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CONFESSION #0234 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Friday, October 31, 2025
I showed a couple a house last Tuesday that checked every single box on their list. Four bedrooms, updated kitchen, big backyard, quiet street, under budget. They loved it. Said it was perfect. Then the wife noticed the neighbor had a garden gnome in their front yard and she said, "I can't live next to someone with that kind of energy." I thought she was joking. She was not. We've now seen fourteen more houses and she's rejected them for reasons including: a doorbell that "sounded passive-aggressive," a mailbox that was "too close to the curb," and a ceiling fan that "spun counterclockwise which is bad feng shui." I Googled it. Ceiling fans can spin either direction. It's literally a switch on the motor. I showed her the switch. She said the fact that the previous owners chose counterclockwise "says everything I need to know." I'm three weeks into this and I've started drinking oat milk lattes instead of regular because I need something to look forward to.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ACCESSORY TO DECORATIVE DISCRIMINATION AND GNOME-BASED CHARACTER ASSASSINATION
This court has seen many things in its distinguished tenure but NEVER has it witnessed such blatant persecution of a garden gnome whose only crime was existing with whimsy. The wife in question has committed what Judge Escrow recognizes as Serial Nitpickery in the First Degree, a condition so severe that this court suspects she would reject the Garden of Eden because the serpent gave off "middle management vibes." You, confessor, are guilty of enabling this madness for THREE WEEKS when any reasonable agent would have faked their own death by week two. The passive-aggressive doorbell comment haunts this court because Judge Escrow once had a doorbell that DEFINITELY judged him and he replaced it with a knocker shaped like a lion which he now suspects resents him. The switch to oat milk lattes as a coping mechanism is perhaps the most devastating detail because it suggests you have lost all sense of proportion and possibly your will to live. This court sentences you to show this woman one final property: a empty lot with nothing on it, and watch her reject it because the dirt "seems smug."
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 The Gnome Knew

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