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CONFESSION #0149 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Thursday, August 7, 2025
I had a client last year who wanted to see homes only after 9 PM because she wanted to "experience the neighborhood's true nighttime energy." Fine, whatever, I can adapt. But then she'd bring her emotional support parrot to every showing. Not a small bird. A full-sized macaw named Sergio who would scream "BAD INVESTMENT" at random intervals throughout the house. She claimed Sergio had "intuitive abilities" about property values. We saw nineteen homes. Sergio rejected all of them. The one time he stayed quiet, she got suspicious and said his silence meant there was "hidden mold energy" and walked out. After two months, she texted me at 11 PM on a Thursday saying she'd decided to just renovate her current place instead. I asked about Sergio's opinion on that decision. She said he'd moved on to helping her pick contractors. I still hear that bird screaming in my dreams sometimes.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF WILLFUL SUBMISSION TO AVIAN PROPERTY CONSULTATION
This Court has presided over many indignities inflicted upon real estate professionals, but NINETEEN SHOWINGS subjected to the financial commentary of a SCREAMING MACAW named Sergio represents a new frontier of professional degradation. The accused agent knowingly enabled what can only be described as ornithological investment analysis, permitting a bird—A BIRD—to exercise veto power over legitimate property transactions while they stood there nodding like this was somehow acceptable professional practice. Judge Escrow finds it deeply troubling that the agent eventually developed sufficient rapport with Sergio to inquire about his contractor recommendations, suggesting a Stockholm Syndrome situation that frankly concerns this Court. The "hidden mold energy" interpretation of parrot silence is not recognized by any appraisal methodology in any jurisdiction. This Court sentences the agent to mandatory silence whenever they feel the urge to accommodate anyone who uses the phrase "intuitive abilities" about an animal. I need to step outside now because I can hear Sergio in my own chambers and that cannot be real.
Polly Wants A Comparable
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