Ice cream vans only play music when they've run out of ice cream

The father of a friend of mine told him that if an Ice Cream van was playing music it meant they'd run out of ice cream.

Anon

My friends mum used to tell him that when the ice cream van had the music playing it meant he had run out of ice cream!

caroline

My friend was told when the ice cream man was playing the music it was because he ran out of ice cream. She believed it for years bless her.

AMY

When I was little, my Mom told me that if the ice-cream truck played music, that meant it was out of ice-cream. I believed her that entire summer.

Li

When the ice cream man plays his tune it means he has run out of Ice Cream. At least that is what my friends parents told him.

(Im putting the optional name down as his)

Micheal Waller

When i was younger my dad told me, when the ice-cream van went passed, that he only rang his bell when he had run out of ice-cream. :o(

Marc

When I was young, upon hearing the ice cream van music my mum would tell me that it meant they had run out of ice cream. I didnt have an ice cream van ice cream for years.

Ben

I was 10 before I found out that ice cream vans played music to get you to come out and buy one: my mum and dad told me they only played the music when they had run out!

Philippa

when i was little, my dad told me that the ice cream truck was actually the music truck so that i wouldnt ask him for some ice cream

Anon

I used to believe that when the ice cream man was playing his music, he had run out of ice cream

Katie

my dad always told me that if the ice cream van was playing a tune it meant there was no ice cream left, i still have all my teeth, ha ha ha

stuart roscoe

i thought that if the icecream van had its chimes going, it meant it was out of ice cream

Gracie

My dad used to tell us that when the ice cream man music goes off, it means he ran out of ice cream. And when me and my brother moved to where aload of kids where and saw them all runnign up to the ice cream man we were all " ooh haha there so dumb hes run out" my dad will never shut up about that lol!

roxanne

My parents told me that when the ice-cream van played its music, it meant that they had run out of ice-cream and lollies

werdy

When I was young, my Dad told me that when the Ice Cream Van play's' music then there's no Ice Cream left - how mean lol

David

I used to believe that whenever an ice cream van passed by and played its music, it meant that the vehicle had completley sold out of ice creams

Jess, Kent

a friend told me once that, when she was a kid, her mum told her the jingly-jangly music noise that came out of the back of ice-cream vans meant they had run out of all their ice-cream. nice.

alex, england

My sister and I were told by our mum that when the ice cream man came into our street with his chimes going on the van, well, sorry, it means he's run out of ice cream :o(
This misleading information lasted a day.

jozef

My friends dad told us that if the ice cream man was playing a tune in his van when he came down the road then it meant he had run out of ice cream. Cruel or what?

Anon

i was told that when the ice cream man sounded his song it meant that there was no ice cream left in his ice cream van.

Hannah