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CONFESSION #0106 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
I hosted an open house last weekend where a couple walked in, looked around for maybe three minutes, then asked if they could use the bathroom. Sure, no problem. Twenty minutes later, I realized they were still in there. I knocked gently. Nothing. Knocked again. Finally, the husband opens the door and says, "Sorry, we just needed a quiet place to have a discussion about our marriage."
They proceeded to have what was clearly a therapy session in the primary bathroom for another fifteen minutes while I stood in the hallway pretending to check my email and other potential buyers wandered around unsupervised. When they finally came out, the wife asked me if the sellers would include the rainfall showerhead because "it really opens up conversation."
They did not make an offer. They did, however, use all the staging toilet paper and left the fan running. I had to explain to my sellers why their electric bill included forty-five minutes of bathroom ventilation. I'm considering adding "licensed marriage counselor" to my business cards at this point.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF OPERATING AN UNLICENSED COUPLES THERAPY CLINIC UNDER THE GUISE OF RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
This Court has presided over many cases of bathroom-related malfeasance, but NEVER has it witnessed such a flagrant conversion of a primary ensuite into a makeshift marriage counseling facility. The defendant stood in that hallway, CHECKING EMAILS, while two strangers worked through what was clearly years of suppressed resentment under the soothing white noise of a bathroom fan. Judge Escrow must ask: at what point did you not simply knock harder? At what point did you not yell "OTHER PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THE TOILET"? Instead, you allowed this couple to consume staging toilet paper—STAGING TOILET PAPER, which this Court reminds everyone is decorative at best—while processing their emotional baggage in a space meant only for brief inspection and perhaps light faucet testing. The rainfall showerhead comment alone warrants a separate hearing. The defendant has effectively admitted to facilitating unlicensed therapeutic services, and Judge Escrow needs to go sit in a dark room now.
Therapeutic Trespass
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