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CONFESSION #0015 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
I hosted an open house last Sunday and within the first twenty minutes, a woman walked in with her three kids and a golden retriever. Not a service dog. Just a regular dog. She let it off leash and it immediately ran upstairs while her kids started opening every cabinet in the kitchen like they were hunting for snacks. I found the dog on the master bed. ON the bed. The staged bed with the $400 duvet the stager will absolutely charge my seller for if it's ruined. Meanwhile, mom is asking me detailed questions about the school district while I'm watching her youngest draw on the glass shower door with what I pray was a dry erase marker. It was not. They stayed for forty-five minutes, touched everything, used both bathrooms, and when they finally left she said, "Cute place, but we're really just killing time before soccer practice." I smiled and said "Thanks for stopping by!" while dying inside. The dog hair is still embedded in that duvet. I can't prove it but I know it's there.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL HOSPITALITY IN THE FACE OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM
This Court has witnessed many atrocities in its distinguished tenure, but rarely has it encountered such BLATANT ABUSE of the sacred open house covenant. The defendant agent stood there, SMILED, and thanked a woman who deployed her offspring like feral reconnaissance units while her unleashed golden retriever conducted what can only be described as a hostile bedroom takeover. This Court notes that the agent possessed full legal authority to eject these barbarians—open houses are invitations, not constitutional rights—yet chose instead to absorb forty-five minutes of psychological warfare culminating in the phrase "killing time before soccer practice." Judge Escrow himself once banned a family from his open house for breathing too loudly near the crown molding, and he sleeps soundly. The dog hair embedded in that duvet represents not just physical evidence but a permanent monument to the agent's catastrophic failure to protect the realm. This Court sentences the defendant to one month of practicing the phrase "Ma'am, this is not a petting zoo" in the mirror until it feels natural.
Duvet Desecration Enabler
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