In England, they have car boot sales. Here in the southeastern US, they have "flea markets", and occasionally other, stranger terms -- names like "jockey lot". Flea market at least makes some sense.
Anyway, today I visited a local flea market, and I was absolutely astounded by the magnitude of the thing: there were dozens of aisles of tables, each aisle having several hundred tables. I'm guessing perhaps a couple of thousand tables, with one table selling vegetables, the next bottles of painkillers, next to a table with old video tapes of 80's movies. There were lots of interesting tables selling strange combinations of things: and then, after walking around 80% of the tables, we happened upon the distressing table. Very disconcerting. A table draped with a swastika (four feet square, or so, I'd guess. Next to it on the table, a portrait photograph, apparently signed, of Hitler.
Yours, very distressed,
N.
Anyway, today I visited a local flea market, and I was absolutely astounded by the magnitude of the thing: there were dozens of aisles of tables, each aisle having several hundred tables. I'm guessing perhaps a couple of thousand tables, with one table selling vegetables, the next bottles of painkillers, next to a table with old video tapes of 80's movies. There were lots of interesting tables selling strange combinations of things: and then, after walking around 80% of the tables, we happened upon the distressing table. Very disconcerting. A table draped with a swastika (four feet square, or so, I'd guess. Next to it on the table, a portrait photograph, apparently signed, of Hitler.
Yours, very distressed,
N.
1 comment:
I N. I would find that last table distressing too.
We have flea markets in Cornwall but that usually means an antique sale.
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