Real Estate Financing...

Ok, I have yet to do this here on the ActiveRain blogging that I've done, but I'm going to blog on something that has absolutely nothing to do with real estate.  It has to do with a movie.  The movie 'Borat' to be specific.  Well, I guess there is a little something about it that involved real estate.  Part of the movie takes place at a Mortgage Broker Convention which was ironically perhaps the funniest scene and part of one of the worst visuals ever seen on the silver screen.

I'm not sure how many of you have seen this flick or even know the premise.  It's so not for everybody though.  The humor is very, shall I say, very politically incorrect.  So, if you haven't watched it or not familiar with the premise, go do some research on it or go to a movie theatre.  Then you might appreciate what I'm about to share.  I'm not about to go off on what that movie entailed.  I will say though, that it was worth the watch from my vantage point.  At various moments I was almost in tears laughing.  It is amazing how 'bad visuals' and extreme political incorrectness are so funny to me.  My sense of humor may a bit skewed though, onto the story.

On Thanksgiving, I went to Raleigh, NC to visit the folks.  We have a tradition on the Thanksgiving and/or Christmas holidays of going to theatre to watch a movie of collective agreement.  This year, Borat was the choice.  Now, my parents while very conservative people, have senses of humor that would surprise most.  I wasn't worried at what they were about to see. 

After a gut busting couple of hours in which we saw the ridiculousness that is the movie, we went home to retire to the evening.  A couple of days passed and my parents, who are very good friends with a retired couple down the street (Doug & Priscilla), got a phone call from them as a holiday, "How are you doing?"  Well, Priscilla went on to ask my mother what we did to enjoy the Thanksgiving Holiday.  My mother said that we had went to see the movie Borat.  Priscilla went on to say they had went to see the movie as well.  Which I found amazing knowing how their personalities worked.  Even more, she had said that her and Doug had went to the movie along with the entire Retirement Social Group they were a part of.  Turns out, they had been under the impression it was a documentary on Arabic Relations w/ Our Country.  And trust me when I say I would have loved to have been a fly on that wall.  Of course they didn't like the film but what was just as humorous is my mother had asked if they got up and left and Priscilla had said, "No, we paid for the tickets and Doug is way too cheap to not get his money's worth."  Now that is hardcore.

I thought I would share this with all, not too promote the movie itself, but to promote the fact that sometimes fact is funnier than a little piece of worked fiction.