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Q: Ice Cream Truck music tricked me.
When I first came to China, I heard the children's music played in the street. I thought to myself that it was a neighborhood ice cream truck like we had in the USA. When I was a kid, if you heard the children's jingle, you knew the ice cream truck was coming. I became a kid and went in search for the ice cream. I was duped, hornswaggled, tricked, and depressed to see the music was coming from a street watering truck.
Anyone else had this experience?
The garbage trucks play "it's a small world after all". Nothing small about the amount of garbage.
The first time I heard that the watering truck was playing the Happy Birthday tune, and I was looking at it as it approached me, so I did not think of it as an ice cream truck, but I can understand the mistake.
Since then, (and they water the plants on the sides of the street in front of my apartment every second day), I have noticed they do change the tune according to season. Around Xmas they do play White Xmas and Santa is coming to town, and a few others.
It is kind of nice, and ebike riders do get out of the way when they hear the tune
Here in Zhengzhou the water trucks play Christmas jingles... all year round.
In France, no such a thing as ice cream truck... The water truck in China reminded me the water truck in Vietnam ^^
expatlife26:
No Ice Cream trucks in France?
Then what were the men at verdun fighting for?
Joseph Joffre truly died for nothing. 
You'd be better off getting your ice cream from Coldstone.
Learn something new every day, I did not know that silly tune I hear from time to time, was coming from the water truck. It has a purpose, COOL.
In Taiwan that music is only played by the garbage trucks. That's a little more disappointing.
I saw a real ice cream truck in HK once. Outside of Langham place on the kowloon side.
Wasn't playing music though unfortunately, just stationary.
The garbage trucks play "it's a small world after all". Nothing small about the amount of garbage.
