Brilliant or shit?
I love car boot sales, but my missus says it's just 'rummaging through other people's shit'. Which, I concede, it is.
You do hear and see some brilliant stuff. Just this week I head the following exchange:
"Yeah and last week she made 30 quid in the first half an hour. Sold her old engagement ring for £2.50!" You can't write them like that!
And my brother heard a mother calm her whinging child with 'Stop complaining. If we hadn't have come hear you wouldn't have got your new shoes'.
Anyway, for car boot sale fans, here's a list of things you're guaranteed to see for sale:
- Do They Know It's Christmas 7" single.
- Spice Girls debut album on CD.
- Some really old tools.
- Flying by Cast on CD single.
- The following LPs: Sade's debut album, Zenyatta Mondatta by The Police and Phil Collins' No Jacket Required.
- A load of old tyres.
- A framed photo of Ryan Giggs circa 1994.
- Toy of Buzz Lightyear.
- Ben Elton's novel Popcorn.
- Haynes Manuals from the 80s, mostly for Citroen AXs.
- Billy Bigmouth singing fish.
- Human League 7" singles, mostly stuff off of 'Dare'.
- A big stack of CDs that came free with The Mail on Sunday.
- Friends and Men In Black on VHS.
I also once saw a wig on sale too - in amongst a box of junk. Who's be so desperate for hair, they'd chose a minging old wig covered in crumbs and fluff?
