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CONFESSION #0285 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Sunday, December 21, 2025
I hosted an open house last Sunday where a guy walked in, ignored my greeting completely, and proceeded to open every single cabinet in the kitchen to smell the inside. Not look. Smell. He'd stick his whole head in there and take a deep inhale like he was judging a candle competition. When he finally acknowledged my existence, he asked if the owners had ever cooked fish in the house. I said I didn't know. He said "I can tell they have" and left. Didn't sign in, didn't take a flyer, just walked out shaking his head like the place had personally offended him. Twenty minutes later, a woman came in with her own measuring tape and spent an hour determining that her antique armoire wouldn't fit in the primary bedroom. She measured that doorway eleven times. I counted. She also asked if the sellers would be willing to widen the doorframe before closing. For her armoire. That she hadn't even bought the house to put it in yet. I smiled through all of it because that's what we do. Went home and ate a whole sleeve of Oreos in my car.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF EMOTIONAL LABOR MALPRACTICE AND OLFACTORY ASSAULT TOLERANCE
This Court has witnessed many crimes against professional dignity, but the Cabinet Sniffer of Sunday past represents a NEW LOW in the annals of open house misconduct. The defendant stood there, SMILING, while a grown man performed what can only be described as a nasal audit of someone else's cabinetry, hunting for the ghost of tilapia past like some sort of deranged seafood detective. And then—THEN—she endured eleven measurements of a single doorframe for a theoretical armoire in a hypothetical future, which this Court finds to be a form of temporal hostage-taking. The Oreos consumed in the vehicle were not a coping mechanism; they were evidence of a soul in retreat. Judge Escrow III himself once presided over an open house in his early career and still has night terrors about a man who licked a doorknob to test for lead paint. This agent must learn that the smile is a WEAPON, not a white flag, and sometimes the flyer must be withheld as punishment.
Nostril Trespass Enabler
Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.
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