Several years ago I had a couple that were closing on their first home and it happened to be on October 31st. The seller had asked that we close at a title company I was not familiar with but they seemed to have done a very good job getting everything together.

We arrive for the closing and were met by a very flustered lady closing officer. She was dressed as a giant jack-o'lantern but was not happy! She said that everyone had agreed the day before they would all come dressed in costume today for Halloween, but when she showed up she found that no one but her was dressed up!

It was a smooth closing but every time we looked up we saw this lady helping with all these complicated legal documents was really a giant orange pumpkin! It was hard to feel reassured.

I think she went home at lunch and changed.