I was reading about real estate economics for one of my classes and I just had this vivid flashback to, it must have been, 2005 or 2006
I was playing with dolls or something with my sister when one of my parents’ friends walked by and whispered to me that I should ask another friend of my parents (who was a real estate economist) when the housing bubble was going to burst
so I walked into the other room and asked him innocently, “When is the housing bubble going to burst?” He groaned as everyone else laughed. I must have looked confused, because he explained to me that everyone was always asking him that, and it got annoying because he didn’t think we were in a housing bubble at all. I didn’t really understand what a housing bubble was but at the time I accepted the explanation
replaying it in my mind it takes on kind of an eerie quality, like the first scene of a movie right before everything goes horribly wrong