Keep em in business!
Amongst all the chaos over the past week with the two attempted terrorist attacks on a London nightclub, as well as Glasgow Airport, and the mass floods around various parts of the UK, something did manage to make me smile over the weekend. I was already in a mood as my planned Paintballing session had to be cancelled due to my assumptions that it would pee down with rain, and it did on Saturday morning. I love getting predictions right!
I had a relaxing weekend on the whole, beginning with me clearing out my room filled with ever increasing amounts of cardboard packaging from all the junk that I tend to purchase. Cardboard packaging annoys the hell out of me too. I order a tiny weeny minute 40mm fan, and it comes in a box that resembles your average shoe box! By the end of the week I get so much packaging material accumulating in my room that it takes an entire day just to sort through it all and bin it.
So on Sunday evening I’m chatting to some of the kids who are playing football on the road…being the UK, every single last remaining park has vanished and is now filled with sodding houses, so kiddies have no-where to play in but on the roads. I’m outside emptying the rubbish, whilst trying to understand these nosy little brats who are chatting away (in a language that only Cypher from the Matrix could understand), whilst kicking a ball, listening to their mp3 players and sucking on some sweets. Multitasking little twerps.
Suddenly in the distance I hear a familiar little musical jingle I haven’t heard in ages. "It’s the Ice Cream Van Man!" I cried out. The kids looked at me startled as the van pulls up nearby. Three of the girls ran inside screaming while the young boys grabbed sticks and rocks to defend themselves. Apparently this lot haven’t even seen an ice cream van man before! It’s shocking when you think about it. These guys were so common back in the 70’s and 80’s and loved by children. Sadly they began going out of business towards the 90’s, and are a rarity around my area of Harrow. Indeed I haven’t seen one around for ages anyway. So after persuading the children that he wasn’t a kidnapper, I bought them all ice cream cones. Awwww! 
Now I’m a fiver less then I started with, and I’ll never see that it again.
Sucker!
You’ll have the parents coming at you with sticks and rocks buying random kids ice creams!?
We still have them around our way, when I go home there is a Walls Ice Cream van at the park, and at the other entrance a trailer that the van tows. You often hear the chimes of the van as it drives round near our house.
Aww you’re so nice
We moved house in February and we have had an ice-cream van come around every Saturday afternoon since except this one as it was seriously raining somthing rotten!
The bonus of our new ice-cream man is that he sells Zap! lollies! They are the most awesome ones ever.
These weren’t random kids! Half of them were brought up by my family since me mum is or was one of the oldest serving childminders in the area
Those Zap! lollies rocked! Thats the good thing about those vans, a lot of them have old school choc ices and choc lollies that you just can’t find anymore in frozen food stores. /me wubs Feast!…
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
However the flake never tastes right for some reason. They’ve been quite busy up here in Mancs 
We still get them up here and yes, they have all the classics!