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In my early years learning a musical instrument I used to get banished outside to practise by my parents. Our local icecream truck played "Greensleeves" which was one of the first pieces I learnt to play. I thought it was hilarious to play it and watch the boys from next door rush outside with their money to get icecream only to look confused when they couldn't see the truck anywhere.


Cruel, but at least they recognised what I was playing!


I tell my 3.5 year old that the music playing means the icecream has run out :)

Pickle Wrote:

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> In my early years learning a musical instrument I

> used to get banished outside to practise by my

> parents. Our local icecream truck played

> "Greensleeves" which was one of the first pieces I

> learnt to play. I thought it was hilarious to

> play it and watch the boys from next door rush

> outside with their money to get icecream only to

> look confused when they couldn't see the truck

> anywhere.

>

> Cruel, but at least they recognised what I was

> playing!

>

> I tell my 3.5 year old that the music playing

> means the icecream has run out :)


So funny Pickle, good one!


And yes, why is it that 'Greensleeves' is the first thing you ever learn to play, (that or Fur Elise!?) :))

When I was young and so much younger than today, my bastard uncle informed me that the vapour trails left by planes were caused by the pilot leaning out of the window with a paint brush and daubing the sky.


This was fine until some time later I was with a group of boys from the flats and decided to share this piece of physics with them.


I can still hear the howls of derision and the cries of "Who told you that you prat"?


I made up my mind never to accept another five bob from nunky when he visited, but when he next proffered the dosh I forgave him, which I think was magnanimous in one so young.

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