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CONFESSION #0281 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
I showed a property last week to a couple who spent the entire walkthrough taking video calls. Not stepping out to take them—just wandering room to room, phones in front of their faces, having full conversations with their coworkers while I stood there like a museum docent waiting for them to acknowledge my existence. At one point, the husband asked me to repeat the square footage for the third time because he "wasn't listening the first two." When we finished, they told me the house was "fine but too echoey." It's echoey because neither of you stopped talking long enough to hear anything else. They want to see it again this weekend and asked if I could "maybe prepare some notes" so they don't have to ask questions. I sent them a PDF. They replied asking if I could just tell them verbally because they "don't really do attachments." I've started billing this as community service on my taxes because there's no way this counts as actual employment.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF PROVIDING CONCIERGE SERVICES TO PROFESSIONAL IGNORERS
This Court has witnessed many indignities visited upon the noble profession of real estate, but rarely has it encountered such a flagrant case of a licensed professional being reduced to a human audio book for people who refuse to absorb information through any known medium. The husband asked for square footage THREE TIMES and retained nothing because his brain was occupied with what this Court can only assume was a deeply urgent Slack message about Karen's birthday cake preferences. They complained about echoes WHILE GENERATING THE ECHOES. This is like complaining about traffic while actively being traffic. You sent them a PDF and they rejected it because they DON'T DO ATTACHMENTS—what year do they believe this is? Judge Escrow once had a court stenographer who refused to do consonants and even SHE was more functional than these clients. The tax fraud is the least offensive part of this confession; frankly, the IRS should be paying YOU for the emotional labor of repeatedly explaining room dimensions to people who experience consciousness as an inconvenience. This Court needs a recess to lie down on a fainting couch.
Willful Audio Servitude
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