{"id":2149,"date":"2007-11-02T15:35:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T22:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2007-11-02T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T22:46:51","slug":"mademoiselle-oui-la-spinsterzut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2149\/mademoiselle-oui-la-spinsterzut\/","title":{"rendered":"Mademoiselle? Oui. La Spinster?…ZUT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I could see the fan and I could see what was about to hit it. We were all sitting around the closing table…signing, witnessing, and waiting to be paid (the latter being me, of course), when the question was posed to my client by her counsel—an attorney I usually recommend for relatively routine transactions. A nice guy but no Bruce Cutler if you know what I’m saying. He’s cheap, actually.<\/p>\n

“Married, Divorced, or Spinster?”<\/em> he asked my client, looking at a title form he obviously had never seen before.<\/p>\n

‘BAM!’ (<\/em>splat)…<\/em> then dead silence for one of the longer two or three second periods\u00a0I can recall in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Did I just hear what I thought I heard? I hoped it went unnoticed as I looked up from the mindless game on my Treo<\/em>,\u00a0just\u00a0three deals\u00a0away from\u00a0completing Solitaire<\/em> for the 100th time in about as many closings.\u00a0Not a chance.<\/p>\n

“Did you just call me the ‘S’ <\/em>word?” answered my client, a lovely unmarried woman who, with pen in hand, was about to sign the final document and close escrow on her first condominium in Chicago. When a question<\/em> is answered with another question<\/em> in such a situation then the next one who speaks loses. We all know this. And I knew who wasn’t<\/em> going to say anything as\u00a0I went back to my\u00a0PDA, clearing the game and\u00a0pretending to enter something into the\u00a0calendar, all thumbs\u00a0in different directions on the tiny keyboard. I was careful not to make eye contact with anyone. I was listening though.<\/p>\n

“Pardon me?” asked the attorney.<\/p>\n

I felt like popping him on his forehead with the\u00a0palm of my hand …”Dumb dog, dumb dog.” The funds weren’t transferred from the Federal Reserve yet. Say something stupid after<\/em> we’re paid for our services and keys are handed over. And just like the time one of my\u00a0golfing buddies\u00a0got caught cheating on his wife, I was also in trouble just by association. (And for the record<\/em>, the wife was much hotter than the girlfriend, I thought. Either way, she got the house, the stock portfolio and the good car while he was left with the girlfriend and I guess, whatever Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I could see the fan and I could see what was about to hit it. We were all sitting around the closing table…signing, witnessing, and waiting to be paid (the latter being me, of course), when the question was posed to my client by her counsel—an attorney I usually recommend for relatively routine transactions. 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