornered me and said "Why has the ice cream van always run out by the time he gets to us, it's not fair!". :oops:
:lol: Thats so cruel, I'm going to report you to the SPSCICM (Society of Protection against Small Children and Ice Cream Men)
We have 3 vans that come down here everyday in the summer, all will stop if you want them to D Only one does 'Mr Whippy' tho and that is what I prefer. Shame they don't do 99's...
Sarah
Only one does 'Mr Whippy' tho and that is what I prefer.
:o tmi
We have ghetto ice cream vans. Usually a badly painted Ford Econoline of 1978 vintage or similar, what looks like a snowmobile engine on the back to run the cooler and a little wire grille-covered window that looks like bank security.
There's usually one in my neighbourhood during the hours of daylight playing "Turkey In The Straw" or some other nonsense.
We have a few Ice cream vans cruising around here too.
The one van plays a dodgy electronic theme song!! Its the main song from the film 'The Sting'!!
If theyre not careful marvin Hamlish will get them for copywrite!! wink
You lot are all spoiled.
The ice cream "van" that comes down our way is some three wheeler (looks like the parking warden vans in the city I work in) and plays "Do your ears hang low....."
They come round on bikes selling ice cream in Ontario. They're called Dickie Dee's and it's a way for kids to earn a bit of extra dosh.
See pic below:
You lot are all spoiled.
The ice cream "van" that comes down our way is some three wheeler (looks like the parking warden vans in the city I work in) and plays "Do your ears hang low....."
You don't know how good you got it...when I was a lass they had to go round on mounted cotton reels towed by slugs, playing Brittney Spears tunes and if you were lucky you could have slug poo for sprinkles.
You lot are all spoiled.
The ice cream "van" that comes down our way is some three wheeler (looks like the parking warden vans in the city I work in) and plays "Do your ears hang low....."
You don't know how good you got it...when I was a lass they had to go round on mounted cotton reels towed by slugs, playing Brittney Spears tunes and if you were lucky you could have slug poo for sprinkles.
Yea, well I remember when they had a milk crate dragged along the road by Gary Glitter singing "Do you want to be in my Gang....."
I'm highly amused....lol
I think we beat you.... ours is from a local dairy (although there's nothing local about what they sell, and have a VERY annoying tinny tunes which is punctuated by duck quacks and a female voice saying "hello".
Hubby tells me to tell monster Britney Spears was not around when she was a young girl.
The cheek! S'pose he had to put up with a Flintstones-style recording on the pterodactyl dawn chorus? P