Posted by Erwin/CA on 10/15/10 12:30pm
Msg #356918

Strange places for signings?

I have done signings at McDonalds, Carl's Jr., Denny's, etc. This week I did a signing at a location shoot for a movie. The signing was in Griffith Park in Los Angeles and the borrower couldn't tell me where in the park the shooting was taking place until the morning of the signing. She told me which entrance to go in and "just follow the signs to the VIP area." Then tell the security officer that I wanted the Make Up trailer. Did the signing in the Make Up trailer. What are some of the other "strange" places that you have signed.
Erwin

Reply by kathy/ca on 10/15/10 12:36pm
Msg #356921

At all the restaurants you mentioned, Starbucks, at a horse

show, a roller rink, the fairgrounds. No of those places are "strange" but not the normal in home type of signing spots.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 10/15/10 12:44pm
Msg #356923

On the back of a pickup at a truck stop off the interstate

at night.....not a loan signing but a getting a POA signed - cash deal - 3 men, 3 women - was just WAITING for the sheriff to pull in as soon as the cash changed hands and bust us for the drug deal!!!

Reply by Calnotary on 10/15/10 12:49pm
Msg #356925

Re: On the back of a pickup at a truck stop off the interstate

I signed a loan a few years ago in a garage with the car's headlights on because some drunk driver hit a light post and the whole neighborhood was without power.

Reply by MistarellaFL on 10/15/10 12:54pm
Msg #356926

At the airport

Brw was just "passing through" town with a 2 hour layover.

Reply by Stamper_WI on 10/15/10 1:08pm
Msg #356929

Re: At the airport

In the garage at a bachelor party. Car hood many times.
Last night I was lost and thought I had the right place. I helped them get a cow in the trailer before I figured out they weren't who I thought they were.

Reply by kathy/ca on 10/15/10 1:11pm
Msg #356930

Oh and in hotel rooms on several occasions. n/m

Reply by C. Rivera Chicago Notary Services on 10/15/10 1:29pm
Msg #356935

LMAO Linda H, I have that visual! he he he n/m

Reply by James Dawson on 10/15/10 1:18pm
Msg #356932

Cross-dresser apartment on a king size pink bed in the living room with everything pink,...except me!

Reply by HisHughness on 10/15/10 1:21pm
Msg #356934

Okay, James, I think we can cut it off here. That seems to be either the apex or the nadir of strange locations.

Pink and black were popular when I was in college, so I've got a real good visual.

Reply by C. Rivera Chicago Notary Services on 10/15/10 1:35pm
Msg #356940

front seat in my minivan......and doesn't this all sort of sound FBish...with the whole breast cancer awareness thing....the "I like it on a....." phrase....

anywayzzz....

Reply by Linda Spanski on 10/15/10 2:04pm
Msg #356947

A gated mansion where I was locked in...

a street corner just this side of the San Ysidro border crossing; a car hood outside on a windy day (I suspected something fishy going on in the house); aboard the aircraft carrier Stennis as it was about to sail; the beach (many times); in a manhole in the middle of a 6-lane intersection (I wanted to see what was down there); a couple of fire stations; the county jail (sheriff's deputy); a water treatment plant; a house in the path of a fire (they were in a hurry); plus numerous factories and restricted workplaces the public seldom gets to see.

Reply by JanetK_CA on 10/15/10 2:43pm
Msg #356953

Re: A gated mansion where I was locked in...

I think you take the prize, Linda! A manhole??!!!! Other good ones, too!

Reply by C. Rivera Chicago Notary Services on 10/15/10 1:30pm
Msg #356936

woah James! so NOT a visual I wanted! =) n/m

Reply by BrendaTx on 10/15/10 4:42pm
Msg #356966

I think James's visual is delightful!

Okay, this is crazy, but to me, there's nothing quite as manly as:

A man, whether straight or gay...

....at ease holding a little baby.

....patiently helping his aging mother.

....at ease with in a social situation with a man or men who are the opposite (straight or gay).

....sitting on pink cross-dresser's bed completing a signing appointment.

In other words, a man who is comfortable in his own skin.

Reply by BrendaTx on 10/15/10 4:43pm
Msg #356968

Re: I think James's visual is delightful!

Oops, probably should have said, "a cross-dresser's pink bed".

Reply by JanetK_CA on 10/15/10 7:40pm
Msg #356997

I agree, Brenda! Well said...

Especially the part about being comfortable in one's own skin! You go, James! Isn't America great?!

Reply by Glenn Strickler on 10/15/10 2:02pm
Msg #356946

A mortuary.

I have done all the usual "strange" places that others have done, but this was the strangest. A family member had passed away, but we had to close that loan ......

Reply by Marian_in_CA on 10/15/10 2:06pm
Msg #356948

The hood of a Sheriff's vehicle, Costco, campground n/m

Reply by LynnNC on 10/15/10 2:41pm
Msg #356951

At a horseshow, on the hood of a car, on a box in the crowded storeroom of a GNC store, on the hospital bed in the home of a person with kidney failure (he couldn't get out of bed - he signed with the documents on a book).

Reply by Ardel Richter on 10/15/10 3:20pm
Msg #356956

Corrugated aluminum bleachers under the lights in a 40mph wind at a Little League game.
A bowling alley (that was 'point & sign'...couldn't hear over the noise). The floor of a completely empty house. Waiting room of a Dr.'s office. Many Bank VP's offices--they move out & I move in (temporarily, but it DOES impress those B's~~)

Reply by Shauna/WA on 10/15/10 4:42pm
Msg #356967

Front yard, picnic table

Borrowers said that their house was under remodel. I suspect the true case is that with seven kids it was a disaster. Luckily it was a very nice day out and they were sweet as pie.

Reply by OR on 10/15/10 5:00pm
Msg #356974

Re: Front yard, picnic table--me too to avoid the pot smoker n/m

Reply by Shauna/WA on 10/15/10 10:13pm
Msg #357028

Ahhh, never dawned on me. I'm rather innocent sometimes. n/m

Reply by LKT/CA on 10/15/10 6:34pm
Msg #356994

At a construction site, out of the back of a cement hauling truck. I was wearing a black suit - got white cement dust all over it. Thank goodness it was not an expensive outfit.

Met a postal carrier on his route. I had to stay on the phone so he could guide me to the house he just dropped mail off at. We signed at my car - hatchback opened.

Signed on the trunk of a R.E. broker's jaguar. Signed at benches between a soccer field and tennis court.

Reply by sheltn on 10/15/10 6:38pm
Msg #356995

put my post under querky instead of this forum sorry

Reply by Kay/IL on 10/15/10 11:08pm
Msg #357031

Urology Department at a Hospital.......

At a park about the size of a postage stamp (and it was windy as hell that day);

Nordstrom (twice).

At least once a month, I do meet borrowers for signings in hotel or office lobbies, Starbucks, Denny's and the like. Those are no longer unusual for me.

Reply by Richard Ingram on 10/16/10 1:38am
Msg #357034

I completed a loan signing in the Emergency Room with a doctor and his wife this evening.