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CONFESSION #0116 — SELLER MELTDOWN
Saturday, July 5, 2025
My seller called me in a full panic because a showing feedback said the house "smelled like dog." They don't have a dog. They have never had a dog. They demanded I find out what the buyer's agent meant and whether this was some kind of code for something worse. I spent forty-five minutes reassuring them that sometimes people just write weird things, and maybe the buyers had just come from a house with a dog and were confused. Not good enough. My seller hired a professional odor detection service to come sweep the house. They found nothing. Then she bought four different air purifiers and seventeen candles. Now the house smells like a Bath and Body Works exploded inside a Yankee Candle factory during a lavender harvest. The next showing feedback said the house "smelled overwhelming." She called me crying and asked if we should just take it off the market entirely because clearly the house is "cursed." We've had six showings. Six. I'm going to need a vacation after this one closes. If it closes.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AROMATHERAPY TERRORISM AND FAILURE TO CONTAIN OLFACTORY HYSTERIA
This Court has witnessed many spirals into madness, but rarely has one begun with a phantom dog and ended in what can only be described as a FRAGRANCE WAR CRIME against innocent homebuyers. The agent stands before us having permitted—nay, ENABLED—the transformation of a perfectly adequate dwelling into a scented weapon of mass confusion. Judge Escrow notes that the original feedback mentioned a smell "like dog," not an actual dog, and yet somehow we have arrived at seventeen candles, four air purifiers, and a professional odor detective who found NOTHING because there was nothing to find except the slow unraveling of a seller's grip on reality. The agent's forty-five minutes of reassurance were clearly insufficient; what was needed was a firm hand, a locked credit card, and perhaps light sedation. This Court has smelled the evidence metaphorically and finds it OVERWHELMING in the legal sense. Judge Escrow must adjourn immediately as he is developing a sympathy migraine just reading about the lavender harvest situation.
Aromatic Descent Into Madness
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