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pault2006pault2006 Posts: 7,878
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One comes down our road what seems like every day and at the same time (i.e. now).

I could understand it if our road had loads of houses but there's only about 20.

Does anyone else have an ice-cream van coming down their road so reguarly it annoys them?

I don't think our van had any customers just now because it played it's tune 3 times - with a 5 second break inbetween.

By the time I'd gone outside and walked down the road, I'd have probably missed him. :D
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    Vite.dfeemtoonVite.dfeemtoon Posts: 5,397
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    What tune does he play?
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    SparkleBabeSparkleBabe Posts: 17,065
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    We have two a day! Im sure they are trying to outdo each other. One plays Just one Cornetto and the other plays Teddy Bears Picnic.
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    skipjack79skipjack79 Posts: 3,250
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    Probably selling drugs... the perfect cover.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 512
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    We hardly get ice cream vans in my neighbourhood and there are loads of kids in the street who would flock to it. They only seem to come if the summer is really good...so that probably explains why we didn't seem to have hardly any this year!
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    ScottishWoodyScottishWoody Posts: 23,241
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    The ice cream man doesnt come round my way anymore, once in a blue moon maybe :(

    I want Ice Cream now.
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    ludovicaludovica Posts: 25,726
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    we have an ice cream van and a fish and chip van that both play the same tune
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 9,121
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    skipjack79 wrote: »
    Probably selling drugs... the perfect cover.

    You've been playing GTA Vice City too much ;)
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    pault2006pault2006 Posts: 7,878
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    I don't know. :o

    It's like a jingling sound.
    Vite.dfeemtoon wrote: »
    What tune does he play?
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    pault2006pault2006 Posts: 7,878
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    I used to think the oyster ice creams you get from a van were made of fish.
    ScottishWoody wrote: »
    The ice cream man doesnt come round my way anymore, once in a blue moon maybe :(

    I want Ice Cream now.
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    TrucibelleTrucibelle Posts: 5,108
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    We have two vans doing battle in out street.
    One plays 'Blue Peter', the other 'Match of the Day'.

    It's dreadfully annoying because I work over the phone and they're SO LOUD ... they visit at least three times a day each.

    AND when they run into each other all Hell breaks loose.
    It wouldn't be so bad but no-one ever seems to buy ice cream from them :eek:
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    whoever,heywhoever,hey Posts: 30,992
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    We have one playing teddy bears picnic come down every day. But i dont mind at all tbh. Its much better than chavvy kids running around. We have kids running about our quiet road, but they do live on it, and its safe for them because at least neighbours are looking out for them.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 5,143
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    We have two ice cream vans. One sits down by the high flats, I don't think it actually moves. The other one comes along the street at about 6pm, that one plays 'Yankee Doodle'

    No one really buys ice cream unless it's hot but they sell lots of other stuff.
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    padpad Posts: 6,699
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    Are any of your ice-cream vans new? There doesn't seem to be any new ice-cream vans on the road, they're always ancient!!

    p.
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    gonnaenodaethatgonnaenodaethat Posts: 4,184
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    Ours comes rounds maybe 4 or five times in an evening. He sells everything from lollies to dummies to painkillers to CD's and DVD's. Oh and ice cream too. Every sweet imaginable and just about every flavour of crisp. Its an art here in Edinburgh how they load their vans up, packed to the gunnels and still have room to move.
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    pault2006pault2006 Posts: 7,878
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    Don't tell me - they throw cones, wafers and cadbury's flakes at each other?
    Trucibelle wrote: »
    We have two vans doing battle in out street.
    One plays 'Blue Peter', the other 'Match of the Day'.

    It's dreadfully annoying because I work over the phone and they're SO LOUD ... they visit at least three times a day each.

    AND when they run into each other all Hell breaks loose.
    It wouldn't be so bad but no-one ever seems to buy ice cream from them :eek:
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    tvqueen1905tvqueen1905 Posts: 82,843
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    freaky i clicked on this thread and the ice cream man came
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    RubusRooRubusRoo Posts: 10,262
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    tvqueen1905 wrote: »
    freaky i clicked on this thread and the ice cream man came

    we don't get ice cream vans round here. the drug dealers scared them all off :eek:
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    pault2006pault2006 Posts: 7,878
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    What ice cream did you buy?
    tvqueen1905 wrote: »
    freaky i clicked on this thread and the ice cream man came
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    tvqueen1905tvqueen1905 Posts: 82,843
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    i am not sure what the song is called do do do do do do (it sounds like that anyway)
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    tvqueen1905tvqueen1905 Posts: 82,843
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    pault2006 wrote: »
    What ice cream did you buy?

    i didn't go and get one i haven't even had tea yet
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    rosalynnrosalynn Posts: 4,500
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    pad wrote: »
    Are any of your ice-cream vans new? There doesn't seem to be any new ice-cream vans on the road, they're always ancient!!

    p.

    They seem quite new here, they look like new Transit vans just with the box bit on the back. The one around my estate plays a bit of a megamix, while the one around my OH's estate plays The Entertainer.

    Roz
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    pault2006pault2006 Posts: 7,878
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    This is what I call an ice-cream van.

    http://sparks-books.co.uk/uploaded_images/ICECREAM-771843.jpg

    :)
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,505
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    There's **2** a day down my street in the Summer months!:mad:

    Drives me insane!

    I move at the end of the week to a stunning new flat, so won't hear them anymore :p
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    ScottishWoodyScottishWoody Posts: 23,241
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    Actually there was a really famous ice cream van in my town up until last year. They drove the same van to the same spot almost every summer day for 50 years! I don't know why it was so popular to be honest, the ice cream was one small scoop lol

    http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/TRO1663.jpg
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    Ja'mie KingJa'mie King Posts: 8,445
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    tvqueen1905 wrote: »
    i am not sure what the song is called do do do do do do (it sounds like that anyway)

    Ahh yes that one. Well that solves it then! :rolleyes:
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