Ice cream van cost

RedXIV

The young fella just heard the ice cream van and god love him it's been a crap few months so I gave him the only cash on me to go get something for him and his two sisters.

€20 in his pocket and told him to bring me back the change.

Came back with a tenner after getting an ice cream cone, a bag of hunky dory and some lollipop looking thing in plastic. He swears blind the tenner is all he got back and he's an honest chap anyway but that's hardly what the ice cream vans are charging these days are they?!

€10 for a cone, crisps and some plastic lollipop???

Am I just out of the loop and this is normal or did they get ripped off here?

dennyire

In before Berties Horse

josip

I think you should go out tomorrow to have a chat with your ice cream van man.
But be careful, some of them are fronts for delivering drugs/money laundering, and not the sort you'd be advised to threaten.

kowloon

josip wrote: »

I think you should go out tomorrow to have a chat with your ice cream van man.
But be careful, some of them are fronts for delivering drugs/money laundering, and not the sort you'd be advised to threaten.

I'd say a drug delivery van is a great business to be in right now given standing about on a corner is more likely than ever to attract the Gardai.
You could hide a little cocaine in the tip of the cone and lob some ice-cream on top. It'd be like the delicious bit at the end of a Cornetto.

LeYouth

RedXIV wrote: »

The young fella just heard the ice cream van and god love him it's been a crap few months so I gave him the only cash on me to go get something for him and his two sisters.

€20 in his pocket and told him to bring me back the change.

Came back with a tenner after getting an ice cream cone, a bag of hunky dory and some lollipop looking thing in plastic. He swears blind the tenner is all he got back and he's an honest chap anyway but that's hardly what the ice cream vans are charging these days are they?!

€10 for a cone, crisps and some plastic lollipop???

Am I just out of the loop and this is normal or did they get ripped off here?

Be freezing outside.

Badly Drunk Boy

LeYouth wrote: »

Be freezing outside.

Are ya mad? It's roasting!

colm_mcm

What’s a plastic lollipop?

RedXIV

colm_mcm wrote: »

What’s a plastic lollipop?

Like modern day push pops, that I had as a wee lad.

But worse because it's not the same as I had as a wee lad

colm_mcm

Have you ruled out your son losing the change etc.

SEPT 23 1989

you would think at 20 years of age he would know himself if he was being ripped off

Church on Tuesday

It could have been worse.

Doctors room ghost

Robbing bastads

Doctors room ghost

Next time he hears the ice cream van tell him they only play the music when they run out of stuff and keep the 20 in the wallet.
Tell him to have an apple instead lol

No longer approach a food shack, whether it moves or not. Besides doling out lukewarm ice-cream/pigeon burgers, hygiene is an oversight and Harrods would be a cheaper turn.

Kevhog1988

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Next time he hears the ice cream van tell him they only play the music when they run out of stuff and keep the 20 in the wallet.
Tell him to have an apple instead lol

My ex did that with our little lad. He told me when he was about 4 that he heard the noise and that was what shed told him. Ex for a reason!!

Doctors room ghost

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

My ex did that with our little lad. He told me when he was about 4 that he heard the noise and that was what shed told him. Ex for a reason!!

She might have saved him from a dose of food poisoning.them vans are fcukin breeding grounds for disease.youre better off rambling to the shop tis safer

_Brian

Wouldn’t be buying an icecream from a van at the moment.

Every snotty kid handing in grubby money and yet man in the van handling all the goods. Regularly see these lads driving with gloves on and stopping to dish out ice cream without a thought.

Like the lad in our local kebab shop standing out the side door smoking with his gloves on and then running in and serving customers with them on.

Casual food service is a dodgy business regarding cleanliness and hygiene.

Kevhog1988

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

She might have saved him from a dose of food poisoning.them vans are fcukin breeding grounds for disease.youre better off rambling to the shop tis safer

but telling him that and leaving him with no ice cream is bad form

Doctors room ghost

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

but telling him that and leaving him with no ice cream is bad form

Depends on context kev. The young lad might have already had 130 treats that day and might have had the mother’s head wrecked demanding stuff all day and she may have told him that just to avoid another fight and tantrum.she might have been tired and took the handy way out by telling him that.
Or maybe he had nothing got and deserved a treat.all depends.
You’d be better going to a shop either way though for both hygiene reasons and the not supporting a robbing bastad reason.
If you’re happy paying a tenner for a cone,a packet of crisps and a plastic pop Worth about 3 euro Most,more power to ya boy.just remember the dentist is a hundred a filling and the ice cream man at home counting the profits at the same time.
A fool and his money and all that