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CONFESSION #0245 — OTHER
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
I've started lying to my family about what I do on Sundays. They think I'm "showing houses" but really I'm just sitting in my car in random parking lots for two hours with my phone on silent, pretending to be unavailable. Last week I ate an entire rotisserie chicken alone in a Lowe's parking lot while watching home renovation fails on YouTube. My husband asked how the showing went and I said "they loved the kitchen but the backyard was a dealbreaker." There was no showing. There was no client. There was just me, a chicken, and a video of some guy accidentally demolishing his load-bearing wall. I'm not proud of it, but I'm also not stopping. It's the only time nobody asks me about interest rates, or whether it's a good time to buy, or if I can "just pop by" to give a pricing opinion on their cousin's rental property. The chicken understands. The chicken doesn't need comps. The chicken doesn't ghost me after six showings. The chicken is my only honest relationship right now.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF FRAUDULENT POULTRY-BASED SOLITUDE AND SYSTEMATIC DECEPTION OF KIN
This court has seen many things in its distinguished tenure, but never has it witnessed such a brazen misuse of the sacred institution of the open house. The defendant has constructed an elaborate web of LIES involving fictional kitchens and imaginary backyards while engaged in what can only be described as aggressive rotisserie consumption in a home improvement parking lot. Judge Escrow finds himself deeply troubled, yet strangely moved by the phrase "the chicken doesn't need comps." This court hereby orders the defendant to continue these parking lot sabbaticals indefinitely, as it is clear the chicken has become the only entity in her life operating with integrity. The husband shall receive a formal notice that his wife has entered into a binding emotional partnership with a Costco bird, and this court sees NO GROUNDS for intervention. Judge Escrow must now adjourn to process what he has just read, and possibly to locate his own rotisserie chicken, as this ruling has awakened something in him he cannot name.
The Poultry Witness Protection Program
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