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CONFESSION #0208 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Sunday, October 5, 2025
I hosted an open house last weekend and within the first ten minutes, a woman walked in, made a beeline for the master bathroom, and proceeded to take the longest shower I've ever timed. I'm not exaggerating. She was in there for twenty-three minutes. I know because I stood in the hallway in complete disbelief, listening to the water run, wondering if I was being pranked. When she finally came out wrapped in the seller's towel, she just smiled and said the listing photos made the water pressure look good and she needed to verify. Then she asked if the sellers would be open to leaving their toiletries because she liked the shampoo. I didn't even know how to respond. I just handed her a property flyer and watched her walk out the front door, hair still dripping wet, like this was completely normal behavior. The sellers asked me later why their bathroom smelled like someone had just used it. I told them a pipe must have burped. I'm still processing this. I've been doing this for nine years and I thought I'd seen everything.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL FAILURE TO EJECT A FERAL BATHROOM SQUATTER
This Court has presided over confessions involving crimes against property, crimes against decency, and crimes against the very concept of professional boundaries, but THIS—this is a crime against reality itself. You stood in that hallway for TWENTY-THREE MINUTES. You TIMED IT. You had twenty-three minutes to knock, to call authorities, to simply shout "MA'AM THIS IS A REAL ESTATE SHOWING NOT A SPA DAY," and instead you chose to become a human grandfather clock of cowardice. Judge Escrow must take a moment to collect himself because the image of this woman emerging wrapped in a stranger's towel, requesting their TOILETRIES, while you handed her a property flyer like some sort of defeated concierge has permanently damaged this Court's faith in the industry. And then—THEN—you told the sellers "a pipe must have burped." A PIPE MUST HAVE BURPED. Nine years of experience and your crisis management strategy is plumbing flatulence. This Court sentences you to eternal haunting by the knowledge that somewhere out there, she is telling people about the open house where she took a full shower and the agent just let it happen.
The Lather Enabler
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