Question:

Are there fleas at the flea market?

Backstory:

When I was little, I thought a flea market was not a very good place to go. Obviously… there are fleas.

We started going to one flea market every so often for a while and it was kind of random, but I think it was because it was right by the race track my dad would race go karts at with his company. Pretty fun days!

To this day, I can’t think of a flea market without thinking about fleas. How dare they use such vocabulary.

Thanks Google.

I don’t understand how the English came up with flea market, but that’s just how it is and it’s a pretty lame excuse that doesn’t help me get over my flea problems here!

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Do you have any words like this? Does “flea market” bring about the same train of thought as me?