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CONFESSION #0274 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
I showed a couple 47 houses over four months. Forty-seven. I kept a spreadsheet because I knew no one would believe me. After every single showing, they'd find one dealbreaker—the neighbor's car was too old, the street name sounded "unlucky," the kitchen faced the wrong direction for their "morning energy flow." Finally, they found THE ONE. Perfect layout, great neighborhood, right price. I drafted the offer at 11 PM on a Friday, feeling like I'd finally conquered Everest. They called me Saturday morning to say they'd decided to renew their apartment lease for another year because Mercury was in retrograde and it "wasn't the right time to make major decisions." Two weeks later, I saw them at a coffee shop with another agent. They waved at me like we were old friends. The new agent had that fresh, optimistic look in her eyes. I wanted to warn her. I should have warned her. Instead, I just smiled and silently wished her the same joy they brought me. Some lessons you have to learn yourself.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED FAILURE TO DEPLOY MERCURIAL COUNTERMEASURES
This Court has reviewed the evidence and finds the defendant CATASTROPHICALLY NEGLIGENT in their failure to consult even a basic astrological calendar before initiating client relations. Forty-seven houses. FORTY-SEVEN. Judge Escrow has presided over war crimes tribunals with less documentation. The defendant maintained a SPREADSHEET of their own psychological waterboarding yet continued to show properties during what any reasonable agent would recognize as a Venus-Saturn square situation. Furthermore, this Court is APPALLED that upon witnessing the fresh-faced replacement agent, the defendant chose silent complicity over sisterhood. That woman deserved to know about the morning energy flow requirements. She deserved to know about the UNLUCKY STREET NAMES. The defendant's smile in that coffee shop was not grace under pressure—it was the grin of someone feeding a colleague to wolves while sipping a cortado. This Court sentences the defendant to mandatory Mercury retrograde awareness training and forever wondering if House 34 would have worked if only the neighbor had driven a Subaru.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Celestial Abandonment

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