as the title suggests i dont know what the hell a swap meet is. i know some of you stateside chappies get your boxes from these things but what they hell are they?

ive been going along with reading about these swap meets trying to fool myself into knowing what they are but alas, i dont.

let me in on this secret!

its the same thing as a boot sale.

there was me thinking that you get it all free, and just have to give some item back as a swap - not money

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A flea market or swap meet is a type of bazaar where inexpensive or secondhand goods are sold or bartered. It may be indoors, such as in a warehouse or school gymnasium; or it may be outdoors, such as in a field or under a tent.[

The origins of the term are disputed,[8][9] but some have observed that buyers and sellers may be as active as fleas,[10] or that the original people and goods were infested.[

The original flea market may be the Marché aux puces ("market with fleas" in French) of Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, in the northern suburbs of Paris.

so its like a boot fair i see/

here we pray to the boot fairy for good booty.

who do you pray to for the swap meets? is there a large meat you pray to or anything like that?

This is slightly embarrassing,but i did`nt know what a swap meet was either,i thought you took some items and meet up and swap for other peoples stuff

its because of the title "swap" meet...

yeah gots to say i was under that sort of impression too. i cant imagine it happening in real life where people lug a load of stuff with them to a place with the intention of swapping, then lugging more old crap home again

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Originally posted by BENDYCAT:


there was me thinking that you get it all free, and just have to give some item back as a swap - not money

Yeah

Old socks or so, or used toilet paper

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Originally posted by billy the binman:
so its like a boot fair i see/

here we pray to the boot fairy for good booty.

who do you pray to for the swap meets? is there a large meat you pray to or anything like that?

when i first heard the term boot sale i just thought there were a lot of people selling shoes.

i like to swap meet as much as i can with a female .

ha ha ha never seen it that way floyd,yeh your right,boot sale sounds like selling boots ha ha..
well as for boot sale really should be car boot sale..you say trunk,we say boot..early idea;s was you turn up to a huge market and have a boot full of stuff,so says the words "car boot sale"

well we could have it BOOT SWAP or MEET SALE

We also call it flea market - don't know why ? do you have that term state side

and we also call it "going down the booty" but as i think of that the way you state side guys would think of it, it might sound wrong