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CONFESSION #0141 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
I showed a property last weekend to a couple who seemed perfect. Pre-approved, motivated, said they loved the house. Then the husband pulled out a pendulum. An actual crystal pendulum on a chain. He started walking through each room, watching it swing, while his wife took notes. They rejected the house because the pendulum "indicated negative energy flow" in the primary bathroom. I asked what specifically was wrong with the bathroom. Nothing. Great tile, updated vanity, walk-in shower. The pendulum just didn't like it. They've now rejected four houses based entirely on pendulum readings. Four houses that checked every single box on their must-have list. I'm not allowed to suggest properties anymore unless I can confirm the lot wasn't built on "disrupted earth." I don't even know what that means. I've started googling "how to cleanse a house spiritually" just so I can maybe, possibly, close one sale this quarter. My commission is being held hostage by a rock on a string and I have to smile and act like this is completely normal professional behavior.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF COMMISSION CAPTIVITY UNDER CRYSTALLINE DURESS
This Court has witnessed many affronts to rational commerce, but NEVER has the sanctity of real estate been so thoroughly desecrated by what amounts to a FANCY NECKLACE WITH DELUSIONS OF ARCHITECTURAL EXPERTISE. The confessor stands before this bench as a hostage, yes, but also as a collaborator—for the moment you googled "spiritual cleansing" you became complicit in the pendulum's regime. Judge Escrow III has consulted his own pendulum, which is a pen on a lanyard, and it has indicated that the primary bathroom was FINE, the tile was EXCELLENT, and the husband should perhaps seek counsel from a geologist rather than a craft store impulse purchase. The Court finds it particularly galling that four perfectly adequate homes now sit bereft of buyers because a crystal decided the vibes were off. You are sentenced to carry a larger, more authoritative pendulum to all future showings and simply override their readings with what the Court calls "competitive divination." The earth is disrupted NOW, counselor. By THIS RULING. I need to lie down.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Pendulum Purgatory

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